Abstract
We have explored the utility of gas-phase fractionation by mass spectrometry (MS) in the mass-to-charge (m/z) dimension (GPFm/z) for increasing the effective number of protein identifications in cases where sample quantity limits the use of multi-dimensional chromatographic fractionation. A peptide digestate from proteins isolated from the membrane fraction of natural killer (NK) cells was analyzed by microcapillary reversed-phase liquid chromatography coupled online to an ion-trap (IT) mass spectrometer. Performing GPFm/z using eight narrow precursor ion scan m/z ranges enabled the identification of 340 NK cell proteins from 12 μg of digestate, representing more than a fivefold increase in the number of proteins identified as compared to the same experiment employing a standard precursor ion survey scan m/z range (i.e., m/z 400-2000). The results show that GPFm/z represents an effective technique for increasing protein identifications in global proteomic investigations especially when sample quantity is limited.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 87-95 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Proteins and Proteomics |
Volume | 1698 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 8 Apr 2004 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- 2D PAGE
- Gas-phase fractionation
- MS
- MS/MS
- Mass spectrometry
- Membrane proteomic
- Microcapillary liquid chromatography
- Microsome
- Natural killer cell
- Tandem mass spectrometry
- Two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
- m/z
- μLC