Journal
ANALYTICAL BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 354, Issue 2, Pages 213-219Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2006.04.027
Keywords
phosphopeptides; strong cation exchange; on-line two-dimensional chromatography; tryptic digestion
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We have developed a method to isolate and enhance the detection of phosphopeptides using liquid chromatography (LC/mass spectrometry oil a tryptic-digested protein sample. The method uses all on-line two-dimensional chromatography approach that consists of strong cation exchange (SCX) followed by reversed-phase (RP) chromatography with mass spectrometric detection. At pH 2.6 or lower, tryptic phosphopeptides are not retained during the first-dimension SCX chromatography step. Thus the capture of these peptides ill the flow-through by the second-dimension RP trap call dramatically reduce the complexity of the phosphopeptide chromatography, resulting in little or no suppression of the signal often caused by the coeluting nonphosphorylated peptides. The method provides higher phosphopeptide recovery and less nonspecific biding of acidic peptides than the commonly used enrichment methods, such as immobilized metal affinity chromatography. Since the widely adopted multidimensional LC strategy in shotgun proteomics uses a similar SCX-RP approach, the method call be adapted to detect and characterize phosphopeptides from a complex mixture ill a single experiment. Limitations of the method are also discussed. (c) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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