Table 1

Characteristics of peptide products following digestion of the yeast proteome with different agents.


Endo AspN
CNBr
Chymotrypsin
Trypsin* (no missed cleavages)
Trypsin (zero or one missed cleavages)
Trypsin (zero, one or two missed cleavages)
Trypsin and chymo-trypsin

Total number of peptides in proteome
150,427
59,702
216,969
291,203
593,88
930,613
411,401
Mean peptide mass (isotopic)
2192.5
5554.2
1496.7
1229.2
1637.4
2078.5
614.1
Mean number of peptides per protein
24.2
9.6
35.0
41.9
95.7
150.0
66.3

*Idealized digestion criteria were used (in the laboratory, the rules governing cleavage may be more complex – for instance trypsin rarely cuts after arginine or lysine when the distal residue is proline). Here, the criteria used were: EndoAspN (X-D), CNBr (X-M), Chymotrypsin (X-L, X-F, X-Y, X-W), trypsin (K-X, R-X).

Cagney et al. Proteome Science 2003 1:5   doi:10.1186/1477-5956-1-5