A method for C-terminal sequence analysis in the proteomic era (proteins cleaved with cyanogen bromide)

Nature Protocols

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 318-323

  Samyn, Bart ^a   Sergeant, Kjell ^a   Van Beeumen, Jozef ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYPEPTIDASE C; CYANOGEN BROMIDE; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEOMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

CARBOXYPEPTIDASE C; CYANOGEN BROMIDE; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEINS; PROTEOMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

EID: 34250689162     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2006.50     Document Type: Article

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