Title
Imaging of selenium by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) in 2-D electrophoresis gels and biological tissues
Date Issued
01 January 2018
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
book part
Author(s)
Laboratory of Bioanalytics and Integrated Omics
Publisher(s)
Humana Press Inc.
Abstract
Selenium and selenoproteins are important components of living organisms that play a role in different biological processes. Laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) is a powerful analytical technique that has been employed to obtain distribution maps of selenium in biological tissues in a direct manner, as well as in selenoproteins, previously separated by their molecular masses and isoelectric points using two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (2-D PAGE). In this chapter, we present the protocols to perform LA-ICP-MS imaging experiments, allowing the distribution visualization and determination of selenium and/or selenoproteins in biological systems.
Start page
219
End page
227
Volume
1661
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Bioquímica, Biología molecular
Química analítica
Métodos de investigación bioquímica
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85029580716
PubMed ID
Resource of which it is part
Methods in Molecular Biology
ISBN of the container
978-1-4939-7258-6
Sponsor(s)
A.S. thanks FAPESP (grant number 2015/13229-1) for financial support. E.C.S.C. thanks CNPq for her Ph.D. scholarship.
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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