Mass Spectrometry Facility

Instrumentation

Mass Spectrometers:

ThermoElectron LTQ-Orbitrap - nanospray infusion or LC/MS or LC/MSMS of peptides and Proteins with CID or ETD
ThermoElectron LTQ-FTICR - nanospray infusion or on-line LC/MS with CID, IRMPD, or ECD
ABI 4700 MALDI-TOF-TOF - automated MS and MS/MS analysis of peptides
MDS Sciex/ABI QSTAR Elite Q-TOF - LC/MSMS of peptide digests with iTRAQ/SILAC quantitation
MDS Sciex/ABI QSTAR XL Q-TOF - LC/MS analysis of proteins and peptides
MDS Sciex/ABI QSTAR Pulsar Q-TOF - LC/MS analysis of proteins and peptides
*PE-Biosystems Mariner ESI-TOF - accurate mass measurement of small molecules
*PE-Biosystems Voyager Elite STR MALDI-TOF - linear or reflectron MS of biomolecules
*Sciex API 300 triple quadrupole - low resolution infusion or LC/MS

* open for training for outside users within UCSF

Off-line Chromatography

Amersham Biosciences Akta HPLC system - Large scale sample preparation using ion exchange/size exclusion/affinity/hydrophilic interaction/reversed phase chromaography
Beckman Gold HPLC system - Reversed phase sample preparation
Ultimate HPLC system with Probot (DionexLC Packings) - Reversed phase sample separation for LC-MALDI

On-line nanoLC-MS

Waters NanoAcuity LC system
Famos autosampler/Ultimate HPLC system(Dionex/LC Packings)
Spark autosampler/Eksigent nanopump
Spark autosampler/Eldex syringe pump
Agilent Technologies 1100 series nanoHPLC system

The UCSF Mass Spectrometry Facility (A.L. Burlingame, Director) is supported by the Biomedical Technology Resource Centers Program of the NIH National Center for Research Resources, NIH NCRR P41RR001614

last modified Mon Feb 11 13:06:30 2008