Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, 7330 Stevenson Center, Station B 351822, Nashville, TN 37235, USA; Mass Spectrometry Research Center, Vanderbilt University, 465 21st Ave S #9160, Nashville, TN 37235, USA.
Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, 7330 Stevenson Center, Station B 351822, Nashville, TN 37235, USA; Mass Spectrometry Research Center, Vanderbilt University, 465 21st Ave S #9160, Nashville, TN 37235, USA; Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University, 607 Light Hall, Nashville, TN 37205, USA.
Curr Opin Chem Biol. 2019 Feb;48:64-72. doi: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2018.10.023. Epub 2018 Nov 23.
Matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) imaging mass spectrometry (IMS) is a powerful technology used to investigate the spatial distributions of thousands of molecules throughout a tissue section from a single experiment. As proteins represent an important group of functional molecules in tissue and cells, the imaging of proteins has been an important point of focus in the development of IMS technologies and methods. Protein identification is crucial for the biological contextualization of molecular imaging data. However, gas-phase fragmentation efficiency of MALDI generated proteins presents significant challenges, making protein identification directly from tissue difficult. This review highlights methods and technologies specifically related to protein identification that have been developed to overcome these challenges in MALDI IMS experiments.
基质辅助激光解吸/电离(MALDI)成像质谱(IMS)是一种强大的技术,可用于在单个实验中研究组织切片中数千种分子的空间分布。由于蛋白质是组织和细胞中重要的功能分子群体,因此蛋白质的成像一直是 IMS 技术和方法发展的重点。蛋白质鉴定对于分子成像数据的生物学背景化至关重要。然而,MALDI 产生的蛋白质的气相碎裂效率存在很大的挑战,使得直接从组织中进行蛋白质鉴定变得困难。本综述重点介绍了为克服 MALDI IMS 实验中的这些挑战而开发的特定于蛋白质鉴定的方法和技术。