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ArticleJournal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry2017

Intact Transition Epitope Mapping (ITEM).

Yelena Yefremova, Kwabena F M Opuni, Bright D Danquah, Hans-Juergen Thiesen, Michael O Glocker

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Article in Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yelena YefremovaProteome Center Rostock, University Medicine Rostock, Schillingallee 69, 18057, Rostock, Germany.
Kwabena F M OpuniProteome Center Rostock, University Medicine Rostock, Schillingallee 69, 18057, Rostock, Germany.
Bright D DanquahProteome Center Rostock, University Medicine Rostock, Schillingallee 69, 18057, Rostock, Germany.
Hans-Juergen ThiesenInstitute of Immunology, University Medicine Rostock, Schillingallee 70, 18057, Rostock, Germany.
Michael O GlockerProteome Center Rostock, University Medicine Rostock, Schillingallee 69, 18057, Rostock, Germany. michael.glocker@med.uni-rostock.de.
University of Rostock · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intact transition epitope mapping (ITEM) enables rapid and accurate determination of protein antigen-derived epitopes by either epitope extraction or epitope excision. Upon formation of the antigen peptide-containing immune complex in solution, the entire mixture is electrosprayed to translate all constituents as protonated ions into the gas phase. There, ions from antibody-peptide complexes are separated from unbound peptide ions according to their masses, charges, and shapes either by ion mobility drift or by quadrupole ion filtering. Subsequently, immune complexes are dissociated by collision induced fragmentation and the ion signals of the "complex-released peptides," which in effect are the epitope peptides, are recorded in the time-of-flight analyzer of the mass spectrometer. Mixing of an antibody solution with a solution in which antigens or antigen-derived peptides are dissolved is, together with antigen proteolysis, the only required in-solution handling step. Simplicity of sample handling and speed of analysis together with very low sample consumption makes ITEM faster and easier to perform than other experimental epitope mapping methods. Graphical Abstract ᅟ.

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Amino Acid SequenceAnimalsEpitope MappingHumansImmunoglobulin GIon Mobility SpectrometryMicePeptidesProteolysisSpectrometry, Mass, Electrospray IonizationTandem Mass SpectrometryImmunoglobulin GPeptidesAntibody–antigen interactionsAntibody–epitope reactivitiesIon mobility separationNative electrospray mass spectrometryQuadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry

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PMID28616748
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