Tryptic Digestion Coupled with Ambient Desorption Electrospray Ionization and Liquid Extraction Surface Analysis Mass Spectrometry Enabling Identification of Skeletal Muscle Proteins in Mixtures and Distinguishing between Beef, Pork, Horse, Chicken, and Turkey Meat

Montowska, Magdalena; Rao, Wei; Alexander, Morgan R.; Tucker, Gregory A.; Barrett, David A.

Abstract

The use of ambient desorption electrospray ionization (DESI-MS) mass spectrometry and liquid extraction surface analysis mass spectrometry (LESA-MS) is explored for the first time to analyse skeletal muscle proteins obtained from mixture of standard proteins and raw meat. Single proteins and mixtures of up to five proteins (myoglobin, troponin C, actin, BSA, tropomyosin) were deposited onto a polymer surface, followed by in-situ tryptic digestion and comparative analysis using DESI-MS and LESA-MS using tandem electrospray MS. Peptide peaks specific to individual proteins were readily distinguishable with good signal-to-noise ratio in the five-component mixture. LESA-MS gave a more stable analysis and greater sensitivity compared with DESI-MS. Meat tryptic digests were subjected to peptidomics analysis by DESI-MS and LESA-MS. Bovine, horse, pig, chicken and turkey muscle digests were clearly discriminated using multivariate data analysis (MVA) of the peptidomic datasets. The most abundant skeletal muscle proteins were identified and correctly classified according to the species following MS/MS analysis. The study shows, for the first time, that ambient ionization techniques such as DESI-MS and LESA-MS have great potential for species-specific analysis and differentiation of skeletal muscle proteins by direct surface desorption.

Citation

Montowska, M., Rao, W., Alexander, M. R., Tucker, G. A., & Barrett, D. A. (2014). Tryptic Digestion Coupled with Ambient Desorption Electrospray Ionization and Liquid Extraction Surface Analysis Mass Spectrometry Enabling Identification of Skeletal Muscle Proteins in Mixtures and Distinguishing between Beef, Pork, Horse, Chicken, and Turkey Meat. Analytical Chemistry, 86(9), 4479-4487. https://doi.org/10.1021/ac5003432

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Mar 20, 2014
• Online Publication Date: Apr 15, 2014
• Publication Date: May 6, 2014
• Deposit Date: Dec 11, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 11, 2017
• Journal: Analytical Chemistry
• Print ISSN: 0003-2700
• Electronic ISSN: 1520-6882
• Publisher: American Chemical Society
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 86
• Issue: 9
• Pages: 4479-4487
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/ac5003432
• Keywords: Desorption Electrospray Ionization-Mass Spectrometry, Liquid Extraction Surface Analysis-Mass Spectrometry, skeletal muscle proteins, cattle, pig, horse, chicken, turkey
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/724253
• Publisher URL: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac5003432