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Ibon Iloro1, Iraide Escobés1, Mikel Azkargorta1
1CIC bioGUNE, Proteomics Platform, Basque Research & Technology Alliance (BRTA), ProteoRed-ISCIII, CIBERehd, Bizkaia Science and Technology Park, Derio, Spain.
Abstract:
Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) imaging mass spectrometry (IMS) has emerged as a powerful tool for analyzing the spatial distribution of peptides, small proteins, and other molecules within biological tissues. The obtained signals can be correlated with underlying tissue architecture, without any geometrical distortion, enabling the so-called molecular histology. Here, we analyzed cryopreserved tissue samples employing the MALDI-IMS for proteins and peptides. We used a nonstandard OCT-free cryo-slicing protocol, followed by Carnoy delipidation. Automated matrix spray was utilized to circumvent some of MALDI-IMS technology drawbacks in protein and peptide analysis.
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