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- Title
Quick quantification of proteins by MALDI.
- Authors
Ahn, Sung Hee; Kang, Jeong Won; Moon, Jeong Hee; Kim, Kwang Pyo; Lee, Seong Hoon; Kim, Myung Soo
- Abstract
Previously, we reported that the matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization spectrum of a peptide became reproducible when an effective temperature was held constant. Using a calibration curve drawn by plotting the peptide-to-matrix ion abundance ratio versus the peptide concentration in a solid sample, a peptide could be quantified without the use of any internal standard. In this work, we quantified proteins by quantifying their tryptic peptides with the aforementioned method. We modified the digestion process; e.g. disulfide bonds were not cleaved, so that hardly any reagent other than trypsin remained after the digestion process. This allowed the preparation of a sample by the direct mixing of a digestion mixture with a matrix solution. We also observed that the efficiency of the matrix-to-peptide proton transfer, as measured by its reaction quotient, was similar for peptides with arginine at the C-terminus. With the reaction quotient averaged over many such peptides, we could rapidly quantify proteins. Most importantly, no peptide standard, not to mention its isotopically labeled analog, was needed in this method. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
MATRIX-assisted laser desorption-ionization; IONIZING radiation; BIOSYNTHESIS; PEPTIDES; CALIBRATION
- Publication
Journal of Mass Spectrometry, 2015, Vol 50, Issue 3, p596
- ISSN
1076-5174
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/jms.3567