Affinity depletion versus relative protein enrichment: a side-by-side comparison of two major strategies for increasing human cerebrospinal fluid proteome coverage.

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is in direct contact with the central nervous system. This makes human CSF an attractive source of potential biomarkers for neurologic diseases. Similarly to blood plasma, proteomic analysis of CSF is complicated by a high dynamic range of individual protein concentrations and by the presence of several highly abundant proteins.