Yukiko Yasuoka, Takashi Fukuyama, Yuichiro Izumi, Tetsuro Yamashita, Yushi Nakayama, Hideki Inoue, Kengo Yanagita, Tomomi Oshima, Taiga Yamazaki, Takayuki Uematsu, Noritada Kobayashi, Yoshitaka Shimada, Yasushi Nagaba, Masashi Mukoyama, Yuichi Sato, Jeff M Sands, Katsumasa Kawahara, Hiroshi Nonoguchi
Doping tests for the illegal use of erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs) have been developed. We developed a new Western blotting method to detect and distinguish endogenous erythropoietin (Epo, 35-38 kDa) and exogenous ESAs (epoetin α and β, 38-42 kDa; darbepoetin α, 47-50 kDa; epoetin β pegol, 93-110 kDa). Epo and ESAs are glycoproteins and deglycosylation using peptide-N-glycosidase F shifted all Epo and ESA bands except epoetin β pegol to 22 kDa. We cut the bands of Epo and ESAs from SDS-PAGE gels and analyzed them by Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (LC/MS)...
November 2020: Heliyon