QSTAR® Elite Hybrid LC/MS/MS System

21-09-2010

 

 

The AB SCIEX QSTAR® Elite Hybrid LC/MS/MS system gives you more peptide, protein and metabolite coverage in less time. This increase in coverage is the direct result of technology innovations in the system hardware, electronics and software working synergistically to provide unsurpassed LC/MS/MS performance and reliability. New Razor™ detector improves resolution, mass accuracy, robustness and ion transmission.

 

Product Description

  • New Razor™ detector improves resolution, mass accuracy, robustness and ion transmission.
  • New mirrors and shield plate increase airflow cross-section and transmission, and decrease pump-down time.
  • New LINAC® II collision cell eliminates cross talk and enables faster MS to MS/MS switching.
  • New turbo pump design runs cooler for greatly enhanced reliability and lifetime.
  • Multiple ion sources extend flexibility across a wide range of applications, including MALDI MS.
  • Optional IonCooler™ Guide allows collisional cooling of large, non-covalently bound protein complexes, significantly increasing the sensitivity for complexes of 0.5 MDa and above.

 

Optimized WorkflowsQSTAR® Elite system configurations are optimized for experimental workflows that deliver fast, high-quality answers without compromising other performance parameters. Combine the QSTAR® Elite System?high-speed data acquisition, and powerful database searching and processing software, with a Tempo™ LC system, and you have a total system solution that discovers up to 5 times more proteins and metabolites.

 

Higher Resolution and Mass Accuracy The QSTAR® Elite System achieves sub-3 ppm mass accuracy across a broad mass range with no low-mass cut-off. Better data improves the quality of search results so you can clearly differentiate closely related metabolites or peptides.

 

Higher Sensitivity The QSTAR® Elite System provides confident identification of low level proteins and metabolites in biological samples. The system's Razor™ detector coupled with high-speed, intelligent data collection and processing, and increased metabolite and protein coverage, enable you to identify potential markers that were previously indistinguishable from noise.

 

Improved Quantitation The system accurately detects and quantifies up- and down regulated proteins and small molecules in complex biological matrices with a linear dynamic range of up to four orders of magnitude (in full scan mode without signal reduction).