Abstract
Mass spectrometry (MS) is one of the most powerful instrumental techniques for protein analysis. The electrospray ionization (ESI) approach is known to be very gentle and at the same time compatible with liquid separation techniques such as HPLC and CE. However, ESI is known to be susceptible to salts and impurities, which often cause a dramatic decrease in sensitivity due to the suppression of the ionization of the product of interest. For this reason, LC–ESI-MS coupling has so far been largely limited to reversed-phase chromatography with its hydro–organic mobile phases. Other chromatographic techniques are typically “linked” to ESI-MS by time consuming, off-line desalting steps. On-line microdialysis has been proposed as a solution to this dilemma. In this paper, we introduce an improved microdialysis system, which enlarges the number of putative applications, thus allowing chromatographic separations of biological compounds to be directly coupled to MS detection with little to no loss in time or chromatographic resolution. Examples include separations by affinity, ion-exchange and size-exclusion chromatography, all of which were connected successfully to the ESI-MS detector via the on-line microdialyzer. We propose that, using this system, any kind of chromatography technique can be coupled to ESI-MS, thus enabling for example application in quality control or process monitoring of many bioproduction and downstream processes.
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