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Wang H, Zheng F, Ouyang A, Yuan G, Su J, Liu X. Blunt snout bream (Megalobrama amblycephala) MaCSF-1 contributes to proliferation, phagocytosis and immunoregulation of macrophages via MaCSF-1R. FISH & SHELLFISH IMMUNOLOGY 2022; 127:1113-1126. [PMID: 35803511 DOI: 10.1016/j.fsi.2022.06.048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2021] [Revised: 06/19/2022] [Accepted: 06/24/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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CSF-1 and CSF-1R have been well demonstrated in humans, regulating the differentiation, proliferation and survival of the mononuclear phagocyte system. However, the functional study on MaCSF-1 and MaCSF-1R from blunt snout bream (Megalobrama amblycephala) is still unknown. In the present study, we cloned and functionally characterized MaCSF-1 and MaCSF-1R. Multiple sequence alignment and phylogenetic tree analysis showed that both MaCSF-1 and MaCSF-1R were mostly close to the grass carp counterparts. Tissue distribution analysis showed that both MaCSF-1 and MaCSF-1R were widely distributed in all examined tissues, dominantly distributed in spleen, blood and head kidney tissues. Furthermore, confocal microscopy assay and flow cytometry assay showed that MaCSF-1R was the marker on the surface of macrophages. Recombinant MaCSF-1 promoted macrophage proliferation, phagocytosis and the production of IL-10. Through the pull-down experiments and indirect immunofluorescence experiments, the interaction between MaCSF-1 and MaCSF-1R was confirmed. To explore the relationship between MaCSF-1 and its receptor, MaCSF-1R and MaCSF-1R antibody was prepared. Then the MaCSF-1R blockage assay indicated that the role of MaCSF-1 on the macrophages proliferation and phagocytosis was weakened, leading the reduction of IL-10 expression level. In conclusion, MaCSF-1R is the marker on the surface of macrophage membrane; and MaCSF-1 promotes macrophage proliferation, phagocytosis, and significantly increased the expression levels of IL-10 depended on the interacting with MaCSF-1R. This study provides basal data for the biological function of MaCSF-1 and MaCSF-1R, and is valuable for the exploration of MaCSF-1 and MaCSF-1R molecular interactions.
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- Huabing Wang
- Department of Aquatic Animal Medicine, College of Fisheries, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- Department of Aquatic Animal Medicine, College of Fisheries, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China; Hubei Engineering Technology Research Center for Aquatic Animal Disease Control and Prevention, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- Department of Aquatic Animal Medicine, College of Fisheries, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- Department of Aquatic Animal Medicine, College of Fisheries, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China; Hubei Engineering Technology Research Center for Aquatic Animal Disease Control and Prevention, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- Department of Aquatic Animal Medicine, College of Fisheries, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China; Hubei Engineering Technology Research Center for Aquatic Animal Disease Control and Prevention, Wuhan, 430070, China; Engineering Research Center of Green Development for Conventional Aquatic Biological Industry in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, Ministry of Education, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- Department of Aquatic Animal Medicine, College of Fisheries, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China; Hubei Engineering Technology Research Center for Aquatic Animal Disease Control and Prevention, Wuhan, 430070, China.
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Liu XR, Zhang MM, Gross ML. Mass Spectrometry-Based Protein Footprinting for Higher-Order Structure Analysis: Fundamentals and Applications. Chem Rev 2020; 120:4355-4454. [PMID: 32319757 PMCID: PMC7531764 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.9b00815] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 32.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Proteins adopt different higher-order structures (HOS) to enable their unique biological functions. Understanding the complexities of protein higher-order structures and dynamics requires integrated approaches, where mass spectrometry (MS) is now positioned to play a key role. One of those approaches is protein footprinting. Although the initial demonstration of footprinting was for the HOS determination of protein/nucleic acid binding, the concept was later adapted to MS-based protein HOS analysis, through which different covalent labeling approaches "mark" the solvent accessible surface area (SASA) of proteins to reflect protein HOS. Hydrogen-deuterium exchange (HDX), where deuterium in D2O replaces hydrogen of the backbone amides, is the most common example of footprinting. Its advantage is that the footprint reflects SASA and hydrogen bonding, whereas one drawback is the labeling is reversible. Another example of footprinting is slow irreversible labeling of functional groups on amino acid side chains by targeted reagents with high specificity, probing structural changes at selected sites. A third footprinting approach is by reactions with fast, irreversible labeling species that are highly reactive and footprint broadly several amino acid residue side chains on the time scale of submilliseconds. All of these covalent labeling approaches combine to constitute a problem-solving toolbox that enables mass spectrometry as a valuable tool for HOS elucidation. As there has been a growing need for MS-based protein footprinting in both academia and industry owing to its high throughput capability, prompt availability, and high spatial resolution, we present a summary of the history, descriptions, principles, mechanisms, and applications of these covalent labeling approaches. Moreover, their applications are highlighted according to the biological questions they can answer. This review is intended as a tutorial for MS-based protein HOS elucidation and as a reference for investigators seeking a MS-based tool to address structural questions in protein science.
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- Department of Chemistry, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA, 63130
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Lee J, Lee J, Hwang E, Kim HJ, Lee S, Lee H, Hwang SY, Cho SJ, Yi SJ, Kim K. An Efficient and Rapid Two-step Purification Method for Active Human Macrophage Colony-stimulating Factor from Escherichia coli. BIOTECHNOL BIOPROC E 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s12257-018-0256-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Yefremova Y, Danquah BD, Opuni KF, El-Kased R, Koy C, Glocker MO. Mass spectrometric characterization of protein structures and protein complexes in condensed and gas phase. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY (CHICHESTER, ENGLAND) 2017; 23:445-459. [PMID: 29183193 DOI: 10.1177/1469066717722256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Proteins are essential for almost all physiological processes of life. They serve a myriad of functions which are as varied as their unique amino acid sequences and their corresponding three-dimensional structures. To fulfill their tasks, most proteins depend on stable physical associations, in the form of protein complexes that evolved between themselves and other proteins. In solution (condensed phase), proteins and/or protein complexes are in constant energy exchange with the surrounding solvent. Albeit methods to describe in-solution thermodynamic properties of proteins and of protein complexes are well established and broadly applied, they do not provide a broad enough access to life-science experimentalists to study all their proteins' properties at leisure. This leaves great desire to add novel methods to the analytical biochemist's toolbox. The development of electrospray ionization created the opportunity to characterize protein higher order structures and protein complexes rather elegantly by simultaneously lessening the need of sophisticated sample preparation steps. Electrospray mass spectrometry enabled us to translate proteins and protein complexes very efficiently into the gas phase under mild conditions, retaining both, intact protein complexes, and gross protein structures upon phase transition. Moreover, in the environment of the mass spectrometer (gas phase, in vacuo), analyte molecules are free of interactions with surrounding solvent molecules and, therefore, the energy of inter- and intramolecular forces can be studied independently from interference of the solvating environment. Provided that gas phase methods can give information which is relevant for understanding in-solution processes, gas phase protein structure studies and/or investigations on the characterization of protein complexes has rapidly gained more and more attention from the bioanalytical scientific community. Recent reports have shown that electrospray mass spectrometry provides direct access to six prime protein complex properties: stabilities, compositions, binding surfaces (epitopes), disassembly processes, stoichiometries, and thermodynamic parameters.
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- Yelena Yefremova
- 1 Proteome Center Rostock, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
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- 1 Proteome Center Rostock, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
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- 3 Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, The British University in Egypt, Cairo, Egypt
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- 1 Proteome Center Rostock, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
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Yang J, Finke JC, Yang J, Percy AJ, von Fritschen U, Borchers CH, Glocker MO. Early risk prognosis of free-flap transplant failure by quantitation of the macrophage colony-stimulating factor in patient plasma using 2-dimensional liquid-chromatography multiple reaction monitoring-mass spectrometry. Medicine (Baltimore) 2016; 95:e4808. [PMID: 27684807 PMCID: PMC5265900 DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000004808] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Although great success of microvascular free-flap transplantation surgery has been achieved in recent years, between 1.5% and 15% of flaps are still lost due to vascular occlusion. The clinical challenge remains to salvage a transplant in the case of vascular complications. Since flap loss is devastating for the patient, it is of utmost importance to detect signs of complications or of conspicuities as soon as possible. Rescue success rates highly depend on early revision. In this study, we collected blood samples during transplantation surgery from either the contributory artery or the effluent vein of the flap and applied a targeted mass spectrometry-based approach to quantify 24 acute phase proteins, cytokines, and growth factors in 63 plasma samples from 21 hospitalized patients, generating a dataset with 9450 protein concentration values. Biostatistical analyses of the targeted plasma protein concentrations in all 63 plasma samples showed that venous concentrations of macrophage colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF) provided the highest accuracy for discriminating patients with either clinical conspicuities or complications from control individuals. Using 21.33 ng/mL of M-CSF as the diagnostic threshold when analyzing venous blood plasma samples, the assay obtained a sensitivity of 0.93 and a specificity of 0.85 with an area under the curve value of 0.902 in the receiver operating characteristic analysis. Overall, our results indicate that M-CSF is a potential molecular marker for early risk prognosis of free-flap transplant failure.
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- Jingzhi Yang
- Proteome Center Rostock, University Medicine and Natural Science Faculty, University of Rostock, Rostock
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- Division of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery, HELIOS Clinic Emil von Behring, Berlin, Germany
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- University of Victoria – Genome British Columbia Proteomics Center, Vancouver Island Technology Park
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- University of Victoria – Genome British Columbia Proteomics Center, Vancouver Island Technology Park
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- Division of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery, HELIOS Clinic Emil von Behring, Berlin, Germany
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- University of Victoria – Genome British Columbia Proteomics Center, Vancouver Island Technology Park
- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
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- Proteome Center Rostock, University Medicine and Natural Science Faculty, University of Rostock, Rostock
- Correspondence: Michael O. Glocker, Proteome Center Rostock, University Medicine and Natural Science Faculty, University of Rostock, Schillingallee 69, 18059 Rostock, Germany (e-mail: )
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Kim SY, Kang JJ, Lee HH, Kang JJ, Kim B, Kim CG, Park TK, Kang H. Mechanism of activation of human c-KIT kinase by internal tandem duplications of the juxtamembrane domain and point mutations at aspartic acid 816. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2011; 410:224-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2011.05.111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2011] [Accepted: 05/18/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Synthesis of a fluorescein–porphyrin hybrid and its supramolecular self-assembly with amino-porphyrinatocopper(II) by hydrogen bonding. TRANSIT METAL CHEM 2010. [DOI: 10.1007/s11243-010-9348-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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El-Kased RF, Koy C, Lorenz P, Drynda S, Guthke R, Qian Z, Koczan D, Li Y, Kekow J, Thiesen HJ, Glocker MO. Mass spectrometric and peptide chip epitope analysis on the RA33 autoantigen with sera from rheumatoid arthritis patients. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY (CHICHESTER, ENGLAND) 2010; 16:443-451. [PMID: 20530829 DOI: 10.1255/ejms.1046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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As the potential of epitope chips for routine application in diagnostics relies on the careful selection of peptides, reliable epitope mapping results are of utmost interest to the medical community. Mass spectrometric epitope mapping in combination with peptide chip analysis showed that autoantibodies from patients who suffered from rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were directed against distinct surface structures on the full-length human autoantigen RA33 as well as against partial sequences. Using the combined mass spectrometric epitope extraction and peptide chip analysis approach, four sequence motifs on RA33 emerged as immuno-positive, showing that epitopes were not randomly distributed on the entire RA33 amino acid sequence. A sequential epitope motif ((245)GYGGG(249)) was determined on the C-terminal part of RA33 which matched with the Western blot patient screening results using the full-length protein and, thus, was regarded as a disease-associated epitope. Other epitope motifs were found on N-terminal partial sequences ((59)RSRGFGF(65), (111)KKLFVG(116)) and again on the C-terminal part ((266)NQQPSNYG(273)) of RA33. As recognition of these latter three motifs was also recorded by peptide chip analysis using control samples which were negative in the Western blot screening, these latter motifs were regarded as "cryptic epitopes". Knowledge of disease-associated epitopes is crucial for improving the design of a customized epitope peptide chip for RA and mass spectrometric epitope mapping pivotally assisted with selecting the most informative peptide(s) to be used for future diagnostic purposes.
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- R F El-Kased
- Proteome Center Rostock, Medical Faculty and Natural Science Faculty, University of Rostock, Germany
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El-Kased RF, Koy C, Deierling T, Lorenz P, Qian Z, Li Y, Thiesen HJ, Glocker MO. Mass spectrometric and peptide chip epitope mapping of rheumatoid arthritis autoantigen RA33. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY (CHICHESTER, ENGLAND) 2009; 15:747-759. [PMID: 19940341 DOI: 10.1255/ejms.1040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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The protein termed RA33 was determined to be one major autoantigen in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients and antiRA33 auto-antibodies were found to appear shortly after onset of RA. They are often detectable before a final diagnosis can be made in the clinic. The aim of our study is to characterise the epitope of a monoclonal antiRA33 antibody on recombinant RA33 using mass spectrometric epitope mapping. Recombinant RA33 has been subjected to BrCN cleavage and fragments were separated by sodium dodecyl sulphate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE). Subsequent in-gel proteolytic digestion and mass spectrometric analysis determined the partial sequences in the protein bands. Western blotting of SDS-PAGE-separated protein fragments revealed immuno-positive, i.e. epitope-containing bands. BrCN-derived RA33 fragments were also separated by high- performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and immuno-reactivity of peptides was measured by dot-blot analysis with the individual HPLC fractions after partial amino acid sequences were determined. The epitope region identified herewith was compared to data from peptide chip analysis with 15-meric synthetic peptides attached to a glass surface. Results from all three analyses consistently showed that the epitope of the monoclonal antiRA33 antibody is located in the aa79-84 region on recombinant RA33; the epitope sequence is MAARPHSIDGRVVEP. Sequence comparisons of the 15 best scoring peptides from the peptide chip analysis revealed that the epitope can be separated into two adjacent binding parts. The N-terminal binding parts comprise the amino acid residues "DGR", resembling the general physico-chemical properties "acidic/polar-small-basic". The C-terminal binding parts contain the amino acid residues "VVE", with the motif "hydrophobic-gap-acidic". The matching epitope region that emerged from our analysis on both the full-length protein and the 15-meric surface bound peptides suggests that peptide chips are indeed suitable tools for screening patterns of autoantibodies in patients suffering from autoimmune diseases.
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- R F El-Kased
- Proteome Center Rostock, University of Rostock, Schillingallee 69, 18057 Rostock, Germany
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Wang T, Hanington PC, Belosevic M, Secombes CJ. Two Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor Genes Exist in Fish That Differ in Gene Organization and Are Differentially Expressed. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2008; 181:3310-22. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.181.5.3310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Zheng J, Du GG, Anderson CT, Keller JP, Orem A, Dallos P, Cheatham M. Analysis of the oligomeric structure of the motor protein prestin. J Biol Chem 2006; 281:19916-24. [PMID: 16682411 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m513854200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Prestin, a member of the solute carrier family 26, is expressed in the basolateral membrane of outer hair cells. This protein provides the molecular basis for outer hair cell somatic electromotility, which is crucial for the frequency selectivity and sensitivity of mammalian hearing. It has long been known that there are abundantly expressed approximately 11-nM protein particles present in the basolateral membrane. These particles were hypothesized to be the motor proteins that drive electromotility. Because the calculated size of a prestin monomer is too small to form an approximately 11-nM particle, the possibility of prestin oligomerization was examined. We investigated possible quaternary structures of prestin by lithium dodecyl sulfate-PAGE, perfluoro-octanoate-PAGE, a membrane-based yeast two-hybrid system, and chemical cross-linking experiments. Prestin, obtained from different host or native cells, is resistant to dissociation by lithium dodecyl sulfate and behaves as a stable oligomer on lithium dodecyl sulfate-PAGE. In the membrane-based yeast two-hybrid system, homo-oligomeric interactions between prestin-bait/prestin-prey suggest that prestin molecules can associate with each other. Chemical cross-linking experiments, perfluoro-octanoate-PAGE/Western blot, and affinity purification experiments all indicate that prestin exists as a higher order oligomer, such as a tetramer, in prestin-expressing yeast, mammalian cell lines and native outer hair cells. Our data from experiments using hydrophobic and hydrophilic reducing reagents suggest that the prestin dimer is connected by a disulfide bond embedded in the prestin hydrophobic core. This stable dimer may act as the building block for producing the higher order oligomers that form the approximately 11-nM particles in the outer hair cell's basolateral membrane.
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- Jing Zheng
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA.
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Lu JZ, Tan XC, Huang JW, Dong CH, Fu B, Yu HC, Ji LN. A novel fluorescein-porphyrinatozinc(II) hybrid: synthesis and its supramolecular self-assembly with imidazolyl-linked porphyrinatomanganese(III) by coordinative bonding. TRANSIT METAL CHEM 2005. [DOI: 10.1007/s11243-005-6735-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Ishmael FT, Shier VK, Ishmael SS, Bond JS. Intersubunit and domain interactions of the meprin B metalloproteinase. Disulfide bonds and protein-protein interactions in the MAM and TRAF domains. J Biol Chem 2005; 280:13895-901. [PMID: 15695509 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m414218200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Meprins, multimeric metalloproteases expressed in kidney and intestinal epithelial cells as well as in certain leukocytes and cancer cells, have the ability to hydrolyze a variety of growth factors, vasoactive peptides, cytokines, and extracellular matrix proteins. The meprin B isoform exists primarily as a cell-surface homooligomer composed of disulfide-linked, multidomain beta-subunits. To gain insight into how the tertiary and quaternary structure of meprin B affects function, the disulfide-bonding pattern and sites of domain-domain interactions were investigated using sedimentation equilibrium ultracentrifugation, cross-linking, and mass spectrometry techniques. Three symmetrical intersubunit disulfide bonds were identified in the noncatalytic interaction domains; two in the MAM (meprin, A-5 protein, protein-tyrosine phosphatase mu) domain and one in the TRAF (tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated factor) domain. These disulfide bridges are unique for the known homophilic interactions of these domains. Mutation of any of the intersubunit cysteine residues resulted in the inability of meprin B to form disulfide-linked dimers. The four cysteines of the protease domain formed intradomain disulfide bonds. The MAM domain also had one intradomain disulfide bond and one free cysteine. Cross-linking studies of the meprin B dimer with the amine-reactive cross-linker disuccinimidyl suberate revealed inter- and intradomain contacts within the protein, including prosequence-prosequence, protease-TRAF, protease-epidermal growth factor, and TRAF-TRAF interactions. From these observations, a model of the meprin B dimer structure is proposed that provides insight into the relationship between structure and function of this isoform.
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- Faoud T Ishmael
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania 17033, USA
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Lu JZ, Huang JW, Fan LF, Liu J, Chen XL, Ji LN. Supramolecular self-assembly of porphyrin–fluorescein hybrid with amino-porphyrinatocopper(II) and its fluorescence strengthening character. INORG CHEM COMMUN 2004. [DOI: 10.1016/j.inoche.2004.07.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Peter Happersberger H, Cowgill C, Glocker MO. Structural characterization of monomeric folding intermediates of recombinant human macrophage-colony stimulating factor beta (rhM-CSFbeta) by chemical trapping, chromatographic separation and mass spectrometric peptide mapping. J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci 2002; 782:393-404. [PMID: 12458021 DOI: 10.1016/s1570-0232(02)00555-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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We have developed a strategy for the characterization of protein folding intermediates that combines selective modification of bis-cysteinyl thiol groups with melarsen oxide (MEL), chromatographic separation and mass spectrometric characterization of the resulting protein derivatives. In the unfolding reaction of recombinant human macrophage-colony stimulating-factor beta (rhM-CSFbeta) we observed monomeric M.4MEL and dimeric D.2MEL intermediates. The major locations of the MEL groups in D.2MEL were at C157 and C159. In M.4MEL, MEL groups were predominantly located at C31 and C102. These results indicate the presence of highly structured dimeric and monomeric intermediates. In the completely reduced R.4MEL derivative, MEL groups were distributed such that the smallest ring structures resulted.
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- H Peter Happersberger
- Proteome Center Rostock, Medical Faculty, University of Rostock, Joachim-Jungius Strasse 9, Germany
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Zhang W, Marzilli LA, Rouse JC, Czupryn MJ. Complete disulfide bond assignment of a recombinant immunoglobulin G4 monoclonal antibody. Anal Biochem 2002; 311:1-9. [PMID: 12441146 DOI: 10.1016/s0003-2697(02)00394-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Recombinant monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are an emerging therapeutic area. However, there are few reports on disulfide bond assignment of recombinant mAbs. This work describes the complete disulfide bond assignment of a recombinant immunoglobulin G4 (IgG4) mAb. N-ethylmaleimide (NEM) was used to mask free sulfhydryl groups present in the mAb. Digestion of the mAb with endoproteinase Lys-C without disulfide scrambling was achieved by denaturing the mAb in the presence of NEM in guanidine hydrochloride (GuHCl). The Lys-C digest was subsequently reduced with dithiothreitol (DTT). Native and reduced Lys-C digests were mass analyzed by on-line reversed-phase-high-performance liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (RP-HPLC/MS). Disulfide-containing peptides were sequenced by off-line nanoelectrospray quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry (nanoESI-QTOF MS) and N-terminal Edman sequencing for verifying connectivities. The recombinant IgG4 mAb was found to contain the expected disulfide linkages with the proposed method. The NEM alkylating reagent was critical in minimizing disulfide scrambling during the denaturation and digestion of the mAb. This integrated approach, combining MS and N-terminal Edman sequencing, was capable of assigning the disulfide pattern of the IgG4 mAb rapidly and completely, and should be applicable for disulfide bond assignment and structural analysis of other mAbs and large proteins with multiple disulfide bonds.
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- Wei Zhang
- Wyeth BioPharma, One Burtt Road, Andover, MA 01810, USA.
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Yan X, Zhang H, Watson J, Schimerlik MI, Deinzer ML. Hydrogen/deuterium exchange and mass spectrometric analysis of a protein containing multiple disulfide bonds: Solution structure of recombinant macrophage colony stimulating factor-beta (rhM-CSFbeta). Protein Sci 2002; 11:2113-24. [PMID: 12192067 PMCID: PMC2373587 DOI: 10.1110/ps.0204402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Studies with the homodimeric recombinant human macrophage colony-stimulating factor beta (rhM-CSFbeta), show for the first time that a large number (9) of disulfide linkages can be reduced after amide hydrogen/deuterium (H/D) exchange, and the protein digested and analyzed successfully for the isotopic composition by electrospray mass spectrometry. Analysis of amide H/D after exchange-in shows that in solution the conserved four-helix bundle of (rhM-CSFbeta) has fast and moderately fast exchangeable sections of amide hydrogens in the alphaA helix, and mostly slow exchanging sections of amide hydrogens in the alphaB, alphaC, and alphaD helices. Most of the amide hydrogens in the loop between the beta1 and beta4 sheets exhibited fast or moderately fast exchange, whereas in the amino acid 63-67 loop, located at the interface of the two subunits, the exchange was slow. Solvent accessibility as measured by H/D exchange showed a better correlation with the average depth of amide residues calculated from reported X-ray crystallographic data for rhM-CSFalpha than with the average B-factor. The rates of H/D exchange in rhM-CSFbeta appear to correlate well with the exposed surface calculated for each amino acid residue in the crystal structure except for the alphaD helix. Fast hydrogen isotope exchange throughout the segment amino acids 150-221 present in rhM-CSFbeta, but not rhM-CSFalpha, provides evidence that the carboxy-terminal region is unstructured. It is, therefore, proposed that the anomalous behavior of the alphaD helix is due to interaction of the carboxy-terminal tail with this helical segment.
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- Xuguang Yan
- Department of Chemistry, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331, USA
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Zhang YH, Yan X, Maier CS, Schimerlik MI, Deinzer ML. Structural comparison of recombinant human macrophage colony stimulating factor beta and a partially reduced derivative using hydrogen deuterium exchange and electrospray ionization mass spectrometry. Protein Sci 2001; 10:2336-45. [PMID: 11604539 PMCID: PMC2374063 DOI: 10.1110/ps.16701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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Hydrogen deuterium exchange, monitored by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry, has been employed to characterize structural features of a derivative of recombinant human macrophage colony stimulating factor beta (rhm-CSFbeta) in which two of the nine disulfide bridges (Cys157/Cys159-Cys'157/Cys'159) were selectively reduced and alkylated. Removal of these two disulfide bridges did not affect the biological activity of the protein. Similarities between CD and fluorescence spectra for rhm-CSFbeta and its derivative indicate that removing the disulfide bonds did not strongly alter the overall three-dimensional structure of rhm-CSFbeta. However, differences between deuterium exchange data of the intact proteins indicate that more NHs underwent fast deuterium exchange in the derivative than in rhm-CSFbeta. Regions located near the disulfide bond removal site were shown to exhibit faster deuterium exchange behavior in the derivative than in rhm-CSFbeta.
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- Y H Zhang
- Department of Chemistry, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97330, USA
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Denslow ND, Rose K, Righetti PG. Determining the identity and structure of recombinant proteins. CURRENT PROTOCOLS IN PROTEIN SCIENCE 2001; Chapter 7:Unit 7.3. [PMID: 18429198 DOI: 10.1002/0471140864.ps0703s03] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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In this unit peptide mapping protocols with separation of the constituent peptides by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) analysis and by high-resolution SDS-PAGE are presented. Peptide mapping is ideally suited for comparative purposes--for example, combined analysis of the recombinant protein and its natural counterpart (or some other well-characterized standard). This unit also outlines the general strategy used to determine the linkage pattern of a monomeric recombinant protein containing two intramolecular disulfide bonds. The approach is an extension of peptide mapping, where the aim is to isolate and characterize peptides containing only a single disulfide bond. A two-dimensional electrophoretic method is also described in which the protein isoelectric point is displayed as a function of pH to yield an electrophoretic titration curve. This method is especially useful for checking for deamidation (e.g., of Asn to Asp) in which additional negative charge is introduced into the modified protein.
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- N D Denslow
- University of Florida, Gainesville, Floria, USA
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Hwang IS, Park SJ, Roh T, Choi M, Kim HJ. Investigation of sulfhydryl groups in cabbage phospholipase D by combination of derivatization methods and matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry. RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY : RCM 2001; 15:110-115. [PMID: 11180538 DOI: 10.1002/1097-0231(20010130)15:2<110::aid-rcm200>3.0.co;2-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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All eight cysteine residues in 92 kDa cabbage phospholipase D (PLD), deduced from the cDNA sequence, were shown to have free sulfhydryl groups by analysis using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOFMS) of tryptic peptides of PLD derivatized with p-chloromercurybenzoate, iodoacetic acid, and N-ethylmaleimide, as well as of underivatized PLD. Assignment of sulfhydryl groups by any one method was not conclusive. However, complementary information derived from tryptic peptides derivatized with different reagents made full assignment of sulfhydryl groups possible.
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- I S Hwang
- School of Chemistry & Molecular Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-747, South Korea
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Barbirz S, Jakob U, Glocker MO. Mass spectrometry unravels disulfide bond formation as the mechanism that activates a molecular chaperone. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:18759-66. [PMID: 10764757 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m001089200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The heat shock protein Hsp33 is a very potent molecular chaperone with a distinctive mode of functional regulation; its activity is redox-regulated. In its reduced form all six cysteinyl residues of Hsp33 are present as thiols, and Hsp33 displays no folding helper activity. Exposure of Hsp33 to oxidizing conditions like H(2)O(2), however, rapidly converts Hsp33 into an efficient molecular chaperone. Activated Hsp33 binds tightly to refolding intermediates of chemically denatured luciferase and suppresses efficiently their aggregation in vitro. Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-mass spectrometry peptide mapping in combination with in vitro and on target protein chemical modification showed that this activation process of Hsp33 is accompanied by the formation of two intramolecular disulfide bonds within Hsp33: Cys(232)-S-S-Cys(234) and Cys(265)-S-S-Cys(268). Cys(141), although not involved in disulfide bond formation, was found highly reactive toward chemical modifications. In contrast, Cys(239) is readily accessible under reducing conditions but becomes poorly accessible though still reduced when Hsp33 is in its active state. This indicates a significant conformational change during the activation process of Hsp33. Mass spectrometry, thus, unraveled a novel molecular mechanism by which alteration of the disulfide bond structure, as a result of changes in the cellular redox potential, results in the activation of a molecular chaperone.
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- S Barbirz
- Faculty of Chemistry, University of Konstanz, Box M732, D-78457 Konstanz, Germany
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Maier CS, Yan X, Harder ME, Schimerlik MI, Deinzer ML, Pasa-Tolić L, Smith RD. Electrospray ionization Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometric analysis of the recombinant human macrophage colony stimulating factor beta and derivatives. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2000; 11:237-243. [PMID: 10697819 DOI: 10.1016/s1044-0305(99)00139-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The potential of electrospray ionization (ESI) Fourier transform ion cyclotron mass spectrometry (FTICR-MS) to assist in the structural characterization of monomeric and dimeric derivatives of the macrophage colony stimulating factor beta (rhM-CSF beta) was assessed. Mass spectrometric analysis of the 49 kDa protein required the use of sustained off-resonance irradiation (SORI) in-trap cleanup to reduce adduction. High resolution mass spectra were acquired for a fully reduced and a fully S-cyanylated monomeric derivative (approximately 25 kDa). Mass accuracy for monomeric derivatives was better than 5 ppm, after applying a new calibration method (i.e., DeCAL) which eliminates space charge effects upon high accuracy mass measurements. This high mass accuracy allowed the direct determination of the exact number of incorporated cyanyl groups. Collisionally induced dissociation using SORI yielded b- and y-fragment ions within the N- and C-terminal regions for the monomeric derivatives, but obtaining information on other regions required proteolytic digestion, or potentially the use of alternative dissociation methods.
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- C S Maier
- Department of Chemistry, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA
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Oudot C, Jaquinod M, Cortay JC, Cozzone AJ, Jault JM. The isocitrate dehydrogenase kinase/phosphatase from Escherichia coli is highly sensitive to in-vitro oxidative conditions role of cysteine67 and cysteine108 in the formation of a disulfide-bonded homodimer. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1999; 262:224-9. [PMID: 10231385 DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00395.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Isocitrate dehydrogenase kinase/phosphatase (IDHK/P) is a homodimeric enzyme which controls the oxidative metabolism of Escherichia coli, and exibits a high intrinsic ATPase activity. When subjected to electrophoresis under nonreducing conditions, the purified enzyme migrates partially as a dimer. The proportion of the dimer over the monomer is greatly increased by treatment with cupric 1,10 phenanthrolinate or 5,5'-dithio-bis(2-nitrobenzoic acid), and fully reversed by dithiothreitol, indicating that covalent dimerization is produced by a disulfide bond. To identify the residue(s) involved in this intermolecular disulfide-bond, each of the eight cysteines of the enzyme was individually mutated into a serine. It was found that, under nonreducing conditions, the electrophoretic patterns of all corresponding mutants are identical to that of the wild-type, except for the Cys67-->Ser which migrates exclusively as a monomer and for the Cys108-->Ser which migrates preferentially as a dimer. Furthermore, in contrast to the wild-type enzyme and all the other mutants, the Cys67-->Ser mutant still migrates as a monomer after treatment with cupric 1,10 phenanthrolinate. This result indicates that the intermolecular disulfide bond involves only Cys67 in each IDHK/P wild-type monomer. This was further supported by mass spectrum analysis of the tryptic peptides derived from either the cupric 1,10 phenanthrolinate-treated wild-type enzyme or the native Cys108-->Ser mutant, which show that they both contain a Cys67-Cys67 disulfide bond. Moreover, both the cupric 1,10 phenanthrolinate-treated wild-type enzyme and the native Cys108-->Ser mutant contain another disulfide bond between Cys356 and Cys480. Previous results have shown that this additional Cys356-Cys480 disulfide bond is intramolecular [Oudot, C., Jault, J.-M., Jaquinod, M., Negre, D., Prost, J.-F., Cozzone, A.J. & Cortay, J.-C. (1998) Eur. J. Biochem. 258, 579-585].
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- C Oudot
- Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, CNRS, Lyon, France
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Happersberger HP, Przybylski M, Glocker MO. Selective bridging of bis-cysteinyl residues by arsonous acid derivatives as an approach to the characterization of protein tertiary structures and folding pathways by mass spectrometry. Anal Biochem 1998; 264:237-50. [PMID: 9866689 DOI: 10.1006/abio.1998.2836] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Bis-cysteine selective modifications were successfully applied with melarsen oxide (MEL), an arsonous acid derivative, for tertiary structural studies of peptides and a model protein. The arsonous acid modified peptides and proteins were amenable to direct characterizations by mass spectrometry, e.g., direct molecular weight determinations and mass spectrometric peptide mapping that identified stoichiometry and sites of modification, respectively. Proteolytic digestion and mass spectrometric fragmentation of modified oxytocin showed that MEL-bridged peptide derivatives are structural homologues to the disulfide-bonded macrocyclic peptides. Mass spectrometric analyses determined the MEL modification site in partially reduced and selectively modified bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor (BPTI) bridging Cys-14 and Cys-38. The BPTI.MEL derivative was resistant to proteolysis by both Lys-C and trypsin and thus represented a rigid structure like native BPTI. MEL exhibited several advantageous features such as (i) cross-linking two closely spaced thiol groups, providing detailed tertiary structure information; (ii) high solubility as monomeric ortho acid in aqueous and organic solutions; (iii) adding a relatively large mass increment to proteins upon single modification; (iv) enabling UV monitoring of the derivatization due to a strong chromophor; and (v) performing fast and specific modifications of bis-thiol groups in proteins to form stable structures without any side reactions even with a high molar excess of MEL. The investigated physical and chemical properties of MEL suggest general applicability for selective bis-thiol modifications, enabling protein structure-function studies in both soluble and membrane proteins and the study of protein-folding reactions.
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Happersberger HP, Stapleton J, Cowgill C, Glocker MO. Characterization of the folding pathway of recombinant human macrophage-colony stimulating-factor β (rhM-CSF β) by bis-cysteinyl modification and mass spectrometry. Proteins 1998. [DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0134(1998)33:2+<50::aid-prot7>3.0.co;2-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Detailed procedures are described for successfully digesting reasonably small quantities (i.e., usually > 10 pmol) of proteins with a variety of proteases and for then isolating the resulting peptides by reverse-phase HPLC. Since sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) appears to be the current method of choice for final purification of proteins for structural analysis, special attention is given to carrying out in-gel proteolytic digests on SDS-PAGE-separated proteins that have usually been stained with Coomassie Blue. A compilation of data from nearly 200 "unknown" samples is used to help provide realistic expectations with respect to the results that are likely to be obtained from carrying out in-gel proteolytic digests on large numbers of proteins.
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- K R Williams
- W. M. Keck Foundation Biotechnology Resource Laboratory, New Haven, CT, USA.
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Spiess C, Happersberger HP, Glocker MO, Spiess E, Rippe K, Ehrmann M. Biochemical characterization and mass spectrometric disulfide bond mapping of periplasmic alpha-amylase MalS of Escherichia coli. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:22125-33. [PMID: 9268356 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.35.22125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Periplasmic alpha-amylase of Escherichia coli, the malS gene product, hydrolyzes linear maltodextrins. The purified enzyme exhibited a Km of 49 microM and a Vmax of 0.36 micromol of p-nitrophenylhexaoside hydrolyzed per min per mg of protein. Amylase activity was optimal at pH 8 and was dependent on divalent cations such as Ca2+. MalS exhibited altered migration on SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis under nonreducing conditions. Analytical ultracentrifugation and electrospray mass spectrometry indicated that MalS is monomeric. The four cysteine residues are involved in intramolecular disulfide bonds. To map disulfide bonds, MalS was proteolytically digested. The resulting peptides were separated by reverse phase-high performance liquid chromatography, and matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry analysis indicated the presence of two disulfide bonds, i.e. Cys40-58 and Cys104-520. The disulfide bond at Cys40-58 is located in an N-terminal extension of about 160 amino acids which has no homology to other amylases but to the proposed peptide binding domain of GroEL, the Hsp60 of E. coli. The N-terminal extension is linked to the C-terminal amylase domain via disulfide bond Cys104-520. Reduction of disulfide bonds by dithiothreitol treatment led to aggregation suggesting that the N terminus of MalS may represent an internal chaperone domain.
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- C Spiess
- Fakultät für Biologie, Universität Konstanz, 78457 Konstanz, Federal Republic of Germany
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Lecchi P, Loh YP, Snell CR, Pannell LK. The structure of synenkephalin (pro-enkephalin 1-73) is dictated by three disulfide bridges. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1997; 232:800-5. [PMID: 9126357 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1997.6373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Mass spectrometry of fragments produced by limited proteolytic digestion of pro-enkephalin was used to locate the disulfide bridges in synenkephalin (pro-enkephalin 1-73), a domain which contains sorting information for targeting the pro-neuropeptide to the granules of the regulated secretory pathway in neuroendocrine cells. Mass spectrometric analysis was optimized by using chemicals that gave low interference with the ionization and desorption processes, and computer software which simplified the identification of all possible disulfide-linked peptide fragments. Three disulfide bridges between Cys2-Cys24, Cys6-Cys28, and Cys9-Cys41 were identified. Protein conformational prediction of synenkephalin1-42 shows beta-turns which facilitate the formation of these disulfide bonds.
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- P Lecchi
- Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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Hsu YR, Wu GM, Mendiaz EA, Syed R, Wypych J, Toso R, Mann MB, Boone TC, Narhi LO, Lu HS, Langley KE. The majority of stem cell factor exists as monomer under physiological conditions. Implications for dimerization mediating biological activity. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:6406-15. [PMID: 9045664 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.10.6406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Soluble Escherichia coli-derived recombinant human stem cell factor (rhSCF) forms a non-covalently associated dimer. We have determined a dimer association constant (Ka) of 2-4 x 10(8) M-1, using sedimentation equilibrium and size exclusion chromatography. SCF has been shown previously to be present at concentrations of approximately 3.3 ng/ml in human serum. Based on the dimerization Ka, greater than 90% of the circulating SCF would be in the monomeric form. When 125I-rhSCF was added to human serum and the serum analyzed by size exclusion chromatography, 72-49% of rhSCF was monomer when the total SCF concentration was in the range of 10-100 ng/ml, consistent with the Ka determination. Three SCF variants, SCF(F63C), SCF (V49L,F63L), and SCF(A165C), were recombinantly expressed in Escherichia coli, purified, and characterized. The dimer Ka values, biophysical properties, and biological activities of these variants were studied. Dimerization-defective variants SCF(F63C)S-CH2CONH2 and SCF(V49L,F63L) showed substantially reduced mitogenic activity, while the activity of the Cys165-Cys165 disulfide-linked SCF(A165C) dimer was 10-fold higher than that of wild type rhSCF. The results suggest a correlation between dimerization affinity and biological activity, consistent with a model in which SCF dimerization mediates dimerization of its receptor, Kit, and subsequent signal transduction.
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- Y R Hsu
- Amgen Inc., Amgen Center, Thousand Oaks, California 91320, USA
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Suzu S, Kimura F, Matsumoto H, Yamada M, Hashimoto K, Shimamura S, Motoyoshi K. Identification of binding domains for basic fibroblast growth factor in proteoglycan macrophage colony-stimulating factor. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1997; 230:392-7. [PMID: 9016790 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1996.5968] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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We recently demonstrated that proteoglycan macrophage colony-stimulating factor (PG-M-CSF) binds basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) and neutralizes the biological activity of bFGF. In this study, we identified the binding sites of PG-M-CSF for bFGF. We examined the binding of bFGF to overlapping 12-mer peptides with the sequence of the putative binding region. High affinity binding was detected at two peaks; one consisted of the three adjacent peptides, 212-223, 213-224 and 214-225 and the other, of the three adjacent peptides, 246-257, 247-258 and 248-259. The synthetic peptide (212VDPGSAKQRPPRST225) did not inhibit bFGF binding to another peptide (246PQPRPSVGAFNPGM259), and vice versa. However, both peptides inhibited the bFGF-induced but not platelet-derived growth factor-induced stimulation of DNA synthesis in murine Balb/c 3T3 cells.
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- S Suzu
- Biochemical Research Laboratory, Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, Japan
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Caporale C, Sepe C, Caruso C, Pucci P, Buonocore V. Assignment of protein disulphides by a computer method using mass spectrometric data. FEBS Lett 1996; 393:241-7. [PMID: 8814298 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(96)00894-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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We designed a computer program for the assignment of protein disulphides using mass spectrometric data. All the theoretical linear peptides containing from one to three cysteines are generated on the basis of the protein sequence. Their combination ways are determined in order to create all the possible disulphide-bridged fragments containing from two to six cysteines and to calculate their molecular weight. One, two and three S-S bridges per linked fragment were considered, taking into account the possibility that the fragments contain unabridged residues. The mass data obtained from the spectral analysis of peptide mixtures of the digested protein are then associated to the fitting structures of disulphide-bridged peptides, giving rise to the primary output. This output can then be screened by using information on the specificity of the proteolytic agent(s) used and/or any further mass data provided by Edman degradation and/or carboxypeptidase treatment of the peptide mixtures. The need for such a computer aid is discussed and examples of application are given.
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- C Caporale
- Dipartimento di Agrobiologia ed Agrochimica, Università della Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy
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Lu HS, Jones MD, Shieh JH, Mendiaz EA, Feng D, Watler P, Narhi LO, Langley KE. Isolation and characterization of a disulfide-linked human stem cell factor dimer. Biochemical, biophysical, and biological comparison to the noncovalently held dimer. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:11309-16. [PMID: 8626683 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.19.11309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Distinct from the noncovalently linked recombinant human stem call factor (rhSCF) dimer, we report here the isolation and identification of an SDS-nondissociable dimer produced during folding/oxidation of rhSCF. Experimental evidence using various cleavage strategies and analyses shows that the isolated dimer is composed of two rhSCF monomers covalently linked by four disulfide bonds. The cysteines are paired as in the noncovalently associated dimer except that all pairings are intermolecular rather than intramolecular. Other structural models, involving intertwining of intramolecular disulfide loops, are ruled out. The molecule behaves similarly to the noncovalently associated dimer during ion-exchange or gel permeation chromatography. However, the disulfide-linked dimer exhibits increased hydrophobicity in reverse-phase columns and in the native state does not undergo spontaneous dimer dissociation-association as seen for the noncovalent dimer. Spectroscopic analyses indicate that the disulfide-linked and noncovalently associated rhSCF dimers have grossly similar secondary and tertiary structures. In vitro, the disulfide-linked dimer exhibits approximately 3-fold higher biological activity in supporting growth of a hematopoietic cell line and stimulating hematopoietic cell colony formation from enriched human CD34+ cells. The molecule binds to the rhSCF receptor, Kit, with an efficiency only half that of the noncovalently associated dimer. Formation of intermolecular disulfides in the disulfide-linked dimer with retention of biological activity has implications for the three-dimensional structure of noncovalently held dimer and disulfide-linked dimer.
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- H S Lu
- Amgen Inc., Amgen Center, Thousand Oaks, California 91320, USA
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Przybylski M, Glocker MO. Elektrospray-Massenspektrometrie von Biomakromoleülkomplexen mit nichtkovalenten Wechselwirkungen – neue analytische Perspektiven für supramolekulare Chemie und molekulare Erkennungsprozesse. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 1996. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.19961080804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Philo JS, Wen J, Wypych J, Schwartz MG, Mendiaz EA, Langley KE. Human stem cell factor dimer forms a complex with two molecules of the extracellular domain of its receptor, Kit. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:6895-902. [PMID: 8636116 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.12.6895] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Stem cell factor (SCF) is a cytokine that is active toward hematopoietic progenitor cells and other cell types, including germ cells, melanocytes, and mast cells, which express its receptor, the tyrosine kinase, Kit. SCF exists as noncovalently associated dimer at concentrations where it has been possible to study its quaternary structure; it stimulates dimerization and autophosphorylation of Kit at the cell surface. We have used recombinant versions of human SCF and human Kit extracellular domain (sKit) to study SCF-Kit interactions. By size exclusion chromatography, plus various physical chemical methods including light scattering, sedimentation equilibrium, and titration calorimetry, we demonstrate the formation of complexes containing a dimer of SCF (unglycosylated SCF1-165) plus two molecules of sKit. The concentrations of SCF and sKit in these studies were in the range of 0.35-16.2 microM. The data are analyzed and discussed in the context of several possible models for complex formation. In particular, the sedimentation data are not consistent with a model involving cooperative binding. The Kd estimate for SCF-sKit interaction, obtained by sedimentation equilibrium, is about 17 nm at 25 degrees C. With glycosylated SCF1-165, the Kd is considerably higher.
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- J S Philo
- Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, California 91320, USA
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Glocker MO, Arbogast B, Deinzer ML. Characterization of disulfide linkages and disulfide bond scrambling in recombinant human macrophage colony stimulating factor by fast-atom bombardment mass spectrometry of enzymatic digests. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 1995; 6:638-643. [PMID: 24214390 DOI: 10.1016/1044-0305(95)00250-h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/1994] [Revised: 02/02/1995] [Accepted: 02/07/1995] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Fast-atom bombardment mass spectrometry was used to study disulfide bonding patterns in heat-denatured human recombinant macrophage colony stimulating factor (rhM-CSF). The heat-denaturated protein was studied by analysis of the pattern of peptides in the proteolytic digests. Native rhM-CSF is a homodimer with intramolecular disulfide linkages between Cys7-Cys90, Cys48-Cys139, and Cys102-Cys146 and intermolecular linkages between Cys31-Cys31, and the pairs Cys157 and Cys159. Brief heating for 1 min leads to partial disulfide bond scrambling. In addition to the native disulfide bonds between Cys7-Cys90, Cys48-Cys139, and Cys31-Cys31, nonnative disulfide bonds were detected between Cys48-Cys90 and Cys48-Cys102. When heated for 5 min the disulfide bonds of rhM-CSF are completely scrambled and lead to nonnative intramolecular disulfide bonds between Cys48-Cys102 and Cys90-Cys102 and one intermolecular disulfide bond between Cys102-Cys102.
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- M O Glocker
- Faculty of Chemistry, University of Konstanz, D-78434, Konstanz, Germany
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Harwig SS, Swiderek KM, Lee TD, Lehrer RI. Determination of disulphide bridges in PG-2, an antimicrobial peptide from porcine leukocytes. J Pept Sci 1995; 1:207-15. [PMID: 9222998 DOI: 10.1002/psc.310010308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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We determined the cysteine connectivity of protegrin PG-2, a leukocyte-derived antimicrobial peptide, by performing sequential enzyme digestions with chymotrypsin and thermolysin, and monitoring each digest by direct liquid chromatography-electrospray mass spectrometric analysis. This approach resolved the disulphide pairing pattern unambiguously with only picomolar amounts of PG-2. The inferred cysteine connectivity was confirmed by traditional amino acid composition analyses using nanomolar amounts of the protegrin. The results suggest that protegrins will assume a tachyplesin-like, disulphide-stabilized anti-parallel beta-sheet configuration in solution.
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- S S Harwig
- Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles 90095, USA
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Mire-Sluis AR, Das RG, Thorpe R. The international standard for macrophage colony stimulating factor (M-CSF). Evaluation in an international collaborative study. J Immunol Methods 1995; 179:141-51. [PMID: 7533192 DOI: 10.1016/0022-1759(94)00306-h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Three ampouled preparations of macrophage colony stimulating factor (M-CSF) were evaluated by 23 laboratories in nine countries for their suitability to serve as international standards for this material. The preparations were assayed in a wide range of in vitro bioassays and immunoassays. On the basis of results reported here, with the agreement of the participants in the study and with the authorization of the Expert Committee on Biological Standardization (ECBS) of the World Health Organization (WHO), the preparation in ampoules coded 89/512 was established as the international standard for M-CSF.
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- A R Mire-Sluis
- Division of Immunobiology and Informatics Laboratory, National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, Herts, UK
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Lu HS, Chang WC, Mendiaz EA, Mann MB, Langley KE, Hsu YR. Spontaneous dissociation-association of monomers of the human-stem-cell-factor dimer. Biochem J 1995; 305 ( Pt 2):563-8. [PMID: 7530446 PMCID: PMC1136399 DOI: 10.1042/bj3050563] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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In its native state, recombinant human-stem-cell-factor (SCF) dimer can spontaneously and rapidly undergo hybridization when two different SCF dimer species are incubated together. SCF species differing in molecular charge, e.g., a wild-type SCF form and a variant with Asp at position 10 instead of Asn, were used in the hybridization studies; the original species and newly formed dimer hybrid can be separated and quantified by cationic-exchange h.p.l.c. The hybridization reaches an equilibrium where the ratio of hybrid dimer to each of the original species is 2. Kinetic studies of the initial rate of hybridization enable a rate constant for monomer dissociation to be determined. This rate constant is influenced by pH, temperature and salt concentration. The pH and salt effects suggest that salt bridges between charged amino acids at the monomer-monomer interface may be present. From the temperature effects, the activation energy for monomer dissociation was determined to be 85.6 kJ/mol, which is typical for oligomeric proteins. Heavily glycosylated recombinant SCF from Chinese-hamster ovary cells exchanged equally well with the bacterially derived non-glycosylated SCF, indicating that the attached carbohydrate moieties had no effect on monomer exchange.
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- H S Lu
- Amgen Inc., Amgen Center, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320
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Li XL, Yang HJ, Grotemeyer J. Sequence-ion enhancement of peptides digested with proteinase K. RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY : RCM 1994; 8:833-836. [PMID: 8000079 DOI: 10.1002/rcm.1290081008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Proteinase K has been employed to proteolyze peptides before their mass spectrometric analysis. This combination of the two methods yields abundant sequence ions in the mass spectrum, thus leading to an easy prediction of the primary structure of the peptide. It was found that both the variety of available sequence ions and also their abundances are increased strongly after proteinase K digestion, when compared with the normal mass spectrum. The shortcoming of little fragmentation encountered using conventional mass spectrometric ionization methods can mostly be overcome. The H'n and Y"m ions produced from proteolysis provided a double check of the peptide sequence.
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- X L Li
- Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Universität Würzburg, Germany
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Glocker MO, Arbogast B, Milley R, Cowgill C, Deinzer ML. Disulfide linkages in the in vitro refolded intermediates of recombinant human macrophage-colony-stimulating factor: analysis of the sulfhydryl alkylation of free cysteine residues by fast-atom bombardment mass spectrometry. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1994; 91:5868-72. [PMID: 8016080 PMCID: PMC44098 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.91.13.5868] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Fast-atom bombardment mass spectrometry was used to follow the time course of disulfide bond formation during in vitro refolding of recombinant human macrophage-colony-stimulating factor. The content of iodoacetamide-alkylated half-cystines in proteolytic peptides of trapped refolding intermediates collected at 0, 6, 17, 24, and 72 hr was determined under reducing conditions. Size-exclusion high-performance liquid chromatography analyses of the collected alkylated samples indicate that aggregated monomer proceeded through a nonaggregated monomer to an intermediate dimer and finally to the fully folded and active dimer. Underalkylation was first detected by fast-atom bombardment mass spectrometry in 17-hr samples at Cys157 and Cys159 and this corresponded to the first sample containing dimer. Analyses of intermediates from subsequent time points indicated a decrease in alkylated sulfhydryls, and at 72 hr no alkylated peptide was detected. Early samples containing only monomer showed no evidence of disulfide bonds, and the occurrence of disulfide shuffling at the monomer stage could be ruled out under the highly reducing conditions used for refolding. Biological activity was not detectable in early samples but increased to 3.6% after 24 hr of refolding and to 86% of maximum at the 72-hr time point.
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- M O Glocker
- Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Oregon State University, Corvallis 97331
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Bradshaw RA, Stewart AE. Analysis of protein modifications: recent advances in detection, characterization and mapping. Curr Opin Biotechnol 1994; 5:85-93. [PMID: 7764649 DOI: 10.1016/s0958-1669(05)80075-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The past year has seen several contributions, both in methods for determining and characterizing chemical modifications of proteins and in related technologies used to map peptides. These contributions mainly involve improvements in capillary zone electrophoresis and in various applications of mass spectrometry.
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- R A Bradshaw
- Department of Biological Chemistry, College of Medicine, University of California, Irvine 92717-1700
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Epidermal growth factor (EGF) and transforming growth factor alpha (TGF-alpha) are ligands for the EGF-receptor and act as mitogens for a variety of tissues. TGF-alpha, in particular, has been implicated as an autocrine growth factor for several cancer cell lines. Over the last 10 years many groups have examined the structure-function relationships in EGF/TGF-alpha in attempts to develop antagonists or agonists. In this review the results of these studies are summarised and related to the three-dimensional structure of EGF/TGF-alpha. The difficulties associated with the purification and characterisation of analogues of EGF/TGF-alpha and with the biological assays are discussed. It is clear that these difficulties have, in some cases, led to apparently contradicting results. The available binding data indicate that the receptor interaction surface for EGF/TGF-alpha might encompass one complete side of the molecule with a few strong binding determinants, in particular Arg41 and Leu47. The arginine at position 41 is the most critical residue and its full hydrogen-bonding capacity is needed for strong binding of EGF/TGF-alpha to the EGF-receptor. As this side of the molecule consists of residues from both the N- and C-terminal domain, it seems unlikely that agonists or antagonists can be developed on the basis of short peptides taken from the primary sequence. This concept is supported by the available binding and activity data.
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- L C Groenen
- Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, PO Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia
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