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Development Of Pre-Clinical Assays Based On Tandem Mass Spectrometry To Investigate Gabaa Receptor Modulators, Margaret Laurel Guthrie
Development Of Pre-Clinical Assays Based On Tandem Mass Spectrometry To Investigate Gabaa Receptor Modulators, Margaret Laurel Guthrie
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DEVELOPMENT OF PRE-CLINICAL ASSAYS BASED ON TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY TO INVESTIGATE GABAA RECEPTOR MODULATORS
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Margaret L. Guthrie
The University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, 2017
Under the Supervision of Professor Alexander (Leggy) Arnold
Drugs are compounds that interact with a biological system to produce a specific biological response. The goal of drug discovery is to design and synthesize a pharmaceutical agent that will produce a desired biological effect. However, the in-vivo effects of a drug molecule cannot be predicted without a variety of test results prior to human clinical trials. In order to designate any drug compound as a …
Analytical Method Development For The Detection And Analysis Of Protein Carbonyls, Chelsea M. Coffey
Analytical Method Development For The Detection And Analysis Of Protein Carbonyls, Chelsea M. Coffey
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Oxidative stress can result in changes to many biomolecules and also affect their activities. We are interested in protein carbonylation, a type of unnatural oxidation which has been associated with numerous degenerative disease states and is also a consequence of the natural aging process. Protein carbonyls are stable species, but countless analytical barriers exist in terms of their identification. Thus, the main goal of this work was to develop and optimize analytical methods that could be used to help us better understand which, where, and how proteins are being carbonylated.
Initial studies involved method validation for carbonylating, tagging, and enriching …
Quantitative Mass Spectrometric Investigations Of Protein Biomarkers: Serum Thymidine Kinase 1 And Human Osteopontin, Morse Faria
Quantitative Mass Spectrometric Investigations Of Protein Biomarkers: Serum Thymidine Kinase 1 And Human Osteopontin, Morse Faria
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Mass spectrometry is being increasingly used in biomarker research mainly due to its ability to achieve high selectivity coupled with high sensitivity. This dissertation focuses on quantitative mass spectrometric investigations of two protein biomarkers i.e. serum thymidine kinase 1 (TK1) and human osteopontin (OPN).
First part of this research was focused on developing a liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) method for measuring the activity of TK1 in serum by monitoring the conversion of a TK1 specific exogenous substrate, 3’-deoxy-3’-fluorothymidine (FLT), to its mono-phosphorylated form 3’-deoxy-3’-fluorothymidine monophosphate (FLT-MP). A method to quantify FLT-MP on LC-MS/MS was developed and …