title: Mass spectrometric strategy for primary structure determination of N-terminally blocked peptides.
abstract: The mass spectrometric strategy including three steps is presented for primary structure determination of the N-terminally blocked peptides. First, the C-terminal sequencing is performed by using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) mass spectrometry coupled with carboxypeptidase Y digestion. Then, the peptide is cleaved according to the obtained C-terminal sequence information and the resulting peptides are identified by mass spectrometry and Edman degradation after fractionation by reverse-phase chromatography. Finally, the N-terminal fragment is sequenced by tandem mass spectrometry. The strategy was successfully applied to the sequence determination of two novel N-terminally blocked peptides named EAFP1 and EAFP2.
authors.affiliation: Center for Molecular Biology, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, PR China.
authors.forename: Ren-Huai
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Da-Cheng
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010449:Peptide Mapping; D010455:Peptides / Q000737:chemistry*; D019032:Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization / Q000379:methods*; D014357:Trypsin / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D010455:Peptides; D014357:Trypsin