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Salt-Mediated Organic Solvent Precipitation for Enhanced Recovery of Peptides Generated by Pepsin Digestion
| Content Provider | MDPI |
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| Author | Baghalabadi, Venus Razmi, Habib Doucette, Alan |
| Copyright Year | 2021 |
| Description | Conventional solvent-based precipitation makes it challenging to obtain a high recovery of low mass peptides. However, we previously demonstrated that the inclusion of salt ions, specifically $ZnSO_{4}$, together with high concentrations of acetone, maximizes the recovery of peptides generated from trypsin digestion. We herein generalized this protocol to the rapid (5 min) precipitation of pepsin-digested peptides recovered from acidic matrices. The precipitation protocol extended to other organic solvents (acetonitrile), with high recovery from dilute peptide samples permitting preconcentration and purification. Mass spectrometry profiling of pepsin-generated peptides demonstrated that the protocol captured peptides as small as 800 u, although with a preferential bias towards recovering larger and more hydrophobic peptides. The precipitation protocol was applied to rapidly quench, concentrate, and purify pepsin-digested samples ahead of MS. Complex mixtures of yeast and plasma proteome extracts were successfully precipitated following digestion, with over 95% of MS-identified peptides observed in the pellet fraction. The full precipitation workflow—including the digestion step—can be completed in under 10 min, with direct MS analysis of the recovered peptide pellets showing exceptional protein sequence coverage. |
| Starting Page | 44 |
| e-ISSN | 22277382 |
| DOI | 10.3390/proteomes9040044 |
| Journal | Proteomes |
| Issue Number | 4 |
| Volume Number | 9 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | MDPI |
| Publisher Date | 2021-11-03 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Proteomes Biochemical Research Analytical Chemistry Precipitation Acetone Peptides Pepsin Low Molecular Weight Sample Preparation Mass Spectrometry |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |