Advantages of Enzymatic Protein Digest
- Only catalytic amounts of proteases necessary
- High specificity
Trypsin (EC no. 3.4.21.4): Lys/Arg (NH4HCO3, pH 8.0)
Glu-C (EC no. 3.4.21.19): Glu (NH4HCO3, pH 7.8)
Lys-C (EC no. 3.4.21.50): Lys (50 mM Tris/HCl pH 8.5)
- High cleavage yield
- Negligible side reaction
- High quality proteases are commercially available