Overview of technologies and applications

Overview of technologies

1D and 2D-PAGE

  • Classical (silver, Colloidal Coomassie blue) 
  • Fluorescent protein stains (DIGE using CyTM dyes)
  • Post translational modification specific (eg Pro-Q Diamond)
  • Gel Image Analysis
  • Image scanner Labscan
  • Image Master 2D Platinum
  • Decyder v7.0
  • Spot Excision/ Digestion of Proteins

Mass Spectrometric analysis

  • Peptide mass fingerprinting MALDI TOF MS
  • Peptide fragments fingerprint ESI-IT
  • Sequence analysis 4800 MALDI TOF/TOF
  • Post-translation modification analysis-phosphorylation, acetylation
  • iTRAQ and LC-MS/MS workflows for protein identification and relative quantification
  • Bioinformatics
  • Massspectrometry data analysis
  • Data storage

Applications

  • Measurement of masses of intact proteins for quality control
  • Gel-purified protein identification by peptide mass fingerprinting and peptide fragmentation
  • De Novo sequencing of peptides for protein identification
  • Quantification of differential protein expression by 2D-differential gel electrophoresis (DIGE)
  • Quantification of differential protein expression by gel-free proteomics and 2D-LC-MS (iTraq, ICAT...)
  • Identification of sites of covalent modification by collision-induced dissociation (CID) fragmentation of peptides or by electron transfer dissociation of peptides (ETD)