1. Peptidomics: LC-MS operational parameters do matter.
- Author
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Descamps A, Van der Borght K, De Spiegeleer A, Wynendaele E, and De Spiegeleer B
- Subjects
- Humans, Chromatography, Liquid, Quorum Sensing, Tandem Mass Spectrometry, Peptides
- Abstract
The sensitive and specific detection of peptides at low levels in biofluids is critical to increase the lab-to-human translation of peptidomic research. An interesting group of peptides with increasing evidence for involvement in human diseases are quorum sensing peptides. To obtain more reliable conclusions on peptide measurands in biofluids, a selection of often neglected parts of the analytical process using LC-MS were investigated, with novel approaches recommended for each part. Quorum sensing peptides were used as the main model-peptides. The peptidomic parts investigated and discussed here are: Our work addresses aQbD-approached solutions to these challenges, encompassing sample stabilization measures, a suitable peptide anti-adsorption tool, judicious choice of injection solvent versus gradient system and optimal duty cycle parameters. Our recommendations will improve the peptidomics bio-analytics of not only quorum sensing peptides, but can also be of value for other measurands at low concentrations., Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper., (Copyright © 2023 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)
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- 2023
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