Protein Sequencing
Methods for performing protein sequencing include:
- Edman degradation
- Peptide mass fingerprinting
- Mass spectrometry
- Protease digests
If the gene encoding the protein can be identified it is currently much easier to sequence the DNA and infer the protein sequence. Determining part of a protein's amino-acid sequence (often one end) by one of the above methods may be sufficient to enable the identification of a clone carrying the gene.
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