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  • Title: Alkylation power of free Immobiline chemicals towards proteins in isoelectric focusing and two-dimensional maps, as explored by matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization-time of flight-mass spectrometry.
    Author: Bordini E, Hamdan M, Righetti PG.
    Journal: Electrophoresis; 2000 Aug; 21(14):2911-8. PubMed ID: 11001303.
    Abstract:
    A number of Immobilines, with pK 1.0-10.3, were incubated with two proteins, bovine alpha-lactalbumin (pI 4.80) and chicken egg lysozyme (pI 9.32), at pH approximately 9-10 and the resulting solutions were examined by matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry. The reflectron mode of the same technique was also used to analyze a number of tryptic digests of some solutions. The extent and the number of detected alkylation sites associated with the acidic protein were found to be linearly proportional to the pK values of the investigated Immobilines, an effect which was less evident for the basic protein. The high resolution measurements of some tryptic digests indicate the cysteine residues as the likely sites of alkylation. The implications of the present data for isoelectric focusing separations on immobilized pH gradients and for two-dimensional maps are discussed.
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