On-line electrochemical tagging of free cysteines during nanospray ionisation for mass spectrometry analysis

Christophe Roussel; Loic Dayon; Tatiana C. Rohner; Niels Lion; Hubert Girault

doi:10.1117/12.554259

8 September 2004 On-line electrochemical tagging of free cysteines during nanospray ionisation for mass spectrometry analysis

Christophe Roussel, Loic Dayon, Tatiana C. Rohner, Niels Lion, Hubert Girault

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Proceedings Volume 5461, Biophotonics New Frontier: From Genome to Proteome; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.554259
Event: Photonics Europe, 2004, Strasbourg, France

Abstract

A microinterface for ElectroSpray Mass Spectrometry (ESI-MS), acting as an electrochemical cell, was developed for the on-chip electrochemical tagging of cysteines in peptides and proteins during electrospray ionisation which occurs via a 1,4-Michael addition. Benzoquinones are electrogenerated from the corresponding hydroquinones to react specifically with cysteine residues and the production of the resulting adducts is followed by MS. The electrotagging efficiency was tested on L-cysteine using several hydroquinones bearing either electrodonating or withdrawing groups. The reaction kinetics was determined by electrochemical techniques such as Cyclic Voltammetry (CV) and was checked by MS experiments. In both experiments, carboxymethylhydroquinone was found to be the best tagging reagent. The electrochemical tagging was successfully applied to the identification of target proteins through the labelling of peptides coming from their proteolytic digestion. The information on the number of cysteine residues in proteolytic peptides was found to enhance the protein identification confidence.

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Christophe Roussel, Loic Dayon, Tatiana C. Rohner, Niels Lion, and Hubert Girault "On-line electrochemical tagging of free cysteines during nanospray ionisation for mass spectrometry analysis", Proc. SPIE 5461, Biophotonics New Frontier: From Genome to Proteome, (8 September 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.554259

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