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JOURNAL OF PROTEOMICS
Volume 75, Issue 3, Pages 796-805Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2011.09.018
Keywords
Combinatorial peptide libraries; Proteomics; Low-abundance proteins; Human urine; Biomarkers
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- Regione Lombardia
- NUS in Singapore
- Fondazioni Mara Wilma e Bianca Querci, La Nuova Speranza
- Compagnia di San Paolo
- MIUR, FIRB [RBNE08YFN3]
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A new method is here reported for facile elution of the human urinary proteome after being captured with combinatorial peptide ligand libraries (CPLL, ProteoMiner). It consists in challenging the beads with 100 mM Tris, pH 7.4, or with 100 mM Lys, pH 7.4 or even better with a mixture of Lys, Arg, Asp and Glu (150 mM final concentration). These elutions permit recovery of species in a native form, for monitoring any biological activity of the eluted species, while avoiding the noxious presence of sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS), reported as the best eluant so far from CPLL beads. SDS, albeit permitting quantitative recovery from the beads, has to be removed from the sample prior to mass spectrometry analysis. This unorthodox elution, which most likely will work only for urine samples, seems to be due to the fact that bile salts and urinary pigments are massively adsorbed by the beads, thus masking the hydrophobic binding sites of aromatic and non-aromatic amino acids. The binding thus occurs mostly via ionic and hydrogen bond interactions via the Grand Catchers Arg, Lys, His, which can then be easily challenged by positively charged species, such a Iris, free Lys and free Arg in the eluant as well as by negatively charged compounds, such as Glu and Asp. When eluting with the four-amino acid mix, at least 3300 spots can be visualized in a 2D map. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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