Application Notes: Medical/Biological

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the use of mass spectrometry to characterize the elution profile of a typical IgG1 molecule separation on a TSKgel FcR-IIIA-NPR column, and verify the observations that certain glycan structures impart higher activity to the monoclonal antibody, especially as it relates to the presence of terminal galactose sugars.

This application note effectively outlines a simple three-step method for the extraction of loperamide and its main metabolite, N-desmethyl loperamide, from blood.

UCT’s Refine™ Ultra-Filtration Technology allows for sample precipitation and filtration to occur simultaneously in the individual column or well. A novel, hydrophobically treated, submicrometer frit combination facilitates the removal of sample proteins without a complicated extraction.

Abuse of synthetic opioid prescription painkillers such as fentanyl, along with a rapidly growing list of illicit analogues, is a significant public health problem. In this study, we developed a simple dilute-and-shoot method that provides a fast 3.5-min analysis of fentanyl and related compounds (norfentanyl, acetyl fentanyl, alfentanil, butyryl fentanyl, carfentanil, remifentanil, and sufentanil) in human urine by LC–MS/MS using a Raptor Biphenyl column.

Intrinsically-disordered proteins cannot be analyzed by SEC column calibration. SEC-MALS provides accurate molecular masses of these proteins and of their complexes with other proteins.