Earlier this year, our customers at Pfizer and the team from Sound Analytics set up a “cap-flow” system using the Zirconium Ultra pump, LS-1 autosampler, and Sciex’ new OptiFlow ion source. The poster was presented at ASMS 2018 in San Diego, and is now available for download here:
If you are coming to Orlando for HUPO 2018, you will be among the first to hear about our latest exciting developments to improve HPLC injections. You can find us at booth #305.
Also, we will have an oral presentation on the “innovation stage”, Tuesday October 2nd at 9:45 a.m.
If you are looking for applications of Prolab’s Zirconium pump for the lower nano-flow range in the field of proteomics, check out the posters and orals with Bruker’s nanoElute:
Poster 223: Short LC-gradients for high throughput and deep shotgun proteomics using PASEF on a TIMS equipped QTOF
Poster 251: High Sensitivity Phosphoproteomics using PASEF on a TIMS-QTOF mass spectrometer
Poster 296: Evaluating the timsTOFPRO bottom-up proteomics platform potential for Proteoform Profiling and Top-Down approaches
Poster 319: Highly reproducible and accurate label free quantification using the PASEF method on a TIMS-QTOF mass spectrometer
Oral WOC 11:58am, Wednesday – Oceana 6: PASEF for ultra-sensitive shotgun proteomics
Oral WOB pm 2:40pm, Wednesday – Oceana 7: Trapped ion mobility mass spectrometry for improved sensitivity and fastest proteomics
Photograph by Kelly Daacon – Lake Lucerne Reflections
A typical setup as seen in our previous application note employs three pumps – one for loading the sample out of the autosampler’s sample loop, one for diluting the sample’s organic solvent with water for trapping, and one for the analytical gradient, eluting the concentrated analytes off the trapping column onto an analytical column for separation.
We optimized this design a little, replacing the loading and dilution pumps by a single pump. See how it works in our new animation (turn on sound and/or subtitles):
At last week’s annual meeting of the Swiss Group for Mass Spectrometry, we introduced our newest accessory for increased micro-HPLC sensitivity. Continue reading Microflow Ion Source
Amyloid peptides (Abeta; Aβ) result from cleavage of amyloid precursor protein (APP) by beta and gamma secretase.The 42-amino acid variant, amyloid β peptide 1–42 is a widely accepted key biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) together with the total tau (T-tau) and phosphorylated tau (P-tau) protein. Diagnostic accuracy of the Aβ 1–42 /Aβ 1–40 ratio in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)
compared to the concentration of Aβ 1–42 alone was found to be even more significant.
Currently these peptides are analyzed routinely in CSF by immunoassays, but in recent years, liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) has been investigated for the quantification of Aβ1-38, Aβ1-40, and Aβ1–42.
[Blennow 2010, Lewczuk 2015, Lame 2011]
Our neighbour CRO, Swiss BioQuant, use the Zirconium pump with a new scheme for loading and analyzing samples at the same time using the same binary pump. Dead times of the MS are greatly reduced, so they save a lot of instrument time while achieving exceptional sensitivity and precision.
Continue reading Application Note: SPE Micro-HPLC with double throughput
In our long history of Micro- and Nano-HPLC product developments, we had the chance to collect experience using many approaches on how to fit a thin glass tube into a large (1/16″) stainless steel port, which is what many HPLC and UHPLC systems employ to this day.
The large sample sets produced by modern biological research often need to be analyzed in a minimal amount of time. Additionally, target compound concentrations in these samples may be very low. Continue reading Nano-HPLC: Why use smaller ID Columns and smaller Flow Rates in LC?