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Climbing the protein ladder

Nature Biotechnology volume 22, pages 1242–1243 (2004)Cite this article

A simple hydrolysis-based approach to peptide analysis may facilitate high-throughput identification of post-translational modifications.

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Figure 1: Analysis of the N-terminal ladder of insulin by mass analysis of peptides (MAP).

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