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Fast Enzymatic Processing of Proteins for MS Detection with a Flow-through Microreactor
Published on: April 6, 2016
Miniaturized protein microsequencer with PTH amino acid identification by capillary electrophoresis I. An argon
1Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta., T6G 2G2, Canada.
Abstract:
The design of a simple, highly miniaturized instrument for manual microsequence analysis of proteins and peptides is described. The reaction chamber is made of fused silica capillary tubing with all reagents and solvents necessary for coupling and cleavage delivered via two valves and a syringe-based dispenser. Only two pressure regulators are required. A section of the flow-through reaction chamber is heated by thermoelectric modules to control the sequencing reaction temperature. Conversion of the extracted amino acid product to the more stable phenylthiohydantoin (PTH) form is performed off-line so that it may be dissolved in 1 mu1 buffer for identification. Approximately 0.1% of this PTH product is analyzed by micellar electrokinetic capillary chromatography (MECC) with thermo-optical absorbance detection (TOAD), providing femtomole detection of the phenylthiohydantoin amino acids. Preliminary results at the 50 pmol level for both adsorptive and covalent sequencing methods are presented.
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