Hi Mark,
You and others are using a figure of about 16431 or so for the average molecular
weight of BSA. If you take into account the 16 disulfide bonds then you should
come to the correct native unmodified molecular weight of 16400.7. This is the
value that I use. My understanding is that three of the 35 Cys residues are not
in disulfide bonds and I hope to be corrected if mistaken I have not validated
this against other known standards as I have for cytochrome c and other small
proteins nor have I systematically verified the sequence by tandem mass spec or
peptide mass mapping. I use the ALBU_BOVIN sequence from Swiss-Prot database. I
wonder what sequence others use.
Best regards to all. See you in San Diego....
Steve...
Mark Hail wrote:
> All
>
> I agree with the others that BSA is not a good calibrant. Here's some
> additional proof. I've put up an ESI spectrum on our website so you can see
> just how heterogeneous it is. If you want to check it out, go here:
>
> http://www.enovatia.com/discuss/msgReader$153
>
> Mark Hail
> Novatia Corp.
> www.enovatia.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities
> [mailto:abrf-request@aecom.yu.edu]On Behalf Of Peter Juhasz
> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 8:38 PM
> To: Recipients of ABRF List
> Subject: Re: Big Proteins on MALDI
>
> BSA is also known to be glucated at one or two positions (If I'm correct
> there was a paper from P. Traldi's group in Rapid Communications in Mass
> Spectrometry about five years ago). The highest resolution MALDI mass
> spectra I have seen on BSA clearly showed a relatively sharp peak around
> 66,430 Da and an overlapping "hump" centered about 300 Da higher. You also
> have to take into account various matrix adducts which cannot be resolved at
> this mass anymore (+207 and +225 for sinapinic acid). Arnie was right about
> yeast enolase: that one has about the highest mass where high mass
> resolution, limited by the width of the isotope envelope, can be generated
> routinely (unless you are one of the lucky ones having a well characterized
> F(ab)2 molecule). In my experience mass accuracy is very closely related to
> mass resolution in TOF. One can't expect to have more than about times
> higher accuracy than mass resolution (i.e. 1:1000=0.1% mass accuracy for
> 1:100 resolution). Anything better should be considered fluke.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David A. Schooley" <schooley@med.unr.edu>
> To: "Recipients of ABRF List" <abrf@aecom.yu.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 5:52 PM
> Subject: Re: Big Proteins on MALDI
>
> > At 12:17 PM -0500 2/21/01, Wei Wu wrote:
> > Wei-
> >
> > Note that Swiss Prot lists conflicts in the sequence of BSA
> > that will affect MW. Kathy Schegg here once sequenced a fragment of
> > reduced, carboxymethylated BSA from a digest to test the Procise and
> > protocol. As luck would have it, the fragment she sequenced was one
> > of the ones containing a "conflict", and the Edman sequence agreed
> > with the reported conflict, NOT with the SWISS-PROT sequence.
> > For additional details contact her at schegg@med.unr.edu. It
> > is surprising that they don't correct the original sequence!
> >
> > David
> >
> >
> > >Hi Jim,
> > >
> > >We've had trouble getting the theoretical mass of BSA. From a
> > >thermobioanalysis application note, it's 66431 Da. However, if we go
> > >directly from the sequence in Swiss Prot, the mass is 66433 Da for the
> > >reduced form, and 66398 for the form with disulfides (17 of those). I
> guess
> > >we are dealing w/ the form with disulfides. Yet, if the accuaracy is 0.1%
> > >like Arnie said, it'd be hard to differentiate the two. We also found
> that
> > >if we used the BSA and RNase A to calibrate the double charge peak of
> BSA,
> > >it was off from calculated by either of the numbers above, which probably
> > >means the BSA we used has a different mass, as we are pretty confident
> about
> > >RNase A.
> > >
> > >Regards,
> > >Wei
> > >
> >
> > --
> > David A. Schooley
> > Dept. of Biochemistry/330
> > Univ. of Nevada
> > Reno, NV 89557
> > schooley@unr.edu
> > tel: (775) 784-4136; fax (775) 784-1419
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> >
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