title: Design and synthesis of a solid-phase fluorescent mass tag.
abstract: In this study, we demonstrate the design of a new solid-phase fluorescent mass tag (FMT) that contains the following features: (1) the FMT is synthesized using Fmoc chemistry which is simple, rapid, and cost-effective; (2) lysine is used as a uniformly labeled amino acid (using stable isotopes) to allow 8 Da difference between "heavy" and "light" tags; (3) a fluorescent molecule is coupled to the isotope tag that allows a tagged peptide to be detected by online fluorescence; and (4) an iodoacetyl reactive group provides cysteine reactivity. Using MALDI-TOF MS and HPLC, we show that the FMT reagent can be used to label standard cysteine-containing peptides as well as cysteine-containing peptides from a BSA tryptic digest.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
authors.forename: Yang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.forename: Rong
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Xiang
authors.forename: Csaba
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Horváth
authors.forename: James A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Wilkins
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid / Q000379:methods; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry*; D007797:Laminin / Q000737:chemistry; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000032:analysis / Q000737:chemistry; D012710:Serum Albumin, Bovine / Q000737:chemistry; D019032:Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization / Q000379:methods; D014357:Trypsin
chemical_list: D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D007797:Laminin; D010446:Peptide Fragments; D012710:Serum Albumin, Bovine; D014357:Trypsin