title: Rapid protein identification using monolithic enzymatic microreactor and LC-ESI-MS/MS.
abstract: A monolithic enzymatic microreactor was prepared in a fused-silica capillary by in situ polymerization of acrylamide, glycidyl methacrylate (GMA) and ethylene dimethacrylate (EDMA) in the presence of a binary porogenic mixture of dodecanol and cyclohexanol, followed by ammonia solution treatment, glutaraldehyde activation and trypsin modification. The choice of acrylamide as co-monomer was found useful to improve the efficiency of trypsin modification, thus, to increase the enzyme activity. The optimized microreactor offered very low back pressure, enabling the fast digestion of proteins flowing through the reactor. The performance of the monolithic microreactor was demonstrated with the digestion of cytochrome c at high flow rate. The digests were then characterized by CE and HPLC-MS/MS with the sequence coverage of 57.7%. The digestion efficiency was found over 230 times as high as that of the conventional method. In addition, for the first time, protein digestion carried out in a mixture of water and ACN was compared with the conventional aqueous reaction using MS/MS detection, and the former solution was found more compatible and more efficient for protein digestion.
authors.affiliation: National Chromatographic Research and Analysis Center, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, PR China.
authors.forename: Jicheng
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Duan
authors.forename: Zhen
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.forename: Chun
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Lihua
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Weibing
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Yukui
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D002853:Chromatography, Liquid; D045304:Cytochromes c / Q000378:metabolism*; D004800:Enzymes, Immobilized / Q000378:metabolism*; D004852:Epoxy Compounds / Q000737:chemistry; D006321:Heart / Q000502:physiology; D006736:Horses; D008689:Methacrylates / Q000737:chemistry; D008832:Microchemistry / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D010449:Peptide Mapping / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D021241:Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization; D019032:Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization; D014357:Trypsin / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D004800:Enzymes, Immobilized; D004852:Epoxy Compounds; D008689:Methacrylates; D010446:Peptide Fragments; C004919:ethylene dimethacrylate; D045304:Cytochromes c; D014357:Trypsin; C007870:glycidyl methacrylate