Sunday, February 19, 2023

Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis of frataxin proteoforms in whole blood as biomarkers of the genetic disease friedreich’s ataxia

Rojsajjakul, T., Wu, L., Grady, C. B., Hwang, W.-T., Mesaros, C., Lynch, D. R., & Blair, I. A. (2023). Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis of frataxin proteoforms in whole blood as biomarkers of the genetic disease friedreich’s ataxia. Analytical Chemistry. doi:10.1021/acs.analchem.3c00091 

These findings auger well for using frataxin levels measured by the validated stable isotope dilution ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography–multiple reaction monitoring/mass spectrometry assay to monitor therapeutic interventions and the natural history of FRDA. Our study also illustrates the utility of using whole blood for protein disease biomarker discovery and validation.