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  • Title: Plastic microchip liquid chromatography-matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry using monolithic columns.
    Author: Ro KW, Liu J, Knapp DR.
    Journal: J Chromatogr A; 2006 Apr 07; 1111(1):40-7. PubMed ID: 16480733.
    Abstract:
    A prototype array of monolithic liquid chromatography (LC) columns was prepared in a plastic microfluidic device for the off-line interface with matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF-MS). The microfluidic channels were fabricated on a cyclic olefin copolymer (COC) plate by hot embossing. An array of methacrylate monolithic columns was prepared in the microfluidic channels by UV-initiated polymerization. The deposition system employed a pulsed electric field to transfer the effluents from multiple columns directly onto MALDI targets with a non-contact deposition method reported by Ericson et al. [C. Ericson, Q.T. Phung, D.M. Horn, E.C. Peters, J.R. Fitchett, S.B. Ficarro, A.R. Salmon, L.M. Brill, A. Brock, Anal. Chem. 75 (2003) 2309]. To characterize the off-line interface of the multiple-channel microchip LC and the MALDI-MS for the analysis of peptide mixtures, the separation efficiency and reproducibility tests in each column were carried out by separating a peptide mixture from tryptic digested proteins and depositing the multiple effluents simultaneously on the MALDI target plate. Using a MALDI-TOF mass spectrometer with a mass accuracy of +/-1 Da for peptide assignments of digested bovine serum albumin (BSA), amino acid sequence coverage of around 59% was obtained for the microchip LC-MALDI-MS compared to 23% obtained by the MALDI-MS method without LC separation. In sensitivity tests for the detection of low abundance proteins in the presence of high concentration protein mixtures, as low as 10 fmol/mul (S/N = 10) of a spiked peptide in 1 microg of digested BSA could be detected. In the analysis of a mixture of three digested proteins (BSA, myoglobin, and cytochrome c), more than twice the amino acid sequence coverage was obtained for the microchip LC-MALDI-MS compared to MALDI-MS alone.
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