Top-Down Proteomics in the Assessment of Kidney Donor Quality: a proof-of-concept for increased organ utilization.
A persistent barrier to optimizing the utilization of deceased donor kidneys, nearly 30% of which are discarded, is the absence of objective, molecularly resolved metrics of organ quality. To address this gap, we integrated high-resolution proteoform imaging mass spectrometry (PiMS) of donor kidney biopsies with deep L...