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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2016
Filed:
May. 17, 2013
Bio-rad Laboratories, Inc., Hercules, CA (US);
Christopher Belisle, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., Hercules, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a method of preparing a protein sample for mass spectroscopy. The method includes separating proteins of the sample on an electrophoresis gel; contacting the proteins with a halo-substituted organic compound; exposing the gel to UV light; detecting fluorescence emitted from the electrophoresis gel; excising at least one portion of the electrophoresis gel based upon the detected fluorescence, wherein said at least one portion contains proteins of the protein sample; and subjecting proteins from the at least one portion to mass spectroscopy. Using this method, more proteins can be identified by GeLC-MS than when the electrophoresis gel is treated with a protein stain or subjected to the gel handling steps accompanying such treatment.