title: Rapid analysis of tryptically digested cerebrospinal fluid using capillary electrophoresis-electrospray ionization-Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance-mass spectrometry.
abstract: Mass spectrometry has in recent years been established as the method of choice for protein identification and characterization in proteomics. Capillary electrophoresis (CE) is a fast and efficient method for the separation of peptides and proteins. The on-line combination of CE with Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FTICR) mass spectrometry (MS) has been shown to be a powerful tool in the analysis of complex mixtures of proteins. This paper presents the first results from a proteomic analysis of human cerebrospinal fluid proteins by tryptic digestion and CE-FTICR-MS, where 30 proteins could be identified on a 95% confidence level with mass measurement errors less than 5 ppm.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Chemistry, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Uppsala University, PO Box 531, SE-751 21 Uppsala, Sweden.
authors.forename: Magnus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wetterhall
authors.forename: Magnus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Palmblad
authors.forename: Per
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Håkansson
authors.forename: Karin E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Markides
authors.forename: Jonas
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bergquist
mesh_terms: D002555:Cerebrospinal Fluid / Q000737:chemistry*; D019075:Electrophoresis, Capillary / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000032:analysis*; D020543:Proteome / Q000032:analysis*; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D021241:Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization / Q000379:methods*; D017550:Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D010446:Peptide Fragments; D020543:Proteome