High-throughput affinity mass spectrometry

Methods Mol Biol. 2006:328:141-50. doi: 10.1385/1-59745-026-X:141.

Abstract

Affinity mass spectrometry (AMS) is a proteomics approach for selectively isolating target protein(s) from complex biological fluids for mass spectrometric analysis. The resulting high-content mass spectrometry (MS) data show the unique MS protein signatures (wild-type, posttranslationally modified, as well as genetically modified forms of the protein target) that are present within a biological sample. Information regarding such protein diversity is normally lost in classical proteomic or immunoassay analyses. This chapter presents a step-by-step description of high-throughput AMS in the population proteomic screening of the human plasma protein cystatin C.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Automation
  • Blood Proteins / chemistry
  • Calibration
  • Cystatin C
  • Cystatins / blood
  • Cystatins / chemistry
  • Humans
  • Immunoassay / methods
  • Mass Spectrometry / methods*
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Point Mutation
  • Protein Processing, Post-Translational
  • Proteins / chemistry
  • Proteomics / methods
  • Robotics
  • Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization

Substances

  • Blood Proteins
  • CST3 protein, human
  • Cystatin C
  • Cystatins
  • Proteins