Weighing proteins. (expansion of mass spectrometry's application)

From: Chemistry and Industry | Date: October 20, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

With the development of new methods of ionisation, mass spectrometry has expanded its applicability to include biological systems, giving valuable information on proteins

Mass spectrometry is currently experiencing explosive growth, as the scope of this already extremely well-established technique extends into biology. Put simply, mass spectrometry measures the masses of individual atoms and molecules, in other words it weighs these particles one by one. To get at 'individual molecules' means measurements in the gas phase, and the barrier to using mass spectrometry to obtain ...

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