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Capillary HILIC-MS: A New Tool for Sensitive Top-Down Proteomics

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Gargano, Andrea F.G., Roca, Liana S., Fellers, Ryan T., Bocxe, Max, Domínguez-Vega, Elena, Somsen, Govert W.·2018·Analytical Chemistry

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Recent progress in top-down proteomics has driven the demand for chromatographic methods compatible with mass spectrometry (MS) that can separate intact proteins. Hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography (HILIC) has recently shown good potential for the characterization of glycoforms of intact proteins. In the present study, we demonstrate that HILIC can separate a wide range of proteins exhibiting orthogonal selectivity with respect to reversed-phase LC (RPLC). However, the application of HILIC to the analysis of low abundance proteins (e.g., in proteomics analysis) is hampered by low volume loadability, hindering down-scaling of the method to column diameters below 2.1 mm. Moreover, HILIC-MS sensitivity is decreased due to ion suppression from the trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) often used as the ion-pair agent to improve the selectivity and efficiency in the analysis of glycoproteins. Here, we introduce a capillary-based HILIC-MS method that overcomes these problems. Our method uses RPLC trap-columns to load and inject the sample, circumventing issues of protein solubility and volume loadability in capillary columns (200 μm ID). The low flow rates and use of a dopant gas in the electrospray interface improve protein-ionization efficiencies and reduce suppression by TFA. Overall, this allows the separation and detection of small protein quantities (down to 5 ng injected on column) as indicated by the analysis of a mixture of model proteins. The potential of the new capillary HILIC-MS is demonstrated by the analysis of a complex cell lysate.

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Authors
Gargano, A. F. G., Roca, L. S., Fellers, R. T., Bocxe, M., Domínguez-Vega, E., & Somsen, G. W.
Affiliations
  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)
  • Centre for Analytical Science Amsterdam , Science Park 904 , ,
  • Northwestern University (US)
  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam , , de Boelelaan 1083 , ,
Corresponding author
Gargano, Andrea F.G.
Venue
Analytical Chemistry
Published
2018-05-03
Volume
90
Issue
11
Pages
6601-6609
ISSN
  • 0003-2700 (ISSN-L)
  • 1520-6882
OpenAlex
W2801628150
Cited by
52
References
42
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FWCI
3.02
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Funders
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (722.015.009)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Spectroscopy › Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Spectroscopy › Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography
  • Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Spectroscopy › Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications
Keywords
hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography, top-down proteomics, intact protein separation, low-abundance proteins, ion suppression, trifluoroacetic acid, electrospray ionization, glycoproteins, cell lysate analysis
MeSH terms
Algorithms, Chromatography, Liquid, Proteins, Mass Spectrometry, Trifluoroacetic Acid, Proteomics, Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions

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