About Us
Welcome to Biomedical Mass Spectrometry Center
The Biomedical Mass Spectrometry Center in the Schools of Health Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh is a campus-wide shared facility dedicated to advancing the use and application of mass spectrometry in basic and/or translational research at all levels, from first-time users to experts in the field. The center is supported by the University of Pittsburgh Schools of Health Science and the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute.
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Holiday Closure
The BioMS Center will not be
accepting any samples for
ProteinID from May 21st, 2018
through June 10th, 2018 due to
observance of Memorial Day,
and the annual ASMS
conference. Regular sample
drop off and Protein Id services
will begin again on Monday,
June 11th for results on
Monday, June 18th, 2018.
Seminars
Proteomics and
Metabolomics at Pitt
WIP Seminar Presents:
Urine for a Treat:Isolation of
Low Molecular Weight Proteins
from Human Urine
Andrea Detlefsen
Yates Lab
Department of Cell Biology
Wednesday, 05/02/2017
12pm - 1pm
BST S373 Conference Room
Events
October 18-20, 2017
University of Pittsburgh
May 17-18, 2017
University of Pittsburgh
October 19-21, 2016
University of Pittsburgh
May 19-20, 2016
University of Pittsburgh
October 7-9, 2015
University of Pittsburgh
April 2, 2015
Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh
June 15-19, 2014
Baltimore Convention Center
June 19-20, 2014
University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg
October 1-3, 2014
University of Pittsburgh
Recent Publications
A human APOC3 missense variant and monoclonal antibody accelerate apoC-III clearance and lower triglyceride-rich lipoprotein levels.
Khetarpal SA, Zeng X, Millar JS, Vitali C, Somasundara AVH, Zanoni P, Landro JA, Barucci N, Zavadoski WJ, Sun Z, de Haard H, Toth IV, Peloso GM, Natarajan P, Cuchel M, Lund-Katz S, Phillips MC, Tall AR, Kathiresan S, DaSilva-Jardine P, Yates NA, Rader DJ.
Nat Med. 2017 Aug 21. doi: 10.1038/nm.4390. Epub ahead of print
Nek7 Protects Telomeres from Oxidative DNA Damage by Phosphorylation and Stabilization of TRF1.
Tan R, Nakajima S, Wang Q, Sun H, Xue J, Wu J, Hellwig S, Zeng X, Yates NA, Smithgall TE, Lei M, Jiang Y, Levine AS, Su B, Lan L.
Mol Cell. 2017 Mar 2; 65(5):818-831.e5. doi 10.1016/j.molcel.2017.01.015. Epub 2017 Feb 16.
UBE3B is a calmodulin-regulated, mitochondria-associated E3 ubiquitin ligase.
Braganza A, Li J, Zeng X, Yates NA, Dey NB, Andrews J, Clark J, Zamani L, Wang X, St. Croix C, O'Sullivan R, Garcia-Exposito L, Brodsky JL, Sobol RW.
J Biol Chem. 2016 Dec 21. DOI:10.1074/jbc.M116.766824
Decellularized zebrafish cardiac extracellular matrix induces mammalian heart regeneration.
Chen WC, Wang Z, Missinato MA, Park DW, Long DW, Liu HJ, Zeng X, Yates NA, Kim K, Wang Y.
Sci. Adv. 2016;2: e1600844; Nov 18 2016.