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How to find protein names by knowing their molecular weight.

Gallus gallus expressed proteins in the range 170 kDa to 10 kDa. Here are their molecular weights, please guide me how can i find their names by easy and fast way?

MW
(d)
92623
69470.6
67705.9
59411.8
38655.9
102903.2
94000
79230.8
71384.6
69464.3
64285.7
24942.5
17643.7
16609.2
14326.9
12596.2
protein kda string sds-page gallus gallus

You cant.

Run a mass spectrometry experiment with digests from your gel for peptide sequencing.

Also, not a bioinformatics question.

I run that but i have list of 90+ expressed proteins, i don't know which proteins have what molecular weight. I got that data from SDS-PAGE.

Molecular weight is unlikely to unambiguously identify proteins. Don't you have the peptide sequences?

No i don't. I have only SDS-PAGE results. Someone told me that we can find it with the help of String or Skyline.

So, you haven't run a proteomics experiment then? If you did an in-gel digest, you could get the protein sequences and work out what they are.

Someone may know something I don't but it seems very unlikely you can identify a protein on molecular weight alone. I certainly wouldn't trust that data if someone showed it to me.

Sorry i forget about it, i have peptide sequences, now how can i find the protein molecular weight? Sepcie gallus gallus. Please reply i am very much desturb.

2 answers

search ncbi/protein using entrez field:

e.g. 92623 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/protein?term=92623%5BMolecular%20Weight%5D

Short answer: You can't without additional information.
In a typical gel, a band is a mixture of proteins. Also the size resolution of a gel is not enough to unambiguously ID proteins. To complicate things, post-translational modifications also affect how a protein moves in a gel. One way of identifying what is in a band is to cut it out of the gel and analyze it's content by mass-spectrometry. Another way is to test candidates by Western blotting.

I have peptide sequences, now how can i find the protein molecular weight? Sepcie gallus gallus. Please reply i am very much desturb.

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