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Antibodies for Studying NMDA Receptor Protein Expression and Synapse-Specific Immunolabeling

...mitter in the mammalian centralnervous system. The ion channels activated by glutamate are typically dividedinto two classes. Those that are sensitive to N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) aredesignated NMDA receptors (NMDAR) while those activated by kainate and a -amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxalonepropionic...

Enzyme Immunoassay for Studying Intracellular Levels of cAMP

...ation of substrateproteins, which include enzymes, ion channels and transcription regulators.Because cAMP can activate a cascade of reactions, the involvement of cAMPgreatly amplifies the response to a hormonal stimulus. Nonradioactive Detection of cAMP ...

Gene-Specific Primers for NMDA Receptor Subunits

...ifferent cell types and regions of the brain. The ion channels activated by glutamate are typically divided into twoclasses. The ion channels that are sensitive to N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) aredesignated NMDA receptors (NMDAR), whi...

Quantification made easy

... or undiluted form. Aqueous buffers with low ion concentrations (e.g. TE buffer) are ideal for this method. The concentration is determined by measuring at 260 nm against blank and then evaluating via factor. Normally, the user has to calculate the concentration of the measured sa...

Optimizing DNA Amplification Protocols using the Eppendorf Mastercycler

... sample. Magnesium ion concentration A very simple but significa...optimization is titration of the magnesium ion concentration (4). In addition to Mg2+ ions bound by the template DNA, the nucleotides (dNTP...

PCR Optimization

... 4.5 mM range will determine the magnesium ion concentration, that produces the highest yield of a specific PCR product. In combination with a temperature gradient of 20C across the block for the annealing step, important parameters of a specific PCR can be checked in just...

Identification of Low-Level Oxidation Products in Calmodulin Using NanoSpray Ion Trap Mass Spectrometry

...e the column effluent into an LCQ Deca ion trap mass spectrometer using the following source ...8 Hypurity column and detected with Data Dependent ion trap MS/MS. Table 1: Theoretical monoisotopic masses of peptide ...

Improved Quantitative Selectivity of Clenbuterol in Human Urine using High Resolution on the TSQ Quantum Mass Spectrometer

... The transition yielding the most abundant product ion (m/z 203.0) was selected for the analysis of...sation mode: Electrospray (ESI), positive ion SRM: Clenbuterol 277.1 > 203.0 +/- 0.3 Da, 22 V Collision ene...

Structural Analysis of Glycosylated Peptides in Complex Mixtures with Ion Trap MSn

... in a single, automated process using any LCQ ion trap mass spectrometer with Data Dependent T...r fitted with orthogonal ESI probe (positive ion mode) Ion capillary tube temp: 140 C Needle voltage: +3.8 kV Sheath gas: 9 units ...

Structural Determination of Flavonoids Using MSn

...ired using the Thermo Finnigan LCQ Series of ion trap mass spectrometers. Introductio...3, it is clear that compound X has an [M+H]+ ion at 579 and an [M+Na]+ ion at 601. The MS/MS spectrum of the [M+H]+ ion of Compound X (Figure 4...

Quantification of the Purinergic Receptor P2X3 using ICAT and Orthogonal 2D LC-MS/MS with an Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer

...cedures, by removal of the need for off-line ion exchange (IEX) and affinity clean-up after ICAT de...eceptors constitutes a class of ligand-gated ion channels where ATP is the ligand. P2X3 occurs in small diameter sensory neurons and is implica...

Enhancing Ruggedness and Full-Scan MS Sensitivity Using Ion Sweep Technology

...nigan LCQ Advantage, LCQ Deca XP, and Deca XP Plus ion trap mass spectrometer. In...cquisition more useful. Reducing API solvent ion noise, especially in the m/z 100-250 mass range, will enable Data-Dependent acquisitions for s...

In-Vitro Metabolism Studies Using Data-Dependent LC/MSn

...ired using the Thermo Finnigan LCQ Series of ion trap mass spectrometers. Introducti...LC run. These second and third order product ion spectra afford data that allow metabolite identification with greater specificity. An addition...

Analyzing Trace-Level Impurities of a Pharmaceutical Intermediate Using an LCQ Deca Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer and the Mass Frontier Software Package

...ired using the Thermo Finnigan LCQ Series of ion trap mass spectrometers Introductio...al capabilities, the Thermo Finnigan LCQ Series of ion trap mass spectrometers are well suited for applications involving impurities. R...

Characterization of Protein Oligosaccharides Using MSn

...ired using the Thermo Finnigan LCQ Series of ion trap mass spectrometers. Introduction Th...lysis more effectively directsfragmentation of the ion into various familiar series of product ions: glycosidic-bond fragments which indicatemonosaccharide...

Bioanalytical Method Intraday Validation for the Quantitation of Paroxetine in Bovine Plasma using the TSQ Quantum Mass Spectrometer

... The transition yielding the most abundant product ion (m/z 192.1) was used for the analysis of Par... Ionization mode: Electrospray (ESI), positive ion Resolution: 0.7 Dalton Full Width Half Maximum on Q1 and Q3 Selected Reaction Monitoring...

Detection and Identification of Phosphorylation Sites in Proteins Using LC/MS/MS with Neutral Fragment Loss Mapping

...cquired using any Thermo Finnigan LCQ Series ion trap mass spectrometer. Introduc...r fitted with NanoSpray Ion Source (positive ion mode) Data Dependent MS/MS Capillary temp: 150C Needle voltage: + 1.8 kV LC ...

C. therm. Polymerase One-Step RT-PCR System

... transcriptase reaction: 5072C. Divalent ion requirement: Mg2+. Works with UNG (RT-PCR carry-over prevention). Accepts DIG-labeled and other modified nucleotides. Experimental result Comparison of C. ther...

Expand High Fidelity PCR System

... pH optimum: 9.2 Divalent ion requirement: Mg 2+ Temperature optimum (for elongation): 6872C Experimental results Figure 1: Expand High Fidelity successfully amplified the fragment from as little as 1 ng o...

Taq DNA Polymerase

...f life at 95C of approx. 40 min Divalent ion requirement: Mg 2+ (standard concentration, 1.5 mM) dNTP requirement: approx. 200 M for each dNTP Effect of additives Tween 20 (0.51.0%) detergent has been used to enhance the effici...

Choice of RT-PCR Enzymes

...ted States. Divalent ion requirement Most reverse transcriptases require a divalent ion for activity. Enzymes that use Mg 2+ are likely to produce more accurate cDNA copies th...

Expand 20 kbPLUS PCR System

...a-DNA pH optimum: 9.2 Divalent ion requirement: Mg 2+ Temperature optimum (for elongation): 68C Key advantages Ensures the highest fidelity PCR amplification, because the Expand 20 kbPLUS PCR System has an even lowe...

C. therm. Polymerase for Reverse Transcription in Two-Step RT-PCR

... transcriptase reaction: 5572C. Divalent ion requirement: Mg 2+ . Addition of betaine (0.52.0 M) to reaction mix improves yield and specificity of transcription for GC-rich templates. Accepts DIG-labeled and other modified nucleotides. Works with Uracil-D...

Expand Long Template PCR System

...a-DNA pH optimum: 9.2 Divalent ion requirement: Mg 2+ Temperature optimum (for elongation): 68C Experimental result Amplification of a 29.7 kb and a 9.0 kb factor VIII region from genomic DNA with the Expand Long Template PCR Sy...

PCR Master

...f life at 95C of approx. 40 min Divalent ion requirement: Mg 2+ (standard concentration, 1.5 mM) dNTP requirement: approx. 200 M for each dNTP Effects of additives Tween 20 (0.51.0%) detergent has been used to enhance the efficiency of T...

Pwo DNA Polymerase

... >2 h at 95C Divalent ion requirement: Mg 2+ (standard concentration, 2.00 mM) dNTP concentration: at least 200 M for each dNTP Caution: Lower deoxynucleotide concentrations can increase fidelity but can also activate t...

Using the Agilent 2100 bioanalyzer for quality control of protein samples prior to MS-analysis

...Sdetection an ESI-spray source wasused in positive ion mode with anionization voltage of 5000 V andan orifice potential of 40 V. Theanalysis was carried out with afull scan between 600 and 1800m/z (2.7 s/scan). For deconvolutionthe Biotoolbox softwarewas used. Agilent 2100 bioanal...

Double-Affinity Purification of GST-His Tagged Proteins Using Vivapure 8-to-96 Well Cobalt-Chelate Kit

...elberg, Germany Introduction Immobilized Metal ion Affinity Chromatography (IMAC) is an easy and reliable technique that allows the fast separation of His-tagged proteins from total lysates. There are several commercially available resins but all of them show some affinity for untagged proteins. Ther...

Rapid hit confirmation and early hERG liability testing using the IonWorks HT system

...7. INTRODUCTION Voltage-dependent ion channels represent a largely untapped porti...arket. 1 Until recently, voltage-dependent ion channels have been studied during the drug discovery process either using indirect methods ...

Setting up a kinase profiler with IMAP

... compound interference in immobilized metal ion affinity-based fluorescence polarization de...throughput screening with immobilized metal ion affinitybased fluorescence polarization detection, a homogenous assay for protein kina...

Setting up Successful siRNA Library Screens

... target important gene classes including kinases, ion channels, receptor classes, molecular motors, and many others (Figure 1). Applying these siRNA libraries to cell culture screens reveals human genes that are critical for cellular functions. The diversity of cell functions tha...

Acrylamide Polymerization A Practical Approach

...with acrylamide and bis, thereby conferring ion exchange properties on the resulting gel. T...on X-100 can be deionized with a mixed-bed ion exchange resin. Use 10 gm Bio-Rad Ag 5O1 X-8 resin per 100 ml additive solution and let sit ...

Purification of Murine IgG1 Using UNOsphere S and CHT Ceramic Hydroxyapatite Chromatography, Rev A

...a protein A chromatography step along with ion exchange chromatography and hydrophobic interactio...sins are substantially more expensive than ion exchange and ceramic hydroxyapatite supports. Here we present an alternative process for anti...

Rapid Method Development With the BioLogic DuoFlow Chromatography System for the Purification of His-Tagged Proteins

...e cleaning buffer; recharging of the metal ion with the charging buffer; removal of excess metal ions with the cleaning buffer; and finally, reequilibration with the loading buffer. In order to confirm the separation of the target protein from other E. coli proteins ...

Separation Reproducibility With the BioLogic Chromatography Systems

...h excellent reproducibility. A total of 80 ion exchange runs were performed on the BioLogic DuoFlow QuadTec system as a queue of alternating anion exchange and equilibration runs (160 runs total). As shown in Figure 1, the 80 separations were virtually indistinguishable. T...

Preparative Nondenaturing Gel Electrophoresis Used in the Purification of an Esterase Involved in Insecticide Resistance, Rev C

...ant of a mosquito homogenate by sequential ion exchange, hydrophobic interaction, and hydroxyapatite chromatography, followed by a final purification step using the Model 491 prep cell (Ketterman et al. 1992). Preparative Native PAGE As suggested in the Model 491...

Preparative Nondenaturing Gel Electrophoresis to Purify NADP-Specific Glutamate Dehydrogenase From Chlorella, Rev B

...ng et al. (1981), which employs sequential ion exchange and size exclusion chromatography to remo... Following ammonium sulfate precipitation and ion exchange chromatography, size exclusion column fractions, in 10 mM KPO 4 , 2 mM dithiothreit...

Purification and Characterization of beta-Lactoglobulin Genetic Variants A and B Using Preparative Electrophoresis and Isoelectric Focusing

...ng different chromatographic methods, e.g. ion exchange chromatography with DEAE cellulose and recently HPLC, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 and also by different electrophoretic methods. 27 Many of the above separation methods are either uneconomical or too timeconsuming to be use...

Enzyme Purification With the Econo-Pac Q Cartridge

...use various separation techniques, such as ion exchange and gel filtration chromatography, and po...from university classroom experiments. Two ion exchange columns are examined: an Econo-Pac Q cartridge and a hand-packed DEAE Sephadex co...

Real-Time PCR: General Considerations, Rev A

... structure interference and free magnesium ion concentration. We have clearly demonstrated that optimization of PCR design and reaction conditions on this template has strong effects on the quality of real-time PCR assays. Once the primer locations and the MgCl 2 concentra...

The Bio-Rad Silver Stain, Rev E

...idation of formaldehyde so that the silver ion reduction can continue until the protein bands appear in the gel. With Bio-Rads silver stain, the formation of a positive image isenhanced by dichromate oxidation, which may convert proteinhydroxyl and sulfhydryl groups to aldehydes an...

New gravity-flow column gives faster and simpler purification of histidine-tagged proteins

.... Introduction Immobilized metal ion affinity chromatography (IMAC) is a widely used and highly effective technique that exploits the affinity of histidine-tagged proteins to metal ions attached to chelating separation media, such as Ni Sepharose 6 Fast Flow. His GraviTrap is a single-u...

Detection, identification, and quantitation of an olive allergen using Ettan MDLC, MS/MS, and DeCyder MS

...e. Mass spectrometry A Finnigan LTQ linear ion trap mass spectrometer equipped with a nanospray i...ng the Ettan MDLC coupled to a Finnigan LTQ linear ion trap mass spectrometer. The resulting base peak ion chromatogram of Ole_e1_"lite" is shown in Figure...

2D-LC analysis of phosphopeptides in brain tissue using Ettan MDLC and Finnigan LTQ

...cation exchange (SCX) chromatography • linear ion trap mass spectrometer A 2D–LC-...llowed by RPC. A Finnigan™ LTQ™ linear ion trap mass spectrometer was used for detecting phosphopeptides by fragmenting all peptides that exhib...

Sensitive identification of phosphopeptides in brain tissue using Ettan MDLC and Finnigan LTQ

...d in two dimensions, SCX followed by RPC. A linear ion trap mass spectrometer, Finnigan™ LTQ™...; Mass spectrometry A Finnigan LTQ linear ion trap was used (Thermo Electron). The MS method consisted of a cycle combining one full MS scan with ...

The Analysis of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) by LC/MS/MS Using an Atmospheric Pressure Photoionization Source

...pheric pressure photoionization source, PhotoSpray ion source (Robb, Covey and Bruins1) uses photons to ionize large quantities of a dopant molecule added along with the vaporized mobile phase. Analyte molecules are efficiently ionized through secondary reactions initiated by the charged dopant. This new...

Fast Multi-Residue Pesticide Analysis in Soil and Vegetable Samples

... at the same MRM (i.e. the same precursor/ product ion combination) (e.g. Terbutylazine/Sebutylazine) (Figure 2) The compounds produce similar (overlapping) product ions upon fragmentation (Figure 1) The compounds that are measured are using the same product ions (bu...

The combination of monolithic columns and modern HPLC/MS/MS instrumentation for high chromatographic throughput and sensitive detection of beta-agonists

...00 LC/MS/MS System with Turbo V source in positive ion mode 500C at 200 μl/min 700C at 1000 and 2000...at means in case of HPLC/MS/MS 2 MRMs (1 precursor ion and two product ions) have to be measured. The ratio of quantifier and qualifier MRM must be stable ...

Efficient Primary Structure Elucidation of Disulfide-bridged Peptides

...for a disulfide bridge pattern as in the family of ion channel toxins containing the inhibitor cystine knot structural motif. The proximity of the cysteine residues and the absence of suitable cleavage sites within the amino-acid sequences of CSTXpeptides caused the classical approaches for elucidation o...

Isolation and Characterization of Anti-Viral Nucleoside Compounds from the Chinese Herb Taraxacum Mongolicum

... are commercially available. Precursor and product ion scan modes were used to screen nucleotide and nucl...imized MS/MS conditions. The most abundant product ion was the base fragment for all three nucleoside standards. Known nucleoside structures were searched ...

Simultaneously characterizing and quantifying chloramphenicol and its metabolite using LC/MS/MS

... Q TRAP instrument is based on a triple quadrupole ion path and is capable of doing conventional multiple...n top of that it also has several high sensitivity ion trap MS scans using the final quadrupole as a linear ion trap. MS3 spectrum can be obtained from thi...

Determination of the Chloramphenicol residues in milk and milk products using LC/MS/MS

...MS system using a TurboIonSpray source in negative ion mode. Evaluation was performed by selecting the ch... TurboIonSpray source was operated in the negative ion mode using the following parameters: Nebulizer gas (air): 8 Curtain gas (N2): 10 ...

High sensitivity quantitation of metabolites of nitrofuran antibiotics in animal tissue using LC/MS/MS

...dent confirmation. There are two identical product ion pairs for AH and AOZ chosen for MRM quantitation because they give the best sensitivity. With the TM LC/MS/MS System LINAC collision cell feature, a fast analysis can be achieved without chromatographic separation of the two compounds with the same p...

A Robust LC/MS/MS Method for the Quantitation of Very Long Chain Fatty Acids for Research into the Characterization of Peroxisomal Disorders

...boIonSpray source. The source operates in positive ion mode at a voltage of +5500 volts and with a turbo gas flow of 8 L/min of air heated at 300 degrees C (nominal heating-gun temperature). MRM measurements were made using declustering potential (DP) and collision energy (CE) values as optimized...

A simple and rapid LC-MS/MS method for the simultaneous determination of nine antiretroviral drugs commonly used in Europe (protease Inhibitors and non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors)

...boIonSpray source. The source operates in positive ion mode at a voltage of + 4500 volts and with a turbo gas flow of 8 L/min of air heated at 350C (nominal heating-gun temperature). MRM measurements were made using declustering potential (DP) and collision energy (CE) values, which were automatic...

Multiplexed Quantitative Peptide Assays for Protein Biomarkers of Cardiovascular Disease in Human Plasma

...lity of the mass spectrometer transmits the parent ion and subsequent fragment ion with high sensitivity and selectivity. The first mass analyzer is set to transmit only the mass of t...

A new LC/MS/MS Research Method for Rapid Quantitation of Five Immunosuppressant Drugs, including Mycophenolic Acid (MPA)

...uration, sample clean up effectively minimizes any ion suppression interference during the MRM measuremen...Turbo VTM source. This source operates in positive ion mode at a voltage of +5500 volts and with a Turbo V gas heated at 650 C. Multiple Reaction Mo...

Detection of N-in-1 Experiments: Extending the Range of N Using the API 3000 LC/MS/MS System

... Proven TurboIonSpray and APCI (Heated Nebulizer) ion source technologies give maximum performance across the widest range of flow rates and mobile phase compositions Experimental Conditions The sample set evaluated consists of dog plasma extracts collected at 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 an...

Separation and Quantitation of R and S Enantiomers using Normal Phase Chromatography on an API 3000 LC/MS/MS System

...ced into an API 3000 LC/MS/MS System using an APCI ion source without any hardware modifications or post-flow column addition. To eliminate potential explosion hazards associated with normal phase APCI LC/MS/MS, nitrogen gas was utilized for the auxiliary and nebulizer gas. This experiment resulted in a ...

Detection of Morphine and Morphine-Glucuronide in Saliva or Urine with a Rapid and Simple Method Without Derivatization on the Varian 500-MS

...salts and contaminating proteins away from the API ion source and includes Varians patented OnTrak OraTube as a sampling mechanism for the saliva. Instrumentation Varian 500-MS LC Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer equipped with an ESI source Two Varian ProStar 210 Solvent Delivery Mod...
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