Hybrid capillary/microfluidic system for comprehensive online liquid chromatography-capillary electrophoresis-electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry

Anal Chem. 2013 Apr 16;85(8):4100-6. doi: 10.1021/ac400205a. Epub 2013 Mar 26.

Abstract

A hybrid multidimensional separation system was made by coupling capillary liquid chromatography (LC) to a microfluidic device. The microfluidic device integrated flow splitting, capillary electrophoresis (CE), electroosmotic pumping, and electrospray ionization (ESI) emitter functional elements. The system was used with a time-of-flight mass spectrometer for comprehensive online LC-CE-MS of proteolytic digests. Analysis of a complex mixture of peptides yielded a peak capacity of approximately 1400 in 50 min. Three replicate runs demonstrated mean reproducibility for LC retention and CE migration times of 0.32% and 0.75% relative standard deviation (RSD), respectively. The same LC-CE-MS method was also used to characterize the N-linked glycosylation of a monoclonal antibody. Glycopeptides from two different N-linked glycosylation sites were separated from all other tryptic peptides and identified using MS data. The relative amounts of each glycoform and total site occupancy were quantified using LC-CE-MS data.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Antibodies, Monoclonal / chemistry
  • Cattle
  • Chromatography, Liquid / instrumentation*
  • Electrophoresis, Capillary / instrumentation*
  • Glycopeptides / chemistry
  • Glycosylation
  • Microfluidic Analytical Techniques / instrumentation*
  • Peptide Fragments / analysis*
  • Polysaccharides / analysis*
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Serum Albumin, Bovine / chemistry
  • Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization / instrumentation*
  • Trypsin

Substances

  • Antibodies, Monoclonal
  • Glycopeptides
  • Peptide Fragments
  • Polysaccharides
  • Serum Albumin, Bovine
  • Trypsin