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Proteomics Core Facility

This facility provides a full proteomics infrastructure for the identification and characterisation of proteins.

Equipment

Sample preparation

KingFisher Apex

Semi-automated processing of samples:

Liquid Chromatography

Agilent 1260 Infinity HPLC

  • Offline fractionation of peptides by high pH reverse phase chromatography
  • Offline fractionation of crosslinked peptides by peptide size-exclusion chromatography

Ultimate 3000 HPLC

  • Offline fractionation of peptides
  • Online C18 reverse phase chromatography directly coupled to the mass spectrometer

Vanquish Neo HPLC

  • Online fractionation of peptides with C18 reverse phase chromatography directly coupled to the mass spectrometer

Mass Spectrometry

Q Exactive Plus

High-resolution mass spectrometer

  • Equipped with advanced quadrupole technology and high-resolution Orbitrap
  • Fragmentation of precursor ions using HCD
  • For analyses of peptides in DDA and DIA mode

Orbitrap Lumos Tribrid

High-resolution mass spectrometer

  • Equipped with advanced quadrupole technology, a high-resolution Orbitrap and synchronous precursor selection (SPS)-able Iontrap for MS3-based methods
  • Fragmentation of precursor ions using HCD, CID or ETD
  • For analyses of peptides in DDA and DIA mode including MS3-based methods and ETD fragmentation for PTM analysis

Orbitrap Exploris 480

High-resolution mass spectrometer

  • Equipped with advanced quadrupole technology and high-resolution Orbitrap
  • Fragmentation of precursor ions with HCD
  • For analyses of peptides in DDA and DIA mode, especially well suited for DIA due to faster transit times

Orbitrap Astral

Next-generation, high resolution mass spectrometer

  • Equipped with advanced quadrupole technology, high-resolution Orbitrap and the new, sensitive, fast and high-resolution Astral analyser
  • Fragmentation of precursor ions with HCD
  • For ultra-deep, sensitive analyses of peptides in DDA and especially DIA mode

Data analysis

DDA data

  • MSFragger/FragPipe
  • MaxQuant
  • Skyline
  • R for statistical analysis and data visualization

DIA data

  • DIA-NN
  • Skyline
  • R for statistical analysis and data visualization

Crosslinking data

  • pLink3
  • xiView

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