| Project/Area Number |
06680584
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Structural biochemistry
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| Research Institution | Osaka University |
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Principal Investigator |
TAKAO Toshifumi Inst.for Protein Res., Osaka Unv., Instructor, たんぱく質研究所, 助手 (10197048)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1994 – 1995
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 1995)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1995: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
Fiscal Year 1994: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000)
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| Keywords | Capillary HPLC / Electrospray ionization / Magnetic sector mass spectrometer / Sensitive and accurate mass measurement / Reading frame / Modifications / Micro-blotting / Polyvinylidence fluoride membrane / 蛋白質の一次構造解析 / 安定同位体 / カルボキシ末端ペプチド / 微量試量 / イオン化効率 / 分子量測定 / 蛋白質のブロッティング |
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| Research Abstract |
Capillary high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) has been combined with a magnetic sector mass spectrometer by improving the electrospray ion source. It allows the sensitive and accurate mass measurement in the HPLC/ESI-MS.As a result, all the components involved in a mixture sample such as an enzymatic digest of a protein could be efficiently measured following separation by a capillary column (300 mm diameter). Analyzes of a protein mixture and proteolytic digest indicate that the combination of a capillary HPLC and magnetic sector mass spectrometer is capable of attaining better than 0.01 % accuracy in mass determination on picomole quantities. It could successfully be applied to determination of the reading frames of DNA-derived protein sequence and both sites and types of modifications present in recombinant or natural proteins. A micro-blotting apparatus, which had been designed to be coupled with a capillary HPLC for collecting small volumes of sample solution eluted from a capillary column onto a polyvinylidene fluoride membrane, was demonstrated to fractionate each component separated by a capillary column with the high recovery (more than 90 %), which could readily be subjected to amino acid composition or sequence analyzes. The combination of a capillary HPLC/ESI-MS and micro-blotting system would go a good way for micro-analysis of peptides and proteins that are available only in limited quantities.
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