title: Microfluidic technologies for MALDI-MS in proteomics.
abstract: The field of microfluidics continues to offer great promise as an enabling technology for advanced analytical tools. For biomolecular analysis, there is often a critical need to couple on-chip microfluidic sample manipulation with back-end MS. Though interfacing microfluidics to MS has been most often reported through the use of direct ESI-MS, there are compelling reasons for coupling microfluidics to MALDI-MS as an alternative to ESI-MS for both online and offline analysis. The intent of this review is to provide a summary of recent developments in the integration of microfluidic systems with MALDI-MS, with an emphasis on applications in proteomics. Key points are summarized, followed by a review of relevant technologies and a discussion of outlook for the field.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA. ddev@eng.umd.edu
authors.forename: Don L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: DeVoe
authors.forename: Cheng S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D044085:Microfluidics / Q000379:methods*; D011506:Proteins / Q000032:analysis*; D040901:Proteomics; D019032:Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins