On-line amino acid-based capillary isoelectric focusing-ESI-MS/MS for protein digests analysis.

ABSTRACT: Six amino acids with pIs that ranged from 3.2 to 9.7 were used as ampholytes to establish a pH gradient in capillary isoelectric focusing. This amino acid-based capillary isoelectric focusing (cIEF) was coupled with ESI-MS/MS using an electrokinetically pumped sheath-flow interface for peptide analysis. Amino acid-based isoelectric focusing generates a two-order of magnitude lower background signal than commercial ampholytes in the important m/z range of 300-1800. Good focusing was achieved for insulin receptor, which produced ~10 s peak width. For 0.1 mg mL(-1) bovine serum albumin (BSA) digests, 24±1 peptides (sequence coverage 47±4%) were identified in triplicate analysis. As expected, the BSA peptides were separated according to their pI. The concentration detection limit for the BSA d

SUBMITTER: Zhu G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3474973 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature