High Pressure-Accelerated Lys-C Digestion in the HUB880 Explorer: Rapid Digestion of Unreduced IgG Part II. Effect of Acetonitrile, N-Propanol, and Methanol
Introduction
The benefit of high pressure incubation for enhanced Lys-C digestion of unreduced IgG, and the added benefit of reagents such as urea and sodium deoxycholate, is described in separate Application Notes [4, 19]. In the current Application Note we explore the effect of several organic solvents on pressure-enhanced digestion, in order to provide the best set of starting conditions for high pressure-enhanced Lys-C digestion of disulfide-intact IgG in the presence of these reagents. These conditions are likely to be similar for digestion of other hard-to-digest proteins, such as those containing hydrophobic transmembrane domains. The current application focuses on digestion at constant high pressure (not pressure cycling) in the HUB880 Explorer.