Nitish Sharma and Piotr Alvarez compare reverse-phase separations of small molecules vs. peptides, from pI value and hydrophobicity to impurity profiles.
|Articles|September 1, 2001
- LCGC North America-09-01-2001
- Volume 19
- Issue 9
Detecting Mushroom Peptide Toxins in Body Fluids by Capillary Electrophoresis
Author(s)Yuri Bidnychenko
The Death Cap mushroom is the cause of most mushroom-related poisonings in the world. The author has developed a highly efficient, sensitive CE technique that toxicologists and forensic analysts can use to determine the poisonous peptides in body fluids of affected patients.
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