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Enrichment of Bacterial Lipoproteins and Preparation of N-terminal Lipopeptides for Structural Determination by Mass Spectrometry
Published on: May 21, 2018
A comparison of different biotinylation reagents, tryptic digestion procedures, and mass spectrometric techniques for
Simone B Scheurer1, Christoph Roesli, Dario Neri
1Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology-Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 10, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland.
Abstract:
2-D peptide mapping is a novel technique for the relative quantification of membrane proteins (Scheurer S. et al., Proteomics 2005, in press). Using closely related metastatic and nonmetastatic teratocarcinoma cell lines as a model system, we have performed a comparative analysis of different biotinylation reagents, tryptic digestion procedures, and mass spectrometric techniques, with the aim to increase the number of proteins identified by 2-D peptide mapping. Our experience indicates that the LC-MALDI TOF/TOF technique is superior to LC-ESI MS/MS in terms of the number of proteins identified and confidence in protein identification. Furthermore, the best results were obtained by tryptic digestion of proteins eluted from a streptavidin column using a cleavable biotin derivative.

