Advanced Protein Technology Centre
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Equipment

a picture of a QSTAR machine

Applied Biosystems/MDS Sciex API QSTAR XL Pulsar coupled with a Agilent nano HPLC 1100 series

  • Quantitation using iCAT or iTRAQ
  • Accurate mass determination of peptides and intact proteins up to 80 kDa (using infusion-ESI)
  • Accurate mass determination of small molecules (using infusion-ESI)
  • Phosphorylation site determination
  • De novo sequencing

Applied Biosystems/MDS Sciex API QSTAR XL Pulsar MALDI QTOF

  • Accurate mass determination of peptides and intact proteins up to 35 kDa
  • Peptide sequencing
  • Phosphorylation site determination
  • Protein identification – peptide map fingerprinting and MS/MS
  • De novo sequencing
a Thermo Electron LCQ machine

ThermoElectron LCQ Deca XP coupled with an Agilent capillary HPLC 1100 series

  • Protein identification of gel and ‘gel-less’ proteins
  • identification of Post-Translational Modifications
  • MUDPit analysis (2D LC)

LC Packings Ultimate 2D LC system with a Probot MALDI spotter

  • Off-line two-dimensional separation via strong-cation exchange (SCX) and reverse phase (RP) chromatography of complex biological samples. Fractions are collected as spots on a MALDI target plate.