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Štěpánová S, Kašička V. Determination of physicochemical parameters of (bio)molecules and (bio)particles by capillary electromigration methods. J Sep Sci 2024; 47:e2400174. [PMID: 38867483 DOI: 10.1002/jssc.202400174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2024] [Revised: 05/03/2024] [Accepted: 05/10/2024] [Indexed: 06/14/2024]
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The review provides an overview of recent developments and applications of capillary electromigration (CE) methods for the determination of important physicochemical parameters of various (bio)molecules and (bio)particles. These parameters include actual and limiting (absolute) ionic mobilities, effective electrophoretic mobilities, effective charges, isoelectric points, electrokinetic potentials, hydrodynamic radii, diffusion coefficients, relative molecular masses, acidity (ionization) constants, binding constants and stoichiometry of (bio)molecular complexes, changes of Gibbs free energy, enthalpy and entropy and rate constants of chemical reactions and interactions, retention factors and partition and distribution coefficients. For the determination of these parameters, the following CE methods are employed: zone electrophoresis in a free solution or in sieving media, isotachophoresis, isoelectric focusing, affinity electrophoresis, electrokinetic chromatography, and electrochromatography. In the individual sections, the procedures for the determination of the above parameters by the particular CE methods are described.
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- Sille Štěpánová
- Electromigration methods, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Electromigration methods, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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Logerot E, Perrin C, Ladner Y, Aubriet F, Carré V, Enjalbal C. Quantitating α-amidated peptide degradation by separative technologies and ultra-high resolution mass spectrometry. Talanta 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2022.124036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Fisher EN, Melnikov ES, Gegeckori V, Potoldykova NV, Enikeev DV, Pavlenko KA, Agatonovic-Kustrin S, Morton DW, Ramenskaya GV. Development and Validation of an LC-MS/MS Method for Simultaneous Determination of Short Peptide-Based Drugs in Human Blood Plasma. Molecules 2022; 27:molecules27227831. [PMID: 36431933 PMCID: PMC9695356 DOI: 10.3390/molecules27227831] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2022] [Revised: 11/07/2022] [Accepted: 11/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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A novel HPLC-ESI-MS/MS method for simultaneous gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) analogs and somatostatin analog quantitation was developed and validated. The developed method was successfully applied to pharmacokinetic studies. The sample preparation process included solid-phase extraction (SPE). Effective chromatographic separation of the analytes and internal standard (dalargin) was achieved with a C18 column, using a gradient elution with two mobile phases: 0.1% v/v formic acid (aqueous solution) and 0.1% v/v formic acid (acetonitrile solution). The linearity of the method was demonstrated within a concentration range of 0.5-20 ng/mL, with correlation coefficients between 0.998-0.999 for goserelin, buserelin, triptorelin, and octreotide, respectively. The relative standard deviation (RSD, %) values for method accuracy and precision did not exceed 20% at the lower level of quantitation (LLOQ) or 15% at other concentration levels.
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- Elizaveta N. Fisher
- I.M. Sechenov First MSMU of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Sechenov University, 8, Trubetskaya Street, 119991 Moscow, Russia
- LLC «CPHA», 20/3, Nauchny Proezd, 117246 Moscow, Russia
- Correspondence: (E.N.F.); (S.A.-K.)
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- I.M. Sechenov First MSMU of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Sechenov University, 8, Trubetskaya Street, 119991 Moscow, Russia
- Clinical Hospital. I. V. Davidovsky, Department of Health of the City of Moscow, 11, Yauzskaya Street, 119027 Moscow, Russia
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- I.M. Sechenov First MSMU of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Sechenov University, 8, Trubetskaya Street, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Institute for Urology and Reproductive Health, I.M. Sechenov First MSMU of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Sechenov University, 8, Trubetskaya Street, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Institute for Urology and Reproductive Health, I.M. Sechenov First MSMU of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Sechenov University, 8, Trubetskaya Street, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Moscow Clinical Scientific Center, 86, Shosse Enthuziastov, 111123 Moscow, Russia
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- I.M. Sechenov First MSMU of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Sechenov University, 8, Trubetskaya Street, 119991 Moscow, Russia
- Department of Pharmacy and Biological Sciences, La Trobe University, Edwards Road, Flora Hill, VIC 3550, Australia
- Correspondence: (E.N.F.); (S.A.-K.)
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- I.M. Sechenov First MSMU of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Sechenov University, 8, Trubetskaya Street, 119991 Moscow, Russia
- Department of Pharmacy and Biological Sciences, La Trobe University, Edwards Road, Flora Hill, VIC 3550, Australia
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- I.M. Sechenov First MSMU of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Sechenov University, 8, Trubetskaya Street, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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Felisiak K, Szymczak M, Kołakowski E. Identification of non-protein nitrogen compounds separated by CZE without derivatization from TCA extract from salted herring meat. J Food Compost Anal 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jfca.2019.01.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Peptides are an important class of analytes in chemistry, biochemistry, food chemistry, as well as medical and pharmaceutical sciences including biomarker analysis in peptidomics and proteomics. As a high-resolution technique, capillary electrophoresis (CE) is well suited for the analysis of polar compounds such as peptides. In addition, CE is orthogonal to high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) as both techniques are based on different physicochemical separation principles. For the successful development of peptide separations by CE, operational parameters including puffer pH, buffer concentration and buffer type, applied voltage, capillary dimensions, as well as background electrolyte additives such as detergents, ion-pairing reagents, cyclodextrins, (poly)amines, and soluble polymers have to be considered and optimized.
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- Gerhard K E Scriba
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Jena, Philosophenweg 14, Jena, 07743, Germany.
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Deiber JA, Piaggio MV, Peirotti MB. Evaluation of the slip length in the slipping friction between background electrolytes and peptides through the modeling of their capillary zone electrophoretic mobilities. Electrophoresis 2013; 34:2648-54. [DOI: 10.1002/elps.201300102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2013] [Revised: 03/30/2013] [Accepted: 04/02/2013] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Julio A. Deiber
- Instituto de Desarrollo Tecnológico para la Industria Química (INTEC); UNL, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET); Santa Fe; Argentina
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- Cátedra de Bioquímica Básica de Macromoléculas; Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas; Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL); Santa Fe; Argentina
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- Instituto de Desarrollo Tecnológico para la Industria Química (INTEC); UNL, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET); Santa Fe; Argentina
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Šolínová V, Kašička V. Determination of acidity constants and ionic mobilities of polyprotic peptide hormones by CZE. Electrophoresis 2013; 34:2655-65. [PMID: 23775856 DOI: 10.1002/elps.201300119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2013] [Revised: 04/23/2013] [Accepted: 04/23/2013] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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CZE has been applied to determination of thermodynamic acidity constants (pKa ) of ionogenic groups and actual ionic mobilities of polyprotic peptides-synthetic human and salmon gonadotropin-releasing hormones and their derivatives and fragments. First, the mixed acidity constants, pKa,imix, of ionogenic groups, and actual ionic mobilities, mi , of gonadotropin-releasing hormone peptides were determined by nonlinear regression analysis of pH dependence of their effective electrophoretic mobilities. The effective mobilities were measured by CZE in a series of BGEs within a broad pH range (1.80-12.10), at constant ionic strength (25 mM) and reference temperature (25°C). Second, the pKa,imix values were recalculated to thermodynamic pKa s using the Debye-Hückel theory. Thermodynamic pKa of carboxyl groups was estimated to be in the range of 2.5-3.3 for C-terminal amino acids of the above peptides, and 5.2 for glutamic acid in the middle of peptide chain; pKa of imidazolyl group of histidine residues was in the range of 5.7-6.8, pKa of N-terminal amino group of the peptide with free N-terminus was equal to 6.2, pKa of phenol group of tyrosine residues was in the range of 9.8-10.8, and pKa of guanidinyl group or arginine residues reached values 11.1-11.3, depending on the position of the residues in the peptide and on the amino acid sequence of the peptide. Absolute values of actual ionic mobilities of peptides with charge number ±2 were in the range (14.6-18.6) × 10(-9) m(2) V(-1) s(-1) , and ionic mobilities of peptides with charge number ±1 reached values (6.5-12.9) × 10(-9) m(2) V(-1) s(-1) .
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- Veronika Šolínová
- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, v.v.i., Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
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Deiber JA, Piaggio MV, Peirotti MB. Determination of electrokinetic and hydrodynamic parameters of proteins by modeling their electrophoretic mobilities through the electrically charged spherical soft particle. Electrophoresis 2013; 34:708-15. [DOI: 10.1002/elps.201200463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2012] [Revised: 10/03/2012] [Accepted: 10/17/2012] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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- Julio A. Deiber
- Instituto de Desarrollo Tecnológico para la Industria Química (INTEC); Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL); Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET); Santa Fe; Argentina
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- Cátedra de Bioquímica Básica de Macromoléculas; Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas; UNL; Santa Fe; Argentina
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- Instituto de Desarrollo Tecnológico para la Industria Química (INTEC); Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL); Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET); Santa Fe; Argentina
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Hydrophilic properties as a new contribution for computer-aided identification of short peptides in complex mixtures. Anal Bioanal Chem 2012; 403:1939-49. [DOI: 10.1007/s00216-012-5987-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2012] [Revised: 03/20/2012] [Accepted: 03/27/2012] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Deiber JA, Peirotti MB, Piaggio MV. Interplay between electrophoretic mobility and intrinsic viscosity of polypeptide chains. Electrophoresis 2012; 33:990-9. [DOI: 10.1002/elps.201100637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Julio A. Deiber
- Instituto de Desarrollo Tecnológico para la Industria Química (INTEC); Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL); Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET); Santa Fe; Argentina
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- Instituto de Desarrollo Tecnológico para la Industria Química (INTEC); Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL); Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET); Santa Fe; Argentina
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- Cátedra de Bioquímica Básica de Macromoléculas,; Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas; UNL; Santa Fe; Argentina
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CE is used to measure the electrophoretic mobility of low molecular mass oligo-L-lysines (n=1-8) in aqueous LiH₂PO₄ buffer, BGE, at pH 2.5 over a range of temperatures (25-50 °C) and ionic strengths (10-100 mM). Mobilities are corrected for Joule heating and under the conditions of the experiment, interaction of the peptides with the capillary walls can be ignored. A "coarse grained" bead modeling methodology (BMM) (H. Pei et al., J. Chromatogr. A 2009, 1216, 1908-1916) is used to model the mobilities. This model partially accounts for peptide conformation as well as the assumed form of its secondary structure. For highly charged oligolysines, it is necessary to properly account for the relaxation effect. In the present study, the BMM approach tends to overestimate oligolysine mobility and that effect tends to increase with increasing ionic strength and peptide length. It is proposed that association between the oligolysines and buffer components (H₂PO₄⁻ in this case) that go beyond classical electrostatic interactions are responsible for this discrepancy. A simple binding model is introduced that illustrates how this association can reconcile model and experiment.
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- Stuart A Allison
- Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
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Rapid analysis of charge variants of monoclonal antibodies with capillary zone electrophoresis in dynamically coated fused-silica capillary. J Sep Sci 2011; 34:548-55. [DOI: 10.1002/jssc.201000719] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2010] [Revised: 12/03/2010] [Accepted: 12/06/2010] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Conductivity and electrophoretic mobility of dilute ionic solutions. J Colloid Interface Sci 2010; 352:1-10. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2010.08.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2010] [Revised: 07/30/2010] [Accepted: 08/02/2010] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Allison SA, Pei H, Allen M, Brown J, Kim CI, Zhen Y. Modeling the electrophoresis and transport of peptides: The effective sphere model and complex formation. J Sep Sci 2010; 33:2439-46. [DOI: 10.1002/jssc.201000130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Allison SA, Pei H, Baek S, Brown J, Lee MY, Nguyen V, Twahir UT, Wu H. The dependence of the electrophoretic mobility of small organic ions on ionic strength and complex formation. Electrophoresis 2010; 31:920-32. [DOI: 10.1002/elps.200900625] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Pei H, Germann MW, Allison SA. Translational Diffusion Constants of Short Peptides: Measurement by NMR and Their Use in Structural Studies of Peptides. J Phys Chem B 2009; 113:9326-9. [DOI: 10.1021/jp902143q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Hongxia Pei
- Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University, P.O. Box 4098, Atlanta, Georgia 30302-4098
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- Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University, P.O. Box 4098, Atlanta, Georgia 30302-4098
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- Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University, P.O. Box 4098, Atlanta, Georgia 30302-4098
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Jing J, Liang G, Mei H, Xiao S, Xia Z, Li Z. Quantitative structure–mobility relationship studies of dipeptides in capillary zone electrophoresis using three-dimensional holographic vector of atomic interaction field. MOLECULAR SIMULATION 2009. [DOI: 10.1080/08927020802512203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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The free solution electrophoretic mobility of peptides by a bead modeling methodology. J Chromatogr A 2009; 1216:1908-16. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2008.09.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2008] [Revised: 09/02/2008] [Accepted: 09/04/2008] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Peirotti MB, Piaggio MV, Deiber JA. Hydration, charge, size, and shape characteristics of peptides from their CZE analyses. J Sep Sci 2008; 31:548-54. [PMID: 18266265 DOI: 10.1002/jssc.200700426] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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A CZE model is presented for peptide characterization on the basis of well-established physicochemical equations. The effective mobility is used as basic data in the model to estimate relevant peptide properties such as, for instance, hydration, net and total electrical charge numbers, hydrodynamic size and shape, particle average orientation, and pH-microenvironment from the charge regulation phenomenon. Therefore 102 experimental effective mobilities of different peptides are studied and discussed in relation to previous work. An equation for the estimation of peptide hydration as a function of ionizing, polar, and non-polar amino acid residues is included in the model. It is also shown that the shape-orientation factor of peptides may be either lower or higher than one, and its value depends on a complex interplay among total charge number, molar mass, hydration, and amino acid sequence.
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- Marta B Peirotti
- Instituto de Desarrollo Tecnológico para la Industria Química, Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Santa Fe, Argentina
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Pei H, Xin Y, Allison SA. Using electrophoretic mobility and bead modeling to characterize the charge and secondary structure of peptides. J Sep Sci 2008; 31:555-64. [DOI: 10.1002/jssc.200700396] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Peptides are an important class of analytes in chemistry, biochemistry, and food chemistry as well as medical and pharmaceutical sciences. As a high-resolution technique, capillary electrophoresis (CE) is well suited for the analysis of polar compounds such as peptides. In addition, CE is orthogonal to high-performance liquid chromatography, as both techniques are based on different physico-chemical separation principles. For the successful development of peptide separations by CE, operational parameters including buffer pH, buffer concentration and buffer type, applied voltage, and capillary dimensions, as well as background electrolyte additives such as detergents, ion-pairing reagents, cyclodextrins, (poly)amines, soluble polymers, etc. must be considered and optimized.
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- Gerhard K E Scriba
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Jena, Jena, Germany
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12 CE in impurity profiling of drugs. CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS METHODS FOR PHARMACEUTICAL ANALYSIS 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/s0149-6395(07)00012-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Plasson R, Vayaboury W, Giani O, Cottet H. Determination of synthetic polypeptide conformations and molecular geometrical parameters by nonaqueous CE. Electrophoresis 2007; 28:3617-24. [DOI: 10.1002/elps.200700349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Popa TV, Mant CT, Hodges RS. Ion-interaction CZE: the presence of high concentrations of ion-pairing reagents demonstrates the complex mechanisms involved in peptide separations. Electrophoresis 2007; 28:2181-90. [PMID: 17557361 PMCID: PMC2763530 DOI: 10.1002/elps.200600729] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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We have furthered our understanding of the separative mechanism of a novel CE approach, termed ion-interaction CZE (II-CZE), developed in our laboratory for the resolution of mixtures of cationic peptides. Thus, II-CZE and RP-HPLC were applied to the separation of peptides differing by a single amino acid substitution in 10- and 12-residue synthetic model peptide sequences. Substitutions differed by a wide range of properties or side-chain type (e.g., alkyl side-chains, polar side-chains, etc.) at the substitution site. When carried out in high concentrations (400 mM) of pentafluoropropionic acid (PFPA), II-CZE separated peptides in order of increasing hydrophobicity when the substituted side-chains were of a similar type; when II-CZE was applied to the mixtures of peptides with substitutions of side-chains that differed in the type of functional group, there was no longer a correlation of electrophoretic mobility in II-CZE with relative peptide hydrophobicity, suggesting that a third factor is involved in the separative mechanism beyond charge and hydrophobicity. Interestingly, the hydrophobic PFPA- anion is best for separating peptides that differ in hydrophobicity with hydrophobic side-chains but high concentrations of the hydrophilic H2PO4- anion are best when separating peptides that differ in polar side-chains relative to hydrophobic side-chains. We speculate that differential hydration/dehydration properties of various side-chains in the peptide and the hydration/dehydration properties of the hydrophilic/hydrophobic anions as well as the electrostatic attractions between the peptide and the anions in solution all play a critical role in these solution-based effects.
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- Traian V Popa
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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Xin Y, Hess R, Ho N, Allison S. Modeling the electrophoresis of peptides and proteins: improvements in the "bead method" to include ion relaxation and "finite size effects". J Phys Chem B 2007; 110:25033-44. [PMID: 17149927 DOI: 10.1021/jp065079u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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A bead model methodology developed in our lab (Xin et al. J. Phys. Chem. B 2006, 110, 1038) and applicable to modeling the free solution electrophoretic mobility of peptides and proteins is generalized in two significant ways. First, an approximate account is taken of the relaxation effect, which makes the methodology applicable to more highly charged peptides and proteins than was previously possible. Second, a more accurate account is taken of the finite size of the beads making up the model structure. This improvement makes the method applicable at higher salt concentrations and/or to models consisting of larger sized subunits. The relaxation effect is accounted for by correcting "unrelaxed" mobilities on the basis of model size and average electrostatic surface, or zeta potential. Correction factors are estimated using those of spheres with the same hydrodynamic radius and zeta potential as the model structure. The correction factors of spheres are readily determined. The more general methodology is first applied to two sets of peptides (74 different peptides total) varying in size from 2 to 42 amino acids. The sets also cover a wide range of net charges. It is shown that accounting for finite bead size results in a small change in model mobilities under the conditions of the experiments (35 mM monovalent salt). The correction for ion relaxation, however, can be significant for highly charged peptides and improves agreement between model and experimental mobilities. Our correction procedure is also tested by examining the electrophoretic mobility of a particular protein "charge ladder" (Carbeck et al. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1999, 121, 10,671), where the protein charge is varied over a wide range yet the conformation remains essentially constant. In summary, the effects of ion relaxation can be significant if the absolute electrophoretic mobility of a peptide exceeds approximately 0.20 cm2/(kV s).
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- Yao Xin
- Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia 30302-4098, USA
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Allison SA, Pei H, Xin Y. Review modeling the free solution and gel electrophoresis of biopolymers: The bead array-effective medium model. Biopolymers 2007; 87:102-14. [PMID: 17636508 DOI: 10.1002/bip.20809] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Free solution and gel electrophoresis is an extremely useful tool in the separation of biopolymers. The complex nature of biopolymers, coupled with the usefulness of electrophoretic methods, has stimulated the development of theoretical modeling over the last 30 years. In this work, these developments are first reviewed with emphasis on Boundary Element and bead methodologies that enable the investigator to design realistic models of biopolymers. In the present work, the bead methodology is generalized to include the presence of a gel through the Effective Medium model. The biopolymer is represented as a bead array. A peptide, for example, made up of N amino acids is modeled as 2N beads. Duplex DNA is modeled as a discrete wormlike chain consisting of touching beads. The technical details of the method are placed in three Appendices. To illustrate the accuracy and effectiveness of the approach, two applications are considered. Model studies on both the free solution mobility of 73 peptides ranging in size from 2 to 42 amino acids, and the mobility of short duplex DNA in dilute agarose gels are discussed.
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- Stuart A Allison
- Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30302-4098, USA
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Piaggio MV, Peirotti MB, Deiber JA. Exploring the evaluation of net charge, hydrodynamic size and shape of peptides through experimental electrophoretic mobilities obtained from CZE. Electrophoresis 2006; 27:4631-47. [PMID: 17136715 DOI: 10.1002/elps.200600182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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This work explores the validity of simple CZE models to analyze the electrophoretic mobilities of 102 peptides reported in literature. These models are based mainly on fundamental physicochemical theories providing analytical expressions amenable to relatively simple numerical analysis. Thus, the Linderstrøm-Lang capillary electrophoresis model (LLCEM) and its perturbed version (PLLCEM), proposed and applied previously to the CZE of globular proteins, are adapted and used here for peptides. Also the effects of pK-shifts on net charge, hydration and hydrodynamic size and shape of peptides are analyzed and discussed. Emphasis is placed on the fact that these parameters are physically coupled, and thus a variation in the net charge may produce an appreciable change in the hydrodynamic size of peptides. Within the framework of CZE, peptides may be assumed as having a hydrodynamic volume associated with either spherical or spheroidal particles. The effects on peptide net charge and hydrodynamic size, of electrostatic interaction between a pair of charged groups in the chain and electrical permitivitty around the peptide domain are studied. The predictions of the PLLCEM and LLCEM are in good agreement with results reported previously in the literature. Several limitations concerning these models and some needs for further research are also described.
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- Maria V Piaggio
- Cátedra de Bioquímica Básica de Macromoléculas, Facultad de Bioquímicay Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina
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Xin Y, Mitchell H, Cameron H, Allison SA. Modeling the electrophoretic mobility and diffusion of weakly charged peptides. J Phys Chem B 2006; 110:1038-45. [PMID: 16471640 DOI: 10.1021/jp0544235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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A bead model to determine the electrophoretic mobilities and translational diffusion constants of weakly charged peptides is developed that is based on a approximate structural model of peptides and is also grounded in electrohydrodynamic theory. A peptide made up of X amino acids is modeled as N=2X beads with 2 beads representing each amino acid in the chain. For the two beads representing a particular amino acid in a peptide, the radius of one bead is set to one-half the nearest neighbor Calpha-Calpha distance, and the radius of the other bead is chosen on the basis of the diffusion constant of the free amino acid. Peptide conformations, which are defined by a set of psi-phi dihedral angles, are randomly generated by using the transformation matrix approach of Flory (Flory, P. Statistical Mechanics of Chain Molecules; John Wiley: New York, 1969) and rejecting conformations which result in bead overlap. The mobility and diffusion constants are computed for each conformation and at least 100 independent conformations are examined for each peptide. In general, the mobility is found to depend only weakly on peptide conformation. Model and experimental mobilities are compared by examining the data of Janini and co-workers (Janini, G.; et al. J. Chromatogr. 1999, 848, 417-433). A total of 58 peptides consisting of from 2 to 39 amino acids are considered. The average relative error between experimental and model mobilities is found to be 1.0% and the rms relative error 7.7%. In specific cases, the discrepancy can be substantial and possible reasons for this are discussed. It should be emphasized that the input parameters of the peptide model are totally independent of experimental mobilities. It is hoped that the peptide model developed here will be useful in the prediction of peptide mobility as well as in using peptide mobilities to extract information about peptide structure, conformation, and charge. Finally, we show how simultaneous measurements of translational diffusion and mobility can be used to estimate peptide charge.
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- Yao Xin
- Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia 30302-4098, USA
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Plasson R, Cottet H. Determination and Modeling of Peptide pKa by Capillary Zone Electrophoresis. Anal Chem 2006; 78:5394-402. [PMID: 16878874 DOI: 10.1021/ac060406f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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In this work, pKa values of polyglycines, poly(L-alanines), and poly(L-valines) with a number of residues up to 10 were determined in different conditions of ionic strength (10 and 100 mM) and temperature (from 15 to 60 degrees C) by capillary electrophoresis. For each peptide family, the pKa values were modeled as a function of the number of residues, the temperature, and the ionic strength. Next, using this set of experimental data, a semiempirical model was developed in order to predict pKa values for any oligopeptide having neutral lateral chains. This model only needs, as input parameters, the number of residues and the pKa of terminal amino acids in their free form. It can predict the peptide pKa values at a given ionic strength and temperature. Comparisons with experimental data from the literature demonstrated that the prediction was possible with a standard deviation of approximately 0.1 pH unit.
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- Raphaël Plasson
- Laboratoire Organisation Moléculaire, Evolution et Matériaux Fluorés, Equipe Dynamique des Systèmes Biomoléculaires Complexes, UMR CNRS 5073, CC017, Université de Montpellier 2, Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier Cedex, France
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Jalali-Heravi M, Shen Y, Hassanisadi M, Khaledi MG. Artificial neural network modeling of peptide mobility and peptide mapping in capillary zone electrophoresis. J Chromatogr A 2005; 1096:58-68. [PMID: 16216258 DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2005.09.043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2005] [Revised: 09/03/2005] [Accepted: 09/09/2005] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Recently, we have developed an artificial neural network model, which was able to predict accurately the electrophoretic mobilities of relatively small peptides. To examine the robustness of this methodology, a 3-3-1 back-propagation artificial neural network (BP-ANN) model was developed using the same inputs as the previous model, which were the Offord's charge over mass term (Q/M(2/3)), corrected steric substituent constant (E(s,c)) and molar refractivity (MR). The data set consisted of 102 peptides with a larger range of size than that of our earlier report - up to 42 amino acid residues as compared to 13 amino acids in the initial study - that also included highly charged and hydrophobic peptides. The entire data set was obtained from the published result by Janini and co-workers. The results of this model are compared with those obtained using multiple linear regressions (MLR) model developed in this work and the multi-variable model released by Janini et al. Better predictive ability of the BP-ANN model over the MLR indicates the non-linear characteristics of the electrophoretic mobility of peptides. The present model exhibits better robustness than the MLR models in predicting CZE mobilities of a diverse data set at different experimental conditions. To explore the utility of the ANN model in simulation of the CZE peptide maps, the profiles for the endoproteinase digests of melittin, glucagon and horse cytochrome C is studied in the present work.
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- Mehdi Jalali-Heravi
- Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, NC 27695-8204, USA.
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Plasson R, Cottet H. Determination of Homopolypeptide Conformational Changes by the Modeling of Electrophoretic Mobilities. Anal Chem 2005; 77:6047-54. [PMID: 16159140 DOI: 10.1021/ac050783c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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This work deals with the modeling of electrophoretic mobilities of end-charged homopolypeptides. The ionic mobilities of six families of homopolypeptides (polyglycines, poly-L-alanines, poly-L-valines, poly-L-leucines, poly-L-isoleucines, and poly-L-phenylalanines), with polymerization degrees up to 11, have been carefully determined. The electrophoretic frictional coefficients derived from the ionic mobility values were modeled by the hydrodynamic frictional coefficient of an equivalent cylinder. The hydrodynamic modeling allowed the determination of the molecular dimensions of the homopolypeptides in the electrolyte. The results were in good accordance with the expected geometry of the molecules. This approach allows monitoring the change in peptide conformations as a function of the experimental conditions (temperature, nature of the solvent) through the determination of geometrical molecular parameters (total peptide length, lateral radius of the equivalent cylinder, and folding angle). The influence of the bulkiness of the homopolypeptide lateral chain on the conformation is also discussed.
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- Raphaël Plasson
- Laboratoire Organisation Moléculaire, Evolution et Matériaux Fluorés, UMR 5073, CC017, Université de Montpellier 2, Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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Pelzing M, Neusüss C. Separation techniques hyphenated to electrospray-tandem mass spectrometry in proteomics: Capillary electrophoresisversus nanoliquid chromatography. Electrophoresis 2005; 26:2717-28. [PMID: 15966011 DOI: 10.1002/elps.200410424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Liquid chromatography (LC) nanoelectrospray-tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) is a key technology for the study of proteomics, with the main benefit to the characterization of sensitive peptides from complex mixtures. Capillary electrophoresis coupled to mass spectrometry (MS) has been taken into consideration sporadically due to the highly efficient separation and ability to handle low sample amount, yet classified as being less sensitive with respect to analyte concentration. The limitation in capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) injection volumes can be overcome by on-line solid-phase extraction (SPE). Such an on-line SPE-CZE system was explored in combination with an ion trap (IT) mass spectrometer. Thus, it was possible to inject more than 100 microL sample solution on to the CZE capillary. Concentration limits of detection as low as 100 amol/microL were demonstrated for a peptide standard. This SPE-CZE-microelectrospray ionization (ESI)-MS/MS setup was compared directly to nanoLC/nanoESI using the same sample of a tryptic digest of bovine serum albumin (BSA) as a reference standard. Measurements were made on one IT mass spectrometer with identical acquisition parameters. Both chromatography systems enabled the separation and detection of low levels of peptides from a mixture of moderate complexity, with most peptides identified using both techniques; however, specific differences were obvious. The nanoLC-MS is about five times more sensitive than the CZE-MS, yet the difference was less pronounced than expected. The CZE-MS technique showed reduced loss of peptides, especially for larger peptides (missed cleavages) and is about four times faster than the nanoLC-MS approach.
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Jalali-Heravi M, Shen Y, Hassanisadi M, Khaledi MG. Prediction of electrophoretic mobilities of peptides in capillary zone electrophoresis by quantitative structure-mobility relationships using the offord model and artificial neural networks. Electrophoresis 2005; 26:1874-85. [PMID: 15825217 DOI: 10.1002/elps.200410308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The aim of this work was to explore the usefulness of empirical models and multivariate analysis techniques in predicting electrophoretic mobilities of small peptides in capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE). The data set consists of electrophoretic mobilities, measured at pH 2.5, for 125 peptides ranging in size between 2 and 14 amino acids. Among the existing empirical models, the Offord model (i.e., mu identical with Q/M(2/3)) gave the best correlation for the data set. A quantitative structure-mobility relationship (QSMR) was developed using the Offord's charge-over-mass term (Q/M(2/3)) as one descriptor combined with the corrected steric substituent constant (E(s, c)) and molar refractivity (MR) descriptors to account for the steric effects and bulkiness of the amino acid side chains. The multilinear regression (MLR) of the data set showed an improvement in the predictive ability of the model over the simple Offord's relationship. A 3-4-1 back propagation artificial neural networks (BP-ANN) model resulted in a significant improvement in the predictive ability of the QSMR over the MLR treatment, especially for peptides of higher charges that contain basic amino acids arginine, histidine, and lysine. The improved correlations by the BP-ANN analysis suggest the existence of nonlinear characteristic in the mobility-charge relationships.
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Moumakwa BA, Crawley CD, Purich E, Edinboro L, Karnes HT. Use of capillary electrophoresis in drug quality assessment of synthetic porcine secretin. Biomed Chromatogr 2005; 19:68-79. [PMID: 15372508 DOI: 10.1002/bmc.419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The purity profile for porcine secretin attributable to contamination by equilibrium products such as aspartoyl(3) secretin has been shown to be dependent on the pH of the analytical system. Capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) methods have been developed for the efficient separation of synthetic porcine secretin, its equilibrium products and other impurities in aqueous solutions at both acidic and alkaline pH. These conditions are more representative of those used for the reconstitution and administration of porcine secretin, and good results cannot be achieved using HPLC due to poor peak shape above pH 5.8. The influence of various CZE operational parameters was systematically examined. The methods were validated for accuracy, precision, linearity, LOD and LOQ. A comparative evaluation of the stability of test solutions was determined using CZE and HPLC over a range of pH values. HPLC and CZE methods produced similar results at low pH.
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- Baile A Moumakwa
- Department of Central Medical Stores, PO Box 639, Gaborone, Botswana
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Song S, Singh AK, Kirby BJ. Electrophoretic Concentration of Proteins at Laser-Patterned Nanoporous Membranes in Microchips. Anal Chem 2004; 76:4589-92. [PMID: 15283607 DOI: 10.1021/ac0497151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Laser-patterning of nanoporous membranes at the junction of a cross channel in a microchip is used to integrate protein concentration with an electrokinetic injection scheme. Upon application of voltage, linear electrophoretic concentration of charged proteins is achieved at the membrane surface because buffer ions can easily pass through the membrane while proteins larger than the molecular weight cutoff of the membrane (>5700) are retained. Simple buffer systems can be used, and the concentration results constitute outward evidence that the uniformity of buffer ion concentration is maintained throughout the process. Local and spatially averaged concentration are increased by 4 and 2 orders of magnitude, respectively, upon injection with moderate voltages (70-150 V) and concentration times (100 s). The degree of concentration is limited only by the solubility limit of the proteins. The porous polymer membrane can be used repeatedly as long as care is taken to avoid protein precipitation.
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- Simon Song
- Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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Chapter 15 Electrophoresis of proteins and peptides. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004. [DOI: 10.1016/s0301-4770(04)80028-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Yang C, Zhang L, Liu H, Zhang W, Zhang Y. Two-dimensional capillary electrophoresis involving capillary isoelectric focusing and capillary zone electrophoresis. J Chromatogr A 2003; 1018:97-103. [PMID: 14582630 DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2003.08.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Capillary isoelectric focusing (cIEF) and capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) was on-line hyphenated by a dialysis interface to achieve a 2D capillary electrophoresis (CE) system. The system was used with just one high-voltage power supply and three electrodes (one cathode shared by the two dimensions). The focused zone in the first dimension (i.e. the cIEF) was driven to the dialysis interface by electroosmotic flow (EOF), besides chemical mobilization from the first anode to the shared cathode. And then in the second dimension (i.e. the CZE), the separated zone was further separated and driven by an inverted EOF, which originated from the charged layer of a cationic surfactant adsorbed onto the inner wall of the capillary. Finally, a solution of ribonuclease was rapidly separated to assess the feasibility of the two-dimensional CE implement.
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- Chun Yang
- National Chromatographic R&A Center, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 161 Zhong Shan Road, Dalian 116011, PR China
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Michaud M, Jourdan E, Villet A, Ravel A, Grosset C, Peyrin E. A DNA aptamer as a new target-specific chiral selector for HPLC. J Am Chem Soc 2003; 125:8672-9. [PMID: 12848575 DOI: 10.1021/ja034483t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 165] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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In this paper, a DNA aptamer, known to bind stereospecifically the D-enantiomer of an oligopeptide, i.e., arginine-vasopressin, was immobilized on a chromatographic support. The influence of various parameters (such as column temperature, eluent pH, and salt concentration) on the L- and D-peptide retention was investigated in order to provide information about the binding mechanism and then to define the utilization conditions of the aptamer column. The results suggest that dehydration at the binding interface, charge-charge interactions, and adaptive conformational transitions contribute to the specific D-peptide-aptamer complex formation. A very significant enantioselectivity was obtained in the optimal binding conditions, the D-peptide being strongly retained by the column while the L-peptide eluted in the void volume. A rapid baseline separation of peptide enantiomers was also achieved by modulating the elution conditions. Furthermore, it was established that the aptamer column was stable during an extended period of time. This work indicates that DNA aptamers, specifically selected against an enantiomer, could soon become very attractive as new target-specific chiral selectors for HPLC.
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- Mickael Michaud
- Equipe de Chimie Analytique, Département de Pharmacochimie Moléculaire (UMR 5063 CNRS-UJF), ICMG FR 2607, UFR de Pharmacie de Grenoble, Université Joseph Fourier, Avenue de Verdun, 38240 Meylan, France
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Wang Y, Hu S, Li H, Allbritton NL, Sims CE. Separation of mixtures of acidic and basic peptides at neutral pH. J Chromatogr A 2003; 1004:61-70. [PMID: 12929962 DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9673(03)00492-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Mixtures of acidic and basic peptides composed of the phosphorylated and nonphosphorylated forms of peptide substrates for kinases and a phosphatase were separated by capillary electrophoresis (CE) in buffer conditions compatible with live mammalian cells. The separation of such mixtures was especially challenging given the high salt and neutral pH of the requisite physiologic buffers. Due to poor peak reproducibility in bare capillaries, several strategies were implemented to improve the electrophoretic separation of the peptide mixtures. Covalent coating of the capillary with the neutral polymer poly(dimethylacrylamide) (PDMA) resulted in a 2-fold improvement in the migration time RSD, but required the use of hydrodynamic flow to overcome the differing electrophoretic mobilities (microeo) of the peptides at neutral pH. This parabolic fluid flow diminished separation efficiency almost 5-fold. Polarity switching during the CE run was used to overcome the opposed microeo, but required the retention of hydrodynamic flow and consequent reduction in separation efficiency. The most efficient separations were seen with the use of covalently-linked, charged polymer coatings to maintain electroosmotic flow and to reduce wall interactions. Two such coatings were tested in the current study. Relative to the PDMA coating, an anionic poly(acrylate) improved the average migration time RSD of six peptides from 1.3 to 0.85% and average separation efficiency from 4.8 to 18.0 (x 10(4) plates/m). Likewise, cationic poly([3-(methacryloylamino)propyl]-trimethylammonium) improved the average migration time RSD of eight peptides from 1.2 to 1.1% and average separation efficiency from 4.8 to 33.9 (x 10(4) plates/m). These findings will be of value to the growing number of applications for analytical techniques utilizing CE for cellular analysis and biochemical studies.
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- Yan Wang
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-4560, USA
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Sanz-Nebot V, Benavente F, Toro I, Barbosa J. Evaluation of chromatographic versus electrophoretic behaviour of a series of therapeutical peptide hormones. J Chromatogr A 2003; 985:411-23. [PMID: 12580510 DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9673(02)01902-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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In this work, models describing the effect of pH on chromatographic and electrophoretic behaviour for a series of polyprotic therapeutic peptide hormones were compared. taking into account the species in solution and the activity coefficients. The usefulness of the proposed equations is twofold, they permit the determination of the acidity constants in water and in the hydroorganic mobile phases used in liquid chromatography (LC) and capillary electrophoresis (CE) and can also be used for the selection of the optimum pH for the separation of mixtures of the modelled compounds. The proposed relationships allow an important reduction of the experimental data needed for the development of new separation methods. The accuracy of the proposed equations is verified by modelling the chromatographic and electrophoretic behaviour of a series of polyprotic therapeutic peptide hormones. By calculating the values of predicted resolutions, selection of the optimum pH to perform LC or CE separations of their mixtures becomes a rapid and simple process.
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- V Sanz-Nebot
- Department de Química Analítica, Universitat de Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 647 08028 Barcelona, Spain.
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Yang C, Liu H, Yang Q, Zhang L, Zhang W, Zhang Y. On-line hyphenation of capillary isoelectric focusing and capillary gel electrophoresis by a dialysis interface. Anal Chem 2003; 75:215-8. [PMID: 12553754 DOI: 10.1021/ac026187p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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An on-line two-dimensional (2D) capillary electrophoresis (CE) system consisting of capillary isoelectric focusing (CIEF) and capillary gel electrophoresis (CGE) was introduced. To validate this 2D system, a dialysis interface was developed by mounting a hollow fiber on a methacrylate resin plate to hyphenate the two CE modes. The two dimensions of capillary shared a cathode fixated into a reservoir in the methacrylate plate; thus, with three electrodes and only one high-voltage source, a 2D CE framework was successfully established. A practical 2D CIEF-CGE experiment was carried out to deal with a target protein, hemoglobin (Hb). After the Hb variants with different isoelectric points (pIs) were focused in various bands in the first-dimension capillary, they were chemically mobilized one after another and fed to the second-dimension capillary for further separation in polyacrylamide gel. During this procedure, a single CIEF band was separated into several peaks due to different molecular weights. The resulting electrophoregram is quite different from that of either CIEF or CGE; therefore, more information about the studied Hb sample can be obtained.
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- Chun Yang
- National Chromatographic R. & A. Center, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116011, China
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Sanz-Nebot V, Toro I, Benavente F, Barbosa J. pKa values of peptides in aqueous and aqueous-organic media. Prediction of chromatographic and electrophoretic behaviour. J Chromatogr A 2002; 942:145-56. [PMID: 11822380 DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9673(01)01398-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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In the present work, models describing the effect of the pH on the chromatographic and electrophoretic behaviour for polyprotic peptides were compared. The proposed models can be simultaneously used for determination of dissociation constants and selection of the optimum pH for the separation of peptides, in water and acetonitrile-water mixtures widely used in liquid chromatography and in capillary electrophoresis. The models use the pH value measured in the acetonitrile-water mixture instead of the pH value in water and take into account the effect of the activity coefficients. They permit the determination of the acidity constants in the aqueous and hydro-organic mobile phase from chromatographic retention and electrophoretic migration measurements, respectively. The values obtained by both proposed techniques agree with the potentiometric values previously determined. The suitability of the proposed models for predicting chromatographic and electrophoretic behaviour of compounds studied from a limited number of experimental data was also compared. The separation between solutes by both techniques in a complex mixture can be easily predicted, making simple and rapid pH selection to achieve optimum separation.
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- V Sanz-Nebot
- Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of Barcelona, Spain.
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Bossi A, Piletsky SA, Turner APF, Righetti PG. Repartition effect of aromatic polyaniline coatings on the separation of bioactive peptides in capillary electrophoresis. Electrophoresis 2002; 23:203-8. [PMID: 11840524 DOI: 10.1002/1522-2683(200202)23:2<203::aid-elps203>3.0.co;2-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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The capillary walls of fused-silica capillary electrophoresis (CE) columns were modified with a thin film of polyaniline (PANI), providing open-tubular columns with a stable coating containing aromatic groups and amine functionalities. Fast and efficient separations were observed for small bioactive peptides under acidic conditions on PANI-coated columns. The mechanism of separation is based on hydrophobic interactions between the analytes and the polymeric matrix. Good reproducibility was observed from run-to-run. Due to the simple derivatization procedure, method flexibility, the uniformity of the coating and its stability, conjugated polymers could find practical application in capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) separations.
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- Alessandra Bossi
- Department of Science and Technology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
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Sanz-Nebot V, Benavente F, Toro I, Barbosa J. Migration behavior of therapeutic peptide hormones: prediction of optimal separation by capillary electrophoresis. Electrophoresis 2001; 22:4333-40. [PMID: 11824599 DOI: 10.1002/1522-2683(200112)22:20<4333::aid-elps4333>3.0.co;2-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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A general equation that relates electrophoretic mobility of polyprotic peptide substances and pH of the running electrolytes is established, taking into account the species in solution and the activity coefficients. Modelling electrophoretic mobility as a function of pH can be simultaneously used for determination of ionization constants and selection of the optimum pH for separation of mixtures of the modelled compounds. The proposed relationships allow an important reduction of the experimental data needed for development of new separation methods. The accuracy of the proposed equations is verified by modelling the migration behavior of a heterogeneous series of polyprotic amphoteric peptide hormones. By calculating the values of predicted resolutions, selection of the optimum pH to perform separation of their mixtures becomes a rapid and simple process.
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- V Sanz-Nebot
- Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of Barcelona, Spain.
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Righetti PG. Capillary electrophoretic analysis of proteins and peptides of biomedical and pharmacological interest. Biopharm Drug Dispos 2001; 22:337-51. [PMID: 11835253 DOI: 10.1002/bdd.276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Capillary electrophoresis (CE) is an automated approach to electrokinetic separations that has had a deep impact in all fields of life sciences, including biomedical and biotechnological research and clinical and forensic practice. The present review highlights aspects of peptides and proteins separations, with particular emphasis on macromolecular analytes of biomedical interest. Among the various CE techniques available, a novel methodology is here illustrated consisting in separations in acidic, isoelectric buffers, which have the advantage of protonating the silica wall, thus minimizing interactions of proteinaceous material with the siliceous surface, while allowing delivery of high voltage gradients, due to their low conductivities. The review ends with applications of CE to the analysis of folding/unfolding/refolding/misfolding of proteins, a field which has deep implications in the biomedical arena, since it is connected to a host of disorders, such as prion protein diseases.
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- P G Righetti
- Department of Agricultural and Industrial Biotechnologies, University of Verona, Strada Le Grazie No. 15, 37134 Verona, Italy.
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Janini GM, Metral CJ, Issaq HJ. Peptide mapping by capillary zone electrophoresis: how close is theoretical simulation to experimental determination. J Chromatogr A 2001; 924:291-306. [PMID: 11521876 DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9673(01)00919-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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A multi-variable computer model is presented for the prediction of the electrophoretic mobilities of peptides at pH 2.5 from known physico-chemical constants of their amino acid residues. The model is empirical and does not claim any theoretical dependencies; however, the results suggest that, at least at this pH, peptides may be theoretically represented as classical polymers of freely joined amino acid residues of unequal sizes. The model assumes that the electrophoretic mobility can be represented by a product of three functions that return the contributions of peptide charge, length and width, respectively to the mobility. The model relies on accurate experimental determination of the electrophoretic mobilities of a diverse set of peptides, by capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE), at 22 degrees C, with a 50 mM phosphate buffer, at pH 2.5. The electrophoretic mobilities of a basis set of 102 peptides that varied in charge from 0.65 to 16 and in size from two to 42 amino acid residues were accurately measured at these fixed experimental conditions using a stable 10% linear polyacrylamide-coated column. Data from this basis set was used to derive the peptide charge, length, and width functions respectively. The main purpose of this endeavor is to use the model for the prediction of peptide mobilities at pH 2.5, and for simulation of CZE peptide maps of protein digests. Excellent agreement was obtained between predicted and experimental electrophoretic mobilities for all categories of peptides, including the highly charged and the hydrophobic. To illustrate the utility of this model in protein studies it was used to simulate theoretical peptide maps of the digests of glucagon and horse cytochrome c. The resulting maps were compared and contrasted with their experimental counterparts. The potential of this approach and its limitations are discussed.
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- G M Janini
- SAIC Frederick, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, MD 21702, USA.
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Li H, Wu HY, Wang Y, Sims CE, Allbritton NL. Improved capillary electrophoresis conditions for the separation of kinase substrates by the laser micropipet system. JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY. B, BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AND APPLICATIONS 2001; 757:79-88. [PMID: 11419751 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-4347(01)00080-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Phosphorylated and nonphosphorylated forms of peptide substrates for protein kinase C (PKC) and calcium-calmodulin activated kinase II (CamKII) were separated by capillary zone electrophoresis. Electrophoresis of the peptide substrates and products in biologic buffer solutions in uncoated capillaries yielded asymmetric analyte peaks with substantial peak tailing. Some of the peptides also exhibited broad peaks with unstable migration times. To improve the electrophoretic separation of the peptides, several strategies were implemented: extensive washing of the capillary with a base, adding betaine to the electrophoretic buffer, and coating the capillaries with polydimethylacrylamide (PDMA). Prolonged rinsing of the capillaries with a base substantially improved the migration time reproducibility and decreased peak tailing. Addition of betaine to the electrophoretic buffer enhanced both the migration time stability as well as the theoretical plate numbers of the peaks. Finally PDMA-coated capillaries brought about significant improvements in the resolving power of the separations. These modifications all utilized an electrophoretic buffer that was compatible with a living biologic cell. Consequently they should be adaptable for the new capillary electrophoresis-based methods to measure kinase activation in single cells.
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- H Li
- Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of California, Irvine 92697-4560, USA
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Johnson T, Bergquist J, Ekman R, Nordhoff E, Schürenberg M, Klöppel KD, Müller M, Lehrach H, Gobom J. A CE-MALDI interface based on the use of prestructured sample supports. Anal Chem 2001; 73:1670-5. [PMID: 11338578 DOI: 10.1021/ac0011888] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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We have developed an off-line coupling of capillary electrophoresis (CE) to matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry(MALDI-TOF-MS) based on CE fraction collection onto prestructured MALDI sample supports. Analyte carryover and detection sensitivity were investigated using a standard peptide mixture. Low femtomole amounts were detected, and no noticeable carryover was discovered. The performance of the method was evaluated with a mixture of tryptic digests of proteins from a human fetal brain cDNA expression library. The total number of identified peptides was increased from 47 to 211 when the CE-MALDI interface was used compared to direct MALDI-MS analysis. Sequence coverage with CE-MALDI was in the 25-60% range for the different proteins, corresponding to an increase of 1.3-4.9 times relative to that obtained with MALDI-MS of the crude mixture. Fractionation of sample components also facilitated protein identification by MALDI postsource decay analysis. Our initial results suggest this CE-MALDI interface can be used for the analysis of complex peptide mixtures isolated from biological tissues.
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- T Johnson
- Institute of Clinical Neuroscience, Göteborg University, SE-431 80 Mölndal, Sweden.
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