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The main purpose of this study was to explore the mechanism of increasing FPA in serum and its relationship with lymph node metastasis in gastric cancer using proteomic technology such as MS. CD13/Aminopeptidase N (APN) has been reported in the majority (80%) of gastric cancer cases with lymph node metastasis and is not expressed by normal stomach epithelium (Carl-McGrath et al., 2004). The activity of CD13/APN is specific for the cleavage of N-terminal amino acids (Xu et al., 1995, 1997). We hypothesized that when gastric cancer cells metastasize to lymph nodes and express CD13/APN, CD13/APN http://www.selleckchem.com/products/SRT1720.html will act as an enzyme to the substrate FPA in the lymph node. FPA (ADSGEGDFLAEGGGVR) can be cleaved with the N-terminal alanine by CD13/APN when gastric cancer cells, highly expressing CD13/APN are in the lymph node. In turn, the levels of the degAla-FPA (DSGEGDFLAEGGGVR, 1,465.63 Da) product, often termed GN15, increased in the lymph nodes and blood, that is, the 1,465.63 Da peptide increased in the serum. However, the peak at 1,465.63 (m/z) in GC and NC samples was not observed (Fig. 1). Therefore, MS could achieve semi-quantitative results through control peaks such as 4,091.1 and 6,634.0. Another quantitative method for http://www.selleckchem.com/products/Adrucil(Fluorouracil).html using MS is to add synthetic peptide to serum. We have shown in a previous report that early severe acute respiratory syndrome could be detected and diagnosed using the intensity of the peak at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MERTK 6,634.0 (m/z) in patient serum as quantitative controls (Kang et al., 2005). However, it is difficult to distinguish FPA from degAla-FPA using the traditional antibody-based assay. MS combined with magnetic beads is more sensitive than a ProteinChip array because spherical magnetic particles have a larger combined surface area and higher binding capacity than the small-diameter ProteinChip spot (Villanueva et al., 2004, 2006a, 2006b). We have evaluated the reproducibility of magnetic beads for the total number of peaks, and the ion intensities were similar (the coefficient of variation