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Due to the long-term stability of collagen, as well as its abundance in bone, it has been proposed as a source of biomarkers for species identification not only for heat- and pressure-rendered animal feed but also in ancient archaeological and palaeontological specimens, typically carried out by peptide mass fingerprinting (PMF) as well as in-depth liquid chromatography (LC)-based tandem mass spectrometric methods. Through the analysis of the three most common domesticates species, cow, sheep, and pig, this research investigates the advantages of each approach over the other, investigating sites of sequence variation with known functional properties of the collagen molecule. Results indicate that the previously identified species biomarkers through PMF analysis are not among the most variable type 1 collagen peptides present in these tissues, the latter of which can be detected by LC-based methods. However, it is clear that the highly repetitive sequence motif of collagen throughout the molecule, combined with the variability of the sites and relative abundance levels of hydroxylation, can result in high scoring false positive peptide matches using these LC-based methods. Additionally, the greater alpha 2(I) chain sequence variation, in comparison to the alpha 1(I) chain, did not appear to be specific to any particular functional properties, implying that intra-chain functional constraints on sequence variation are not as great as inter-chain constraints. However, although some of the most variable peptides were only observed in LC-based methods, until the range of publicly available collagen sequences improves, the simplicity of the PMF approach and suitable range of peptide sequence variation observed makes it the ideal method for initial taxonomic identification prior to further analysis by LC-based methods only when required.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijms17040445","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,3,24]],"date-time":"2016-03-24T11:55:16Z","timestamp":1458820516000},"page":"445","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":71,"title":["Species Identification of Bovine, Ovine and Porcine Type 1 Collagen; Comparing Peptide Mass Fingerprinting and LC-Based Proteomics Methods"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Mike","family":"Buckley","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, the University of Manchester, Manchester, M1 7DN, UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,3,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"93","DOI":"10.1177\/096368979600500114","article-title":"Venous reconstruction using hybrid vascular tissue composed of vascular cells and collagen: Tissue regeneration process","volume":"5","author":"Hirai","year":"1996","journal-title":"Cell Transplant."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"7564","DOI":"10.1016\/j.biomaterials.2005.05.050","article-title":"A three-layered nano-carbonated hydroxyapatite\/collagen\/PLGA composite membrane for guided tissue regeneration","volume":"26","author":"Liao","year":"2005","journal-title":"Biomaterials"},{"key":"ref_3","first-page":"382","article-title":"Preparation of hide collagen for food","volume":"65","author":"Whitmore","year":"1970","journal-title":"J. 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