Identification of Peptide AEDG in the Polypeptide Complex of the Pineal Gland

Khavinson VK, Kopylov AT, Vaskovsky BV, Ryzhak GA, Lin'kova NS · Bulletin of Experimental Biology and Medicine

The pineal complex was 3.26% free amino acids, 23.19% dipeptides, 50.72% tripeptides, 22.10% tetrapeptides and 0.72% pentapeptides, with AEDG detected among the tetrapeptides — the published worked example of how the program identifies a named peptide inside a tissue extract.

Population

The pineal-gland polypeptide complex

Intervention

Mass spectrometry and HPLC with selective reaction monitoring

Comparator

n/a

Limitations

A different organ complex from the cartilage one; the paper infers that the complex's effects are 'determined by' its AEDG content rather than testing that claim; institute-authored.