title: Protocols for peptidomic analysis of spider venoms.
abstract: Spider venom contains a complex mixture of components with a large range of molecular masses (0.1-60 kDa) exhibiting a diverse array of actions. Most of these components are proteinaceous molecules - biologically active proteins and peptides. Proteomics profiling of spider venoms (the components with MW >10 kDa) could be achieved through conventional 2-DE-based proteomics methods combined with MS or MS/MS detection. Peptidomic profiling (of the components with MW below ~10 kDa) is usually achieved through off-line separation by a combination of ion-exchange and reverse-phase chromatography, and it relies more heavily on de novo sequencing by Edman degradation or MS/MS for peptide identification.
authors.affiliation: College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China.
authors.forename: Liang
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Songping
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid / Q000379:methods; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods; D030562:Databases, Protein; D015180:Electrophoresis, Gel, Two-Dimensional / Q000379:methods; D019476:Insect Proteins / Q000032:analysis*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D008970:Molecular Weight; D010455:Peptides / Q000032:analysis*; D040901:Proteomics / Q000379:methods*; D020539:Sequence Analysis, Protein / Q000379:methods*; D013111:Spider Venoms / Q000737:chemistry*; D013112:Spiders / Q000737:chemistry; D053719:Tandem Mass Spectrometry / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D019476:Insect Proteins; D010455:Peptides; D013111:Spider Venoms