Capillary electrophoresis is recognized as a valued separation technique for its high separation efficiency, low sample consumption, good economic and ecological aspects, reproducibility, and complementarity to traditional liquid chromatography techniques. Capillary electrophoresis experiments are generally performed utilizing optical detection, such as ultraviolet or fluorescence detectors. However, in order to provide structural information, capillary electrophoresis hyphenated to highly sensitive and selective mass spectrometry has been developed to overcome the limitations of optical detections. Capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry is increasingly popular in protein analysis, including biopharmaceutical and biomedical research. It is frequently applied for the determination of physicochemical and biochemical parameters of proteins, offers excellent performance for in-depth characterizations of biopharmaceuticals at various levels of analysis, and has been also already proven as a promising tool in biomarker discovery. In this review, we focus on the possibilities and limitations of capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry for protein analysis at their intact level. Various capillary electrophoresis modes and capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry interfaces, as well as approaches to prevent protein adsorption and to enhance sample loading capacity, are discussed and the recent (2018-March 2023) developments and applications in the field of biopharmaceutical and biomedical analysis are summarized.
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Annu Rev Anal Chem (Palo Alto Calif)
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Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA; email:
Mass spectrometry (MS)-based top-down proteomics (TDP) characterizes proteoforms in cells, tissues, and biological fluids (e.g., human plasma) to better our understanding of protein function and to discover new protein biomarkers for disease diagnosis and therapeutic development.
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Department of Toxicology, Advanced Medical and Dental Institute, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Bertam, Kepala Batas, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia.
Advancements in food technology have increased the need for thorough analysis to ensure food safety, quality, and compliance with regulatory requirements. Capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry (CE-MS) has emerged as a powerful tool in food analysis due to its high separation efficiency, low sample consumption, and ability to handle complex matrices. However, challenges such as the use of volatile running buffers and maintaining the stability of the electrical circuit connecting the CE and MS systems have been addressed through advancements in interface designs, such as sheathless systems and optimized sheath-liquid compositions.
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January 2025
Department of Chemistry-BMC, Uppsala University, 75123, Uppsala, Sweden; Center of Excellence for the Chemical Mechanisms of Life, Uppsala University, Sweden. Electronic address:
Spatial metabolomics offers the combination of molecular identification and localization. As a tool for spatial metabolomics, mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) can provide detailed information on localization. However, molecular annotation with MSI is challenging due to the lack of separation prior to mass spectrometric analysis.
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January 2025
Institute for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Computer simulation was utilized to characterize the electrophoretic processes occurring during the enantioselective capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry (CE-MS) analysis of ketamine, norketamine, and hydroxynorketamine in a system with partial filling of the capillary with 19 mM (equals 5%) of highly sulfated γ-cyclodextrin (HS-γ-CD) and analyte detection on the cathodic side. Provided that the sample is applied without or with a small amount of the chiral selector, analytes become quickly focused and separated in the thereby formed HS-γ-CD gradient at the cathodic end of the sample compartment. This gradient broadens with time, remains stationary, and gradually reduces its span from the lower side due to diffusion such that analytes with high affinity to the anionic selector become released onto the other side of the focusing gradient where anionic migration and defocusing occur concomitantly.
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January 2025
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4M1, Canada.
Mass spectrometry (MS)-based metabolomics often rely on separation techniques when analyzing complex biological specimens to improve method resolution, metabolome coverage, quantitative performance, and/or unknown identification. However, low sample throughput and complicated data preprocessing procedures remain major barriers to affordable metabolomic studies that are scalable to large populations. Herein, we introduce PeakMeister as a new software tool in the R statistical environment to enable standardized processing of serum metabolomic data acquired by multisegment injection-capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry (MSI-CE-MS), a high-throughput separation platform (<4 min/sample) which takes advantage of a serial injection format of 13 samples within a single analytical run.
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