Publication Date:
1994-04-15
Description:
The molecular weights of femtomole quantities of small peptides attached to polystyrene beads have been determined with imaging time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry. The analysis is made possible by the selective clipping of the bond linking the peptide to a bead with trifluoroacetic acid vapor before the secondary ion mass spectrometry assay. The approach can be applied to large numbers of 30- to 60-micrometer polystyrene beads for the direct characterization of massive combinatorial libraries.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Brummel, C L -- Lee, I N -- Zhou, Y -- Benkovic, S J -- Winograd, N -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Apr 15;264(5157):399-402.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16802.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8153627" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amino Acid Sequence
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Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
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Mass Spectrometry/*methods
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Microspheres
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Molecular Weight
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Oligopeptides/*chemistry
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Polystyrenes
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics