Journal
ACS CHEMICAL NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 7, Issue 3, Pages 261-268Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.5b00295
Keywords
MALDI; mass spectrometry; imaging; amyloid-beta; Alzheimer's disease
Funding
- National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities from National Institutes of Health [G12MD007591]
- National Science Foundation [CHE-1126708]
- Semmes Foundation
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A method for the analysis of amyloid-beta peptides in isolated plaques and intact tissue sections affected by Alzheimer's disease (AD) is presented. This method employs matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) time-of-flight mass spectrometry and the inherent laser-induced in-source decay (ISD) that occurs coupled with imaging mass spectrometry (IMS) to investigate the composition of these samples eliminating the need for other confirmational MS/MS techniques. These results demonstrate this technique's usefulness for the identification of amyloid-beta peptides in tissue and isolated senile plaques from AD patients using the reproducible fragmentation pattern demonstrated via the laser-induced ISD of synthetic amyloid-beta peptide clips (1-40, 1-42). Clear differences between the hippocampal AD tissue and the control hippocampal tissue regarding the presence of amyloid-beta have been identified. These are based on laser-induced ISD of standard amyloid-beta clips as controls as well as the analysis of isolated senile plaques as a confirmation before tissue analysis. Using the resulting observed peptide clip masses from the control data, we present mass spectrometry based identification of the amyloid-beta peptides in both isolated plaques and hippocampal regions of those patients diagnosed with AD.
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