Journal
ANALYTICAL BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 370, Issue 2, Pages 228-245Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2007.07.029
Keywords
thymosin; extracellular matrix; amyloid and coagulation factor; peptides in serum; MALDI; LC-ESI-Qq-TOF
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Blood peptides can be concentrated, extracted, and analyzed with strong signal-to-noise ratios by precipitation in organic solvents followed by extraction in water. Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) and electrospray ionization (ESI) hybrid quadrupole time-of-flight (Qq-TOF) were used to analyze the precipitated and extracted endogenous peptides from fetal calf serum. C18 solidphase extraction with or without prior precipitation in ammonium sulfate, size exclusion chromatography, dealburninization, dye affinity chromatography, ultrafiltration, and differential precipitation in organic solvents were compared. Hundreds of different ions could be observed by MALDI in the various fractions. It appeared that some peptides were freely dissolved and that not all peptides in blood were obliged to remain bound to albumin or other high-molecular-mass proteins. Mass spectra with high signal-to-noise ratios were obtained from polypeptides precipitated with organic solvents followed by extraction of the peptides from the pellet with water. The peptides extracted from organic precipitates were analyzed by nano liquid chromatography (LC)-ESI-Qq-TOF. In addition to many commonly abundant serum proteins, apparent low-abundance peptides associated with cancer biology from proteins such as insulin-like growth factor 11, thymosin beta 4 and beta 9, plasminogen, coagulation factors, and extracellular matrix protein I were observed. (c) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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