Acetic acid is superior to formic acid as an acidifier in sub-nanogram and single cell proteomics
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ABSTRACT: This work follows on Battellino et al., 2023 which described the use of 0.5% acetic acid in shotgun proteomics providing additional relative signal over 0.1% formic acid. In this study we performed repeated experiments with K562 serial dilutions down to 20 picogram on column with alternating between these two buffers on an EasyNLC 1200 instrument. We consistently obtain higher numbers of precursors, peptides and proteins when this is the only alteration in the study. In addition we find that with the extra signal obtained when using acetic acid, we can reduce the cycle time of each experiment allowing us to obtain more measurements across each peak at concentrations as low as 100 picogram peptide load on column using a default diaPASEF method on the TIMSTOF SCP. These experiments were repeated with single cells from two cancer cell lines with the same results.
INSTRUMENT(S): timsTOF SCP
ORGANISM(S): Homo Sapiens (ncbitaxon:9606)
SUBMITTER:
Benjamin C Orsburn
Benjamin E. Wolfe
PROVIDER: MSV000092563 | MassIVE | Tue Aug 01 05:57:00 BST 2023
SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PXD044262
REPOSITORIES: MassIVE
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