“…Antigen-antibody complexes in the 150-400 kDa range were chemically cross-linked and directly detected by MALDI mass spectrometry (Nazabal, Wenzel, & Zenobi, 2006). Affinity chromatography can provide biomarkers, therapeutic targets or therapeutic agents in a pure enough state that its tryptic fragments can be characterized and quantified (Chou et al, 2005;Christoffersen et al, 2006;Wang et al, 2006Wang et al, , 2008bZhao et al, 2006;Kiernan et al, 2006a;Kiernan, Nedelkov, & Nelson, 2006b;Cole et al, 2007;Csanky et al, 2007;Gatlin-Bunai et al, 2007;Heo et al, 2007;Keshishian et al, 2007;Saito & Munakata, 2007;Whiteaker et al, 2007c;Berna et al, 2008;Borges et al, 2008;Dubois et al, 2008;Calvano, Zambonin, & Jensen, 2008;Cederfur et al, 2008;Kulasingam et al, 2008). Natriuretic peptides and the receptor isoforms (Rubattu et al, 2006(Rubattu et al, , 2007 were isolated by classic purifications (Baines, DeBold, & Sonnenberg, 1983) and the pro-B-type natriuretic peptides can be captured by antibodies and detected with mass spectrometry (Hammerer-Lercher et al, 2008).…”