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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY
Volume 17, Issue 4, Pages 490-499Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasms.2005.12.007
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- NHLBI NIH HHS [N01-HV-28182] Funding Source: Medline
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Direct mass spectrometric analysis of complex biological samples is becoming an increasingly useful technique in the field of proteomics. Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectroscopy (MALDI-MS) is a rapid and sensitive analytical tool well suited for obtaining molecular weights of peptides and proteins from complex samples. Here, a fast and simple approach to cellular protein profiling is described in which mammalian cells are lysed directly in the MALDI matrix 2,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid (DHB) and mass analyzed using MALDI-time of flight (TOF). Using the unique MALDI mass spectral fingerprint generated in these analyses, it is possible to differentiate among several different mammalian cell lines. A number of techniques, including MALDI-post source decay (PSD), MALDI tandem time-of-flight (TOF-TOF), MALDI-Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FTICR), and nanoflow liquid chromatography followed by electrospray ionization and tandem mass spectrometry (LC-ESI-MS/MS) were employed to attempt to identify the proteins represented in the MALDI spectra. Performing a tryptic digestion of the supernatant of the cells lysed in DHB with subsequent LC-ESI-MS/MS analysis was by far the most successful method to identify proteins.
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