利用原子转移自由基聚合法制备了鳞片状聚合物修饰的硅胶填料,将其作为一种新型的固定化酶载体,实现了蛋白酶的高密度固定,从而明显缩短了复杂蛋白质样品的酶解时问。使用标准蛋白质对固定化酶的酶解效率进行r考察,结果表明:鳞片状聚合物修饰的新型固定化酶硅胶填料具有较高的酶解效率,酶解标准蛋白质1min后,鉴定到肽段的氨基酸序列覆盖率可达95%以上。将该固定化酶硅胶填料成功应用于大肠杆菌全蛋白质的酶解,从2min酶解肽段的混合物中鉴定到的蛋白质数量超过同样条件下溶液酶解12h的结果。另外,该固定化酶硅胶填料可以重复使用,其酶解效率具有良好的稳定性和重现性;该固定化酶具有较好的样品回收率,因而可以应用于蛋白质组学研究中。
Currently, the shotgun based strategy has been widely applied in proteomic research. In this strategy, protein identification relied on the identification of the corresponding proteolytic peptides. Therefore, rapid and efficient protein digestion is crucial for accurate protein identification and characterization. Even though traditional free protein digestion in solution has been widely adopted, it had a few inherent disadvantages including long incubation time, incomplete digestion and non-reusability of the protease. In this work, we developed a new type of trypsin immobilized on squamous polymer modified silica bead (SPMSB) for ultra fast and highly efficient protein digestion. The squamous polymer coated silica beads were pre- pared by surface initiated atom transfer radical polymerization ( SI-ATRP), which leaded to sur- face confined growth of non-crosslinked polymer chains on the surface of the silica beads for trypsin immobilization. The digestion efficiency of the obtained SPMSB-trypsin was evaluated using both standard proteins and complex protein extracts obtained from E. coli. Highly effi- cient digestion was achieved in only l -2 min digestion. Furthermore, the SPMSB-Trypsin exhibited both good stability and excellent recovery, therefore can be applied in proteomic research in the future.