title: Effect of CyDye minimum labeling in differential gel electrophoresis on the reliability of protein identification.
abstract: Differential 2-DE (DIGE) is a widely applied tool for the quantitative analysis of differentially represented proteins. The method involves covalent minimal labeling of proteins prior to their electrophoretic separation using CyDye DIGE Fluor minimal dyes. This methodology creates two different species per protein, the labeled (approx. 1-2%) and unlabeled (approx. 98-99%) ones, which differ in their molecular masses by 434-464 Da, depending on the attached dye. DIGE followed by automated spot picking according to the CyDye coordinates misses in many instances the exact positions where the maximum amounts of the considered proteins are located. This fact leads to a loss in sensitivity of the subsequent MALDI-MS analyses and results in a reduced reliability of protein identification and sequence coverage. In this paper, the migration differences of labeled and unlabeled species are quantified together with the impact of this effect on the certainty of protein identification and sequence coverage investigating proteins up to 90 kDa.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Analytical Chemistry and Food Chemistry, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hrebicek
authors.forename: Karin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Dürrschmid
authors.forename: Norbert
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Auer
authors.forename: Karl
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Bayer
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rizzi
mesh_terms: D015180:Electrophoresis, Gel, Two-Dimensional / Q000379:methods; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000737:chemistry; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins / Q000032:analysis*; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes / Q000737:chemistry*; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D019032:Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase