Accurate mass tag
From Mass Spec Terms
| IUPAC RECOMMENDATIONS 2013 |
| Accurate mass tag |
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| Value of the mass of a peptide from a protein that has been chemically or enzymatically cleaved into fragments. The mass is recorded with sufficiently high accuracy and precision that it can be used in identification of the protein. |
| Related Term(s): peptide mass fingerprinting |
| Reference(s):
R. D. Smith, J. A. Loo, C. G. Edmonds, C. J. Barinaga, H. R. Udseth. Anal. Chem. 62, 882 (1990). (http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ac00208a002) T. P. Conrads, G. A. Anderson, T. D. Veenstra, L. Pa?a-Toli?, R. D. Smith. Anal. Chem. 72, 3349 (2000). (http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ac0002386) |
| From Definitions of Terms Relating to Mass Spectrometry (IUPAC Recommendations 2013); DOI: 10.1351/PAC-REC-06-04-06 © IUPAC 2013. |
