The Future of Proteomics is Up in the Air: Can Ion Mobility Replace Liquid Chromatography for High Throughput
Yuming Jiang1,2, Daniel DeBord3, Heidi Vitrac3
1Department of Computational Biomedicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90048, United States.
Abstract:
The coevolution of liquid chromatography (LC) with mass spectrometry (MS) has shaped contemporary proteomics. LC hyphenated to MS now enables quantification of more than 10,000 proteins in a single injection, a number that likely represents most proteins in specific human cells or tissues. Separations by ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) have recently emerged to complement LC and further improve the depth of proteomics. Given the theoretical advantages in speed and robustness of IMS in comparison to LC, we envision that ongoing improvements to IMS paired with MS may eventually make LC obsolete, especially when combined with targeted or simplified analyses, such as rapid clinical proteomics analysis of defined biomarker panels. In this perspective, we describe the need for faster analysis that might drive this transition, the current state of direct infusion proteomics, and discuss some technical challenges that must be overcome to fully complete the transition to entirely gas phase proteomics.
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