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PIMS

Protein Identification by Mass Spectrometry Services

Powerful and sensitive protein fingerprinting

Detect multiple phosphosites that are present in a purified phosphoprotein.


For more information on our protein identification by Mass Spectrometry Services please contact our technican services representatives toll free at 1-866-kinexus or by e-mail at info@kinexus.ca

Our Protein Identification by Mass Spectrometry (PIMS) Services are designed to permit our clients to establish the identities of cross-immunoreactive proteins that demonstrate interesting changes in expression or phosphorylation in their experimental model systems.

Such proteins are visualized with our Kinetworks™ multi-immunoblotting services and may also be detected with our Kinase-Substrate Profiling Services.

The PIMS service requires that the target cross-reactive protein can be immunoprecipitated or supplied in a purified form ready for trypsinolysis and resolution by LC-MS/MS mass spectrometry. These steps can be performed in-house at Kinexus for our clients.
Since the apparent molecular mass of the antibody cross-reactive target protein is known, this can be used to further validate the identification of the protein from the estimated charge to mass ratios of its tryptic fragments.

Such protein fingerprinting is a very powerful and sensitive strategy to identify proteins using our knowledge of the predicted charge to mass ratios of all of the proteins encoded by the genomes of humans and other species that have been sequenced.