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PHYSIOLOGICAL GENOMICS
Volume 30, Issue 1, Pages 89-94Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00279.2006
Keywords
membrane proteomics; chloroform extraction; liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry
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- NHLBI NIH HHS [N01 HV028182, N01HV28182, N01-HV-28182] Funding Source: Medline
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Membrane-bound and membrane-associated proteins are difficult to analyze by mass spectrometry, since the association with lipids impedes the isolation and solubilization of the proteins in buffers suitable for mass spectrometry and the efficient generation of positively charged peptide ions by electrospray ionization. Current methods mostly utilize detergents for the isolation of proteins from membranes. In this study, we present an improved detergent-free method for the isolation and mass spectrometric identification of membrane-bound and membrane-associated proteins. We delipidate proteins from the membrane bilayer by chloroform extraction to overcome dissolution and ionization problems during analysis. Comparison of our results to results obtained by direct tryptic digestion of insoluble membrane pellets identifies an increased number of membrane proteins, and a higher quality of the resulting mass spectral data.
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