Abstract
Detection of (neo-)N-terminal peptides is essential for identifying protease cleavage sites . We here present an update of a well-established and efficient selection method for enriching N-terminal peptides out of peptide mixtures: N-terminal COFRADIC (COmbined FRActional DIagonal Chromatography). This method is based on the old concept of diagonal chromatography, which involves a peptide modification step in between otherwise identical chromatographic separations, with this modification step finally allowing for the isolation of N-terminal peptides by longer retention of non-N-terminal peptides on the resin. N-terminal COFRADIC has been successfully applied in many protease-centric studies, as well as for studies on protein alpha-N-acetylation and on characterizing alternative translation initiation events.
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Staes, A. et al. (2017). Protease Substrate Profiling by N-Terminal COFRADIC. In: Schilling, O. (eds) Protein Terminal Profiling. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1574. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6850-3_5
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