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Walker JE, Fearnley IM, Blows RA. A rapid solid-phase protein microsequencer. Biochem J. 1986;237(1):73-84doi: 10.1042/bj2370073.
Walker, J. E., Fearnley, I. M., & Blows, R. A. (1986). A rapid solid-phase protein microsequencer. The Biochemical journal, 237(1), 73-84. https://doi.org/10.1042/bj2370073
Walker, J E, et al. "A rapid solid-phase protein microsequencer." The Biochemical journal vol. 237,1 (1986): 73-84. doi: https://doi.org/10.1042/bj2370073
Walker JE, Fearnley IM, Blows RA. A rapid solid-phase protein microsequencer. Biochem J. 1986 Jul 01;237(1):73-84. doi: 10.1042/bj2370073. PMID: 3800890; PMCID: PMC1146949.
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Biochem J. 1986 Jul 01;237(1):73-84. doi: 10.1042/bj2370073.

A rapid solid-phase protein microsequencer.

The Biochemical journal

J E Walker, I M Fearnley, R A Blows

PMID: 3800890 PMCID: PMC1146949 DOI: 10.1042/bj2370073
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Abstract

A solid-phase protein microsequencer is described that has been designed to determine protein sequences with subnanomolar quantities of protein. Its utility has been demonstrated by the determination of many sequences in subunits of mitochondrial F1-ATPase, in a protein isolated from mouse gap junctions and in the mitochondrial phosphate-transporter protein. It has a number of advantages over liquid- and gas-phase sequencers. Firstly, the degradation cycle takes 24 min, more than twice as fast as any other sequencer. This helps to reduce exposure of proteins to inimical reagents and increases throughput of samples. Secondly, polar amino acids such as phosphoserine, and polar derivatives formed by active-site photoaffinity labelling with 8-azido-ATP, are recovered quantitatively from the reaction column and can be positively identified. In other types of sequencer these polar derivatives, being somewhat insoluble in butyl chloride, tend to remain in the reaction chamber of the instrument and so are more difficult to identify. The solid-phase protein sequencer is also more suited than the liquid-phase instrument for analysis of proteolipids from membranes. These hydrophobic proteins tend to dissolve in organic solvents during washing steps in the liquid-phase instrument and are lost. Covalent attachment as used in the solid-phase instrument solves this problem.

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