Abstract
Tryptic digests were analyzed by means of online microbore liquid chromatography combined with mass spectrometry (LC/MS) for some common proteins. Following conventional enzymatic digestion with trypsin, the freeze-dried residues were dissolved in high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) eluent and subjected to gradient reversed-phase microbore HPLC separation with mass spectrometric detection. The latter was done in the full-scan single or tandem (MS/MS) mass spectrometry mode. The formation of gas-phase ions from dissolved analytes was accomplished at atmospheric pressure by pneumatically assisted electrospray (ion spray) ionization. This produced field-assisted ion evaporation of dissolved ions, which could then be mass-analyzed for molecular mass or structure. In the full-scan LC/MS mode, the masses for the peptide fragments in the tryptic digests can be determined as either their singly or multiply charged ions. When the molecular weights of the peptides lie outside the mass range of the mass spectrometer, the multiply charged feature of these experimental conditions still provides reliable molecular weight determinations. In addition, collision-activated dissociation (CAD) on selected peptide precursor ions provides online LC/MS/MS sequence information for the tryptic fragments. Results are shown for the tryptic digests of horse heart cytochrome c, bovine β-lactoglobulin A, and bovine β-lactoglobulin B.
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