title: A two-dimensional electrophoresis database of rat heart proteins.
abstract: More than 3000 myocardial protein species of Wistar Kyoto rat, an important animal model, were separated by high-resolution two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-DE) and characterized in terms of isoelectric point (pI) and molecular mass (Mr). Currently, the 2-DE database contains 64 identified proteins; forty-three were identified by peptide mass fingerprinting (PMF) using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry (MALDI-MS), nine by exclusive comparison with other 2-DE heart protein databases, and in only 12 cases of 60 attempts N-terminal sequencing was successful. We used the Make2ddb software package downloaded from the ExPASy server for the construction of a rat myocardial 2-DE database. The Make2ddb package simplifies the creation of a new 2-DE database if the Melanie II software and a Sun workstation under Solaris are available. Our 2-DE database of rat heart proteins can be accessed at URL http://gelmatching.inf.fu-berlin.de/pleiss/2d.
authors.affiliation: Max Volmer Institute of Biophysical Chemistry and Biochemistry, Technical University Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: X P
authors.initials: XP
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: K P
authors.initials: KP
authors.lastname: Pleissner
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Scheler
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Regitz-Zagrosek
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Salnikow
authors.forename: P R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Jungblut
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016208:Databases, Factual; D015180:Electrophoresis, Gel, Two-Dimensional / Q000379:methods*; D006321:Heart; D009206:Myocardium / Q000737:chemistry*; D011506:Proteins / Q000032:analysis*; D051381:Rats; D011921:Rats, Inbred WKY; D019032:Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins