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Code C, Qiu D, Solov’yov IA, Lee JG, Shin HC, Roland C, Sagui C, Houde D, Rand KD, Jørgensen TJD. Conformationally Restricted Glycopeptide Backbone Inhibits Gas-Phase H/D Scrambling between Glycan and Peptide Moieties. J Am Chem Soc 2023; 145:23925-23938. [PMID: 37883679 PMCID: PMC10636759 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c04068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2023] [Revised: 10/10/2023] [Accepted: 10/11/2023] [Indexed: 10/28/2023]
Abstract
Protein glycosylation is a common post-translational modification on extracellular proteins. The conformational dynamics of several glycoproteins have been characterized by hydrogen/deuterium exchange mass spectrometry (HDX-MS). However, it is, in most cases, not possible to extract information about glycan conformation and dynamics due to the general difficulty of separating the deuterium content of the glycan from that of the peptide (in particular, for O-linked glycans). Here, we investigate whether the fragmentation of protonated glycopeptides by collision-induced dissociation (CID) can be used to determine the solution-specific deuterium content of the glycan. Central to this concept is that glycopeptides can undergo a facile loss of glycans upon CID, thereby allowing for the determination of their masses. However, an essential prerequisite is that hydrogen and deuterium (H/D) scrambling can be kept in check. Therefore, we have measured the degree of scrambling upon glycosidic bond cleavage in glycopeptides that differ in the conformational flexibility of their backbone and glycosylation pattern. Our results show that complete scrambling precedes the glycosidic bond cleavage in normal glycopeptides derived from a glycoprotein; i.e., all labile hydrogens have undergone positional randomization prior to loss of the glycan. In contrast, the glycosidic bond cleavage occurs without any scrambling in the glycopeptide antibiotic vancomycin, reflecting that the glycan cannot interact with the peptide moiety due to a conformationally restricted backbone as revealed by molecular dynamics simulations. Scrambling is also inhibited, albeit to a lesser degree, in the conformationally restricted glycopeptides ristocetin and its pseudoaglycone, demonstrating that scrambling depends on an intricate interplay between the flexibility and proximity of the glycan and the peptide backbone.
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- Christian Code
- Department
of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department
of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University
of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M, Denmark
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- Department
of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department
of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University
of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M, Denmark
- Department
of Physics, Carl von Ossietzky University
Oldenburg, Carl-von-Ossietzky-Str. 9-11, 26129 Oldenburg, Germany
- Research
Centre for Neurosensory Science, Carl von
Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Carl-von-Ossietzky-Str. 9-11, 26129 Oldenburg, Germany
- Center
for Nanoscale Dynamics (CENAD), Carl von
Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg Institut für Physik, Ammerländer Heerstr. 114-118, 26129 Oldenburg, Germany
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- Center for
Molecular Intelligence, The State University
of New York (SUNY), Korea,
119 Songdo Munwha-ro, Yeonsu-gu, 21985 Incheon, Korea
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- Center for
Molecular Intelligence, The State University
of New York (SUNY), Korea,
119 Songdo Munwha-ro, Yeonsu-gu, 21985 Incheon, Korea
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- Department
of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
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- Department
of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
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- Department
of Protein Pharmaceutical Development, Biogen, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, United States
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- Department
of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department
of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University
of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense, Denmark
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Petrotchenko EV, Borchers CH. Protein Chemistry Combined with Mass Spectrometry for Protein Structure Determination. Chem Rev 2021; 122:7488-7499. [PMID: 34968047 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
The advent of soft-ionization mass spectrometry for biomolecules has opened up new possibilities for the structural analysis of proteins. Combining protein chemistry methods with modern mass spectrometry has led to the emergence of the distinct field of structural proteomics. Multiple protein chemistry approaches, such as surface modification, limited proteolysis, hydrogen-deuterium exchange, and cross-linking, provide diverse and often orthogonal structural information on the protein systems studied. Combining experimental data from these various structural proteomics techniques provides a more comprehensive examination of the protein structure and increases confidence in the ultimate findings. Here, we review various types of experimental data from structural proteomics approaches with an emphasis on the use of multiple complementary mass spectrometric approaches to provide experimental constraints for the solving of protein structures.
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- Evgeniy V Petrotchenko
- Segal Cancer Proteomics Centre, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3T 1E2, Canada.,Center for Computational and Data-Intensive Science and Engineering, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow 121205, Russia
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- Segal Cancer Proteomics Centre, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3T 1E2, Canada.,Center for Computational and Data-Intensive Science and Engineering, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow 121205, Russia.,Gerald Bronfman Department of Oncology, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3T 1E2, Canada
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Lento C, Wilson DJ. Subsecond Time-Resolved Mass Spectrometry in Dynamic Structural Biology. Chem Rev 2021; 122:7624-7646. [PMID: 34324314 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
Abstract
Life at the molecular level is a dynamic world, where the key players-proteins, oligonucleotides, lipids, and carbohydrates-are in a perpetual state of structural flux, shifting rapidly between local minima on their conformational free energy landscapes. The techniques of classical structural biology, X-ray crystallography, structural NMR, and cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), while capable of extraordinary structural resolution, are innately ill-suited to characterize biomolecules in their dynamically active states. Subsecond time-resolved mass spectrometry (MS) provides a unique window into the dynamic world of biological macromolecules, offering the capacity to directly monitor biochemical processes and conformational shifts with a structural dimension provided by the electrospray charge-state distribution, ion mobility, covalent labeling, or hydrogen-deuterium exchange. Over the past two decades, this suite of techniques has provided important insights into the inherently dynamic processes that drive function and pathogenesis in biological macromolecules, including (mis)folding, complexation, aggregation, ligand binding, and enzyme catalysis, among others. This Review provides a comprehensive account of subsecond time-resolved MS and the advances it has enabled in dynamic structural biology, with an emphasis on insights into the dynamic drivers of protein function.
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- Cristina Lento
- Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3, Canada
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Modzel M, Wollenberg DTW, Trelle MB, Larsen MR, Jørgensen TJD. Ultraviolet Photodissociation of Protonated Peptides and Proteins Can Proceed with H/D Scrambling. Anal Chem 2021; 93:691-696. [PMID: 33295747 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c02957] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Ultraviolet photodissociation (UVPD) has recently been introduced as an ion activation method for the determination of single-residue deuterium levels in H/D exchange tandem mass spectrometry experiments. In this regard, it is crucial to know which fragment ion types can be utilized for this purpose. UVPD yields rich product ion spectra where all possible backbone fragment ion types (a/x, b/y, and c/z) are typically observed. Here we provide a detailed investigation of the level of H/D scrambling for all fragment ion types upon UVPD of the peptide scrambling probe P1 (HHHHHHIIKIIK) using an Orbitrap tribrid mass spectrometer equipped with a solid-state 213 nm UV laser. The most abundant UVPD-generated fragment ions (i.e., b/y ions) exhibit extensive H/D scrambling. Similarly, a/x and c/z ions have also undergone H/D scrambling due to UV-induced heating of the precursor ion population. Therefore, dominant b/y ions upon UVPD of protonated peptides are a strong indicator for the occurrence of extensive H/D scrambling of the precursor ion population. In contrast to peptide P1, UV-irradiation of ubiquitin did not induce H/D scrambling in the nonfragmented precursor ion population. However, the UVPD-generated b2 and a4 ions from ubiquitin exhibit extensive H/D scrambling. To minimize H/D scrambling, short UV-irradiation time and high gas pressures are recommended.
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- Maciej Modzel
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, Odense M 5230, Denmark.,Faculty of Chemistry, University of Wrocław, F. Joliot-Curie 14, 50-383 Wrocław, Poland
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, Odense M 5230, Denmark.,Novozymes A/S, Krogshøjvej 36, Bagsværd 2880, Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Svendborg Hospital, Baagøes Allé 15, SVB Building 17.01, 5700 Svendborg, Denmark
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, Odense M 5230, Denmark
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, Odense M 5230, Denmark
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Wollenberg DTW, Pengelley S, Mouritsen JC, Suckau D, Jørgensen CI, Jørgensen TJD. Avoiding H/D Scrambling with Minimal Ion Transmission Loss for HDX-MS/MS-ETD Analysis on a High-Resolution Q-TOF Mass Spectrometer. Anal Chem 2020; 92:7453-7461. [PMID: 32427467 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b05208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
Abstract
Hydrogen/deuterium exchange monitored by mass spectrometry (HDX-MS) enables the study of protein dynamics by measuring the time-resolved deuterium incorporation into a protein incubated in D2O. Using electron-based fragmentation in the gas phase it is possible to measure deuterium uptake at single-residue resolution. However, a prerequisite for this approach is that the solution-phase labeling is conserved in the gas phase prior to precursor fragmentation. It is therefore essential to reduce or even avoid intramolecular hydrogen/deuterium migration, which causes randomization of the deuterium labels along the peptide (hydrogen scrambling). Here, we describe an optimization strategy for reducing scrambling to a negligible level while minimizing the impact on sensitivity on a high-resolution Q-TOF equipped with ETD and an electrospray ionization interface consisting of a glass transfer capillary followed by a dual ion funnel. In our strategy we narrowed down the optimization to two accelerating potentials, and we defined the optimization of these in a simple rule by accounting for their interdependency in relation to scrambling and transmission efficiency. Using this rule, we were able to reduce scrambling from 75% to below 5% on average using the highly scrambling-sensitive quadruply charged P1 peptide scrambling probe resulting in a minor 33% transmission loss. To demonstrate the applicability of this approach, we probe the dynamics of certain regions in cytochrome c.
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- Daniel T Weltz Wollenberg
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, Odense M 5230, Denmark.,Novozymes A/S, Krogshøjvej 36, Bagsværd 2280, Denmark
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- Bruker Daltonik GmbH, Fahrenheitstrasse 4, Bremen, 28359, Germany
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- Bruker Daltonik GmbH, Fahrenheitstrasse 4, Bremen, 28359, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, Odense M 5230, Denmark
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Makepeace KAT, Brodie NI, Popov KI, Gudavicius G, Nelson CJ, Petrotchenko EV, Dokholyan NV, Borchers CH. Ligand-induced disorder-to-order transitions characterized by structural proteomics and molecular dynamics simulations. J Proteomics 2019; 211:103544. [PMID: 31683063 DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2019.103544] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2019] [Revised: 09/07/2019] [Accepted: 10/07/2019] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
Abstract
For disordered proteins, ligand binding can be a critical event that changes their structural dynamics. The ability to characterize such changes would facilitate the development of drugs designed to stabilize disordered proteins, whose mis-folding is important for a number of pathologies, including neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases. In this study, we used hydrogen/deuterium exchange, differential crosslinking, differential surface modification, and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to characterize the structural changes in disordered proteins that result from ligand binding. We show here that both an ATP-independent protein chaperone, Spy L32P, and the FK506 binding domain of a prolyl isomerase, FKBP-25 F145A/I223P, are disordered, yet exhibit structures that are distinct from chemically denatured unfolded states in solution, and that they undergo transitions to a more structured state upon ligand binding. These systems may serve as models for the characterization of ligand-induced disorder-to-order transitions in proteins using structural proteomics approaches. SIGNIFICANCE: In this study, we used hydrogen/deuterium exchange, differential crosslinking, differential surface modification, and molecular-dynamics simulations to characterize the structural changes in disordered proteins that result from ligand binding. The protein-ligand systems studied here (the ATP-independent protein chaperone, Spy L32P, and the FK506 binding domain of a prolyl isomerase, FKBP-25 F145A/I223P) may serve as models for understanding ligand-induced disorder-to-order transitions in proteins. Additionally, the structural proteomic techniques demonstrated here are shown to be effective tools for the characterization of disorder-to-order transitions and can be used to facilitate study of other systems in which this class of structural transition can be used for modulating major pathological features of disease, such as the abnormal protein aggregation that occurs with Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.
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- Karl A T Makepeace
- University of Victoria -Genome British Columbia Proteomics Centre, #3101-4464 Markham Street, Vancouver Island Technology Park, Victoria, BC V8Z7X8, Canada
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- University of Victoria -Genome British Columbia Proteomics Centre, #3101-4464 Markham Street, Vancouver Island Technology Park, Victoria, BC V8Z7X8, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Petch Building, Room 270d, 3800 Finnerty Rd, Victoria, BC V8P 5C2, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Petch Building, Room 270d, 3800 Finnerty Rd, Victoria, BC V8P 5C2, Canada
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- Segal Cancer Proteomics Centre, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, H3T 1E2, Canada
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- Department of Pharmacology, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Penn State College of Medicine, PA 17033, USA
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- University of Victoria -Genome British Columbia Proteomics Centre, #3101-4464 Markham Street, Vancouver Island Technology Park, Victoria, BC V8Z7X8, Canada; Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Petch Building, Room 270d, 3800 Finnerty Rd, Victoria, BC V8P 5C2, Canada; Segal Cancer Proteomics Centre, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, H3T 1E2, Canada; Gerald Bronfman Department of Oncology, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, H3T 1E2, Canada.
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Straus RN, Jockusch RA. Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange and Electron Capture Dissociation to Interrogate the Conformation of Gaseous Melittin Ions. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2019; 30:864-875. [PMID: 30834508 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-019-02150-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2017] [Revised: 02/04/2019] [Accepted: 02/05/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
Abstract
There is a need in the field of biological mass spectrometry for structural tools which can report on regional, rather than solely global, structure of gaseous protein ions. Site-specific hydrogen-deuterium (H/D) exchange has shown promise in fulfilling this need, but requires additional method development to prove its utility. In this study, we use H/D exchange and electron capture dissociation (ECD) to probe the gaseous structure of two peptides which are α-helical in solution and which differ by a single point mutation. Global H/D exchange levels, ECD fragmentation profiles, and region specific H/D exchange profiles are compared between wild type (WT) melittin, which adopts a hinged helix conformation in solution, and a mutant P14A melittin which folds into a single helix in solution. High protection from H/D exchange by both peptides is consistent with retention of secondary structure in the gas phase (or refolding into some other compact structure). The P14A mutant melittin exhibits lower ECD fragmentation efficiency than WT melittin, suggesting that it contains more secondary structure in the gas phase, which may indicate that these peptides retain some memory of their solution-phase structures. Examination of the isotopic distributions of fragment ions derived from H/D exchange with subsequent ECD reveals that the C-terminus of these peptides adopts multiple conformations. The results reported here offer insight into the stability of alpha helices in the gas phase, and also highlight the value of combining gas-phase H/D exchange with electron capture dissociation to interrogate gaseous peptide conformation.
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- Rita N Straus
- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3H6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3H6, Canada.
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Hamuro Y, Zhang T. High-Resolution HDX-MS of Cytochrome c Using Pepsin/Fungal Protease Type XIII Mixed Bed Column. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2019; 30:227-234. [PMID: 30374663 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-018-2087-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2018] [Revised: 10/05/2018] [Accepted: 10/08/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
Abstract
A pepsin/FPXIII (protease from Aspergillus saitoi, type XIII) mixed bed column significantly improved the resolution of bottom-up hydrogen/deuterium exchange mass spectrometry (HDX-MS) data compared with a pepsin-only column. The HDX-MS method using the mixed bed column determined 65 amide hydrogen exchange rates out of one hundred cytochrome c backbone amide hydrogens. Different cleavage specificities of the two enzymes generated 138 unique high-quality peptic fragments, which allows fine sub-localization of deuterium. The exchange rates determined in this method are consistent within the current study as well as with the previous HDX-NMR study. High-resolution HDX-MS data can determine the exchange rate of each residue not the deuterium buildup curve of a peptic fragment. The exchange rates provide more precise and quantitative measurements of protein dynamics in a more reproducible manner. Graphical Abstract ᅟ.
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- Yoshitomo Hamuro
- SGS Life North America, 606 Brandywine Parkway, West Chester, PA, 19380, USA.
- Janssen Pharmaceutical, 1400 McKean Road, Spring House, PA, 19477, USA.
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- Thermo Fisher Scientific, 355 River Oaks Parkway, San Jose, CA, 95134, USA
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Benhaim M, Lee KK, Guttman M. Tracking Higher Order Protein Structure by Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry. Protein Pept Lett 2019; 26:16-26. [PMID: 30543159 PMCID: PMC6386625 DOI: 10.2174/0929866526666181212165037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2018] [Revised: 08/30/2018] [Accepted: 11/17/2018] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Structural biology has provided a fundamental understanding of protein structure and mechanistic insight into their function. However, high-resolution structures alone are insufficient for a complete understanding of protein behavior. Higher energy conformations, conformational changes, and subtle structural fluctuations that underlie the proper function of proteins are often difficult to probe using traditional structural approaches. Hydrogen/Deuterium Exchange with Mass Spectrometry (HDX-MS) provides a way to probe the accessibility of backbone amide protons under native conditions, which reports on local structural dynamics of solution protein structure that can be used to track complex structural rearrangements that occur in the course of a protein's function. CONCLUSION In the last 20 years the advances in labeling techniques, sample preparation, instrumentation, and data analysis have enabled HDX to gain insights into very complex biological systems. Analysis of challenging targets such as membrane protein complexes is now feasible and the field is paving the way to the analysis of more and more complex systems.
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- Mark Benhaim
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
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Lermyte F, Valkenborg D, Loo JA, Sobott F. Radical solutions: Principles and application of electron-based dissociation in mass spectrometry-based analysis of protein structure. MASS SPECTROMETRY REVIEWS 2018; 37:750-771. [PMID: 29425406 PMCID: PMC6131092 DOI: 10.1002/mas.21560] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2017] [Revised: 01/19/2018] [Accepted: 01/19/2018] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
Abstract
In recent years, electron capture (ECD) and electron transfer dissociation (ETD) have emerged as two of the most useful methods in mass spectrometry-based protein analysis, evidenced by a considerable and growing body of literature. In large part, the interest in these methods is due to their ability to induce backbone fragmentation with very little disruption of noncovalent interactions which allows inference of information regarding higher order structure from the observed fragmentation behavior. Here, we review the evolution of electron-based dissociation methods, and pay particular attention to their application in "native" mass spectrometry, their mechanism, determinants of fragmentation behavior, and recent developments in available instrumentation. Although we focus on the two most widely used methods-ECD and ETD-we also discuss the use of other ion/electron, ion/ion, and ion/neutral fragmentation methods, useful for interrogation of a range of classes of biomolecules in positive- and negative-ion mode, and speculate about how this exciting field might evolve in the coming years.
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- Frederik Lermyte
- Biomolecular and Analytical Mass Spectrometry Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
- Centre for Proteomics, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
- School of Engineering, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Proteomics, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
- Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics, Hasselt University, Agoralaan, Diepenbeek, Belgium
- Applied Bio and Molecular Systems, Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Mol, Belgium
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
- UCLA/DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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- Biomolecular and Analytical Mass Spectrometry Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
- Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
- School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Zhang J, Woods C, He F, Han M, Treuheit MJ, Volkin DB. Structural Changes and Aggregation Mechanisms of Two Different Dimers of an IgG2 Monoclonal Antibody. Biochemistry 2018; 57:5466-5479. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.8b00575] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Jun Zhang
- Process Development, Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, California 91320, United States
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- Process Development, Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, California 91320, United States
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Macromolecule and Vaccine Stabilization Center, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66049, United States
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- Process Development, Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, California 91320, United States
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- Pharmacokinetics & Drug Metabolism, Amgen Inc., South San Francisco, California 94080, United States
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- Process Development, Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, California 91320, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Macromolecule and Vaccine Stabilization Center, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66049, United States
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Oganesyan I, Lento C, Wilson DJ. Contemporary hydrogen deuterium exchange mass spectrometry. Methods 2018; 144:27-42. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2018.04.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2018] [Revised: 04/16/2018] [Accepted: 04/21/2018] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Rathore D, Faustino A, Schiel J, Pang E, Boyne M, Rogstad S. The role of mass spectrometry in the characterization of biologic protein products. Expert Rev Proteomics 2018; 15:431-449. [DOI: 10.1080/14789450.2018.1469982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- Deepali Rathore
- Division of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Office of Testing and Research, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA
- Center for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry Research, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- Division of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Office of Testing and Research, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA
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- Biomolecular Measurement Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, Rockville, MD, USA
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- Office of Lifecycle Drug Products, Office of Pharmaceutical Quality, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA
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- Division of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Office of Testing and Research, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA
- COUR Pharmaceuticals Development Company, Northbrook, IL, USA
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- Division of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Office of Testing and Research, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA
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Hamuro Y, E SY. Determination of Backbone Amide Hydrogen Exchange Rates of Cytochrome c Using Partially Scrambled Electron Transfer Dissociation Data. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2018; 29:989-1001. [PMID: 29500740 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-018-1892-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2017] [Revised: 01/08/2018] [Accepted: 01/08/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The technological goal of hydrogen/deuterium exchange-mass spectrometry (HDX-MS) is to determine backbone amide hydrogen exchange rates. The most critical challenge to achieve this goal is obtaining the deuterium incorporation in single-amide resolution, and gas-phase fragmentation may provide a universal solution. The gas-phase fragmentation may generate the daughter ions which differ by a single amino acid and the difference in deuterium incorporations in the two analogous ions can yield the deuterium incorporation at the sub-localized site. Following the pioneering works by Jørgensen and Rand, several papers utilized the electron transfer dissociation (ETD) to determine the location of deuterium in single-amide resolution. This paper demonstrates further advancement of the strategy by determining backbone amide hydrogen exchange rates, instead of just determining deuterium incorporation at a single time point, in combination with a wide time window monitoring. A method to evaluate the effects of scrambling and to determine the exchange rates from partially scrambled HDX-ETD-MS data is described. All parent ions for ETD fragmentation were regio-selectively scrambled: The deuterium in some regions of a peptide ion was scrambled while that in the other regions was not scrambled. The method determined 31 backbone amide hydrogen exchange rates of cytochrome c in the non-scrambled regions. Good fragmentation of a parent ion, a low degree of scrambling, and a low number of exchangeable hydrogens in the preceding side chain are the important factors to determine the exchange rate. The exchange rates determined by the HDX-MS are in good agreement with those determined by NMR. Graphical Abstract ᅟ.
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- Yoshitomo Hamuro
- ExSAR Corporation, 11 Deer Park Drive, Suite 103, Monmouth Junction, NJ, 08852, USA.
- SGS Life North America, 606 Brandywine Parkway, West Chester, PA, 19380, USA.
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- ExSAR Corporation, 11 Deer Park Drive, Suite 103, Monmouth Junction, NJ, 08852, USA
- Regeneron, 777 Old Saw Mill River Road, Tarrytown, NY, 10591, USA
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Brodie NI, Huguet R, Zhang T, Viner R, Zabrouskov V, Pan J, Petrotchenko EV, Borchers CH. Top-Down Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange Analysis of Protein Structures Using Ultraviolet Photodissociation. Anal Chem 2018; 90:3079-3082. [PMID: 29336549 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.7b03655] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Top-down hydrogen-deuterium exchange (HDX) analysis using electron capture or transfer dissociation Fourier transform mass spectrometry (FTMS) is a powerful method for the analysis of secondary structure of proteins in solution. The resolution of the method is a function of the degree of fragmentation of backbone bonds in the proteins. While fragmentation is usually extensive near the N- and C-termini, electron capture (ECD) or electron transfer dissociation (ETD) fragmentation methods sometimes lack good coverage of certain regions of the protein, most often in the middle of the sequence. Ultraviolet photodissociation (UVPD) is a recently developed fast-fragmentation technique, which provides extensive backbone fragmentation that can be complementary in sequence coverage to the aforementioned electron-based fragmentation techniques. Here, we explore the application of electrospray ionization (ESI)-UVPD FTMS on an Orbitrap Fusion Lumos Tribrid mass spectrometer to top-down HDX analysis of proteins. We have incorporated UVPD-specific fragment-ion types and fragment-ion mixtures into our isotopic envelope fitting software (HDX Match) for the top-down HDX analysis. We have shown that UVPD data is complementary to ETD, thus improving the overall resolution when used as a combined approach.
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- Nicholas I Brodie
- University of Victoria -Genome British Columbia Proteomics Centre , No. 3101-4464 Markham Street, Vancouver Island Technology Park , Victoria , British Columbia V8Z 7X8 , Canada
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- Thermo Fisher Scientific , 355 River Oaks Parkway , San Jose , California 95134 , United States
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- Thermo Fisher Scientific , 355 River Oaks Parkway , San Jose , California 95134 , United States
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- Thermo Fisher Scientific , 355 River Oaks Parkway , San Jose , California 95134 , United States
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- Thermo Fisher Scientific , 355 River Oaks Parkway , San Jose , California 95134 , United States
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- University of Victoria -Genome British Columbia Proteomics Centre , No. 3101-4464 Markham Street, Vancouver Island Technology Park , Victoria , British Columbia V8Z 7X8 , Canada
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- University of Victoria -Genome British Columbia Proteomics Centre , No. 3101-4464 Markham Street, Vancouver Island Technology Park , Victoria , British Columbia V8Z 7X8 , Canada
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- University of Victoria -Genome British Columbia Proteomics Centre , No. 3101-4464 Markham Street, Vancouver Island Technology Park , Victoria , British Columbia V8Z 7X8 , Canada.,Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology , University of Victoria , Petch Building, Room 270d, 3800 Finnerty Road , Victoria , British Columbia V8P 5C2 , Canada.,Gerald Bronfman Department of Oncology, Jewish General Hospital , McGill University , 3755 Côte Ste-Catherine Road , Montreal , Quebec H3T 1E2 , Canada.,Proteomics Centre, Segal Cancer Centre, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital , McGill University , 3755 Côte Ste-Catherine Road , Montreal , Quebec H3T 1E2 , Canada
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Hamuro Y. Regio-Selective Intramolecular Hydrogen/Deuterium Exchange in Gas-Phase Electron Transfer Dissociation. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2017; 28:971-977. [PMID: 28194737 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-017-1612-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2016] [Revised: 12/29/2016] [Accepted: 01/17/2017] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Protein backbone amide hydrogen/deuterium exchange mass spectrometry (HDX-MS) typically utilizes enzymatic digestion after the exchange reaction and before MS analysis to improve data resolution. Gas-phase fragmentation of a peptic fragment prior to MS analysis is a promising technique to further increase the resolution. The biggest technical challenge for this method is elimination of intramolecular hydrogen/deuterium exchange (scrambling) in the gas phase. The scrambling obscures the location of deuterium. Jørgensen's group pioneered a method to minimize the scrambling in gas-phase electron capture/transfer dissociation. Despite active investigation, the mechanism of hydrogen scrambling is not well-understood. The difficulty stems from the fact that the degree of hydrogen scrambling depends on instruments, various parameters of mass analysis, and peptide analyzed. In most hydrogen scrambling investigations, the hydrogen scrambling is measured by the percentage of scrambling in a whole molecule. This paper demonstrates that the degree of intramolecular hydrogen/deuterium exchange depends on the nature of exchangeable hydrogen sites. The deuterium on Tyr amide of neurotensin (9-13), Arg-Pro-Tyr-Ile-Leu, migrated significantly faster than that on Ile or Leu amides, indicating the loss of deuterium from the original sites is not mere randomization of hydrogen and deuterium but more site-specific phenomena. This more precise approach may help understand the mechanism of intramolecular hydrogen exchange and provide higher confidence for the parameter optimization to eliminate intramolecular hydrogen/deuterium exchange during gas-phase fragmentation. Graphical Abstract ᅟ.
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- Yoshitomo Hamuro
- ExSAR Corporation, 11 Deer Park Drive, Suite 103, Monmouth Junction, NJ, 08852, USA.
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Straus RN, Jockusch RA. Probing the Gaseous Structure of a β-Hairpin Peptide with H/D Exchange and Electron Capture Dissociation. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2017; 28:358-369. [PMID: 27943124 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-016-1528-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2016] [Revised: 10/05/2016] [Accepted: 10/10/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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An improved understanding of the extent to which native protein structure is retained upon transfer to the gas phase promises to enhance biological mass spectrometry, potentially streamlining workflows and providing fundamental insights into hydration effects. Here, we investigate the gaseous conformation of a model β-hairpin peptide using gas-phase hydrogen-deuterium (H/D) exchange with subsequent electron capture dissociation (ECD). Global gas-phase H/D exchange levels, and residue-specific exchange levels derived from ECD data, are compared among the wild type 16-residue peptide GB1p and several variants. High protection from H/D exchange observed for GB1p, but not for a truncated version, is consistent with the retention of secondary structure of GB1p in the gas phase or its refolding into some other compact structure. Four alanine mutants that destabilize the hairpin in solution show levels of protection similar to that of GB1p, suggesting collapse or (re)folding of these peptides upon transfer to the gas phase. These results offer a starting point from which to understand how a key secondary structural element, the β-hairpin, is affected by transfer to the gas phase. This work also demonstrates the utility of a much-needed addition to the tool set that is currently available for the investigation of the gaseous conformation of biomolecules, which can be employed in the future to better characterize gaseous proteins and protein complexes. Graphical Abstract ᅟ.
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- Rita N Straus
- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 3H6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 3H6, Canada.
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Brown KA, Sharifi S, Hussain R, Donaldson L, Bayfield MA, Wilson DJ. Distinct Dynamic Modes Enable the Engagement of Dissimilar Ligands in a Promiscuous Atypical RNA Recognition Motif. Biochemistry 2016; 55:7141-7150. [PMID: 27959512 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.6b00995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Conformational dynamics play a critical role in ligand binding, often conferring divergent activities and specificities even in species with highly similar ground-state structures. Here, we employ time-resolved electrospray ionization hydrogen-deuterium exchange (TRESI-HDX) to characterize the changes in dynamics that accompany oligonucleotide binding in the atypical RNA recognition motif (RRM2) in the C-terminal domain (CTD) of human La protein. Using this approach, which is uniquely capable of probing changes in the structure and dynamics of weakly ordered regions of proteins, we reveal that binding of RRM2 to a model 23-mer single-stranded RNA and binding of RRM2 to structured IRES domain IV of the hepatitis C viral (HCV) RNA are driven by fundamentally different dynamic processes. In particular, binding of the single-stranded RNA induces helical "unwinding" in a region of the CTD previously hypothesized to play an important role in La and La-related protein-associated RNA remodeling, while the same region becomes less dynamic upon engagement with the double-stranded HCV RNA. Binding of double-stranded RNA also involves less penetration into the RRM2 binding pocket and more engagement with the unstructured C-terminus of the La CTD. The complementarity between TRESI-HDX and Δδ nuclear magnetic resonance measurements for ligand binding analysis is also explored.
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- Kerene A Brown
- Department of Chemistry, York University , Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada
- Centre for Research in Mass Spectrometry, York University , Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada
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- Department of Biology, York University , Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada
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- Department of Biology, York University , Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada
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- Department of Biology, York University , Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada
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- Department of Biology, York University , Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada
- Centre for Research in Biomolecular Interactions, York University , Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, York University , Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada
- Centre for Research in Mass Spectrometry, York University , Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada
- Centre for Research in Biomolecular Interactions, York University , Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada
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Pan J, Zhang S, Borchers CH. Comparative higher-order structure analysis of antibody biosimilars using combined bottom-up and top-down hydrogen-deuterium exchange mass spectrometry. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS 2016; 1864:1801-1808. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2016.08.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2016] [Revised: 08/13/2016] [Accepted: 08/23/2016] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Carbene footprinting accurately maps binding sites in protein-ligand and protein-protein interactions. Nat Commun 2016; 7:13288. [PMID: 27848959 PMCID: PMC5116083 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2015] [Accepted: 09/20/2016] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Specific interactions between proteins and their binding partners are fundamental to life processes. The ability to detect protein complexes, and map their sites of binding, is crucial to understanding basic biology at the molecular level. Methods that employ sensitive analytical techniques such as mass spectrometry have the potential to provide valuable insights with very little material and on short time scales. Here we present a differential protein footprinting technique employing an efficient photo-activated probe for use with mass spectrometry. Using this methodology the location of a carbohydrate substrate was accurately mapped to the binding cleft of lysozyme, and in a more complex example, the interactions between a 100 kDa, multi-domain deubiquitinating enzyme, USP5 and a diubiquitin substrate were located to different functional domains. The much improved properties of this probe make carbene footprinting a viable method for rapid and accurate identification of protein binding sites utilizing benign, near-UV photoactivation. Mapping protein-ligand interactions is fundamental to advance the understanding of cellular processes and to develop drug discovery strategies. Here, the authors present a photo-activated probe that allows highly efficient labelling and identification of protein binding sites using mass spectrometry.
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Donnarumma D, Faleri A, Costantino P, Rappuoli R, Norais N. The role of structural proteomics in vaccine development: recent advances and future prospects. Expert Rev Proteomics 2016; 13:55-68. [PMID: 26714563 DOI: 10.1586/14789450.2016.1121113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Vaccines are the most effective way to fight infectious diseases saving countless lives since their introduction. Their evolution during the last century made use of the best technologies available to continuously increase their efficacy and safety. Mass spectrometry (MS) and proteomics are already playing a central role in the identification and characterization of novel antigens. Over the last years, we have been witnessing the emergence of structural proteomics in vaccinology, as a major tool for vaccine candidate discovery, antigen design and life cycle management of existing products. In this review, we describe the MS techniques associated to structural proteomics and we illustrate the contribution of structural proteomics to vaccinology discussing potential applications.
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Going CC, Xia Z, Williams ER. Real-time HD Exchange Kinetics of Proteins from Buffered Aqueous Solution with Electrothermal Supercharging and Top-Down Tandem Mass Spectrometry. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2016; 27:1019-1027. [PMID: 26919868 PMCID: PMC4865425 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-016-1350-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2015] [Revised: 01/21/2016] [Accepted: 01/22/2016] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Electrothermal supercharging (ETS) with electrospray ionization produces highly charged protein ions from buffered aqueous solutions in which proteins have native folded structures. ETS increases the charge of ribonuclease A by 34%, whereas only a 6% increase in charge occurs for a reduced-alkylated form of this protein, which is unfolded and its structure is ~66% random coil in this solution. These results indicate that protein denaturation that occurs in the ESI droplets is the primary mechanism for ETS. ETS does not affect the extent of solution-phase hydrogen-deuterium exchange (HDX) that occurs for four proteins that have significantly different structures in solution, consistent with a droplet lifetime that is considerably shorter than observable rates of HDX. Rate constants for HDX of ubiquitin are obtained with a spatial resolution of ~1.3 residues with ETS and electron transfer dissociation of the 10+ charge-state using a single capillary containing a few μL of protein solution in which HDX continuously occurs. HDX protection at individual residues with ETS HDX is similar to that with reagent supercharging HDX and with solution-phase NMR, indicating that the high spray potentials required to induce ETS do not lead to HD scrambling. Graphical Abstract ᅟ.
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- Catherine C Going
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720-1460, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720-1460, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720-1460, USA.
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Monkkonen L, Edgar JS, Winters D, Heron SR, Mackay CL, Masselon CD, Stokes AA, Langridge-Smith PR, Goodlett DR. Screen-printed digital microfluidics combined with surface acoustic wave nebulization for hydrogen-deuterium exchange measurements. J Chromatogr A 2016; 1439:161-166. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2015.12.048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2015] [Revised: 11/16/2015] [Accepted: 12/17/2015] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Protein species-specific characterization of conformational change induced by multisite phosphorylation. J Proteomics 2016; 134:138-143. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2015.12.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2015] [Revised: 10/29/2015] [Accepted: 12/01/2015] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Patrie SM. Top-Down Mass Spectrometry: Proteomics to Proteoforms. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2016; 919:171-200. [PMID: 27975217 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-41448-5_8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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This chapter highlights many of the fundamental concepts and technologies in the field of top-down mass spectrometry (TDMS), and provides numerous examples of contributions that TD is making in biology, biophysics, and clinical investigations. TD workflows include variegated steps that may include non-specific or targeted preparative strategies, orthogonal liquid chromatography techniques, analyte ionization, mass analysis, tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) and informatics procedures. This diversity of experimental designs has evolved to manage the large dynamic range of protein expression and diverse physiochemical properties of proteins in proteome investigations, tackle proteoform microheterogeneity, as well as determine structure and composition of gas-phase proteins and protein assemblies.
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- Steven M Patrie
- Computational and Systems Biology & Biomedical Engineering Graduate Programs, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA. .,Department of Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA. .,Department of Bioengineering, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA.
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Pan J, Zhang S, Chou A, Borchers CH. Higher-order structural interrogation of antibodies using middle-down hydrogen/deuterium exchange mass spectrometry. Chem Sci 2015; 7:1480-1486. [PMID: 29910905 PMCID: PMC5975933 DOI: 10.1039/c5sc03420e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2015] [Accepted: 11/24/2015] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Specific restricted proteolysis combined with subzero temperature HPLC and online ETD facilitates structural characterization of antibodies at high resolution.
Although X-ray crystallography is the “gold standard” method for protein higher-order structure analysis, the challenges of antibody crystallization and the time-consuming data analysis involved make this technique unsuitable for routine structural studies of antibodies. In addition, crystallography cannot be used for the structural characterization of an antibody in solution, under conditions where antibody drugs are active. Intact antibodies are also too large and too complex for NMR. Top-down mass spectrometry coupled to hydrogen/deuterium exchange (HDX) is a powerful tool for high-resolution protein structural characterization, but its success declines rapidly as protein size increases. Here we report for the first time a new hybrid “middle-down” HDX approach that overcomes this limitation through enabling the nonspecific enzyme pepsin to perform specific restricted digestion at low pH prior to HPLC separation at subzero temperatures and online electron transfer dissociation (ETD). Three large specific peptic fragments (12 to 25 kDa) were observed from the heavy chain and light chain of a therapeutic antibody Herceptin, together with a few smaller fragments from the middle portion of the heavy chain. The average amino-acid resolutions obtained by ETD were around two residues, with single-residue resolution in many regions. This middle-down approach is also applicable to other antibodies. It provided HDX information on the entire light chain, and 95.3% of the heavy chain, representing 96.8% of the entire antibody (150 kDa). The structural effects of glycosylation on Herceptin were determined at close-to-single residue level by this method.
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- Jingxi Pan
- University of Victoria-Genome British Columbia Proteomics Centre , Vancouver Island Technology Park , #3101-4464 Markham St. , Victoria , BC V8Z 7X8 , Canada .
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- MRM Proteomics Inc. , 4464 Markham Street, Suite #2108 , Victoria , British Columbia V8Z 7X8 , Canada
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- University of Victoria-Genome British Columbia Proteomics Centre , Vancouver Island Technology Park , #3101-4464 Markham St. , Victoria , BC V8Z 7X8 , Canada .
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- University of Victoria-Genome British Columbia Proteomics Centre , Vancouver Island Technology Park , #3101-4464 Markham St. , Victoria , BC V8Z 7X8 , Canada . .,Department of Biochemistry & Microbiology , University of Victoria , Petch Building Room 207, 3800 Finnerty Rd. , Victoria , BC V8P 5C2 , Canada
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Zhang Z, Vachet RW. Kinetics of Protein Complex Dissociation Studied by Hydrogen/Deuterium Exchange and Mass Spectrometry. Anal Chem 2015; 87:11777-83. [PMID: 26531682 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5b03123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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The growing importance of protein aggregation diseases requires the development of new methods to elucidate the molecular features that are responsible for the incipient protein-protein interactions. Kinetic information from protein-protein association/dissociation reactions is particularly valuable for revealing mechanistic insight, but robust tools that can provide this information are somewhat lacking. In this work, we describe a hydrogen/deuterium exchange (HDX)-based method that provides rate constant information for protein oligomer dissociation, using the well-studied β-lactoglobulin (βLG) dimer as a model system to validate our approach. By measuring the rate of exchange at different regions of the protein using top-down tandem mass spectrometry and fitting the resulting data to an appropriate mathematical model, we are able to extract the dimer's dissociation rate constant. We exploit the fact that regions of the protein that are part of the protein-protein interface have exchange patterns that are distinct from noninterfacial regions. This observation indicates that the HDX/MS method not only provides kinetic information but also could provide structural insight about the interface at the same time, which would be very valuable for previously uncharacterized protein-protein complexes.
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- Zhe Zhang
- Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts , LGRT 104, 710 North Pleasant Street, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts , LGRT 104, 710 North Pleasant Street, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States
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Petrotchenko EV, Borchers CH. HDX match software for the data analysis of top-down ECD-FTMS hydrogen/deuterium exchange experiments. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2015; 26:1895-1898. [PMID: 26162650 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-015-1213-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2015] [Revised: 06/10/2015] [Accepted: 06/11/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Hydrogen/deuterium exchange (HDX) combined with mass spectrometry is a powerful technique for studying protein structure. The recently developed top-down ECD-FTMS HDX approach (Pan J. et al., JACS, 2008) allows determination of the hydrogen/deuterium exchange of a protein's amide bonds, down to the single residue resolution. One of the existing limitations of this technology has been the laborious manual analysis of the MS/MS spectra. Here we present a software program for processing the data from these experiments. This program assigns the c- and z-fragment ion series of the protein, and calculates the number of the exchanged amide protons for each fragment by fitting the theoretically predicted isotopic envelopes of the deuterated fragments to the experimental data. Graphical Abstract ᅟ.
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- Evgeniy V Petrotchenko
- University of Victoria - Genome British Columbia Proteomics Centre, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, V8Z 7X8, Canada
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- University of Victoria - Genome British Columbia Proteomics Centre, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, V8Z 7X8, Canada.
- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, V8P 5C2, Canada.
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Marcoux J, Cianférani S. Towards integrative structural mass spectrometry: Benefits from hybrid approaches. Methods 2015; 89:4-12. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2015.05.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2014] [Revised: 05/06/2015] [Accepted: 05/25/2015] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Cammarata MB, Thyer R, Rosenberg J, Ellington A, Brodbelt JS. Structural Characterization of Dihydrofolate Reductase Complexes by Top-Down Ultraviolet Photodissociation Mass Spectrometry. J Am Chem Soc 2015; 137:9128-35. [PMID: 26125523 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b04628] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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The stepwise reduction of dihydrofolate to tetrahydrofolate entails significant conformational changes of dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR). Binary and ternary complexes of DHFR containing cofactor NADPH, inhibitor methotrexate (MTX), or both NADPH and MTX were characterized by 193 nm ultraviolet photodissociation (UVPD) mass spectrometry. UVPD yielded over 80% sequence coverage of DHFR and resulted in production of fragment ions that revealed the interactions between DHFR and each ligand. UVPD of the binary DHFR·NADPH and DHFR·MTX complexes led to an unprecedented number of fragment ions containing either an N- or C-terminal protein fragment still bound to the ligand via retention of noncovalent interactions. In addition, holo-fragments retaining both ligands were observed upon UVPD of the ternary DHFR·NADPH·MTX complex. The combination of extensive holo and apo fragment ions allowed the locations of the NADPH and MTX ligands to be mapped, with NADPH associated with the adenosine binding domain of DHFR and MTX interacting with the loop domain. These findings are consistent with previous crystallographic evidence. Comparison of the backbone cleavage propensities for apo DHFR and its holo counterparts revealed significant variations in UVPD fragmentation in the regions expected to experience conformational changes upon binding NADPH, MTX, or both ligands. In particular, the subdomain rotation and loop movements, which are believed to occur upon formation of the transition state of the ternary complex, are reflected in the UVPD mass spectra. The UVPD spectra indicate enhanced backbone cleavages in regions that become more flexible or show suppressed backbone cleavages for those regions either shielded by the ligand or involved in new intramolecular interactions. This study corroborates the versatility of 193 nm UVPD mass spectrometry as a sensitive technique to track enzymatic cycles that involve conformational rearrangements.
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- Michael B Cammarata
- †Department of Chemistry and ‡Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- †Department of Chemistry and ‡Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- †Department of Chemistry and ‡Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- †Department of Chemistry and ‡Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- †Department of Chemistry and ‡Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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Pan J, Zhang S, Chou A, Hardie DB, Borchers CH. Fast Comparative Structural Characterization of Intact Therapeutic Antibodies Using Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange and Electron Transfer Dissociation. Anal Chem 2015; 87:5884-90. [PMID: 25927482 DOI: 10.1021/ac504809r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Higher-order structural characterization plays an important role in many stages of therapeutic antibody production. Herein, we report a new top-down mass spectrometry approach for characterizing the higher-order structure of intact antibodies, by combining hydrogen/deuterium exchange (HDX), subzero temperature chromatography, and electron transfer dissociation on the Orbitrap mass spectrometer. Individual IgG domain-level deuteration information was obtained for 6 IgG domains on Herceptin (HER), which included the antigen binding sites. This is the first time that top-down HDX has been applied to an intact protein as large as 150 kDa, which has never been done before on any instrument. Ligand-binding induced structural differences in HER were determined to be located only on the variable region of the light chain. Global glycosylation profile of antibodies and HDX property of the glycoforms were also determined by accurate intact mass measurements. Although the presence of disulfide bonds prevent the current approach from being able to obtain amino acid level structural information within the disulfide-linked regions, the advantages such as minimal sample manipulation, fast workflow, very low level of back exchange, and simple data analysis, make it well-suited for fast comparative structural evaluation of intact antibodies.
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- Jingxi Pan
- †University of Victoria-Genome British Columbia Proteomics Centre, Vancouver Island Technology Park, #3101-4464 Markham St., Victoria, British Columbia V8Z 7X8, Canada
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- †University of Victoria-Genome British Columbia Proteomics Centre, Vancouver Island Technology Park, #3101-4464 Markham St., Victoria, British Columbia V8Z 7X8, Canada
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- †University of Victoria-Genome British Columbia Proteomics Centre, Vancouver Island Technology Park, #3101-4464 Markham St., Victoria, British Columbia V8Z 7X8, Canada
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- †University of Victoria-Genome British Columbia Proteomics Centre, Vancouver Island Technology Park, #3101-4464 Markham St., Victoria, British Columbia V8Z 7X8, Canada
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- †University of Victoria-Genome British Columbia Proteomics Centre, Vancouver Island Technology Park, #3101-4464 Markham St., Victoria, British Columbia V8Z 7X8, Canada
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Donohoe GC, Arndt JR, Valentine SJ. Online deuterium hydrogen exchange and protein digestion coupled with ion mobility spectrometry and tandem mass spectrometry. Anal Chem 2015; 87:5247-54. [PMID: 25893550 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5b00277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Online deuterium hydrogen exchange (DHX) and pepsin digestion (PD) is demonstrated using drift tube ion mobility spectrometry (DTIMS) coupled with linear ion trap (LTQ) mass spectrometry (MS) with electron transfer dissociation (ETD) capabilities. DHX of deuterated ubiquitin, followed by subsequent quenching and digestion, is performed within ∼60 s, yielding 100% peptide sequence coverage. The high reproducibility of the IMS separation allows spectral feature matching between two-dimensional IMS-MS datasets (undeuterated and deuterated) without the need for dataset alignment. Extracted ion drift time distributions (XIDTDs) of deuterated peptic peptides are mobility-matched to corresponding XIDTDs of undeuterated peptic peptides that were identified using collision-induced dissociation (CID). Matching XIDTDs allows a straightforward identification and deuterium retention evaluation for labeled peptides. Aside from the mobility separation, the ion trapping capabilities of the LTQ, combined with ETD, are demonstrated to provide single-residue resolution. Deuterium retention for the c- series ions across residues M(1)-L(15) and N(25)-R(42) are in good agreement with the known secondary structural elements within ubiquitin.
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- Gregory C Donohoe
- C. Eugene Bennett Department of Chemistry, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, United States
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- C. Eugene Bennett Department of Chemistry, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, United States
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- C. Eugene Bennett Department of Chemistry, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, United States
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Keppel TR, Weis DD. Mapping residual structure in intrinsically disordered proteins at residue resolution using millisecond hydrogen/deuterium exchange and residue averaging. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2015; 26:547-554. [PMID: 25481641 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-014-1033-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2014] [Revised: 10/16/2014] [Accepted: 10/16/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Measurement of residual structure in intrinsically disordered proteins can provide insights into the mechanisms by which such proteins undergo coupled binding and folding. The present work describes an approach to measure residual structure in disordered proteins using millisecond hydrogen/deuterium (H/D) exchange in a conventional bottom-up peptide-based workflow. We used the exchange mid-point, relative to a totally deuterated control, to quantify the rate of H/D exchange in each peptide. A weighted residue-by-residue average of these midpoints was used to map the extent of residual structure at near single-residue resolution. We validated this approach both by simulating a disordered protein and experimentally using the p300 binding domain of ACTR, a model disordered protein already well-characterized by other approaches. Secondary structure elements mapped in the present work are in good agreement with prior nuclear magnetic resonance measurements. The new approach was somewhat limited by a loss of spatial resolution and subject to artifacts because of heterogeneities in intrinsic exchange. Approaches to correct these limitations are discussed.
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- Theodore R Keppel
- Department of Chemistry, The University of Kansas, 1251 Wescoe Hall Drive, Lawrence, KS, 66045, USA
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Leurs U, Mistarz UH, Rand KD. Getting to the core of protein pharmaceuticals--Comprehensive structure analysis by mass spectrometry. Eur J Pharm Biopharm 2015; 93:95-109. [PMID: 25791210 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpb.2015.03.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2014] [Revised: 02/27/2015] [Accepted: 03/02/2015] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Protein pharmaceuticals are the fastest growing class of novel therapeutic agents, and have been a major research and development focus in the (bio)pharmaceutical industry. Due to their large size and structural diversity, biopharmaceuticals represent a formidable challenge regarding analysis and characterization compared to traditional small molecule drugs. Any changes to the primary, secondary, tertiary or quaternary structure of a protein can potentially impact its function, efficacy and safety. The analysis and characterization of (structural) protein heterogeneity is therefore of utmost importance. Mass spectrometry has evolved as a powerful tool for the characterization of both primary and higher order structures of protein pharmaceuticals. Furthermore, the chemical and physical stability of protein drugs, as well as their pharmacokinetics are nowadays routinely determined by mass spectrometry. Here we review current techniques in primary, secondary and tertiary structure analysis of proteins by mass spectrometry. An overview of established top-down and bottom-up protein analyses will be given, and in particular the use of advanced technologies such as hydrogen/deuterium exchange mass spectrometry (HDX-MS) for higher-order structure analysis will be discussed. Modification and degradation pathways of protein drugs and their detection by mass spectrometry will be described, as well as the growing use of mass spectrometry to assist protein design and biopharmaceutical development.
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- Ulrike Leurs
- Department of Pharmacy, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 2, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Pharmacy, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 2, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Pharmacy, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 2, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Gülbakan B, Barylyuk K, Zenobi R. Determination of thermodynamic and kinetic properties of biomolecules by mass spectrometry. Curr Opin Biotechnol 2015; 31:65-72. [DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2014.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2014] [Revised: 08/08/2014] [Accepted: 08/12/2014] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Mistarz UH, Brown JM, Haselmann KF, Rand KD. Simple setup for gas-phase H/D exchange mass spectrometry coupled to electron transfer dissociation and ion mobility for analysis of polypeptide structure on a liquid chromatographic time scale. Anal Chem 2014; 86:11868-76. [PMID: 25375223 DOI: 10.1021/ac5035456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Gas-phase hydrogen/deuterium exchange (HDX) is a fast and sensitive, yet unharnessed analytical approach for providing information on the structural properties of biomolecules, in a complementary manner to mass analysis. Here, we describe a simple setup for ND3-mediated millisecond gas-phase HDX inside a mass spectrometer immediately after ESI (gas-phase HDX-MS) and show utility for studying the primary and higher-order structure of peptides and proteins. HDX was achieved by passing N2-gas through a container filled with aqueous deuterated ammonia reagent (ND3/D2O) and admitting the saturated gas immediately upstream or downstream of the primary skimmer cone. The approach was implemented on three commercially available mass spectrometers and required no or minor fully reversible reconfiguration of gas-inlets of the ion source. Results from gas-phase HDX-MS of peptides using the aqueous ND3/D2O as HDX reagent indicate that labeling is facilitated exclusively through gaseous ND3, yielding similar results to the infusion of purified ND3-gas, while circumventing the complications associated with the use of hazardous purified gases. Comparison of the solution-phase- and gas-phase deuterium uptake of Leu-Enkephalin and Glu-Fibrinopeptide B, confirmed that this gas-phase HDX-MS approach allows for labeling of sites (heteroatom-bound non-amide hydrogens located on side-chains, N-terminus and C-terminus) not accessed by classical solution-phase HDX-MS. The simple setup is compatible with liquid chromatography and a chip-based automated nanoESI interface, allowing for online gas-phase HDX-MS analysis of peptides and proteins separated on a liquid chromatographic time scale at increased throughput. Furthermore, online gas-phase HDX-MS could be performed in tandem with ion mobility separation or electron transfer dissociation, thus enabling multiple orthogonal analyses of the structural properties of peptides and proteins in a single automated LC-MS workflow.
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- Ulrik H Mistarz
- Department of Pharmacy, University of Copenhagen , Universitetsparken 2, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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Song H, Olsen OH, Persson E, Rand KD. Sites involved in intra- and interdomain allostery associated with the activation of factor VIIa pinpointed by hydrogen-deuterium exchange and electron transfer dissociation mass spectrometry. J Biol Chem 2014; 289:35388-96. [PMID: 25344622 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m114.614297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Factor VIIa (FVIIa) is a trypsin-like protease that plays an important role in initiating blood coagulation. Very limited structural information is available for the free, inactive form of FVIIa that circulates in the blood prior to vascular injury and the molecular details of its activity enhancement remain elusive. Here we have applied hydrogen/deuterium exchange mass spectrometry coupled to electron transfer dissociation to pinpoint individual residues in the heavy chain of FVIIa whose conformation and/or local interaction pattern changes when the enzyme transitions to the active form, as induced either by its cofactor tissue factor or a covalent active site inhibitor. Identified regulatory residues are situated at key sites across one continuous surface of the protease domain spanning the TF-binding helix across the activation pocket to the calcium binding site and are embedded in elements of secondary structure and at the base of flexible loops. Thus these residues are optimally positioned to mediate crosstalk between functional sites in FVIIa, particularly the cofactor binding site and the active site. Our results unambiguously show that the conformational allosteric activation signal extends to the EGF1 domain in the light chain of FVIIa, underscoring a remarkable intra- and interdomain allosteric regulation of this trypsin-like protease.
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- Hongjian Song
- From the Department of Pharmacy, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 2, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark and
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- Haemostasis Biology, Novo Nordisk A/S, Novo Nordisk Park, DK-2760 Måløv, Denmark
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- Haemostasis Biology, Novo Nordisk A/S, Novo Nordisk Park, DK-2760 Måløv, Denmark
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- From the Department of Pharmacy, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 2, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark and
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Rand KD, Zehl M, Jørgensen TJD. Measuring the hydrogen/deuterium exchange of proteins at high spatial resolution by mass spectrometry: overcoming gas-phase hydrogen/deuterium scrambling. Acc Chem Res 2014; 47:3018-27. [PMID: 25171396 DOI: 10.1021/ar500194w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Proteins are dynamic molecules that exhibit conformational flexibility to function properly. Well-known examples of this are allosteric regulation of protein activity and ligand-induced conformational changes in protein receptors. Detailed knowledge of the conformational properties of proteins is therefore pertinent to both basic and applied research, including drug development, since the majority of drugs target protein receptors and a growing number of drugs introduced to the market are therapeutic peptides or proteins. X-ray crystallography provides a static picture at atomic resolution of the lowest-energy structure of the native ensemble. There is a growing need for sensitive analytical tools to explore all of the significant molecular structures in the conformational landscape of proteins. Hydrogen/deuterium exchange monitored by mass spectrometry (HDX-MS) has recently emerged as a powerful method for characterizing protein conformational dynamics. The basis of this method is the fact that backbone amides in stable hydrogen-bonded structures (e.g., α-helices and β-sheets) are protected against exchange with the aqueous solvent. All protein structures are dynamic, however, and eventually all of the protecting hydrogen bonds will transiently break as the protein--according to thermodynamic principles--cycles through partially unfolded states that correspond to excited free energy levels. As a result, all of the backbone amides will eventually become temporarily solvent-exposed and exchange-competent over time. Consequently, a folded protein in D2O will gradually incorporate deuterium into its backbone amides, and the kinetics of the process can be readily monitored by mass spectrometry. The deuterium uptake kinetics for the intact protein (global exchange kinetics) represents the sum of the exchange kinetics for the individual backbone amides. Local exchange kinetics is typically achieved by using pepsin digestion under quench conditions (i.e., under cold acidic conditions where the amide hydrogen exchange rate is slowed by many orders of magnitude). The ability to localize the individual deuterated residues (the spatial resolution) is determined by the size (typically ∼7-15 residues) and the number of peptic peptides. These peptides provide a relatively coarse-grained picture of the protein dynamics. A fundamental understanding of the relationship between protein function/dysfunction and conformational dynamics requires in many cases higher resolution and ultimately single-residue resolution. In this Account, we summarize our efforts to achieve single-residue deuterium levels in proteins by electron-based or laser-induced gas-phase fragmentation methods. A crucial analytical requirement for this approach is that the pattern of deuterium labeling from solution is retained in the gas-phase fragment ions. It is therefore essential to control and minimize any occurrence of gas-phase randomization of the solution deuterium label (H/D scrambling) during the MS experiment. For this purpose, we have developed model peptide probes to accurately measure the onset and extent of H/D scrambling. Our analytical procedures to control the occurrence of H/D scrambling are detailed along with the physical parameters that induce it during MS analysis. In light of the growing use of gas-phase dissociation experiments to measure the HDX of proteins in order to obtain a detailed characterization and understanding of the dynamic conformations and interactions of proteins at the molecular level, we discuss the perspectives and challenges of future high-resolution HDX-MS methodology.
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- Kasper D. Rand
- Department
of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department
of Pharmacognosy and Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Department
of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5230 Odense, Denmark
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Pan J, Zhang S, Parker CE, Borchers CH. Subzero Temperature Chromatography and Top-Down Mass Spectrometry for Protein Higher-Order Structure Characterization: Method Validation and Application to Therapeutic Antibodies. J Am Chem Soc 2014; 136:13065-71. [DOI: 10.1021/ja507880w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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- Jingxi Pan
- University of Victoria-Genome British Columbia Proteomics Centre, Vancouver Island Technology Park, 3101-4464 Markham St., Victoria, British Columbia V8Z 7X8, Canada
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- University of Victoria-Genome British Columbia Proteomics Centre, Vancouver Island Technology Park, 3101-4464 Markham St., Victoria, British Columbia V8Z 7X8, Canada
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- University of Victoria-Genome British Columbia Proteomics Centre, Vancouver Island Technology Park, 3101-4464 Markham St., Victoria, British Columbia V8Z 7X8, Canada
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- University of Victoria-Genome British Columbia Proteomics Centre, Vancouver Island Technology Park, 3101-4464 Markham St., Victoria, British Columbia V8Z 7X8, Canada
- Department
of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Petch Building Room 207, 3800 Finnerty Rd., Victoria, British Columbia V8P 5C2, Canada
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Pan J, Borchers CH. Top-down mass spectrometry and hydrogen/deuterium exchange for comprehensive structural characterization of interferons: Implications for biosimilars. Proteomics 2014; 14:1249-58. [DOI: 10.1002/pmic.201300341] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2013] [Revised: 11/14/2013] [Accepted: 02/24/2014] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Jingxi Pan
- University of Victoria - Genome BC Proteomics Centre; University of Victoria; Victoria BC Canada
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- University of Victoria - Genome BC Proteomics Centre; University of Victoria; Victoria BC Canada
- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology; University of Victoria; Victoria BC Canada
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Cassou CA, Williams ER. Anions in electrothermal supercharging of proteins with electrospray ionization follow a reverse Hofmeister series. Anal Chem 2014; 86:1640-7. [PMID: 24410546 PMCID: PMC3983018 DOI: 10.1021/ac403398j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The
effects of different anions on the extent of electrothermal
supercharging of proteins from aqueous ammonium and sodium salt solutions
were investigated. Sulfate and hydrogen phosphate are the most effective
anions at producing high charge state protein ions from buffered aqueous
solution, whereas iodide and perchlorate are ineffective with electrothermal
supercharging. The propensity for these anions to produce high charge
state protein ions follows the following trend: sulfate > hydrogen
phosphate > thiocyanate > bicarbonate > chloride > formate
≈
bromide > acetate > iodide > perchlorate. This trend correlates
with
the reverse Hofmeister series over a wide range of salt concentrations
(1 mM to 2 M) and with several physical properties, including solvent
surface tension, anion viscosity B-coefficient, and anion surface/bulk
partitioning coefficient, all of which are related to the Hofmeister
series. The effectiveness of electrothermal supercharging does not
depend on bubble formation, either from thermal degradation of the
buffer or from coalescence of dissolved gas. These results provide
evidence that the effect of different ions in the formation of high
charge state ions by electrothermal supercharging is largely a result
of Hofmeister effects on protein stability leading to protein unfolding
in the heated ESI droplet.
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- Catherine A Cassou
- Department of Chemistry, University of California , Berkeley, California 94720-1460, United States
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Petrotchenko EV, Borchers CH. Modern Mass Spectrometry-Based Structural Proteomics. ADVANCES IN PROTEIN CHEMISTRY AND STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY 2014; 95:193-213. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-800453-1.00006-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/01/2023]
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Liu Q, Easterling ML, Agar JN. Resolving isotopic fine structure to detect and quantify natural abundance- and hydrogen/deuterium exchange-derived isotopomers. Anal Chem 2013; 86:820-5. [PMID: 24328359 DOI: 10.1021/ac403365g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Hydrogen/deuterium exchange (HDX) mass spectrometry (MS) is used for analyzing protein dynamics, protein folding/unfolding, and molecular interactions. Until this study, HDX MS experiments employed mass spectral resolving powers that afforded only one peak per nominal mass in a given peptide's isotope distribution, and HDX MS data analysis methods were developed accordingly. A level of complexity that is inherent to HDX MS remained unaddressed, namely, various combinations of natural abundance heavy isotopes and exchanged deuterium shared the same nominal mass and overlapped at previous resolving powers. For example, an A + 2 peak is comprised of (among other isotopomers) a two-(2)H-exchanged/zero-(13)C isotopomer, a one-(2)H-exchanged/one-(13)C isotopomer, and a zero-(2)H-exchanged/two-(13)C isotopomer. Notably, such isotopomers differ slightly in mass as a result of the ∼3 mDa mass defect between (2)H and (13)C atoms. Previous HDX MS methods did not resolve these isotopomers, requiring a natural-abundance-only (before HDX or "time zero") spectrum and data processing to remove its contribution. It is demonstrated here that high-resolution mass spectrometry can be used to detect isotopic fine structure, such as in the A + 2 profile example above, deconvolving the isotopomer species resulting from deuterium incorporation. Resolving isotopic fine structure during HDX MS therefore permits direct monitoring of HDX, which can be calculated as the sum of the fractional peak magnitudes of the deuterium-exchanged isotopomers. This obviates both the need for a time zero spectrum as well as data processing to account for natural abundance heavy isotopes, saving instrument and analysis time.
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- Qian Liu
- Department of Chemistry, Brandeis University , Waltham, Massachusetts 02453, United States
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Hentze N, Mayer MP. Analyzing protein dynamics using hydrogen exchange mass spectrometry. J Vis Exp 2013. [PMID: 24326301 DOI: 10.3791/50839] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022] Open
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All cellular processes depend on the functionality of proteins. Although the functionality of a given protein is the direct consequence of its unique amino acid sequence, it is only realized by the folding of the polypeptide chain into a single defined three-dimensional arrangement or more commonly into an ensemble of interconverting conformations. Investigating the connection between protein conformation and its function is therefore essential for a complete understanding of how proteins are able to fulfill their great variety of tasks. One possibility to study conformational changes a protein undergoes while progressing through its functional cycle is hydrogen-(1)H/(2)H-exchange in combination with high-resolution mass spectrometry (HX-MS). HX-MS is a versatile and robust method that adds a new dimension to structural information obtained by e.g. crystallography. It is used to study protein folding and unfolding, binding of small molecule ligands, protein-protein interactions, conformational changes linked to enzyme catalysis, and allostery. In addition, HX-MS is often used when the amount of protein is very limited or crystallization of the protein is not feasible. Here we provide a general protocol for studying protein dynamics with HX-MS and describe as an example how to reveal the interaction interface of two proteins in a complex.
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- Nikolai Hentze
- Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg (ZMBH), University of Heidelberg
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Conformer-specific characterization of nonnative protein states using hydrogen exchange and top-down mass spectrometry. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2013; 110:20087-92. [PMID: 24277803 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1315029110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Characterization of structure and dynamics of nonnative protein states is important for understanding molecular mechanisms of processes as diverse as folding, binding, aggregation, and enzyme catalysis to name just a few; however, selectively probing local minima within rugged energy landscapes remains a problem. Mass spectrometry (MS) coupled with hydrogen/deuterium exchange (HDX) offers a unique advantage of being able to make a distinction among multiple protein conformers that coexist in solution; however, detailed structural interrogation of such states previously remained out of reach of HDX MS. In this work, we exploited the aforementioned unique feature of HDX MS in combination with the ability of MS to isolate narrow populations of protein ions to characterize individual protein conformers coexisting in solution in equilibrium. Subsequent fragmentation of the protein ions using electron-capture dissociation allowed us to allocate the deuterium distribution along the protein backbone, yielding a backbone-amide protection map for the selected conformer unaffected by contributions from other protein states present in solution. The method was tested with the small regulatory protein ubiquitin (Ub), which is known to form nonnative intermediate states under a variety of mildly denaturing conditions. Protection maps of these intermediate states obtained at residue-level resolution provide clear evidence that they are very similar to the so-called A-state of Ub that is formed in solutions with low pH and high alcohol. Method validation was carried out by comparing the backbone-amide protection map of native Ub with those deduced from high-resolution NMR measurements.
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Abzalimov RR, Bobst CE, Kaltashov IA. A new approach to measuring protein backbone protection with high spatial resolution using H/D exchange and electron capture dissociation. Anal Chem 2013; 85:9173-80. [PMID: 23978257 DOI: 10.1021/ac401868b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Inadequate spatial resolution remains one of the most serious limitations of hydrogen/deuterium exchange-mass spectrometry (HDX-MS), especially when applied to larger proteins (over 30 kDa). Supplementing proteolytic fragmentation of the protein in solution with ion dissociation in the gas phase has been used successfully by several groups to obtain near-residue level resolution. However, the restrictions imposed by the LC-MS/MS mode of operation on the data acquisition time frame makes it difficult in many cases to obtain a signal-to-noise ratio adequate for reliable assignment of the backbone amide protection levels at individual residues. This restriction is lifted in the present work by eliminating the LC separation step from the workflow and taking advantage of the high resolving power and dynamic range of a Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance-mass spectrometer (FTICR-MS). A residue-level resolution is demonstrated for a peptic fragment of a 37 kDa recombinant protein (N-lobe of human serum transferrin), using electron-capture dissociation as an ion fragmentation tool. The absence of hydrogen scrambling in the gas phase prior to ion dissociation is verified using redundant HDX-MS data generated by FTICR-MS. The backbone protection pattern generated by direct HDX-MS/MS is in excellent agreement with the known crystal structure of the protein but also provides information on conformational dynamics, which is not available from the static X-ray structure.
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- Rinat R Abzalimov
- Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts-Amherst , Amherst, MA 01003, United States
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Protein hydrogen exchange at residue resolution by proteolytic fragmentation mass spectrometry analysis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2013; 110:16438-43. [PMID: 24019478 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1315532110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Hydrogen exchange technology provides a uniquely powerful instrument for measuring protein structural and biophysical properties, quantitatively and in a nonperturbing way, and determining how these properties are implemented to produce protein function. A developing hydrogen exchange-mass spectrometry method (HX MS) is able to analyze large biologically important protein systems while requiring only minuscule amounts of experimental material. The major remaining deficiency of the HX MS method is the inability to deconvolve HX results to individual amino acid residue resolution. To pursue this goal we used an iterative optimization program (HDsite) that integrates recent progress in multiple peptide acquisition together with previously unexamined isotopic envelope-shape information and a site-resolved back-exchange correction. To test this approach, residue-resolved HX rates computed from HX MS data were compared with extensive HX NMR measurements, and analogous comparisons were made in simulation trials. These tests found excellent agreement and revealed the important computational determinants.
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Lemaire P, Debois D, Smargiasso N, Quinton L, Gabelica V, De Pauw EA. Use of 1,5-diaminonaphthalene to combine matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization in-source decay fragmentation with hydrogen/deuterium exchange. RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY : RCM 2013; 27:1837-1846. [PMID: 23857929 DOI: 10.1002/rcm.6627] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2013] [Revised: 04/12/2013] [Accepted: 05/13/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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RATIONALE In-Source Decay (ISD) in Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization (MALDI) mass spectrometry is a fast and easy top-down activation method. Our objective is to find a suitable matrix to locate the deuterons following in-solution hydrogen/deuterium exchange (HDX). This matrix must circumvent the commonly encountered undesired back-exchange reactions, in order to preserve the regioselective deuteration pattern. METHODS The 1,5-diaminonaphthalene (1,5-DAN) matrix is known to be suitable for MALDI-ISD fragmentation. MALDI Mass Spectrometry Imaging (MSI) was employed to compare 1,5-DAN and other commonly used MALDI matrices with respect to the extent of back-exchange and the uniformity of the H/D exchange profiles within the MALDI spots. We tested the back-exchange on the highly sensitive amyloid-beta peptide (1-40), and proved the regioselectivity on ubiquitin and β-endorphin. RESULTS MALDI-MSI results show that 1,5-DAN leads to the least back-exchange over all the spot. MALDI-ISD fragmentation combined with H/D exchange using 1,5-DAN matrix was validated by localizing deuterons in native ubiquitin. Results agree with previous data obtained by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and Electron Transfer Dissociation (ETD). Moreover, 1,5-DAN matrix was used to study the H/D exchange profile of the methanol-induced helical structure of β-endorphin, and the relative protection can be explained by the polarity of residues involved in hydrogen bond formation. CONCLUSIONS We found that controlling crystallization is the most important parameter when combining H/D exchange with MALDI. The 1,5-DAN matrix is characterized by a fast crystallization kinetics, and therefore gives robust and reliable H/D exchange profiles using MALDI-ISD.
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- Pascale Lemaire
- GIGA-R, Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Chemistry Building B6c, University of Liège, B-4000 Liège, Belgium
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Wei H, Mo J, Tao L, Russell RJ, Tymiak AA, Chen G, Iacob RE, Engen JR. Hydrogen/deuterium exchange mass spectrometry for probing higher order structure of protein therapeutics: methodology and applications. Drug Discov Today 2013; 19:95-102. [PMID: 23928097 DOI: 10.1016/j.drudis.2013.07.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 150] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2013] [Revised: 07/19/2013] [Accepted: 07/29/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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The higher order structure of protein therapeutics can be interrogated with hydrogen/deuterium exchange mass spectrometry (HDX-MS). HDX-MS is now a widely used tool in the structural characterization of protein therapeutics. In this review, HDX-MS based workflows designed for protein therapeutic discovery and development processes are presented, focusing on the specific applications of epitope mapping for protein/drug interactions and biopharmaceutical comparability studies. Future trends in the application of HDX-MS in protein therapeutics characterization are also described.
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- Hui Wei
- Bioanalytical and Discovery Analytical Sciences, Research and Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ, USA
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- Bioanalytical and Discovery Analytical Sciences, Research and Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ, USA
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- Biologics Manufacturing and Process Development, Global Manufacturing and Supply, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Hopewell, NJ, USA
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- Biologics Manufacturing and Process Development, Global Manufacturing and Supply, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Bloomsbury, NJ, USA
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- Bioanalytical and Discovery Analytical Sciences, Research and Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ, USA
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- Bioanalytical and Discovery Analytical Sciences, Research and Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.
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Rob T, Gill PK, Golemi-Kotra D, Wilson DJ. An electrospray ms-coupled microfluidic device for sub-second hydrogen/deuterium exchange pulse-labelling reveals allosteric effects in enzyme inhibition. LAB ON A CHIP 2013; 13:2528-2532. [PMID: 23426018 DOI: 10.1039/c3lc00007a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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In this work, we introduce an integrated, electrospray mass spectrometry-coupled microfluidic chip that supports the complete workflow for 'bottom up' hydrogen/deuterium exchange (HDX) pulse labelling experiments. HDX pulse labelling is used to measure structural changes in proteins that occur after the initiation of a reaction, most commonly folding. In the present case, we demonstrate the device on the β-lactamase enzyme TEM-1, identifying active site changes that occur upon acylation by a covalent inhibitor and subtle changes in conformational dynamics that occur away from the active site over a period of several second after the inhibitor is bound. Our results demonstrate the power of microfluidics-enabled sub-second HDX pulse labelling as a tool for studying allostery and show some intriguing correlations with mutagenesis studies.
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- Tamanna Rob
- Chemistry Department, York University, Toronto, Canada M3J 1P3
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