Abstract
Protein and peptide hormones often exist as sequence variants with different molecular mass. Monitoring these variants of different molecular mass by mass spectrometry using mass-to-charge (m/z) ratio that is indicative of the wild type may lead to inaccurate quantitative results. However, liquid chromatography–high-resolution mass spectrometry (LC–HRMS)-based techniques can capture these differences and provide an opportunity to resolve, or partially resolve, variant complexity. In this chapter, we describe a general approach for monitoring a set of peptide variants with similar m/z ratios and isotopic envelopes, but different in amino acid sequences. As an example, we use insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) to demonstrate a DNA database-guided approach to monitor protein variants by LC–HRMS in a clinical laboratory. The workflow is automated and therefore avoids manual calculations that are prone to human error. The method can also monitor multiple IGF-1 variants and discover new ones. It can also provide a profile of a patient’s IGF-1 status and be used to explore genotype–phenotype relationships in IGF-1 variants.
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Motorykin, I., Li, A., Wu, Z. (2022). Monitoring and Identifying Insulin-Like Growth Factor 1 Variants by Liquid Chromatography–High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry in a Clinical Laboratory. In: Garg, U. (eds) Clinical Applications of Mass Spectrometry in Biomolecular Analysis. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2546. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2565-1_22
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