Naslov
Improving off-line accelerated tryptic digestion - Towards fast-lane proteolysis of complex biological samples

Autori
Vuković, Jadranka ; Loftheima, Havard ; Winthera, Bjorn ; Reubsaet, J. Leon E.

Izvornik
Journal of Chromatography A (0021-9673) 1195 (2008), 1-2; 34-43

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Immobilized trypsin; BSA; Cytochrome c; Human urine; Proteolysis; Digestion characteristics

Sažetak
Off-line digestion of proteins using immobilized trypsin beads is studied with respect to the format of the digestion reactor, the digestion conditions, the comparison with in-solution digestion and its use in complex biological samples. The use of the filter vial as the most appropriate digestion reactor enables simple, efficient and easy-to-handle off-line digestion of the proteins on trypsin beads. It was shown that complex proteins like bovine serum albumin (BSA) need much longer time (89 min) and elevated temperature (37 ◦ C) to be digested to an acceptable level compared to smaller proteins like cytochrome c (5 min, room temperature). Comparing the BSA digestion using immobilized trypsin beads with conventional in-solution digestion (overnight at 37 ◦ C), itwas shown that comparable resultswere obtained with respect to sequence coverage (>90%) and amount of missed cleavages (in both cases around 20 peptides with 1 or 2 missed cleavages were detected). However, the digestion using immobilized trypsin beads was considerable less time consuming. Good reproducibility and signal intensities were obtained for the digestion products of BSA in a complex urine sample. In addition to this, peptide products of proteins typically present in urine were identified.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

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Farmacija

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