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    Electrophoresis. 2006 Sep;27(18):3559-68.

    Microfluidic technologies for MALDI-MS in proteomics.

    DeVoe DL, Lee CS.

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA. ddev@eng.umd.edu

    The field of microfluidics continues to offer great promise as an enabling technology for advanced analytical tools. For biomolecular analysis, there is often a critical need to couple on-chip microfluidic sample manipulation with back-end MS. Though interfacing microfluidics to MS has been most often reported through the use of direct ESI-MS, there are compelling reasons for coupling microfluidics to MALDI-MS as an alternative to ESI-MS for both online and offline analysis. The intent of this review is to provide a summary of recent developments in the integration of microfluidic systems with MALDI-MS, with an emphasis on applications in proteomics. Key points are summarized, followed by a review of relevant technologies and a discussion of outlook for the field.

    PMID: 16927430 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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