Protein peptide sequencing methods

New instrumentation for the analysis of the proteome has been developed including a MALDI hybrid quadrupole time of flight instrument which combines advantages of the mass finger printing and peptide sequencing methods for protein identification (Andersen and Mann 2000). 

More recently, peptide sequencing methods have been introduced for the study of protein remains in archaeological ceramics [146]. An analytical procedure... 

Peptide microsequencing has proved to be a powerful approach to identify protein components of mixtures,53-55,61 and has been applied to extracted proteins as a method to identify biological threats.56,83-85 Commercial and internet accessible search engines and databases provide adequate bioinformatics support to use sequence information produced by the mass spectrometer (e.g., http //www.matrixscience.com http //prospector.ucsf.edu/ ucsfhtml4.0/mstagfd.htm http //prowl.rockefeller.edu/). 

So efficient is this method to link peptide sequences together in a native amide bonded state that complete proteins of various sizes have been synthetically made (Hackeng et al., 1999),... 

Johnson R.S. and Taylor J.A. (2000), Searching sequence databases via de novo peptide sequencing by tandem mass spectrometry, in Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol. 146, Mass Spectrometry of Proteins and Peptides, pp. 41-61, Chapman J.R., Ed., Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. 

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