Hebert AS, Merrill AE, Bailey DJ, Still AJ, Westphall MS, Strieter ER, Pagliarini DJ, Coon JJ.
Nat Methods. 2013 Feb 24.
We describe a protein quantification method called neutron encoding that exploits the subtle mass differences caused by nuclear binding energy variation in stable isotopes. These mass differences are synthetically encoded into amino acids and incorporated into yeast and mouse proteins via metabolic labeling. Mass spectrometry analysis with high mass resolution (>200,000) reveals the isotopologue-embedded peptide signals, permitting quantification. Neutron encoding will enable highly multiplexed proteome analysis with excellent dynamic range and accuracy.
http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nmeth.2378.htmlDepartment of Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
United States
