Analytical biotechnology of recombinant peptides and proteins. I. Determination of the purity, composition,and structure of human, porcine, and bovine insulins

摘要

A method for analysis of the type, purity, nd possible structural modifications of insulins of bovine, porcine, and human origin was proposed. It is based on a combination of narrow-bore reversed-phase HPLC and mass spectromery. The hydrolysis of insulins with highly specific Glu-protease V8 from Staphylococcus aureus followed by peptide mapping of the hydrolysis products and mass spectrometry of the isolated fragments helps rapidly and reliably localize and identify substitutions of amino acid residues in insulin structure by using insulin samples of less than 1 nmol.