Infrastructure

Several analytical systems and methods are available for the characterisation of biopolymers, especially focused on peptides / proteins / carbohydrates, partially in combination with radiolabeling (*).

Mass spectrometry devices:       

Bruker Microflex II (MALDI-TOF)*

Bruker Autoflex (MALDi-TOF/TOF)*

Thermo LTQ XL (MALDI / ESI-LTQ)*

Chromatography devices: 

Dionex DX 600 (HPAEC-PAD / Berthold Radioflow LB 509)*

Dionex ICS 3000 (HPAEC-PAD)

Dionex HPLC (PDA-100)*

Multisizer - Beckman Coulter Multisizer 3 (20-280µm)*

Capillary electrophoreses - ProteomLab PA800 (LIF / P/ACE MDQ / Dioden Array)

                      ProteomLab PA800plus (LIF/ P/ACE MDQ / Dioden Array)

Asymmetric and symmetric field flow-fractionation device - Wyatt Technology Eclipse F / F1000 coupled to MALLS (DAWN-EOS) DRI (Optilab DSP)

*Radionuclides: ³²P, ³³P, ³H, ¹⁴C, ⁴⁵Ca, and ³⁵S