Electroblotting through Enzymatic Membranes to Enhance Molecular Tissue Imaging.

Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry
William T AndrewsAmanda B Hummon

Abstract

MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) is a powerful tool for studying biomolecule localization in tissue. Protein distributions in tissue provide important histological information; however, large proteins exhibit a high limit of detection in MALDI-MS when compared to their corresponding smaller proteolytic peptides. As a result, several techniques have emerged to digest proteins into more detectable peptides for imaging. Digestion is typically accomplished through trypsin deposition on the tissue, but this technique increases the complexity of the tissue microenvironment, which can limit the number of detectable species. This proof-of-principle study explores tryptic tissue digestion during electroblotting through a trypsin-containing membrane. This approach actively extracts and enzymatically digests proteins from mouse brain tissue sections while simultaneously reducing the complexity of the tissue microenvironment (compared to trypsin deposition on the surface) to obtain an increased number of detectable peptide fragments. The method does not greatly compromise spatial location or require expensive devices to uniformly deposit trypsin on tissue. Using electrodigestion through membranes, we detected and tentatively ident...Continue Reading

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