Targeting Peptide Termini, a Novel Immunoaffinity Approach to Reduce Complexity in Mass Spectrometric Protein Identification

Abstract

Mass spectrometry and peptide-centric approaches are powerful techniques for the identification of differentially expressed proteins. Despite enormous improvements in MS technologies, sample preparation and efficient fractionation of target analytes are still major bottlenecks in MS-based protein analysis. The complexity of tryptically digested whole proteomes needs to be considerably reduced before low abundance proteins can be effectively analyzed using MS/MS. Sample preparation strategies that use peptide-specific antibodies are able to reduce the complexity of tryptic digests and lead to a substantial increase in throughput and sensitivity; however, the number of peptide-specific capture reagents is low, and consequently immunoaffinity-based approaches are only capable of detecting small sets of protein-derived peptides. In this proof-of-principle study, special anti-peptide antibodies were used to enrich peptides from a complex mixture. 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Sample preparation strategies that use peptide-specific antibodies are able to reduce the complexity of tryptic digests and lead to a substantial increase in throughput and sensitivity; however, the number of peptide-specific capture reagents is low, and consequently immunoaffinity-based approaches are only capable of detecting small sets of protein-derived peptides. In this proof-of-principle study, special anti-peptide antibodies were used to enrich peptides from a complex mixture. These antibodies recognize short amino acid sequences that are found directly the of the peptides. The of amino only and the of the of antibodies the enrich only a whole of peptides that this In this study, peptides were used to that is to effectively antibodies that recognize short and to enrich and from a complex using antibodies in MS The peptides and a of peptides were from be a in the of that are the use of Mass spectrometry is the in approaches sample to reduce sample complexity to MS analysis. 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