Method of Detecting or Monitoring Minimal Residual Disease The application describes a method of identifying minimal residual disease (MRD) in a monoclonal gammopathy patient, comprising detecting the presence or absence of a monoclonal free light chain (FLC) in a sample from the patient by mass spectrometry (MS).

The disclosure provides methods for measuring M-proteins in a biological sample obtained from a subject, comprising applying purified immunoglobulins to a liquid chromatography (LC) mass spectrometry (MS). In some aspects, the immunoglobulins are purified using an immunocapture (IC). In certain aspects, the subject has a plasma cell disorder, e.g., multiple myeloma.

The present invention provides a synchronous detection method of medicaments influencing ARR in the detecting process of renin activity by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. The method achieves the qualitative screening of medicaments influencing ARR values while detecting plasma renin activity by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry; moreover, the method can be used to assist to analyze and judge ARR as negative, positive, false negative or false positive. The detecting method achieves effective extraction of angiotensin I and 43 hypertension therapeutics synchronously through protein precipitation to samples, and enables to perform synchronous detection of a plurality of indices including angiotensin I and 43 hypertension therapeutics on the extracted sample by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry technology of high throughput, high specificity and high sensitivity. Moreover, the detection method utilizes the MRM mass spectrum parameters for preliminary screening of the medicaments, and rechecks the medicaments according to the retention time thereof. The ARR detection value is combined with the medicament screening result for co-analysis, which effectively distinguishes the false positive or false negative result of the detection while avoiding the patient's withdrawal of medicament for treatment, thereby improving the detection accuracy of the actual primary aldosteronism, and facilitating clinical promotion and application.

Disclosed is a method of associating molecular structures with signal peaks in spectrometry data obtained from separation according to one or more physical-chemical properties, comprising, as the case may be repeatedly: providing one or more signal peaks in acquired spectrometry data being related to an experimental value of mobility or a related property; ascertaining one or more molecular structure candidates suitable for being associated with the one or more signal peaks; providing by one of calculating, estimating, deriving and deducing for each molecular structure candidate a distribution of first match scores as a function of mobility; defining a presumed first match score for each molecular structure candidate as output from the respective distribution on applying the experimental value of mobility of the one or more signal peaks; and using the presumed first match score in a step of associating a molecular structure with the one or more signal peaks.

The present disclosure is directed to methods reagents and kits for solid phase extraction, derivatization with crown ether containing derivatizing agents, and mass spectrometry of the derivatized analytes.

A method of spectrometric analysis comprises obtaining one or more sample spectra for an aerosol, smoke or vapour sample. The one or more sample spectra are subjected to pre-processing and then multivariate and/or library based analysis so as to classify the aerosol, smoke or vapour sample. The results of the analysis are used for various surgical or non-surgical applications.

Methods of analyzing a drug polypeptide conjugate using tandem mass spectrometry involving dual tandem mass tags (TMTs) are described. Provided herein is an integrated method using TMTs to obtain three analytical measurements, termed “triple play”, which enables identification of the drug occupancy, normalization between multiple samples and triggering of additional MS/MS to identify and localize conjugation site(s) of the payload. Also described is a method of multiplexing conjugation reactions in a single run with TMT labeling for enhanced throughput capability, while maintaining the same sensitivity with current mass spectrometry instrumentation.

The present invention relates to new biomarkers for assessing ovarian cancer being more sensitive, particularly at early stage of disease. Moreover, the present invention relates to a method for assessing ovarian cancer from a patient to be examined, and to a kit for carrying out the method.

The present invention is a method for detecting a specific disease based on the result of a measurement in which the amount of a peptide serving as a biomarker contained in a biological sample is determined by using an LC-MS. A pretreatment process performed before the measurement using the LC-MS includes the steps of preparing a mixed sample solution by adding a stable isotope reagent and a trifluoroacetic acid to the biological sample, where the stable isotope reagent is prepared beforehand by labeling the peptide with a stable isotope; boiling the mixed sample solution; injecting the mixed sample solution after boiled into a solid-phase extraction column to make the peptide be retained in the solid-phase extraction column; and passing a water-soluble organic solvent through the solid-phase extraction column to elute the peptide retained in the solid-phase extraction column and collect the eluate.

Disclosed is a novel means for accurate qualitative and quantitative analyses for each N-glycosylation site. The method of analyzing N-linked sugar chain(s) of glycoprotein according to the present invention comprises: treating a part of a glycopeptide-containing sample to be analyzed with endo-β-N-acetylglucosaminidases to cleave off sugar chains while leaving one GlcNAc of the chitobiose core on the Asn at the N-glycosylation site; subjecting the obtained sugar chain-cleaved sample to preliminary liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry; predicting the retention time of the glycopeptide of interest and the mass-to-charge ratio (m/z) of the precursor ion in main analysis based on the results of the preliminary liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry; and carrying out the main analysis. By this method, the binding sites and structures of N-linked sugar chains in a glycoprotein can be analyzed. By using the sugar chain-cleaved sample as an internal standard in the main analysis, quantitative analysis of sugar chains at each glycosylation site also becomes possible.