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Mass Spectrometric Analysis Of Environmental Contaminants, Protein Structure And Expression, Ian E. Atkinson
Mass Spectrometric Analysis Of Environmental Contaminants, Protein Structure And Expression, Ian E. Atkinson
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There are a wide array of sciences at our disposal to further our understanding of the roles of toxins in the environment and their effects on living organisms. Of these disciplines, the field of mass spectrometry offers a powerful analytical means to identify compounds in varying and complex sample media. The presence of altered expressions of biomolecules upon exposure to toxins, the effects that these toxins may have on biomolecule structure and the identity of toxins in the sample all can be determined by mass spectrometry. In this study mass spectrometric analysis has been applied to environmental toxicological problems. First, …
Technologies For Proteomic And Genomic Biomarker Analysis, Yiding Liu
Technologies For Proteomic And Genomic Biomarker Analysis, Yiding Liu
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In the first part of this dissertation, we systematically validated the application of molecular weight cut-off ultrafiltration in separation and enrichment of low-molecular-weight peptides from human serum. Under optimized conditions, both free-phase and bound LMW peptides could be separated and enriched. The method proved to be highly efficient and reproducible coupled with MALDI-TOF MS proteomic pattern analysis. Three marker peaks were found to be eligible for distinguishing normal and ovarian cancer samples. A novel organic solvent precipitation method coupled with enzymatic deglycosylation was also developed for biomarker detection from human serum. This method allowed us to generate reproducible free-phase peptide …