96-well plate R3 desalt and clean up protocol for mass spec analysis

ronan o'cualain, Stacey Warwood, David Knight, Emmakeevill

Published: 2022-08-19 DOI: 10.17504/protocols.io.dm6gpbnqdlzp/v1

Abstract

This protocol details the procedure of 96-well plate R3 desalt and clean up protocol for mass spec analysis.

Before start

Locate the following buffers and reagents:

AB
LocationBuffer/reagent
Bench0.1% formic acid in water 50% acetonitrile 0.1% formic acid in 30% acetonitrile Oligo R3 beads in 50% acetonitrile

Locate the following consumables:

  • 2x Corning FiltrEX desalt filter plates (one to use and one as a balance in the centrifuge)
  • 2x fresh ABgene storage/collection plates
  • Tubes for collecting unbound material (you can reuse sample tubes if desired)
  • Mass spec sample vials and caps (blue for samples, red for a pooled sample).

Identify the following equipment that you will use:

  • 10µL or 20µL pipette
  • 1mL pipette
  • Thermo Megafuge 16 with plate rotor fitted
  • Eppendorf Thermomixer
  • Vacuum centrifuge

Attachments

Steps

Preparing plates

1.

Locate the white Corning FiltrEX 96-well plate you will be using for your peptide desalting.

Locate a new clean ABgene 96 well plate for peptide collection. Label "collection" on it.

There should be a "wash/waste" plate provided in the R3 box in the orange trays.

Note

2.

With a pen, carefully mark on the side of the outside position of the wells, the positions/wells you will be using for desalting. If desalting 8 peptide samples, mark the side of the well for 8 positions. It is recommended you work down the side of the plate, from A to H, on a new row. The purpose of marking the wells that you are using means that it should make it easier for you to track which wells you have used.

Ensure you know which ones you are using (e.g. mark the wells).
Ensure you know which ones you are using (e.g. mark the wells).
3.

Add 10µL of the prepared POROS R3 (from the settled beads) to the appropriate number of unused wells the filter plate. If the slurry bed has been disturbed, simply add 20µL of the bead suspension to each well

Note
Carefully remove 10uL of settled beads from the R3 slurry mix, and add to the plate for each peptide sample to be desalted.
Carefully remove 10uL of settled beads from the R3 slurry mix, and add to the plate for each peptide sample to be desalted.

4.

Place the Corning FiltrEX plate with the R3 beads combination on top of the "Wash/waste" plate.

Add 200µL of 50% acetonitrile to each sample well to be desalted, and centrifuge at 200x g,0h 0m 0s for 0h 1m 0s.

Note
Discard the into the temporary "solvent waste" beaker.

5.

Add 200µL of 0.1% formic acid in water to each sample well to be desalted, and centrifuge at 200x g,0h 0m 0s for 0h 1m 0s.

Note
Discard the into the temporary "solvent waste" beaker.

6.

Add 200µL of 0.1% formic acid in water to each sample well to be desalted, and centrifuge at 200x g,0h 0m 0s for 0h 1m 0s.

Note
Discard the into the temporary "solvent waste" beaker.

Load sample and wash beads

7.

Add a maximum of 200µL of the samples to the plate and beads. Incubate samples on the plate mixer for 0h 5m 0s at 500rpm,0h 0m 0s with no heating .

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8.

Remove liquid by centrifugation at 200x g,0h 0m 0s for 0h 1m 0s.

Note
If you wish, you may save the sample flow through (unbound material) by transferring it to the original sample tube from the wash/waste plate with a pipette. Alternatively, if you do not wish to keep the unbound material, dispose it in the solvent beaker.

9.

If there is additional sample to be desalted (assuming initial sample volume was > 200µL), repeat the previous step.

10.

Wash 1: Add 200µL of0.1% (v/v) formic acid , mix for 0h 2m 0s at 500rpm,0h 0m 0s,

and then centrifuge at 200x g,0h 0m 0s for 0h 1m 0s. Combine wash with flow through sample if collecting unbound material.

Note
Ensure you are using the correct solution for this step!

11.

Wash 2: Repeat the previous step by adding 200µL of 0.1% (v/v) formic acid , mix for 0h 2m 0s at 500rpm,0h 0m 0s,

and then centrifuge at 200x g,0h 0m 0s for 0h 1m 0s. Combine wash with flow through sample if collecting unbound material.

Elute peptides

12.

Change the plate below the Corning FiltrEX plate from the "wash/waste plate" to the collection plate.

13.

Elution 1: Add 50µL of 0.1% formic acid in 30% acetonitrile, mix for 0h 2m 0s, 500rpm,0h 0m 0s,

and then centrifuge at 200x g,0h 0m 0s for 0h 1m 0s.

14.

Elution 2: Repeat the previous step.

Add 50µL of 0.1% formic acid in 30% acetonitrile, mix for 0h 2m 0s, 500rpm,0h 0m 0s, centrifuge at 200x g,0h 0m 0s for 0h 1m 0s.

15.

The combined elution volumes should be approximately 100µL. Transfer the combined elution to new sample vials. Label the vials with your initials, and the sample number (it is not essential to record ALL experiment information on the vial, keep this important information elsewhere.

Note

Note
If you wish to prepare a pooled sample, you can do it at this step. Pooled samples: Only do this if a member of staff has advised you to do so. To prepare the pooled sample(s), -for every 10 samples, remove 9µL from each into another MS vial labelled “pool”. You will now have 10 samples with 90µL of sample, and a pooled sample of 90µL. We will use the pooled sample for QC (quality control). To make it easy to differentiate the “pooled” sample of peptides from the other peptide samples, use a red screw cap instead of a blue cap to close the vial. We will provide you with these caps.

16.

Dry samples to completeness in a vacuum centrifuge.

If you do not have access to a vacuum centrifuge, the peptides will be stable for overnight at 4°CAny longer than this, and unwanted side chain modifications may occur due to the presence of high acetonitrile.

Note
See facility staff for how to use the vacuum centrifuge to dry peptide samples, or see the section "Using the Thermo SPD1010 speedvac concentrator centrifuge for drying down peptides for LC-MS analysis" that details the procedure). Peptides may be stored in fridge or freezer when dried down.

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