Université de Fribourg

Measurement of ultra-trace level of intact oxytocin in plasma using SALLE combined with nano-LC–MS

Liu, Dan ; Han, Xiaoli ; Liu, Xinxin ; Cheng, Mengchun ; He, Meixi ; Rainer, Gregor ; Gao, Huiyuan ; Zhang, Xiaozhe

In: Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, 2019, vol. 173, p. 62–67

Measurement of peptides such as oxytocin in plasma is a critical challenge in clinical research because of their extreme low concentrations as well as the tremendous interferencing substances co-presented in plasma. In this study, we developed an efficient salt-out assisted liquid-liquid extraction (SALLE) to treat plasma, and then analyzed the samples using nano-LC–MS to quantify intact...

Université de Fribourg

High-efficiency recognition and identification of disulfide bonded peptides in rat neuropeptidome using targeted electron transfer dissociation tandem mass spectrometry

Yu, Xi ; Khani, Abbas ; Ye, Xueting ; Petruzziello, Filomena ; Gao, Huiyuan ; Zhang, Xiaozhe ; Rainer, Gregor

In: Analytical Chemistry, 2015, vol. 87, no. 23, p. 11646–11651

The main goal of the present study is to develop a method to recognize and identify endogenous intrachain disulfide bonded peptide, which are rarely sequenced in current peptidomics studies. In order to achieve highly efficient detection of these peptides in a neuropeptidome analysis, we alkylated the peptides, mined the raw mass spectrometry data, and then recognized the candidates of untreated...