how much of what we believe about gradient actually comes from purity threads
Genuine question, and the title is the question: how much of what we believe about gradient actually comes from purity threads. UV response is not uniform across species. At 214nm you are looking at the peptide bond, which is why it is the working wavelength for this class; at 280nm you only see tryptophan, tyrosine…
Mass spectrometry answers identity. UV purity answers relative quantity under the run conditions. A document with one and not the other is answering half the question, and the half it answers should be stated.
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What wavelength, and what was the gradient?
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Push back: a longer run is not automatically better resolution. You are trading peak width for time and the ratio is what matters.
Correction: that is a tailing factor, not a plate count. Different diagnostics for different problems.