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Gu L, Hu TX. A simplified non-reduced peptide mapping method with faster and efficient enzymatic digestion for characterization of native disulfide bonds in monoclonal and bispecific antibodies. J Pharm Biomed Anal 2024; 250:116400. [PMID: 39126811 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpba.2024.116400] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2024] [Revised: 08/03/2024] [Accepted: 08/04/2024] [Indexed: 08/12/2024]
Abstract
Development of monoclonal and bispecific antibody-based protein therapeutics requires detailed characterization of native disulfide linkages, which is commonly achieved through peptide mapping under non-reducing conditions followed by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) analysis. One major challenge of this method is incomplete protein digestion due to insufficient denaturation of antibodies under non-reducing conditions. For a long time, researchers have explored various strategies with the aim of efficiently digesting antibody drugs when the disulfide bonds remain intact, but few could achieve this by using a simple and generic approach with well controlled disulfide scrambling artifacts. Here, we report a simple method for fast and efficient mapping of native disulfides of monoclonal and bispecific antibody-based protein therapeutics. The method was optimized to achieve optimal digestion efficiency by denaturing proteins with 8 M urea plus 0-1.25 M guanidine-HCl at elevated temperature (50 °C), followed by two-step digestion with trypsin/Lys-C mix using a one-pot reaction. The only parameter that needs to be optimized for different proteins is the concentration of guanidine-HCl present. This simplified sample preparation eliminated buffer exchange and can be completed within three hours. By using this new method, all native disulfide bonds were confirmed for these monoclonal and bispecific antibodies with high confidence. When compared with a commercial kit utilizing low-pH digestion condition, the new method demonstrated higher digestion efficiency and shorter sample preparation time. These results suggest this new one-pot-two-step digestion method is suitable for the characterization of antibody disulfide bonds, particularly for those antibodies with digestion-resistant domains under typical digestion conditions.
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- Liqing Gu
- Biologics Analytical Science, Incyte Corporation, 1801 Augustine Cut-off, Wilmington, DE 19803, USA.
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- Biologics Analytical Science, Incyte Corporation, 1801 Augustine Cut-off, Wilmington, DE 19803, USA
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Goulden T, Bodachivskyi I, Padula MP, Williams DBG. Concentrated ionic liquids for proteomics: Caveat emptor! Int J Biol Macromol 2023; 253:127438. [PMID: 37839603 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.127438] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2023] [Revised: 10/03/2023] [Accepted: 10/12/2023] [Indexed: 10/17/2023]
Abstract
The use of concentrated ionic liquids (ILs) in the bioanalytical chemistry of proteins is sparse; typically, dilute aqueous IL solutions are used. Concentrated ILs have unique properties that may allow researchers to dissolve previously insoluble protein analytes, to increase the depth and robustness of sample preparation and the analysis of proteins. Previous research using concentrated ILs for this purpose is sparse and there is a need to systematically investigate the structure-activity relationship between the IL structure and its capacity to solubilise proteins. Here, bovine serum albumin was dissolved in various ionic liquids and monitored over time by light microscopy and SDS-PAGE. While qualitative, these measures provide a good estimate of, respectively, the dissolving power of an IL towards the given protein and the retained integrity of the protein. Hydrophilic ILs show the best solubilisation capacity and higher temperatures (in a restricted sense) improve the solubility of the protein. Higher temperatures and longer reaction times reduce the molecular weight of the protein, which could inhibit their applicability in proteomics, unless the conditions are judiciously controlled. Researchers should exercise caution when using concentrated ILs for protein analysis until the full scope and limitations are known, an aspect we are presently investigating.
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- Thomas Goulden
- University of Technology Sydney, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, 15 Broadway, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia
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- University of Technology Sydney, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, 15 Broadway, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia; V.P. Kukhar Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry and Petrochemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 1 Academician Kukhar St, Kyiv 02094, Ukraine
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- University of Technology Sydney, School of Life Sciences, 15 Broadway, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia
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- University of Technology Sydney, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, 15 Broadway, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia; University of Wollongong, School of Chemistry and Molecular Bioscience, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia.
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Danko K, Lukasheva E, Zhukov VA, Zgoda V, Frolov A. Detergent-Assisted Protein Digestion-On the Way to Avoid the Key Bottleneck of Shotgun Bottom-Up Proteomics. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:13903. [PMID: 36430380 PMCID: PMC9695859 DOI: 10.3390/ijms232213903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2022] [Revised: 11/02/2022] [Accepted: 11/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
Abstract
Gel-free bottom-up shotgun proteomics is the principal methodological platform for the state-of-the-art proteome research. This methodology assumes quantitative isolation of the total protein fraction from a complex biological sample, its limited proteolysis with site-specific proteases, analysis of the resulted peptides with nanoscaled reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography-(tandem) mass spectrometry (nanoRP-HPLC-MS and MS/MS), protein identification by sequence database search and peptide-based quantitative analysis. The most critical steps of this workflow are protein reconstitution and digestion; therefore, detergents and chaotropic agents are strongly mandatory to ensure complete solubilization of complex protein isolates and to achieve accessibility of all protease cleavage sites. However, detergents are incompatible with both RP separation and electrospray ionization (ESI). Therefore, to make LC-MS analysis possible, several strategies were implemented in the shotgun proteomics workflow. These techniques rely either on enzymatic digestion in centrifugal filters with subsequent evacuation of the detergent, or employment of MS-compatible surfactants, which can be degraded upon the digestion. In this review we comprehensively address all currently available strategies for the detergent-assisted proteolysis in respect of their relative efficiency when applied to different biological matrices. We critically discuss the current progress and the further perspectives of these technologies in the context of its advances and gaps.
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- Katerina Danko
- Department of Biochemistry, St. Petersburg State University, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Department of Biochemistry, St. Petersburg State University, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia
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- All-Russia Research Institute for Agricultural Microbiology, Podbelsky Chaussee 3, Pushkin, 196608 St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Institute of Biomedical Chemistry, 119121 Moscow, Russia
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- K.A. Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiology RAS, 127276 Moscow, Russia
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Voß H, Moritz M, Pelczar P, Gagliani N, Huber S, Nippert V, Schlüter H, Hahn J. Tissue Sampling and Homogenization with NIRL Enables Spatially Resolved Cell Layer Specific Proteomic Analysis of the Murine Intestine. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23116132. [PMID: 35682811 PMCID: PMC9181169 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23116132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2022] [Revised: 05/18/2022] [Accepted: 05/27/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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For investigating the molecular physiology and pathophysiology in organs, the most exact data should be obtained; if not, organ-specific cell lines are analyzed, or the whole organ is homogenized, followed by the analysis of its biomolecules. However, if the morphological organization of the organ can be addressed, then, in the best case, the composition of molecules in single cells of the target organ can be analyzed. Laser capture microdissection (LCM) is a technique which enables the selection of specific cells of a tissue for further analysis of their molecules. However, LCM is a time-consuming two-dimensional technique, and optimal results are only obtained if the tissue is fixed, e.g., by formalin. Especially for proteome analysis, formalin fixation reduced the number of identifiable proteins, and this is an additional drawback. Recently, it was demonstrated that sampling of fresh-frozen (non-fixed) tissue with an infrared-laser is giving higher yields with respect to the absolute protein amount and number of identifiable proteins than conventional mechanical homogenization of tissues. In this study, the applicability of the infrared laser tissue sampling for the proteome analysis of different cell layers of murine intestine was investigated, using LC–MS/MS-based differential quantitative bottom-up proteomics. By laser ablation, eight consecutive layers of colon tissue were obtained and analyzed. However, a clear distinguishability of protein profiles between ascending, descending, and transversal colon was made, and we identified the different intestinal-cell-layer proteins, which are cell-specific, as confirmed by data from the Human Protein Atlas. Thus, for the first time, sampling directly from intact fresh-frozen tissue with three-dimensional resolution is giving access to the different proteomes of different cell layers of colon tissue.
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- Hannah Voß
- Section/Core Facility Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Martinistraße 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany; (H.V.); (M.M.); (V.N.)
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- Section/Core Facility Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Martinistraße 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany; (H.V.); (M.M.); (V.N.)
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- Section of Molecular Immunology und Gastroenterology, I. Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Martinistraße 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany; (P.P.); (N.G.); (S.H.)
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- Section of Molecular Immunology und Gastroenterology, I. Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Martinistraße 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany; (P.P.); (N.G.); (S.H.)
- Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Martinistraße 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany
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- Section of Molecular Immunology und Gastroenterology, I. Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Martinistraße 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany; (P.P.); (N.G.); (S.H.)
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- Section/Core Facility Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Martinistraße 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany; (H.V.); (M.M.); (V.N.)
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- Section/Core Facility Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Martinistraße 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany; (H.V.); (M.M.); (V.N.)
- Correspondence: (H.S.); (J.H.); Tel.: +49-1575-6085997 (H.S.); +49-1522-2827168 (J.H.)
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- Section/Core Facility Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Martinistraße 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany; (H.V.); (M.M.); (V.N.)
- Correspondence: (H.S.); (J.H.); Tel.: +49-1575-6085997 (H.S.); +49-1522-2827168 (J.H.)
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Wang D, Nowak C, Mason B, Katiyar A, Liu H. Analytical artifacts in characterization of recombinant monoclonal antibody therapeutics. J Pharm Biomed Anal 2020; 183:113131. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jpba.2020.113131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2019] [Revised: 01/22/2020] [Accepted: 01/24/2020] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Dynamic and reversible protein S-acylation, most commonly occurring as S-palmitoylation, plays an important role in protein/membrane association and the regulation of intracellular signaling via cycles of palmitoylation and depalmitoylation. Direct analysis of protein S-acylation by mass spectrometry (MS) offers several benefits over indirect detection methods in that it can definitively determine the location and nature of the acyl modification, and is not prone to false discoveries. However, characterization of acyl proteins is challenging because of the tendency of acyl loss during sample preparation and tandem MS analysis. In this chapter, we present a sample preparation protocol that preserves labile acyl modifications and an LC-MS/MS workflow for detection of S-acylation with high confidence and sensitivity.
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- Yuhuan Ji
- Department of Biochemistry, Center for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Center for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
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Zhang X. Detergents: Friends not foes for high-performance membrane proteomics toward precision medicine. Proteomics 2016; 17. [PMID: 27633951 DOI: 10.1002/pmic.201600209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2016] [Revised: 07/31/2016] [Accepted: 09/13/2016] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Precision medicine, particularly therapeutics, emphasizes the atomic-precise, dynamic, and systems visualization of human membrane proteins and their endogenous modifiers. For years, bottom-up proteomics has grappled with removing and avoiding detergents, yet faltered at the therapeutic-pivotal membrane proteins, which have been tackled by classical approaches and are known for decades refractory to single-phase aqueous or organic denaturants. Hydrophobicity and aggregation commonly challenge tissue and cell lysates, biofluids, and enriched samples. Frequently, expected membrane proteins and peptides are not identified by shotgun bottom-up proteomics, let alone robust quantitation. This review argues the cause of this proteomic crisis is not detergents per se, but the choice of detergents. Recently, inclusion of compatible detergents for membrane protein extraction and digestion has revealed stark improvements in both quantitative and structural proteomics. This review analyzes detergent properties behind recent proteomic advances, and proposes that rational use of detergents may reconcile outstanding membrane proteomics dilemmas, enabling ultradeep coverage and minimal artifacts for robust protein and endogenous PTM measurements. The simplicity of detergent tools confers bottom-up membrane proteomics the sophistication toward precision medicine.
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- Xi Zhang
- Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.,Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Bayer M, König S. Abundant cysteine side reactions in traditional buffers interfere with the analysis of posttranslational modifications and protein quantification - How to compromise. RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY : RCM 2016; 30:1823-1828. [PMID: 27426460 DOI: 10.1002/rcm.7613] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2016] [Revised: 05/17/2016] [Accepted: 05/20/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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- Malte Bayer
- Core Unit Proteomics, Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research, Medical Faculty, University of Münster, Germany
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- Core Unit Proteomics, Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research, Medical Faculty, University of Münster, Germany
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Šlechtová T, Gilar M, Kalíková K, Tesařová E. Insight into Trypsin Miscleavage: Comparison of Kinetic Constants of Problematic Peptide Sequences. Anal Chem 2015; 87:7636-43. [PMID: 26158323 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5b00866] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Trypsin, a high fidelity protease, is the most widely used enzyme for protein digestion in proteomic research. Optimal digestion conditions are well-known and so are the expected cleavage products. However, missed cleavage sites are frequently observed when acidic amino acids, aspartic and glutamic acids, are present near the cleavage site. Also, the sequence motifs with successive lysine and/or arginine residues represent a source of missed cleaved sites. In spite of an adverse role of missed cleaved peptides on proteomic research, the digestion kinetics of these problematic sequences is not well-known. In this work, synthetic peptides with various sequence motifs were used as trypsin substrates. Cleavage products were analyzed with reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatography, and the kinetic constants for selected missed cleavage sites were calculated. Relative digestion speed for lysine and arginine sites is compared, including the digestion motifs flanked with aspartic and glutamic acid. Our findings show that DK and DTR motifs are cleaved by trypsin with 3 orders of magnitude lower speed than the arginine site. These motifs are likely to produce missed cleavage peptides in protein tryptic digests even at prolonged digestion times.
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- Tereza Šlechtová
- †Department of Physical and Macromolecular Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Hlavova 8, 128 43, Prague, Czech Republic
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- ‡Waters Corporation, 34 Maple Street, Milford, Massachusetts 01757, United States
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- †Department of Physical and Macromolecular Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Hlavova 8, 128 43, Prague, Czech Republic
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- †Department of Physical and Macromolecular Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Hlavova 8, 128 43, Prague, Czech Republic
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