METHOD FOR CHARACTERIZING POLYPEPTIDES
    2.
    发明公开
    METHOD FOR CHARACTERIZING POLYPEPTIDES 有权
    用于确定多肽

    公开(公告)号:EP1397686A1

    公开(公告)日:2004-03-17

    申请号:EP02735602.1

    申请日:2002-06-07

    IPC分类号: G01N33/68 C07K1/12

    摘要: Provided is a method for characterising a polypeptide, which method comprises the steps of: (a) optionnally reducing cysteine disulphide bridges in the polypeptide to form free thiols, and capping the free thiols; (b) cleaving the polypeptide with a sequence specific cleavage reagent to form peptide fragments; (c) optionally deactivating the cleavage reagent; (d) capping one or more ε-amino groups that are present with a lysine reactive agent; (e) analysing peptide fragments by mass spectrometry to form a mass fingerprint for the polypeptide; and (f) determining the identity of the polypeptide from the mass fingerprint.