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Chaturvedi S, Bawake S, Sharma N. Recent advancements in disulfide bridge characterization: Insights from mass spectrometry. RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY : RCM 2024; 38:e9713. [PMID: 38361473 DOI: 10.1002/rcm.9713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2023] [Revised: 01/13/2024] [Accepted: 01/14/2024] [Indexed: 02/17/2024]
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RATIONALE Disulfide bridges (DSB) play an important role in stabilizing three-dimensional structures of biopharmaceuticals, single purified proteins, and various cyclic peptide drugs that contain disulfide in their structures. Incorrect cross-linking known as DSB scrambling results in misfolded structures that can be inactive, immunogenic, and susceptible to aggregation. Very few articles have been published on the experimental annotation of DSBs in proteins and cyclic peptide drugs. Accurate characterization of the disulfide bond is essential for understanding protein confirmation. METHODS Characterizing DSBs using mass spectrometry (MS) involves the chemical and enzymatic digestion of samples to obtain smaller peptide fragments, in both reduced and nonreduced forms. Subsequently, these samples are analyzed using MS to locate the DSB, either through interpretation or by employing various software tools. RESULTS The main challenge in DSB analysis methods using sample preparation is to obtain a sample solution in which nonnative DSBs are not formed due to high pH, temperature, and presence of free sulfhydryl groups. Formation of nonnative DSBs can lead to erroneous annotation of disulfide bond. Sample preparation techniques, fragmentation methods for DSB analysis, and contemporary approaches for DSB mapping using this fragmentation were discussed. CONCLUSIONS This review presents the latest advancement in MS-based characterization; also a critical perspective is presented for further annotation of DSBs using MS, primarily for single purified proteins or peptides that are densely connected and rich in cysteine. Despite significant breakthroughs resulting from advancements in MS, the analysis of disulfide bonds is not straightforward; it necessitates expertise in sample preparation and interpretation.
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- Sachin Chaturvedi
- Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research-Ahmedabad (Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Government of India), NIPER Ahmedabad Opposite Air force Station Palaj, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research-Ahmedabad (Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Government of India), NIPER Ahmedabad Opposite Air force Station Palaj, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research-Ahmedabad (Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Government of India), NIPER Ahmedabad Opposite Air force Station Palaj, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
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Wei B, Zenaidee MA, Lantz C, Williams BJ, Totten S, Ogorzalek Loo RR, Loo JA. Top-down mass spectrometry and assigning internal fragments for determining disulfide bond positions in proteins. Analyst 2022; 148:26-37. [PMID: 36399030 PMCID: PMC9772244 DOI: 10.1039/d2an01517j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Disulfide bonds in proteins have a substantial impact on protein structure, stability, and biological activity. Localizing disulfide bonds is critical for understanding protein folding and higher-order structure. Conventional top-down mass spectrometry (TD-MS), where only terminal fragments are assigned for disulfide-intact proteins, can access disulfide information, but suffers from low fragmentation efficiency, thereby limiting sequence coverage. Here, we show that assigning internal fragments generated from TD-MS enhances the sequence coverage of disulfide-intact proteins by 20-60% by returning information from the interior of the protein sequence, which cannot be obtained by terminal fragments alone. The inclusion of internal fragments can extend the sequence information of disulfide-intact proteins to near complete sequence coverage. Importantly, the enhanced sequence information that arise from the assignment of internal fragments can be used to determine the relative position of disulfide bonds and the exact disulfide connectivity between cysteines. The data presented here demonstrates the benefits of incorporating internal fragment analysis into the TD-MS workflow for analyzing disulfide-intact proteins, which would be valuable for characterizing biotherapeutic proteins such as monoclonal antibodies and antibody-drug conjugates.
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- Benqian Wei
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
- Australian Proteome Analysis Facility, Macquarie University, Macquarie Park, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Macias LA, Brodbelt JS. Investigation of Product Ions Generated by 193 nm Ultraviolet Photodissociation of Peptides and Proteins Containing Disulfide Bonds. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2022; 33:1315-1324. [PMID: 35736955 DOI: 10.1021/jasms.2c00124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Disulfide bridges are unique post-translational modifications (PTM) that contribute to protein architecture and modulate function. This PTM, however, challenges top-down mass spectrometry by cyclizing stretches of the protein sequence. In order to produce and release detectable product ions that contribute to the assignment of proteoforms, regions of a protein encapsulated by disulfide bonds require two fragmentation events: cleavage of the protein backbone and cleavage of the disulfide bond. Traditional collisional activation methods do not cleave disulfide bonds efficiently, often leading to low sequence coverage of proteins that incorporate this feature. To address this challenge, we have evaluated the fragmentation pathways enabled by 193 nm ultraviolet photodissociation (UVPD) and UVPD coupled to electron transfer dissociation for the characterization of protein structures incorporating disulfide bonds. Cleavage of disulfide bonds by either approach results in S-S and C-S dissociation products that result from a combination of homolytic cleavage and hydrogen-transfer processes. Characterization of these product ions elevates interpretation of complex top-down spectra of proteins that incorporate disulfide bonds.
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- Luis A Macias
- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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Chin S, Chen T, Hannoush RN, Crittenden CM. Tracking internal and external ions for constrained peptides leads to enhanced sequence coverage and disulfide bond deciphering. J Pharm Biomed Anal 2021; 195:113893. [PMID: 33445001 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpba.2021.113893] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2020] [Revised: 12/30/2020] [Accepted: 01/02/2021] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Top-down characterization of disulfide-rich peptides and proteins presents many challenges due to the constrained and protected amino acid backbone. Typically, chemical reduction is required to reduce the disulfide bonds and/or enzymatic digestion (bottom-up analysis) is utilized to selectively cleave the amino acid sequence prior to mass spectrometry analysis owing to the challenges associated with intact, top-down analysis of these biomolecules. While extravagant top-down characterization techniques such as ultraviolet photodissociation (UVPD) or electron capture dissociation (ECD), have demonstrated the ability to break disulfide bonds in top-down workflows, implementation of these technologies and analysis of the resulting fragmentation spectra is not trivial and often inaccessible to many laboratories and users. In the study presented herein, traditional collision induced dissociation (CID) of disulfide-rich peptides is performed to confirm the disulfide bond connectivity and localize chemical modifications for these synthetic therapeutic peptides. While collisional activation does not fragment the peptide backbone linearly (typical N- and C-terminal fragment ions) within the disulfide-bonded regions, internal and external ions are consistently produced throughout the sequence via secondary fragmentation pathways. In this study, seven disulfide-rich peptides (Peptides A - G) with similar disulfide connectivity but varying amino acid composition were subjected to collisional activation for sequencing and disulfide bond confirmation. While only four linear b- and y-type fragment ions are produced for these peptides, fragmentation throughout the amino acid sequence is observed when searching for internal and external fragment ions. These ions are typically not considered during traditional top-down sequencing experiments due to the computational challenge of having an increased search space for fragment ion identification. Through the identification of reproducible internal and external fragment ions, site-specific modifications can also be localized, such as oxidation on the 18th residue in Peptide A. Ultimately, this observation and identification of internal and external ions simplifies the experimental process and wet-chemistry required to accurately depict the disulfide connectivity and the sequencing of these traditionally challenging biomolecules. Further consideration to these non-traditional fragment ions should be given during top-down intact peptide and protein analysis, especially when non-linear sequences are involved.
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- Steven Chin
- Small Molecule Analytical Chemistry, Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, CA, 94080, United States
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- Small Molecule Analytical Chemistry, Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, CA, 94080, United States
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- Department of Early Discovery Biochemistry, Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, CA, 94080, United States
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- Small Molecule Analytical Chemistry, Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, CA, 94080, United States.
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Zhao X, Shen Y, Tong W, Wang G, Chen DDY. Deducing disulfide patterns of cysteine-rich proteins using signature fragments produced by top-down mass spectrometry. Analyst 2019; 143:817-823. [PMID: 29362732 DOI: 10.1039/c7an01625e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Direct mapping of protein disulfide patterns using top-down mass spectrometry (MS) is often hampered by inadequate fragmentation at the disulfide-enclosing region, and insufficient structural information provided by the fragments. Here we used electron-transfer/high energy collision dissociation (EThcD) to improve the fragmentation efficiency, and developed strategies that minimize the false positive identification of fragments and deconvolute the signals representing specific modifications made to the disulfide-cleavage-induced fragments. We observed clear correlations between unique modification (attachment or removal of H or SH) patterns and the number of disulfide bonds that enclose the corresponding region. Using the characteristic signature fragments, we in part localized the Cys-bridging sites in disulfide-scrambled lysozymes, and reduced the number of putative disulfide patterns from 104 to 6. The results demonstrated the feasibility of direct analysis of complex disulfide patterns using top-down MS.
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- Xiuxiu Zhao
- Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomedical Functional Materials, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Biomedical Materials, and School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China.
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Comprehensive identification of protein disulfide bonds with pepsin/trypsin digestion, Orbitrap HCD and Spectrum Identification Machine. J Proteomics 2018; 198:78-86. [PMID: 30557666 DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2018.12.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2018] [Revised: 12/04/2018] [Accepted: 12/12/2018] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Disulfide bonds (SS) are post-translational modifications important for the proper folding and stabilization of many cellular proteins with therapeutic uses, including antibodies and other biologics. With budding advances of biologics and biosimilars, there is a mounting need for a robust method for accurate identification of SS. Even though several mass spectrometry methods have emerged for this task, their practical use rests on the broad effectiveness of both sample preparation methods and bioinformatics tools. Here we present a new protocol tailored toward mapping SS; it uses readily available reagents, instruments, and software. For sample preparation, a 4-h pepsin digestion at pH 1.3 followed by an overnight trypsin digestion at pH 6.5 can maximize the release of SS-containing peptides from non-reduced proteins, while minimizing SS scrambling. For LC/MS/MS analysis, SS-containing peptides can be efficiently fragmented with HCD in a Q Exactive Orbitrap mass spectrometer, preserving SS for subsequent identification. Our bioinformatics protocol describes how we tailored our freely downloadable and easy-to-use software, Spectrum Identification Machine for Cross-Linked Peptides (SIM-XL), to minimize false identification and facilitate manual validation of SS-peptide mass spectra. To substantiate this optimized method, we've comprehensively identified 14 out of 17 known SS in BSA. SIGNIFICANCE: Comprehensive and accurate identification of SS in proteins is critical for elucidating protein structures and functions. Yet, it is far from routine to accomplish this task in many analytical or core laboratories. Numerous published methods require complex sample preparation methods, specialized mass spectrometers and cumbersome or proprietary software tools, thus cannot be easily implemented in unspecialized laboratories. Here, we describe a robust and rapid SS mapping approach that utilizes readily available reagents, instruments, and software; it can be easily implemented in any analytical core laboratories, and tested for its impact on the research community.
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Adhikari S, Yang X, Xia Y. Acetone/Isopropanol Photoinitiating System Enables Tunable Disulfide Reduction and Disulfide Mapping via Tandem Mass Spectrometry. Anal Chem 2018; 90:13036-13043. [PMID: 30350608 PMCID: PMC6310128 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.8b04019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Herein, we report the development of a new photochemical system which enables rapid and tunable disulfide bond reduction and its application in disulfide mapping via online coupling with mass spectrometry (MS). Acetone, a clean and electrospray ionization (ESI) compatible solvent, is used as the photoinitiator (1% volume) in the solvent system consisting of 1:1 alkyl alcohol and water. Under ultraviolet (UV) irradiation (∼254 nm), the acetone/alcohol system produces hydroxyalkyl radicals, which are responsible for disulfide bond cleavage in peptides. Acetone/isopropanol is most suitable for optimizing the disulfide reduction products, leading to almost complete conversion in less than 5 s when the reaction is conducted in a flow microreactor. The flow microreactor device not only facilitates direct coupling with ESI-MS but also allows fine-tuning of the extent of disulfide reduction by varying the UV exposure time. Near full sequence coverage for peptides consisting of intra- or interchain disulfide bonds has been achieved from complete disulfide reduction and online tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) via low energy collision-induced dissociation. Coupling different degrees of partial disulfide reduction with ESI-MS/MS allows disulfide mapping as demonstrated for characterizing the three disulfide bonds in insulin.
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- Sarju Adhikari
- Department of Chemistry, MOE Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorus Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, MOE Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorus Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Department of Chemistry, MOE Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorus Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906, United States
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Quick MM, Crittenden CM, Rosenberg JA, Brodbelt JS. Characterization of Disulfide Linkages in Proteins by 193 nm Ultraviolet Photodissociation (UVPD) Mass Spectrometry. Anal Chem 2018; 90:8523-8530. [PMID: 29902373 PMCID: PMC6050148 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.8b01556] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Deciphering disulfide bond patterns in proteins remains a significant challenge. In the present study, interlinked disulfide bonds connecting peptide chains are homolytically cleaved with 193 nm ultraviolet photodissociation (UVPD). Analysis of insulin showcased the ability of UVPD to cleave multiple disulfide bonds and provide sequence coverage of the peptide chains in the same MS/MS event. For proteins containing more complex disulfide bonding patterns, an approach combining partial reduction and alkylation mitigated disulfide scrambling and allowed assignment of the array of disulfide bonds. The 4 disulfide bonds of lysozyme and the 19 disulfide bonds of serotransferrin were characterized through LC/UVPD-MS analysis of nonreduced and partially reduced protein digests.
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Cramer CN, Kelstrup CD, Olsen JV, Haselmann KF, Nielsen PK. Complete Mapping of Complex Disulfide Patterns with Closely-Spaced Cysteines by In-Source Reduction and Data-Dependent Mass Spectrometry. Anal Chem 2017; 89:5949-5957. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.7b00424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Christian N. Cramer
- Protein
Engineering, Global Research, Novo Nordisk A/S, Novo Nordisk Park, 2760 Måløv, Denmark
- Proteomics
Program, The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research,
Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Proteomics
Program, The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research,
Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Proteomics
Program, The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research,
Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Protein
Engineering, Global Research, Novo Nordisk A/S, Novo Nordisk Park, 2760 Måløv, Denmark
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- Protein
Engineering, Global Research, Novo Nordisk A/S, Novo Nordisk Park, 2760 Måløv, Denmark
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Wen D, Xiao Y, Vecchi MM, Gong BJ, Dolnikova J, Pepinsky RB. Determination of the Disulfide Structure of Murine Meteorin, a Neurotrophic Factor, by LC–MS and Electron Transfer Dissociation-High-Energy Collisional Dissociation Analysis of Proteolytic Fragments. Anal Chem 2017; 89:4021-4030. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.6b04600] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Dingyi Wen
- Department of Protein Drug
Discovery, Biogen Inc., 225 Binney Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, United States
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- Department of Protein Drug
Discovery, Biogen Inc., 225 Binney Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, United States
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- Department of Protein Drug
Discovery, Biogen Inc., 225 Binney Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, United States
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- Department of Protein Drug
Discovery, Biogen Inc., 225 Binney Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, United States
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- Department of Protein Drug
Discovery, Biogen Inc., 225 Binney Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, United States
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- Department of Protein Drug
Discovery, Biogen Inc., 225 Binney Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, United States
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Cramer CN, Haselmann KF, Olsen JV, Nielsen PK. Disulfide Linkage Characterization of Disulfide Bond-Containing Proteins and Peptides by Reducing Electrochemistry and Mass Spectrometry. Anal Chem 2016; 88:1585-92. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5b03148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Christian N. Cramer
- Protein
Engineering, Novo Nordisk A/S, Novo Nordisk Park, 2760 Måløv, Denmark
- Department
of Proteomics, The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research,
Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Protein
Engineering, Novo Nordisk A/S, Novo Nordisk Park, 2760 Måløv, Denmark
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- Department
of Proteomics, The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research,
Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
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Wongkongkathep P, Li H, Zhang X, Loo RRO, Julian RR, Loo JA. Enhancing Protein Disulfide Bond Cleavage by UV Excitation and Electron Capture Dissociation for Top-Down Mass Spectrometry. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY 2015; 390:137-145. [PMID: 26644781 PMCID: PMC4669582 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijms.2015.07.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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The application of ion pre-activation with 266 nm ultraviolet (UV) laser irradiation combined with electron capture dissociation (ECD) is demonstrated to enhance top-down mass spectrometry sequence coverage of disulfide bond containing proteins. UV-based activation can homolytically cleave a disulfide bond to yield two separated thiol radicals. Activated ECD experiments of insulin and ribonuclease A containing three and four disulfide bonds, respectively, were performed. UV-activation in combination with ECD allowed the three disulfide bonds of insulin to be cleaved and the overall sequence coverage to be increased. For the larger sized ribonuclease A with four disulfide bonds, irradiation from an infrared laser (10.6 µm) to disrupt non-covalent interactions was combined with UV-activation to facilitate the cleavage of up to three disulfide bonds. Preferences for disulfide bond cleavage are dependent on protein structure and sequence. Disulfide bonds can reform if the generated radicals remain in close proximity. By varying the time delay between the UV-activation and the ECD events, it was determined that disulfide bonds reform within 10-100 msec after their UV-homolytic cleavage.
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- Piriya Wongkongkathep
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 90095
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 90095
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California-Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 90095
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California-Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 90095
- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 90095
- UCLA/DOE Institute of Genomics and Proteomics, University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 90095
- Corresponding author at: University of California-Los Angeles, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 402 Boyer Hall, Molecular Biology Institute, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Tel.: +1 310 794 7023; fax: +1 310 206 4038, (J.A. Loo)
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Wiesner J, Resemann A, Evans C, Suckau D, Jabs W. Advanced mass spectrometry workflows for analyzing disulfide bonds in biologics. Expert Rev Proteomics 2015; 12:115-23. [DOI: 10.1586/14789450.2015.1018896] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Zhang J, Ogorzalek Loo RR, Loo JA. Increasing Fragmentation of Disulfide-Bonded Proteins for Top-Down Mass Spectrometry by Supercharging. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY 2015; 377:546-556. [PMID: 26028988 PMCID: PMC4448141 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijms.2014.07.047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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The disulfide bond is an important post-translational modification to form and maintain the native structure and biological functions of proteins. Characterization of disulfide bond linkages is therefore of essential interest in the structural elucidation of proteins. Top-down mass spectrometry (MS) of disulfide-bonded proteins has been hindered by relatively low sequence coverage due to disulfide cross-linking. In this study, we employed top-down ESI-MS with Fourier-transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) MS with electron capture dissociation (ECD) and collisionally activated dissociation (CAD) to study the fragmentation of supercharged proteins with multiple intramolecular disulfide bonds. With charge enhancement upon the addition of sulfolane to the analyte solution, improved protein fragmentation and disulfide bond cleavage efficiency was observed for proteins including bovine β-lactoglobulin, soybean trypsin inhibitor, human proinsulin, and chicken lysozyme. Both the number and relative abundances of product ions representing disulfide cleavage increase with increasing charge states for the proteins studied. Our studies suggest supercharging ESI-MS is a promising tool to aid in the top-down MS analysis of disulfide-bonded proteins, providing potentially useful information for the determination of disulfide bond linkages.
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- Jiang Zhang
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States
- UCLA/DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States
- Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States
- UCLA/DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States
- Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 310 794 7023; fax: +1 310 206 4038. (J.A. Loo)
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Kukk K, Kasvandik S, Samel N. N-glycosylation site occupancy in human prostaglandin H synthases expressed in Pichia pastoris. SPRINGERPLUS 2014; 3:436. [PMID: 25170432 PMCID: PMC4147080 DOI: 10.1186/2193-1801-3-436] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2014] [Accepted: 08/12/2014] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Prostaglandin H synthases (PGHSs) are N-glycosylated membrane proteins that catalyse the committed step in prostaglandin synthesis. Unlike PGHS-2, the production of recombinant PGHS-1 in non-mammalian expression systems is complicated. The majority of the heterologous enzyme is inactive due to misfolding. Correct N-glycosylation is proposed to be obligatory for proper folding of mammalian PGHSs. In this study, human PGHS-1 and -2 (hPGHS-1 and -2) were expressed in the yeast Pichia pastoris. Recombinant hPGHS-2 was catalytically active, whereas hPGHS-1 was inactive. Accumulation of non-glycosylated hPGHSs was not observed in the crude lysate of the yeast cells. The N-glycosylation patterns of the purified recombinant proteins were characterised using nano-LC/MS/MS. The isoforms exhibited similar N-glycosylation site occupancy. The results indicate that there are more complex grounds for the inactivity of the recombinant hPGHS-1 produced in yeast.
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- Kaia Kukk
- Department of Chemistry, Tallinn University of Technology, Akadeemia tee 15, 12618 Tallinn, Estonia
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- Proteomics Core Facility, Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, Nooruse 1, 50411 Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Chemistry, Tallinn University of Technology, Akadeemia tee 15, 12618 Tallinn, Estonia
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Anand P, Grigoryan A, Bhuiyan MH, Ueberheide B, Russell V, Quinoñez J, Moy P, Chait BT, Poget SF, Holford M. Sample limited characterization of a novel disulfide-rich venom peptide toxin from terebrid marine snail Terebra variegata. PLoS One 2014; 9:e94122. [PMID: 24713808 PMCID: PMC3979744 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2014] [Accepted: 03/13/2014] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Disulfide-rich peptide toxins found in the secretions of venomous organisms such as snakes, spiders, scorpions, leeches, and marine snails are highly efficient and effective tools for novel therapeutic drug development. Venom peptide toxins have been used extensively to characterize ion channels in the nervous system and platelet aggregation in haemostatic systems. A significant hurdle in characterizing disulfide-rich peptide toxins from venomous animals is obtaining significant quantities needed for sequence and structural analyses. Presented here is a strategy for the structural characterization of venom peptide toxins from sample limited (4 ng) specimens via direct mass spectrometry sequencing, chemical synthesis and NMR structure elucidation. Using this integrated approach, venom peptide Tv1 from Terebra variegata was discovered. Tv1 displays a unique fold not witnessed in prior snail neuropeptides. The novel structural features found for Tv1 suggest that the terebrid pool of peptide toxins may target different neuronal agents with varying specificities compared to previously characterized snail neuropeptides.
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- Prachi Anand
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, City University of New York- Hunter College and Graduate Center, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, City University of New York- Hunter College and Graduate Center, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Staten Island and Graduate Center, City University of New York, Staten Island, New York, United States of America
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- NYU Langone Medical Center, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, City University of New York- Hunter College and Graduate Center, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, City University of New York- Hunter College and Graduate Center, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, City University of New York- Hunter College and Graduate Center, New York, New York, United States of America
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- The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Staten Island and Graduate Center, City University of New York, Staten Island, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, City University of New York- Hunter College and Graduate Center, New York, New York, United States of America
- The American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America
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Góngora-Benítez M, Tulla-Puche J, Albericio F. Multifaceted Roles of Disulfide Bonds. Peptides as Therapeutics. Chem Rev 2013; 114:901-26. [DOI: 10.1021/cr400031z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 388] [Impact Index Per Article: 35.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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- Miriam Góngora-Benítez
- Institute
for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), Barcelona, 08028 Spain
- CIBER-BBN, Barcelona Science
Park, Barcelona, 08028 Spain
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- Institute
for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), Barcelona, 08028 Spain
- CIBER-BBN, Barcelona Science
Park, Barcelona, 08028 Spain
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- Institute
for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), Barcelona, 08028 Spain
- CIBER-BBN, Barcelona Science
Park, Barcelona, 08028 Spain
- Department
of Organic Chemistry, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, 08028 Spain
- School of Chemistry & Physics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, 4001 Durban, South Africa
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Novel inhibitor cystine knot peptides from Momordica charantia. PLoS One 2013; 8:e75334. [PMID: 24116036 PMCID: PMC3792974 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0075334] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2013] [Accepted: 08/13/2013] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Two new peptides, MCh-1 and MCh-2, along with three known trypsin inhibitors (MCTI-I, MCTI-II and MCTI-III), were isolated from the seeds of the tropical vine Momordica charantia. The sequences of the peptides were determined using mass spectrometry and NMR spectroscopy. Using a strategy involving partial reduction and stepwise alkylation of the peptides, followed by enzymatic digestion and tandem mass spectrometry sequencing, the disulfide connectivity of MCh-1 was elucidated to be CysI-CysIV, CysII-CysV and CysIII-CysVI. The three-dimensional structures of MCh-1 and MCh-2 were determined using NMR spectroscopy and found to contain the inhibitor cystine knot (ICK) motif. The sequences of the novel peptides differ significantly from peptides previously isolated from this plant. Therefore, this study expands the known peptide diversity in M. charantia and the range of sequences that can be accommodated by the ICK motif. Furthermore, we show that a stable two-disulfide intermediate is involved in the oxidative folding of MCh-1. This disulfide intermediate is structurally homologous to the proposed ancestral fold of ICK peptides, and provides a possible pathway for the evolution of this structural motif, which is highly prevalent in nature.
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TWEAK-independent Fn14 self-association and NF-κB activation is mediated by the C-terminal region of the Fn14 cytoplasmic domain. PLoS One 2013; 8:e65248. [PMID: 23750247 PMCID: PMC3672086 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065248] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2013] [Accepted: 04/26/2013] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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The tumor necrosis factor (TNF) superfamily member TNF-like weak inducer of apoptosis (TWEAK) is a pro-inflammatory and pro-angiogenic cytokine implicated in physiological tissue regeneration and wound repair. TWEAK binds to a 102-amino acid type I transmembrane cell surface receptor named fibroblast growth factor-inducible 14 (Fn14). TWEAK:Fn14 engagement activates several intracellular signaling cascades, including the NF-κB pathway, and sustained Fn14 signaling has been implicated in the pathogenesis of chronic inflammatory diseases and cancer. Although several groups are developing TWEAK- or Fn14-targeted agents for therapeutic use, much more basic science research is required before we fully understand the TWEAK/Fn14 signaling axis. For example, we and others have proposed that TWEAK-independent Fn14 signaling may occur in cells when Fn14 levels are highly elevated, but this idea has never been tested directly. In this report, we first demonstrate TWEAK-independent Fn14 signaling by showing that an Fn14 deletion mutant that is unable to bind TWEAK can activate the NF-κB pathway in transfected cells. We then show that ectopically-expressed, cell surface-localized Fn14 can self-associate into Fn14 dimers, and we show that Fn14 self-association is mediated by an 18-aa region within the Fn14 cytoplasmic domain. Endogenously-expressed Fn14 as well as ectopically-overexpressed Fn14 could also be detected in dimeric form when cell lysates were subjected to SDS-PAGE under non-reducing conditions. Additional experiments revealed that Fn14 dimerization occurs during cell lysis via formation of an intermolecular disulfide bond at cysteine residue 122. These findings provide insight into the Fn14 signaling mechanism and may aid current studies to develop therapeutic agents targeting this small cell surface receptor.
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Pellegrini M, Willen L, Perroud M, Krushinskie D, Strauch K, Cuervo H, Day ES, Schneider P, Zheng TS. Structure of the extracellular domains of human and Xenopus Fn14: implications in the evolution of TWEAK and Fn14 interactions. FEBS J 2013; 280:1818-29. [PMID: 23438059 DOI: 10.1111/febs.12206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2012] [Revised: 02/18/2013] [Accepted: 02/20/2013] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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UNLABELLED TWEAK (TNF homologue with weak apoptosis-inducing activity) and Fn14 (fibroblast growth factor-inducible protein 14) are members of the tumor necrosis factor (TNF) ligand and receptor super-families. Having observed that Xenopus Fn14 cross-reacts with human TWEAK, despite its relatively low sequence homology to human Fn14, we examined the conservation in tertiary fold and binding interfaces between the two species. Our results, combining NMR solution structure determination, binding assays, extensive site-directed mutagenesis and molecular modeling, reveal that, in addition to the known and previously characterized β-hairpin motif, the helix-loop-helix motif makes an essential contribution to the receptor/ligand binding interface. We further discuss the insight provided by the structural analyses regarding how the cysteine-rich domains of the TNF receptor super-family may have evolved over time. DATABASE Structural data are available in the Protein Data Bank/BioMagResBank databases under the accession codes 2KMZ, 2KN0 and 2KN1 and 17237, 17247 and 17252. STRUCTURED DIGITAL ABSTRACT TWEAK binds to hFn14 by surface plasmon resonance (View interaction) xeFn14 binds to TWEAK by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (View interaction) TWEAK binds to xeFn14 by surface plasmon resonance (View interaction) hFn14 binds to TWEAK by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (View interaction).
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Chan LY, He W, Tan N, Zeng G, Craik DJ, Daly NL. A new family of cystine knot peptides from the seeds of Momordica cochinchinensis. Peptides 2013; 39:29-35. [PMID: 23127518 DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2012.09.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2012] [Revised: 09/14/2012] [Accepted: 09/14/2012] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Momordica cochinchinensis, a Cucurbitaceae plant commonly found in Southeast Asia, has the unusual property of containing both acyclic and backbone-cyclized trypsin inhibitors with inhibitor cystine knot (ICK) motifs. In the current study we have shown that M. cochinchinensis also contains another family of acyclic ICK peptides. We recently reported two novel peptides from M. cochinchinensis but have now discovered four additional peptides (MCo-3-MCo-6) with related sequences. Together these peptides form a novel family of M. cochinchinensis ICK peptides (MCo-ICK) that do not have sequence homology with other known peptides and are not potent trypsin inhibitors. Otherwise these new peptides MCo-3 to MCo-6 were evaluated for antimalarial activity against Plasmodium falciparum, and cytotoxic activity against the cancer cell line MDA-MB-231. But these peptides were not active.
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- Lai Yue Chan
- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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We examine the relationship between binding affinity and interface size for reversible protein-protein interactions (PPIs), using cytokines from the tumor necrosis factor (TNF) superfamily and their receptors as a test case. Using surface plasmon resonance, we measured single-site binding affinities for binding of the large receptor TNFR1 to its ligands TNFα (K(D) = 1.4 ± 0.4 nM) and lymphotoxin-α (K(D) = 50 ± 10 nM), and also for binding of the small receptor Fn14 to TWEAK (K(D) = 70 ± 10 nM). We additionally assembled data for all other TNF-TNFR family complexes for which reliable single-site binding affinities have been reported. We used these values to calculate the binding efficiencies, defined as binding energy per square angstrom of surface area buried at the contact interface, for nine of these complexes for which cocrystal structures are available, and compared the results to those for a set of 144 protein-protein complexes with published affinities. The results show that the most efficient PPI complexes generate ~20 cal mol(-1) Å(-2) of binding energy. A minimal contact area of ~500 Å(2) is required for a stable complex, required to generate sufficient interaction energy to pay the entropic cost of colocalizing two proteins from 1 M solution. The most compact and efficient TNF-TNFR complex was the BAFF-BR3 complex, which achieved ~80% of the maximal achievable binding efficiency. Other small receptors also gave high binding efficiencies, while the larger receptors generated only 44-49% of this limit despite interacting primarily through just a single small domain. The results provide new insight into how much binding energy can be generated by a PPI interface of a given size, and establish a quantitative method for predicting how large a natural or engineered contact interface must be to achieve a given level of binding affinity.
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- Eric S Day
- Biogen Idec, 14 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, United States
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Giron P, Dayon L, Sanchez JC. Cysteine tagging for MS-based proteomics. MASS SPECTROMETRY REVIEWS 2011; 30:366-395. [PMID: 21500242 DOI: 10.1002/mas.20285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2009] [Revised: 11/13/2009] [Accepted: 11/13/2009] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Amino acid-tagging strategies are widespread in proteomics. Because of the central role of mass spectrometry (MS) as a detection technique in protein sciences, the term "mass tagging" was coined to describe the attachment of a label, which serves MS analysis and/or adds analytical value to the measurements. These so-called mass tags can be used for separation, enrichment, detection, and quantitation of peptides and proteins. In this context, cysteine is a frequent target for modifications because the thiol function can react specifically by nucleophilic substitution or addition. Furthermore, cysteines present natural modifications of biological importance and a low occurrence in the proteome that justify the development of strategies to specifically target them in peptides or proteins. In the present review, the mass-tagging methods directed to cysteine residues are comprehensively discussed, and the advantages and drawbacks of these strategies are addressed. Some concrete applications are given to underline the relevance of cysteine-tagging techniques for MS-based proteomics.
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- Priscille Giron
- Biomedical Proteomics Research Group, Structural Biology and Bioinformatics Department, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Yang H, Liu N, Qiu X, Liu S. A new method for analysis of disulfide-containing proteins by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization (MALDI) mass spectrometry. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2009; 20:2284-93. [PMID: 19815426 DOI: 10.1016/j.jasms.2009.08.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2009] [Revised: 08/24/2009] [Accepted: 08/24/2009] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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A simple and high-throughput method for the identification of disulfide-containing peptides utilizing peptide-matrix adducts is described. Some commonly used matrices in MALDI mass spectrometry were found to specifically react with sulfhydryl groups within peptide, thus allowing the observation of the peptide-matrix adduct ion [M + n + n' matrix + H]+ or [M + n + n' matrix + Na]+ (n = the number of cysteine residues, n' = 1, 2, ... , n) in MALDI mass spectra after chemical reduction of disulfide-linked peptides. Among several matrices tested, alpha-cyano-4-hydroxycinnamic acid (CHCA, molecular mass 189 Da) and alpha-cyano-3-hydroxycinnamic acid (3-HCCA) were found to be more effective for MALDI analysis of disulfide-containing peptides/proteins. Two reduced cysteines involved in a disulfide bridge resulted in a mass shift of 189 Da per cysteine, so the number of disulfide bonds could then be determined, while for the other matrices (sinapinic acid, ferulic acid, and caffeic acid), a similar addition reaction could not occur unless the reaction was carried out under alkaline conditions. The underlying mechanism of the reaction of the matrix addition at sulfhydryl groups is proposed, and several factors that might affect the formation of the peptide-matrix adducts were investigated. In general, this method is fast, effective, and robust to identify disulfide bonds in proteins/peptides.
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- Hongmei Yang
- Changchun Center of Mass Spectrometry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, P.R. China
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He F, Dang W, Saito K, Watanabe S, Kobayashi N, Güntert P, Kigawa T, Tanaka A, Muto Y, Yokoyama S. Solution structure of the cysteine-rich domain in Fn14, a member of the tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily. Protein Sci 2009; 18:650-6. [PMID: 19241374 DOI: 10.1002/pro.49] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Fn14 is the smallest member of the tumor necrosis factor (TNF) receptor superfamily, and specifically binds to its ligand, TWEAK (TNF-like weak inducer of apoptosis), which is a member of the TNF superfamily. The receptor-ligand recognition between Fn14 and TWEAK induces a variety of cellular processes for tissue remodeling and is also involved in the pathogenesis of some human diseases, such as cancer, chronic autoimmune diseases, and acute ischaemic stroke. The extracellular ligand-binding region of Fn14 is composed of 53 amino acid residues and forms a single, cysteine-rich domain (CRD). In this study, we determined the solution structure of the Fn14 CRD (Glu28-Ala70) by heteronuclear NMR, with a (13)C-/(15)N-labeled sample. The tertiary structure of the CRD comprises a beta-sheet with two strands, followed by a 3(10) helix and a C-terminal alpha-helix, and is stabilized by three disulfide bonds connecting Cys36-Cys49, Cys52-Cys67, and Cys55-Cys64. Comparison of the disulfide bond connectivities and the tertiary structures with those of other CRDs revealed that the Fn14 CRD is similar to the fourth CRD of TNF receptor 1 (A1-C2 module type), but not to the CRD of B-cell maturation antigen and the second CRD of transmembrane activator and CAML (calcium modulator and cyclophilin ligand) interactor (A1-D2 module type). This is the first structural report about the A1-C2 type CRD that could bind to the known target.
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- Fahu He
- RIKEN, Systems and Structural Biology Center, Yokohama, Japan
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Zhang B, Cockrill SL. Methodology for Determining Disulfide Linkage Patterns of Closely Spaced Cysteine Residues. Anal Chem 2009; 81:7314-20. [DOI: 10.1021/ac901161e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Bing Zhang
- Analytical Sciences, Amgen, Inc., 4000 Nelson Road, Longmont, Colorado 80503
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- Analytical Sciences, Amgen, Inc., 4000 Nelson Road, Longmont, Colorado 80503
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