Hydrophobic interaction chromatography for bottom-up proteomics analysis of single proteins and protein complexes
Rackiewicz, MichalDepartment of Biology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland - Department of Dermatology, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Germany
Dengjel, JörnDepartment of Biology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland - Department of Dermatology, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Germany
02.06.2017
Published in:
Journal of Proteome Research. - 2017, vol. 16, no. 6, p. 2318–2323
English
Hydrophobic interaction chromatography (HIC) is a robust standard analytical method to purify proteins while preserving their biological activity. It is widely used to study post-translational modifications of proteins and drug–protein interactions. In the current manuscript we employed HIC to separate proteins, followed by bottom-up LC–MS/MS experiments. We used this approach to fractionate antibody species followed by comprehensive peptide mapping as well as to study protein complexes in human cells. HIC–reversed-phase chromatography (RPC)–mass spectrometry (MS) is a powerful alternative to fractionate proteins for bottom-up proteomics experiments making use of their distinct hydrophobic properties.