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ANALYTICAL BIOCHEMISTRY
卷 392, 期 1, 页码 12-21出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2009.05.018
关键词
Trypsin digestion; Posttranslational modification; Deamidation; N-terminal glutamine cyclization; LC/MS; Peptide mapping
Trypsin digestion can induce artificial modifications Such as asparagine deamidation and N-terminal glutamine cyclization on proteins due to the temperature and the alkaline pH buffers used during digestion. The amount of these artificial modifications is directly proportional to the incubation time of protein samples in the reduction/alkylation buffer and, more important, in the digestion buffer where the peptides are completely solvent exposed. To minimize these artificial modifications, we focused oil minimizing the trypsin digestion time by maximizing trypsin activity. Trypsin activity was optimized by the complete removal of guanidine, which is a known trypsin inhibitor, from the digestion buffer. As a result, near complete trypsin digestion was achieved oil reduced and alkylated immunoglobulin gamma molecules in 30 min. The Protein tryptic fragments and their modification products were analyzed and quantified by reversed-phase liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry using an in-line LTQ Orbitrap mass spectrometer. The reduction and alkylation reaction time was also minimized by monitoring the completeness of the reaction using a high-resolution time-of-flight mass spectrometer. Using this 30-min in-solution trypsin digestion method, little protocol-induced deamidation or N-terminal glutamine cyclization product was observed and cleaner tryptic maps were obtained due to less trypsin self-digestion and fewer nonspecific cleavages. The throughput of trypsin digestion was also improved significantly compared with conventional trypsin digestion methods. (c) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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