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Brogna C, Bisaccia DR, Costanzo V, Lettieri G, Montano L, Viduto V, Fabrowski M, Cristoni S, Prisco M, Piscopo M. Who Is the Intermediate Host of RNA Viruses? A Study Focusing on SARS-CoV-2 and Poliovirus. Microorganisms 2024; 12:643. [PMID: 38674588 PMCID: PMC11051822 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms12040643] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2024] [Revised: 03/19/2024] [Accepted: 03/21/2024] [Indexed: 04/28/2024] Open
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The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked a surge in research on microbiology and virology, shedding light on overlooked aspects such as the infection of bacteria by RNA virions in the animal microbiome. Studies reveal a decrease in beneficial gut bacteria during COVID-19, indicating a significant interaction between SARS-CoV-2 and the human microbiome. However, determining the origins of the virus remains complex, with observed phenomena such as species jumps adding layers to the narrative. Prokaryotic cells play a crucial role in the disease's pathogenesis and transmission. Analyzing previous studies highlights intricate interactions from clinical manifestations to the use of the nitrogen isotope test. Drawing parallels with the history of the Poliovirus underscores the need to prioritize investigations into prokaryotic cells hosting RNA viruses.
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- Carlo Brogna
- Department of Research, Craniomed Group Facility Srl., 20091 Bresso, Italy;
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- Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology (IBPM), National Research Council, 00185 Rome, Italy;
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- Department of Biology, University of Naples Federico II, 80126 Napoli, Italy; (G.L.); (M.P.)
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- Andrology Unit and Service of LifeStyle Medicine in Uro-Andrology, Local Health Authority (ASL), 84124 Salerno, Italy;
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- Long COVID-19 Foundation, Brookfield Court, Leeds LS25 1NB, UK; (V.V.)
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- Long COVID-19 Foundation, Brookfield Court, Leeds LS25 1NB, UK; (V.V.)
- Department of Emergency Medicine, Royal Sussex County Hospital, University Hospitals Sussex, Eastern Road, Brighton BN2 5BE, UK
- British Polio Fellowship, Watford WD25 8HR, UK
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- Department of Biology, University of Naples Federico II, 80126 Napoli, Italy; (G.L.); (M.P.)
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- Department of Biology, University of Naples Federico II, 80126 Napoli, Italy; (G.L.); (M.P.)
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Mohamed A, Rana A, Perez E, Dahlmann F, Fry A, Menges FS, van Stipdonk M, Jäger S, Boyer MA, McCoy AB, Johnson MA. Characterization of the Oxazolone and Macrocyclic Motifs in the b n ( n = 2-5) Product Ions from Collision-Induced Dissociation of Protonated Oligoglycine Peptides with Isomer-Selective, Cryogenic Vibrational Spectroscopy. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2024; 35:326-332. [PMID: 38150530 DOI: 10.1021/jasms.3c00372] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2023]
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Collision-induced dissociation (CID) of small, protonated peptides leads to the formation of b-type fragment ions that can occur with several structural motifs driven by different covalent intramolecular bonding arrangements. Here, we characterize the so-called "oxazolone" and "macrocycle" bn ion structures that occur upon CID of oligoglycine peptides (Gn) ions (n = 2-6). This is determined by acquiring the vibrational band patterns of the cryogenically cooled, D2-tagged bn ions obtained using isomer-selective, two-color IR-IR photobleaching and analyzing them with predicted (DFT) harmonic spectra for the candidate structures. Both oxazolone and macrocyclic isomers are formed by b4, whereas only oxazolone species are created for b2 and b3 and the macrocycle is created for b5. As such, n = 4 corresponds to the minimum size where both Oxa and MC forms are present.
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- Ahmed Mohamed
- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
- The University of Utah, 315 S. 1400 E. Rm 2020, Henry Eyring Bldg, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, United States
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- Institut for Ion Physics and Applied Physics, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Center of Excellence in Mass Spectrometry, Center for Metal Ions in Biological and Chemical Systems, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Duquesne University, 600 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15282, United States
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- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- Center of Excellence in Mass Spectrometry, Center for Metal Ions in Biological and Chemical Systems, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Duquesne University, 600 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15282, United States
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- Chair of Physical Chemistry II, Ruhr-University Bochum, Universitätsstraße 150, 44801 Bochum, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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Schramm HM, Tamadate T, Hogan CJ, Clowers BH. Evaluation of Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange during Transient Vapor Binding of MeOD with Model Peptide Systems Angiotensin II and Bradykinin. J Phys Chem A 2023; 127:8849-8861. [PMID: 37827113 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c04608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2023]
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The advancement of hybrid mass spectrometric tools as an indirect probe of molecular structure and dynamics relies heavily upon a clear understanding between gas-phase ion reactivity and ion structural characteristics. This work provides new insights into gas-phase ion-neutral reactions of the model peptides (i.e., angiotensin II and bradykinin) on a per-residue basis by integrating hydrogen/deuterium exchange, ion mobility, tandem mass spectrometry, selective vapor binding, and molecular dynamics simulations. By comparing fragmentation patterns with simulated probabilities of vapor uptake, a clear link between gas-phase hydrogen/deuterium exchange and the probabilities of localized vapor association is established. The observed molecular dynamics trends related to the sites and duration of vapor binding track closely with experimental observation. Additionally, the influence of additional charges and structural characteristics on exchange kinetics and ion-neutral cluster formation is examined. These data provide a foundation for the analysis of solvation dynamics of larger, native-like conformations of proteins in the gas phase.
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- Haley M Schramm
- Department of Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99163, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99163, United States
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Brogna C, Brogna B, Bisaccia DR, Lauritano F, Marino G, Montano L, Cristoni S, Prisco M, Piscopo M. Could SARS-CoV-2 Have Bacteriophage Behavior or Induce the Activity of Other Bacteriophages? Vaccines (Basel) 2022; 10:vaccines10050708. [PMID: 35632464 PMCID: PMC9143435 DOI: 10.3390/vaccines10050708] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2022] [Revised: 04/25/2022] [Accepted: 04/28/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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SARS-CoV-2 has become one of the most studied viruses of the last century. It was assumed that the only possible host for these types of viruses was mammalian eukaryotic cells. Our recent studies show that microorganisms in the human gastrointestinal tract affect the severity of COVID-19 and for the first time provide indications that the virus might replicate in gut bacteria. In order to further support these findings, in the present work, cultures of bacteria from the human microbiome and SARS-CoV-2 were analyzed by electron and fluorescence microscopy. The images presented in this article, in association with the nitrogen (15N) isotope-labeled culture medium experiment, suggest that SARS-CoV-2 could also infect bacteria in the gut microbiota, indicating that SARS-CoV-2 could act as a bacteriophage. Our results add new knowledge to the understanding of the mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 infection and fill gaps in the study of the interactions between SARS-CoV-2 and non-mammalian cells. These findings could be useful in suggesting specific new pharmacological solutions to support the vaccination campaign.
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- Carlo Brogna
- Department of Research, Craniomed Group Facility Srl., 20091 Bresso, Italy; (D.R.B.); (F.L.)
- Correspondence: (C.B.); (M.P.)
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- Department of Radiology, Moscati Hospital, Contrada Amoretta, 83100 Avellino, Italy;
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- Department of Research, Craniomed Group Facility Srl., 20091 Bresso, Italy; (D.R.B.); (F.L.)
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- Department of Research, Craniomed Group Facility Srl., 20091 Bresso, Italy; (D.R.B.); (F.L.)
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- Marsan Consulting Srl., Public Health Company, Via dei Fiorentini, 80133 Naples, Italy;
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- Andrology Unit and Service of Life Style Medicine in Uro-Andrology, Local Health Authority (ASL), 84124 Salerno, Italy;
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- Department of Biology, University of Naples Federico II, 80126 Naples, Italy;
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- Department of Biology, University of Naples Federico II, 80126 Naples, Italy;
- Correspondence: (C.B.); (M.P.)
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Mookherjee A, Armentrout PB. Thermodynamics and Reaction Mechanisms for Decomposition of a Simple Protonated Tripeptide, H +GGA: From H +GGG to H +GAG to H +GGA. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2022; 33:355-368. [PMID: 34981933 DOI: 10.1021/jasms.1c00345] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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We present a thorough characterization of fragmentations observed in threshold collision-induced dissociation (TCID) experiments of protonated glycylglycylalanine (H+GGA) with Xe using a guided ion beam tandem mass spectrometer. Kinetic energy dependent cross sections for nine ionic products were obtained and analyzed to provide 0 K barriers for the five primary products, [b2]+, [y1 + 2H]+, [b3]+, [y2 + 2H]+, and [a1]+; and four secondary products, [a2]+, [a3]+, high-energy [y1 + 2H]+, and CH3CHNH2+, after accounting for multiple ion-molecule collisions, the internal energy of reactant ions, unimolecular decay rates, competition between channels, and sequential dissociations. Relaxed potential energy surface scans performed at the B3LYP-GD3BJ/6-311+G(d,p) level of theory are used to identify transition states (TSs) and intermediates of the five primary and three secondary products (with the mechanism of the other secondary product previously established). Geometry optimizations and single point energy calculations of reactants, products, intermediates, and TSs were performed at several levels of theory. These theoretical energies are compared with experimental threshold energies and found to give reasonable agreement, with B3LYP-GD3BJ and M06-2X levels of theory performing slightly better than MP2 and better than B3LYP. The results obtained here are compared with previous results for decomposition of H+GGG and H+GAG to probe the effect of changing the amino acid sequence. Methylation in H+GGA has a significant effect on the competition between the primary sequence products, [b2]+ and [y1 + 2H]+, suppressing the [b2]+ cross section by raising its threshold energy, while enhancing that of [y1 + 2H]+ by lowering its threshold energy.
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- Abhigya Mookherjee
- Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, 315 S. 1400 E., Room 2020, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, 315 S. 1400 E., Room 2020, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, United States
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Atik A, Arslanoglu A, Yalcin T. Gas-phase fragmentation reactions of a 7 ions containing a glutamine residue. JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY : JMS 2021; 56:e4776. [PMID: 34268823 DOI: 10.1002/jms.4776] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2021] [Revised: 06/08/2021] [Accepted: 06/15/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The gas-phase fragmentation reactions of the a7 ions derived from glutamine (Q) containing model heptapeptides have been studied in detail with low-energy collision-induced dissociation (CID) tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS). Specifically, the positional effect of the Q residue has been investigated on the fragmentation reactions of a7 ions. The study involves two sets of permuted isomers of the Q containing model heptapeptides. The first set contains the QAAAAAA sequence, and the second set involves of QYAGFLV sequence, where the position of the Q residue is changed from N- to C-terminal gradually for both peptide series. An intense loss of ammonia from the a7 ions followed by internal amino acid eliminations strongly supports forming the imine-amides structure via cyclization/rearrangement reaction for all studied a7 ions. This is in agreement with the pioneering study reported by Bythell et al. (2010, 10.1021/ja101556g). A novel rearrangement reaction is detected upon fragmentation of imine-amide structure, which yields a protonated C-terminal amidated hexapeptide excluding the Q residue. A possible fragmentation mechanism was proposed to form the protonated C-terminal amidated hexapeptide, assisted via nucleophilic attack of the side chain amide nitrogen of the Q residue on its N-protonated imine carbon atom of the rearranged imine-amide structure. HIGHLIGHTS: The gas-phase fragmentation reactions of a7 ions obtained from protonated model peptides containing glutamine residue were studied by ESI-MS/MS. A rearranged imine-amide structure is the predominant even for a7 ions. Novel rearrangement reaction is observed which forms a protonated C-terminal amidated hexapeptide excluding Q residue upon fragmentation of the imine-amide structure.
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- Ahmet Atik
- Department of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Acibadem Mehmet Ali Aydinlar University, Istanbul, Turkey
- Biotechnology Group, Turgut Pharmaceuticals, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Departmen of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Science, Izmir Institute of Technology, Izmir, Turkey
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Izmir Institute of Technology, Izmir, Turkey
- Integrated Research Centers, National Mass Spectrometry Application and Research Center, Izmir, Turkey
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- Martin Mayer
- Wilhelm-Ostwald-Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Universität Leipzig, Linnéstraße 2, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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- Wilhelm-Ostwald-Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Universität Leipzig, Linnéstraße 2, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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Oomens J, Kempkes LJM, Geurts TPJ, van Dijk L, Martens J, Berden G, Armentrout PB. Water Loss from Protonated XxxSer and XxxThr Dipeptides Gives Oxazoline-Not Oxazolone-Product Ions. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2020; 31:2111-2123. [PMID: 32876444 PMCID: PMC7552115 DOI: 10.1021/jasms.0c00239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2020] [Revised: 08/31/2020] [Accepted: 09/02/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Neutral loss of water and ammonia are often significant fragmentation channels upon collisional activation of protonated peptides. Here, we deploy infrared ion spectroscopy to investigate the dehydration reactions of protonated AlaSer, AlaThr, GlySer, GlyThr, PheSer, PheThr, ProSer, ProThr, AsnSer, and AsnThr, focusing on the question of the structure of the resulting [M + H - H2O]+ fragment ion and the site from which H2O is expelled. In all cases, the second residue of the selected peptides contains a hydroxyl moiety, so that H2O loss can potentially occur from this side-chain, as an alternative to loss from the C-terminal free acid of the dipeptide. Infrared action spectra of the product ions along with quantum-chemical calculations unambiguously show that dehydration consistently produces fragment ions containing an oxazoline moiety. This contrasts with the common oxazolone structure that would result from dehydration at the C-terminus analogous to the common b/y dissociation forming regular b2-type sequence ions. The oxazoline product structure suggests a reaction mechanism involving water loss from the Ser/Thr side-chain with concomitant nucleophilic attack of the amide carbonyl oxygen at its β-carbon, forming an oxazoline ring. However, an extensive quantum-chemical investigation comparing the potential energy surfaces for three entirely different dehydration reaction pathways indicates that it is actually the backbone amide oxygen atom that leaves as the water molecule.
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- Jos Oomens
- FELIX Laboratory, Institute of Molecules and
Materials, Radboud University, Toernooiveld 7, 6525 ED
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Van’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences,
University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
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- FELIX Laboratory, Institute of Molecules and
Materials, Radboud University, Toernooiveld 7, 6525 ED
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- FELIX Laboratory, Institute of Molecules and
Materials, Radboud University, Toernooiveld 7, 6525 ED
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- FELIX Laboratory, Institute of Molecules and
Materials, Radboud University, Toernooiveld 7, 6525 ED
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- FELIX Laboratory, Institute of Molecules and
Materials, Radboud University, Toernooiveld 7, 6525 ED
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- FELIX Laboratory, Institute of Molecules and
Materials, Radboud University, Toernooiveld 7, 6525 ED
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemistry, University of
Utah, 315 South 1400 East, Room 2020, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112,
United States
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Thermal dissociation of the singly protonated Arginine: Competition between side-chain and backbone fragmentation. Chem Phys 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2020.110890] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Martin Somer A, Macaluso V, Barnes GL, Yang L, Pratihar S, Song K, Hase WL, Spezia R. Role of Chemical Dynamics Simulations in Mass Spectrometry Studies of Collision-Induced Dissociation and Collisions of Biological Ions with Organic Surfaces. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2020; 31:2-24. [PMID: 32881516 DOI: 10.1021/jasms.9b00062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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In this article, a perspective is given of chemical dynamics simulations of collisions of biological ions with surfaces and of collision-induced dissociation (CID) of ions. The simulations provide an atomic-level understanding of the collisions and, overall, are in quite good agreement with experiment. An integral component of ion/surface collisions is energy transfer to the internal degrees of freedom of both the ion and the surface. The simulations reveal how this energy transfer depends on the collision energy, incident angle, biological ion, and surface. With energy transfer to the ion's vibration fragmentation may occur, i.e. surface-induced dissociation (SID), and the simulations discovered a new fragmentation mechanism, called shattering, for which the ion fragments as it collides with the surface. The simulations also provide insight into the atomistic dynamics of soft-landing and reactive-landing of ions on surfaces. The CID simulations compared activation by multiple "soft" collisions, resulting in random excitation, versus high energy single collisions and nonrandom excitation. These two activation methods may result in different fragment ions. Simulations provide fragmentation products in agreement with experiments and, hence, can provide additional information regarding the reaction mechanisms taking place in experiment. Such studies paved the way on using simulations as an independent and predictive tool in increasing fundamental understanding of CID and related processes.
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- Ana Martin Somer
- Departamento de Química, Facultad de Ciencias, Módulo 13 Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Campus de Excelencia UAM-CSIC Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- LAMBE, Univ Evry, CNRS, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91025 Evry, France
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Siena College, Loudonville, New York 12211, United States
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- MIIT Key Laboratory of Critical Materials Technology for New Energy Conversion and Storage, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Korea National University of Education, Chungbuk 28644, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409, United States
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique, LCT, 4, Place Jussieu, Paris, 75252 Cedex 05, France
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Lin YF, Yousef EN, Torres E, Truong L, Zahnow JM, Donald CB, Qin Y, Angel LA. Weak Acid-Base Interactions of Histidine and Cysteine Affect the Charge States, Tertiary Structure, and Zn(II)-Binding of Heptapeptides. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2019; 30:2068-2081. [PMID: 31332742 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-019-02275-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2019] [Revised: 06/10/2019] [Accepted: 06/18/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Zinc fingers are proteins that are characterized by the coordination of zinc ions by an amino acid sequence that commonly contains two histidines and two cysteines (2His-2Cys motif). Investigations of oligopeptides that contain the 2His-2Cys motif, e.g., acetyl-His1-Cys2-Gly3-Pro4-Tyr5-His6-Cys7, have discovered they exhibit pH-dependent Zn(II) chelation and have redox activities with Cu(I/II), forming a variety of metal complexes. To further understand how these 2His-2Cys oligopeptides bind these metal ions, we have undertaken a series of ion mobility-mass spectrometry and B3LYP/LanL2DZ computational studies of structurally related heptapeptides. Starting with the sequence above, we have modified the potential His, Cys, or C-terminus binding sites and report how these changes in primary structure affect the oligopeptides positive and negative charge states, conformational structure, collision-induced breakdown energies, and how effectively Zn(II) binds to these sequences. The results show evidence that the weak acid-base properties of Cys-His are intrinsically linked and can result in an intramolecular salt-bridged network that affects the oligopeptide properties.
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- Yu-Fu Lin
- Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University-Commerce, 2600 S Neal St, Commerce, TX, 75428, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University-Commerce, 2600 S Neal St, Commerce, TX, 75428, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University-Commerce, 2600 S Neal St, Commerce, TX, 75428, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University-Commerce, 2600 S Neal St, Commerce, TX, 75428, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University-Commerce, 2600 S Neal St, Commerce, TX, 75428, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University-Commerce, 2600 S Neal St, Commerce, TX, 75428, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University-Commerce, 2600 S Neal St, Commerce, TX, 75428, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University-Commerce, 2600 S Neal St, Commerce, TX, 75428, USA.
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Smith ZM, Wang X, Scheerer JR, Martens J, Berden G, Oomens J, Steinmetz V, Somogyi A, Wysocki V, Poutsma JC. Spectroscopic Evidence for Lactam Formation in Terminal Ornithine b 2+ and b 3+ Fragment Ions. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2019; 30:1565-1577. [PMID: 31183839 PMCID: PMC6697629 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-019-02244-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2018] [Revised: 04/24/2019] [Accepted: 04/26/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Infrared multiple photon dissociation action spectroscopy was performed on the AlaOrn b2+ and AlaAlaOrn b3+ fragment ions from ornithine-containing tetrapeptides. Infrared spectra were obtained in the fingerprint region (1000-2000 cm-1) using the infrared free electron lasers at the Centre Laser Infrarouge d'Orsay (CLIO) facility in Orsay, France, and the free electron lasers for infrared experiments (FELIX) facility in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. A novel terminal ornithine lactam AO+ b2+ structure was synthesized for experimental comparison and spectroscopy confirms that the b2+ fragment ion from AOAA forms a lactam structure. Comparison of experimental spectra with scaled harmonic frequencies at the B3LYP/6-31+G(d,p) level of theory shows that AO+ b2+ forms a terminal lactam protonated either on the lactam carbonyl oxygen or the N-terminal nitrogen atom. Several low-lying conformers of these isomers are likely populated following IRMPD dissociation. Similarly, a comparison of the experimental IRMPD spectrum with calculated spectra shows that AAO+ b3+-ions also adopt a lactam structure, again with multiple different protonation sites, during fragmentation. This study provides spectroscopic confirmation for the lactam cyclization proposed for the "ornithine effect" and represents an alternative bn+ structure to the oxazolone and diketopiperazine/macrocycle structures most often formed.
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- Zachary M Smith
- Department of Chemistry, The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, 23187-8795, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, 23187-8795, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, 23187-8795, USA
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- Institute for Molecules and Materials, FELIX Laboratory, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Molecules and Materials, FELIX Laboratory, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Molecules and Materials, FELIX Laboratory, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Laboratorie de Chimie Physique, CNRS UMR 8000, Université Paris, 91405, Orsay, France
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210-1173, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210-1173, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, 23187-8795, USA.
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Lettow M, Mucha E, Manz C, Thomas DA, Marianski M, Meijer G, von Helden G, Pagel K. The role of the mobile proton in fucose migration. Anal Bioanal Chem 2019; 411:4637-4645. [PMID: 30826852 PMCID: PMC6611747 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-019-01657-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2018] [Revised: 01/11/2019] [Accepted: 01/30/2019] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Fucose migration reactions represent a substantial challenge in the analysis of fucosylated glycan structures by mass spectrometry. In addition to the well-established observation of transposed fucose residues in glycan-dissociation product ions, recent experiments show that the rearrangement can also occur in intact glycan ions. These results suggest a low-energy barrier for migration of the fucose residue and broaden the relevance of fucose migration to include other types of mass spectrometry experiments, including ion mobility-mass spectrometry and ion spectroscopy. In this work, we utilize cold-ion infrared spectroscopy to provide further insight into glycan scrambling in intact glycan ions. Our results show that the mobility of the proton is a prerequisite for the migration reaction. For the prototypical fucosylated glycans Lewis x and blood group antigen H-2, the formation of adduct ions or the addition of functional groups with variable proton affinity yields significant differences in the infrared spectra. These changes correlate well with the promotion or inhibition of fucose migration through the presence or absence of a mobile proton. ![]()
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- Maike Lettow
- Department of Molecular Physics, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195, Berlin, Germany.,Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Takustraße 3, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Physics, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195, Berlin, Germany.,Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Takustraße 3, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Physics, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195, Berlin, Germany.,Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Takustraße 3, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Physics, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Physics, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195, Berlin, Germany.,Hunter College, The City University of New York, 695 Park Ave, New York, NY, 10065, USA
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- Department of Molecular Physics, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Physics, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Physics, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195, Berlin, Germany. .,Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Takustraße 3, 14195, Berlin, Germany.
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Iacobucci C, Schäfer M, Sinz A. Free radical-initiated peptide sequencing (FRIPS)-based cross-linkers for improved peptide and protein structure analysis. MASS SPECTROMETRY REVIEWS 2019; 38:187-201. [PMID: 29660147 DOI: 10.1002/mas.21568] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2017] [Accepted: 03/09/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Free radical-initiated peptide sequencing (FRIPS) has recently been introduced as an analytical strategy to create peptide radical ions in a predictable and effective way by collisional activation of specifically modified peptides ions. FRIPS is based on the unimolecular dissociation of open-shell ions and yields fragments that resemble those obtained by electron capture dissociation (ECD) or electron transfer dissociation (ETD). In this review article, we describe the fundamentals of FRIPS and highlight its fruitful combination with chemical cross-linking/mass spectrometry (MS) as a highly promising option to derive complementary structural information of peptides and proteins. FRIPS does not only yield exhaustive sequence information of cross-linked peptides, but also defines the exact cross-linking sites of the connected peptides. The development of more advanced FRIPS cross-linkers that extend the FRIPS-based cross-linking/MS approach to the study of large protein assemblies and protein interaction networks can be eagerly anticipated.
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- Claudio Iacobucci
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Bioanalytics, Institute of Pharmacy, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), D-06120, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Cologne, Cologne, D-50939, Germany
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Bioanalytics, Institute of Pharmacy, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), D-06120, Germany
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Abutokaikah MT, Frye JW, Tschampel J, Rabus JM, Bythell BJ. Fragmentation Pathways of Lithiated Hexose Monosaccharides. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2018; 29:1627-1637. [PMID: 29740760 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-018-1973-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2018] [Revised: 04/17/2018] [Accepted: 04/18/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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We characterize the primary fragmentation reactions of three isomeric lithiated D-hexose sugars (glucose, galactose, and mannose) utilizing tandem mass spectrometry, regiospecific labeling, and theory. We provide evidence that these three isomers populate similar fragmentation pathways to produce the abundant cross-ring cleavage peaks (0,2A1 and 0,3A1). These pathways are highly consistent with the prior literature (Hofmeister et al. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 113, 5964-5970, 1991, Bythell et al. J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. 28, 688-703, 2017, Rabus et al. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 19, 25643-25652, 2017) and the present labeling data. However, the structure-specific energetics and rate-determining steps of these reactions differ as a function of precursor sugar and anomeric configuration. The lowest energy water loss pathways involve loss of the anomeric oxygen to furnish B1 ions. For glucose and galactose, the lithiated α-anomers generate ketone structures at C2 in a concerted reaction involving a 1,2-migration of the C2-H to the anomeric carbon (C1). In contrast, the β-anomers are predicted to form 1,3-anhydroglucose/galactose B1 ion structures. Initiation of the water loss reactions from each anomeric configuration requires distinct reactive conformers, resulting in different product ion structures. Inversion of the stereochemistry at C2 has marked consequences. Both lithiated mannose forms expel water to form 1,2-anhydromannose B1 ions with the newly formed epoxide group above the ring. Additionally, provided water loss is not instantaneous, the α-anomer can also isomerize to generate a ketone structure at C2 in a concerted reaction involving a 1,2-migration of the C2-H to C1. This product is indistinguishable to that from α-glucose. The energetics and interplay of these pathways are discussed. Graphical Abstract ᅟ.
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- Maha T Abutokaikah
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO, 63121, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO, 63121, USA
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- University City High School, 7401 Balson Ave, University City, MO, 63130, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO, 63121, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO, 63121, USA.
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Homayoon Z, Macaluso V, Martin-Somer A, Muniz MCNB, Borges I, Hase WL, Spezia R. Chemical dynamics simulations of CID of peptide ions: comparisons between TIK(H +) 2 and TLK(H +) 2 fragmentation dynamics, and with thermal simulations. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:3614-3629. [PMID: 29340378 DOI: 10.1039/c7cp06818b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Gas phase unimolecular fragmentation of the two model doubly protonated tripeptides threonine-isoleucine-lysine (TIK) and threonine-leucine-lysine (TLK) is studied using chemical dynamics simulations. Attention is focused on different aspects of collision induced dissociation (CID): fragmentation pathways, energy transfer, theoretical mass spectra, fragmentation mechanisms, and the possibility of distinguishing isoleucine (I) and leucine (L). Furthermore, discussion is given regarding the differences between single collision CID activation, which results from a localized impact between the ions and a colliding molecule N2, and previous thermal activation simulation results; Z. Homayoon, S. Pratihar, E. Dratz, R. Snider, R. Spezia, G. L. Barnes, V. Macaluso, A. Martin-Somer and W. L. Hase, J. Phys. Chem. A, 2016, 120, 8211-8227. Upon thermal activation unimolecular fragmentation is statistical and in accord with RRKM unimolecular rate theory. Simulations show that in collisional activation some non-statistical fragmentation occurs, including shattering, which is not present when the ions dissociate statistically. Products formed by non-statistical shattering mechanisms may be related to characteristic mass spectrometry peaks which distinguish the two isomers I and L.
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- Zahra Homayoon
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409-1061 USA.
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Rabus JM, Simmons DR, Maître P, Bythell BJ. Deprotonated carbohydrate anion fragmentation chemistry: structural evidence from tandem mass spectrometry, infra-red spectroscopy, and theory. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:27897-27909. [DOI: 10.1039/c8cp02620c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We investigate the gas-phase structures and fragmentation chemistry of deprotonated carbohydrate anions using combined tandem mass spectrometry, infrared spectroscopy, regioselective labelling, and theory.
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- Jordan M. Rabus
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- University of Missouri-St. Louis
- St. Louis
- USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- University of Missouri-St. Louis
- St. Louis
- USA
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- Laboratoire de Chimie Physique (UMR8000)
- CNRS
- Univ. Paris-Sud
- Université Paris-Saclay
- Orsay
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- University of Missouri-St. Louis
- St. Louis
- USA
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Koirala D, Mistry S, Wenthold PG. Participation of C-H Protons in the Dissociation of a Proton Deficient Dipeptide. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2017; 28:1313-1323. [PMID: 28429299 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-017-1662-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2016] [Revised: 03/13/2017] [Accepted: 03/14/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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The dissociation of anionic dipeptides Phe*Gly and GlyPhe*, where Phe* refers to sulfonated phenyl alanine, has been investigated by using ion trap mass spectrometry. The dipeptides undergo collision-induced dissociation (CID) to give the same products, indicating that they rearrange to a common structure before dissociation. The rearrangement does not occur with the dipeptide methyl esters. The structures of the b2 ions were investigated to determine the effect that having a remote, anionic site has on product formation. Comparison with the CID spectra for authentic structures shows that the b2 ion obtained from GlyPhe* has predominantly a diketopiperazine structure. The CID spectra for the Phe*Gly b2 ion and the authentic oxazolone are similar, but differences in intensity suggest a two-component mixture. Isotopic labeling studies are consistent with the formation of two products, with one resulting from loss of a non-mobile proton on the Gly α-carbon. The results are attributed to the formation of an oxazole and oxazolone enol product. Electronic structure calculations predict that the enol structure of the Phe*Gly b2 ion is lower in energy than the keto version due to intramolecular hydrogen bonding with the sulfonate group. Graphical Abstract ᅟ.
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- Damodar Koirala
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, 560 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, IN, 47906, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, 560 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, IN, 47906, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, 560 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, IN, 47906, USA.
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Kuchibhotla B, Kola SR, Medicherla JV, Cherukuvada SV, Dhople VM, Nalam MR. Combinatorial Labeling Method for Improving Peptide Fragmentation in Mass Spectrometry. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2017; 28:1216-1226. [PMID: 28349438 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-017-1606-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2016] [Revised: 12/30/2016] [Accepted: 01/09/2017] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Annotation of peptide sequence from tandem mass spectra constitutes the central step of mass spectrometry-based proteomics. Peptide mass spectra are obtained upon gas-phase fragmentation. Identification of the protein from a set of experimental peptide spectral matches is usually referred as protein inference. Occurrence and intensity of these fragment ions in the MS/MS spectra are dependent on many factors such as amino acid composition, peptide basicity, activation mode, protease, etc. Particularly, chemical derivatizations of peptides were known to alter their fragmentation. In this study, the influence of acetylation, guanidinylation, and their combination on peptide fragmentation was assessed initially on a lipase (LipA) from Bacillus subtilis followed by a bovine six protein mix digest. The dual modification resulted in improved fragment ion occurrence and intensity changes, and this resulted in the equivalent representation of b- and y-type fragment ions in an ion trap MS/MS spectrum. The improved representation has allowed us to accurately annotate the peptide sequences de novo. Dual labeling has significantly reduced the false positive protein identifications in standard bovine six peptide digest. Our study suggests that the combinatorial labeling of peptides is a useful method to validate protein identifications for high confidence protein inference. Graphical Abstract ᅟ.
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- Bhanuramanand Kuchibhotla
- Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Uppal Road, Hyderabad, 500007, Telangana, India
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- Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Uppal Road, Hyderabad, 500007, Telangana, India
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- Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Uppal Road, Hyderabad, 500007, Telangana, India
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- Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Uppal Road, Hyderabad, 500007, Telangana, India
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- Department of Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald, Interface Institute Genetics & Functional Genomics, D-17475, Greifswald, Germany
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- Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Uppal Road, Hyderabad, 500007, Telangana, India.
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Mookherjee A, Van Stipdonk MJ, Armentrout PB. Thermodynamics and Reaction Mechanisms of Decomposition of the Simplest Protonated Tripeptide, Triglycine: A Guided Ion Beam and Computational Study. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2017; 28:739-757. [PMID: 28197927 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-016-1590-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2016] [Revised: 12/20/2016] [Accepted: 12/22/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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We present a thorough characterization of fragmentations observed in threshold collision-induced dissociation (TCID) experiments of protonated triglycine (H+GGG) with Xe using a guided ion beam tandem mass spectrometer (GIBMS). Kinetic energy-dependent cross-sections for 10 ionic products are observed and analyzed to provide 0 K barriers for six primary products: [b2]+, [y1 + 2H]+, [b3]+, CO loss, [y2 + 2H]+, and [a1]+; three secondary products: [a2]+, [a3]+, and [y2 + 2H - CO]+; and two tertiary products: high energy [y1 + 2H]+ and [a2 - CO]+ after accounting for multiple ion-molecule collisions, internal energy of reactant ions, unimolecular decay rates, competition between channels, and sequential dissociations. Relaxed potential energy surface scans performed at the B3LYP-D3/6-311+G(d,p) level of theory are used to identify transition states (TSs) and intermediates of the six primary and one secondary products. Geometry optimizations and single point energy calculations were performed at several levels of theory. These theoretical energies are compared with experimental energies and are found to give reasonably good agreement, in particular for the M06-2X level of theory. This good agreement between experiment and theory validates the reaction mechanisms explored computationally here and elsewhere and allows identification of the product structures formed at threshold energies. The present work presents the first measurement of absolute experimental threshold energies of important sequence ions and non-sequence ions: [y1 + 2H]+, [b3]+, CO loss, [a1]+, and [a3]+, and refines those for [b2]+ and [y2 + 2H]+ previously measured. Graphical Abstract ᅟ.
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- Abhigya Mookherjee
- Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, 315 S.1400 E. Rm 2020, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Duquesne University, 600 Forbes Ave., Pittsburg, PA, 15282, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, 315 S.1400 E. Rm 2020, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA.
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Homayoon Z, Pratihar S, Dratz E, Snider R, Spezia R, Barnes GL, Macaluso V, Martin Somer A, Hase WL. Model Simulations of the Thermal Dissociation of the TIK(H+)2 Tripeptide: Mechanisms and Kinetic Parameters. J Phys Chem A 2016; 120:8211-8227. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.6b05884] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Zahra Homayoon
- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409-1061, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409-1061, United States
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- Laboratoire
Analyse et Modélisation pour la Biologie et l’Environnement, Université d’Evry Val d’Essonne UMR 8587 CNRS-CEA-UEVE, Bd. F. Mitterrand, 91025 Evry Cedex, France
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Siena College, Loudonville, New York 12211, United States
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- Laboratoire
Analyse et Modélisation pour la Biologie et l’Environnement, Université d’Evry Val d’Essonne UMR 8587 CNRS-CEA-UEVE, Bd. F. Mitterrand, 91025 Evry Cedex, France
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- Laboratoire
Analyse et Modélisation pour la Biologie et l’Environnement, Université d’Evry Val d’Essonne UMR 8587 CNRS-CEA-UEVE, Bd. F. Mitterrand, 91025 Evry Cedex, France
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409-1061, United States
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Brantley MR, Pettit ME, Harper B, Brown B, Solouki T. Automated peak width measurements for targeted analysis of ion mobility unresolved species. Anal Chim Acta 2016; 941:49-60. [DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2016.08.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2016] [Accepted: 08/09/2016] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Aseev O, Perez MAS, Rothlisberger U, Rizzo TR. Cryogenic Spectroscopy and Quantum Molecular Dynamics Determine the Structure of Cyclic Intermediates Involved in Peptide Sequence Scrambling. J Phys Chem Lett 2015; 6:2524-2529. [PMID: 26266729 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b01088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Collision-induced dissociation (CID) is a key technique used in mass spectrometry-based peptide sequencing. Collisionally activated peptides undergo statistical dissociation, forming a series of backbone fragment ions that reflect their amino acid (AA) sequence. Some of these fragments may experience a "head-to-tail" cyclization, which after proton migration, can lead to the cyclic structure opening in a different place than the initially formed bond. This process leads to AA sequence scrambling that may hinder sequencing of the initial peptide. Here we combine cryogenic ion spectroscopy and ab initio molecular dynamics simulations to isolate and characterize the precise structures of key intermediates in the scrambling process. The most stable peptide fragments show intriguing symmetric cyclic structures in which the proton is situated on a C2 symmetry axis and forms exceptionally short H-bonds (1.20 Å) with two backbone oxygens. Other nonsymmetric cyclic structures also exist, one of which is protonated on the amide nitrogen, where ring opening is likely to occur.
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- Oleg Aseev
- †Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Moléculaire, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL SB ISIC LCPM, Station 6, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- ‡Laboratory of Computational Chemistry and Biochemistry, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL SB ISIC LCBC, Station 6, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- ‡Laboratory of Computational Chemistry and Biochemistry, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL SB ISIC LCBC, Station 6, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- †Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Moléculaire, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL SB ISIC LCPM, Station 6, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Liu C, Topchiy E, Lehmann T, Basile F. Characterization of the dehydration products due to thermal decomposition of peptides by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY : JMS 2015; 50:625-632. [PMID: 25800200 DOI: 10.1002/jms.3570] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2014] [Revised: 12/30/2014] [Accepted: 01/07/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Thermal decomposition (TD) of proteins is being investigated as a rapid digestion step for bottom-up proteomics. Mass spectrometry (MS) analyses of the TD products of simple peptides and intact proteins have revealed several nonvolatile products at masses lower than the precursor biomolecule (M). In addition to products stemming from site-specific cleavages, many signals are also observed at a corresponding M-18, most likely because of dehydration (M-H2O) during the heating process. Understanding the structural nature of the water loss product is important in establishing the utility of their tandem mass spectra (collision-induced dissociation) in determining the precursor ion amino acid sequence in a bottom-up proteomic workflow. Dehydration of a peptide can take place from a variety of sources including side chain groups, C-terminus, and/or intramolecular cyclization (C to N-terminus cyclization). In this work, liquid chromatography-tandem MS (LC-MS/MS) and a series of standard peptides (angiotensin II, DRVYIHPF and its cyclic analog) are implemented to decipher the structure of the TD dehydration product. In addition, a derivatization strategy incorporating N-terminus acetylation was developed that allowed the direct comparison of tandem mass spectra of standard cyclic peptides with those resulting from the TD process, thus eliminating any ambiguity from the direct comparison of their mass spectra (due to gas-phase cyclization of b-ions, which can result in sequence scrambling of the precursor ion). Results from these investigations indicated that peptide dehydrated TD products were mostly linear in nature, and water loss was favored from the C-terminus carboxyl group or, when present, the aspartic acid side chain. Given the predictable nature of the formation of TD dehydration products, their MS/MS analysis can be of utility in providing complementary and confirmatory sequence information of the precursor peptide.
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- Chenglin Liu
- Department of Chemistry, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, 82071, USA
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Atik AE, Hernandez O, Maître P, Yalcin T. Specific rearrangement reactions of acetylated lysine containing peptide bn (n = 4-7) ion series. JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY : JMS 2014; 49:1290-1297. [PMID: 25476947 DOI: 10.1002/jms.3462] [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: 07/09/2014] [Revised: 08/05/2014] [Accepted: 08/05/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Characterization of ε-N-acetylated lysine containing peptides, one of the most prominent post-translational modifications of proteins, is an important goal for tandem mass spectrometry experiments. A systematic study for the fragmentation reactions of b ions derived from ε-N-acetyllysine containing model octapeptides (KAc YAGFLVG and YAKAc GFLVG) has been examined in detail. Collision-induced dissociation (CID) mass spectra of bn (n = 4-7) fragments of ε-N-acetylated lysine containing peptides are compared with those of N-terminal acetylated and doubly acetylated (both ε-N and N-terminal) peptides, as well as acetyl-free peptides. Both direct and nondirect fragments are observed for acetyl-free and singly acetylated (ε-N or N-terminal) peptides. In the case of ε-N-acetylated lysine containing peptides, however, specific fragment ions (m/z 309, 456, 569 and 668) are observed in CID mass spectra of bn (n = 4-7) ions. The CID mass spectra of these four ions are shown to be identical to those of selected protonated C-terminal amidated peptides. On this basis, a new type of rearrangement chemistry is proposed to account for the formation of these fragment ions, which are specific for ε-N-acetylated lysine containing peptides. Consistent with the observation of nondirect fragments, it is proposed that the b ions undergo head-to-tail macrocyclization followed by ring opening. The proposed reaction pathway assumes that bn (n = 4-7) of ε-N-acetylated lysine containing peptides has a tendency to place the KAc residue at the C-terminal position after macrocyclization/reopening mechanism. Then, following the loss of CO, it is proposed that the marker ions are the result of the loss of an acetyllysine imine as a neutral fragment.
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- A Emin Atik
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Izmir Institute of Technology, 35430, Urla-Izmir, Turkey
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Chawner R, Holman SW, Gaskell SJ, Eyers CE. Peptide scrambling during collision-induced dissociation is influenced by N-terminal residue basicity. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2014; 25:1927-1938. [PMID: 25135610 PMCID: PMC4197365 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-014-0968-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2014] [Revised: 07/14/2014] [Accepted: 07/16/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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'Bottom up' proteomic studies typically use tandem mass spectrometry data to infer peptide ion sequence, enabling identification of the protein whence they derive. The majority of such studies employ collision-induced dissociation (CID) to induce fragmentation of the peptide structure giving diagnostic b-, y-, and a- ions. Recently, rearrangement processes that result in scrambling of the original peptide sequence during CID have been reported for these ions. Such processes have the potential to adversely affect ion accounting (and thus scores from automated search algorithms) in tandem mass spectra, and in extreme cases could lead to false peptide identification. Here, analysis of peptide species produced by Lys-N proteolysis of standard proteins is performed and sequences that exhibit such rearrangement processes identified. The effect of increasing the gas-phase basicity of the N-terminal lysine residue through derivatization to homoarginine toward such sequence scrambling is then assessed. The presence of a highly basic homoarginine (or arginine) residue at the N-terminus is found to disfavor/inhibit sequence scrambling with a coincident increase in the formation of b(n-1)+H(2)O product ions. Finally, further analysis of a sequence produced by Lys-C proteolysis provides evidence toward a potential mechanism for the apparent inhibition of sequence scrambling during resonance excitation CID.
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- Ross Chawner
- Michael Barber Centre for Mass Spectrometry, School of Chemistry, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester, Manchester, M1 7DN UK
- Waters Corporation, Stamford Avenue, Wilmslow, SK9 4AX UK
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- Michael Barber Centre for Mass Spectrometry, School of Chemistry, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester, Manchester, M1 7DN UK
- Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZB UK
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- Michael Barber Centre for Mass Spectrometry, School of Chemistry, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester, Manchester, M1 7DN UK
- Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZB UK
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Harper B, Miladi M, Solouki T. Loss of internal backbone carbonyls: additional evidence for sequence-scrambling in collision-induced dissociation of y-type ions. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2014; 25:1716-1729. [PMID: 25070583 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-014-0955-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2014] [Revised: 05/14/2014] [Accepted: 06/19/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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It is shown that y-type ions, after losing C-terminal H2O or NH3, can lose an internal backbone carbonyl (CO) from different peptide positions and yield structurally different product fragment ions upon collision-induced dissociation (CID). Such CO losses from internal peptide backbones of y-fragment ions are not unique to a single peptide and were observed in four of five model peptides studied herein. Experimental details on examples of CO losses from y-type fragment ions for an isotopically labeled AAAAHAA-NH2 heptapeptide and des-acetylated-α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (dα-MSH) (SYSMEHFRWGKPV-NH2) are reported. Results from isotope labeling, tandem mass spectrometry (MS(n)), and ion mobility-mass spectrometry (IM-MS) confirm that CO losses from different amino acids of m/z-isolated y-type ions yield structurally different ions. It is shown that losses of internal backbone carbonyls (as CID products of m/z-isolated y-type ions) are among intermediate steps towards formation of rearranged or permutated product fragment ions. Possible mechanisms for generation of the observed sequence-scrambled a-"like" ions, as intermediates in sequence-scrambling pathways of y-type ions, are proposed and discussed.
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- Brett Harper
- Institute of Biomedical Studies, Baylor University, Waco, TX, 76798, USA
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Morrison LJ, Wysocki VH. Gas-Phase Helical Peptides Mimic Solution-Phase Behavior. J Am Chem Soc 2014; 136:14173-83. [PMID: 25203898 DOI: 10.1021/ja507298e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Lindsay J. Morrison
- Ohio State University, 484
West 12th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
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- Ohio State University, 484
West 12th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
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Patrick AL, Stedwell CN, Polfer NC. Differentiating sulfopeptide and phosphopeptide ions via resonant infrared photodissociation. Anal Chem 2014; 86:5547-52. [PMID: 24823797 DOI: 10.1021/ac500992f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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The post-translational modifications sulfation and phosphorylation pose special challenges to mass spectral analysis due to their isobaric nature and their lability in the gas phase, as both types of peptides dissociate through similar channels upon collisional activation. Here, we present resonant infrared photodissociation based on diagnostic sulfate and phosphate OH stretches, as a means to differentiate sulfated from phosphorylated peptides within the framework of a mass spectrometry platform. The approach is demonstrated for a number of tyrosine-containing peptides, ranging from dipeptides (YG, pYG, and sYG) over tripeptides (GYR, GpYR, and GsYR), to more biologically relevant enkephalin peptides (YGGFL, pYGGFL, and sYGGFL). In all cases, the diagnostic ranges for sulfate OH stretches are established as 3580-3600 cm(-1) and can thus be distinguished from other characteristic hydrogen stretches, such as carboxylic acid OH, alcohol OH, and phosphate OH stretches.
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- Amanda L Patrick
- Department of Chemistry, University of Florida , P.O. Box 117200, Gainesville, Florida 32611, United States
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Zekavat B, Miladi M, Al-Fdeilat AH, Somogyi A, Solouki T. Evidence for sequence scrambling and divergent H/D exchange reactions of doubly-charged isobaric b-type fragment ions. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2014; 25:226-236. [PMID: 24346960 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-013-0768-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2012] [Revised: 10/07/2013] [Accepted: 10/08/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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To date, only a limited number of reports are available on structural variants of multiply-charged b-fragment ions. We report on observed bimodal gas-phase hydrogen/deuterium exchange (HDX) reaction kinetics and patterns for substance P b10(2+) that point to presence of isomeric structures. We also compare HDX reactions, post-ion mobility/collision-induced dissociation (post-IM/CID), and sustained off-resonance irradiation-collision induced dissociation (SORI-CID) of substance P b10(2+) and a cyclic peptide with an identical amino acid (AA) sequence order to substance P b10. The observed HDX patterns and reaction kinetics and SORI-CID pattern for the doubly charged head-to-tail cyclized peptide were different from either of the presumed isomers of substance P b10(2+), suggesting that b10(2+) may not exist exclusively as a head-to-tail cyclized structure. Ultra-high mass measurement accuracy was used to assign identities of the observed SORI-CID fragment ions of substance P b10(2+); over 30% of the observed SORI-CID fragment ions from substance P b10(2+) had rearranged (scrambled) AA sequences. Moreover, post-IM/CID experiments revealed the presence of two conformer types for substance P b10(2+), whereas only one conformer type was observed for the head-to-tail cyclized peptide. We also show that AA sequence scrambling from CID of doubly-charged b-fragment ions is not unique to substance P b10(2+).
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- Behrooz Zekavat
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Baylor University, Waco, TX, 76798, USA
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Jia C, Wu Z, Lietz CB, Liang Z, Cui Q, Li L. Gas-phase ion isomer analysis reveals the mechanism of peptide sequence scrambling. Anal Chem 2013; 86:2917-24. [PMID: 24313304 DOI: 10.1021/ac401578p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Peptide sequence scrambling during mass spectrometry-based gas-phase fragmentation analysis causes misidentification of peptides and proteins. Thus, there is a need to develop an efficient approach to probing the gas-phase fragment ion isomers related to sequence scrambling and the underlying fragmentation mechanism, which will facilitate the development of bioinformatics algorithm for proteomics research. Herein, we report on the first use of electron transfer dissociation (ETD)-produced diagnostic fragment ions to probe the components of gas-phase peptide fragment ion isomers. In combination with ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) and formaldehyde labeling, this novel strategy enables qualitative and quantitative analysis of b-type fragment ion isomers. ETD fragmentation produced diagnostic fragment ions indicative of the precursor ion isomer components, and subsequent IMS analysis of b ion isomers provided their quantitative and structural information. The isomer components of three representative b ions (b9, b10, and b33 from three different peptides) were accurately profiled by this method. IMS analysis of the b9 ion isomers exhibited dynamic conversion among these structures. Furthermore, molecular dynamics simulation predicted theoretical drift time values, which were in good agreement with experimentally measured values. Our results strongly support the mechanism of peptide sequence scrambling via b ion cyclization, and provide the first experimental evidence to support that the conversion from molecular precursor ion to cyclic b ion (M → (c)b) pathway is less energetically (or kinetically) favored.
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- Chenxi Jia
- School of Pharmacy and ‡Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison , 777 Highland Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, United States
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BAO JU, LIU JINF, HE XIAO, ZHANG JOHNZH. COMPUTATIONAL STUDY OF HIV-1 gp41 NHR TRIMER: INHIBITION MECHANISMS OF N-SUBSTITUTED PYRROLE DERIVATIVES AND FRAGMENT-BASED VIRTUAL SCREENING. JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL & COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY 2013. [DOI: 10.1142/s0219633613410010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Fusion of HIV-1 viral and host cellular membranes is an important step for HIV infection. The HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein mediating the membrane fusion consists of subunits gp120 and gp41 whereas gp120 recognizes the cell-surface receptors and gp41 promotes viral-cell membrane fusion. The trimeric helical complex composed of heterodimer of N-terminal and C-terminal extraviral segments has been used for the gp41 function study, and the trimeric N-terminal teptad repeat (NHR) is considered as an antiviral drug target for developing HIV-1 membrane fusion inhibitors. By using computational solvent probe mapping, we have explored druggable sites on the trimeric NHR peptides, and identified residues K574 and R579 as the hot spots for inhibitor designing. We further demonstrated that although NB-2 and NB-64 are all N-substituted Pyrrole derivatives and have very similar chemical structures, it is possible that diverse inhibitory mechanisms targeting different negative electrostatic residues (K574 and R579) exist. Results from fragment-based virtual screening identified series of potential lead compounds which could be used for further design of fusion inhibitors.
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- JU BAO
- State Key Lab of Precision Spectroscopy, Institute of Theoretical and Computational Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, P. R. China
- Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
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- State Key Lab of Precision Spectroscopy, Institute of Theoretical and Computational Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, P. R. China
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- State Key Lab of Precision Spectroscopy, Institute of Theoretical and Computational Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, P. R. China
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- State Key Lab of Precision Spectroscopy, Institute of Theoretical and Computational Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, P. R. China
- Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
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Zhao J, Lau JKC, Grzetic J, Verkerk UH, Oomens J, Siu KWM, Hopkinson AC. Structures of a(n)* ions derived from protonated pentaglycine and pentaalanine: results from IRMPD spectroscopy and DFT calculations. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2013; 24:1957-1968. [PMID: 24026976 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-013-0728-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2013] [Revised: 08/02/2013] [Accepted: 08/05/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Infrared multiple-photon dissociation (IRMPD) spectroscopy and DFT calculations have been used to probe the most stable structures of a3(*) and a4(*) ions derived from both protonated pentaglycine (denoted G5) and pentaalanine (A5). The a3(*) and a4(*) ions derived from protonated A5 feature a CHR=N-CHR'- group at the N-terminus and an oxazolone ring at the C-terminus, as proposed previously [J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. 19, 1788-1798 (2008)]. The isomeric a4(*) ion derived from A5 with a 3,5-dihydro-4H-imidazol-4-one ring structure was calculated to have a slightly better energy than the oxazolone, but the barrier to its formation is higher and there was no evidence of this ion in the IRMPD spectrum. By contrast, the a4(*) and [a4 - H2O](+) (denoted a4(0)) ions from G5 gave strikingly similar IRMPD spectra and both have the 3,5-dihydro-4H-imidazol-4-one ring structure similar to that recently reported for the [GGGG + H - H2O](+) ion [Int. J. Mass Spectrom. 316-318, 268-272 (2012)]. In the absence of a solvent molecule, the pathway to the oxazolone is calculated to be lower than those to thermodynamically more stable products, the a4(0) and the a4(*) with the 3,5-dihydro-4H-imidazol-4-one ring structure. Incorporation of one water molecule is sufficient to reduce the barrier to formation of the a4(0) of G5 to below that for formation of the oxazolone. On the equivalent potential energy surface for protonated A5 the barrier to formation of the a4(0) ion is 12.3 kcal mol(-1) higher than that for oxazolone formation and the a4(0) ion is not observed experimentally.
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- Junfang Zhao
- Department of Chemistry and Centre for Research in Mass Spectrometry, York University, Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3, Canada
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Miladi M, Harper B, Solouki T. Evidence for sequence scrambling in collision-induced dissociation of y-type fragment ions. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2013; 24:1755-1766. [PMID: 23982935 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-013-0714-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2013] [Revised: 06/19/2013] [Accepted: 06/28/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Sequence scrambling from y-type fragment ions has not been previously reported. In a study designed to probe structural variations among b-type fragment ions, it was noted that y fragment ions might also yield sequence-scrambled ions. In this study, we examined the possibility and extent of sequence-scrambled fragment ion generation from collision-induced dissociation (CID) of y-type ions from four peptides (all containing basic residues near the C-terminus) including: AAAAHAA-NH2 (where "A" denotes carbon thirteen ((13)C1) isotope on the alanine carbonyl group), des-acetylated-α-melanocyte (SYSMEHFRWGKPV-NH2), angiotensin II antipeptide (EGVYVHPV), and glu-fibrinopeptide b (EGVNDNEEGFFSAR). We investigated fragmentation patterns of 32 y-type fragment ions, including y fragment ions with different charge states (+1 to +3) and sizes (3 to 12 amino acids). Sequence-scrambled fragment ions were observed from ~50 % (16 out of 32) of the studied y-type ions. However, observed sequence-scrambled ions had low relative intensities from ~0.1 % to a maximum of ~12 %. We present and discuss potential mechanisms for generation of sequence-scrambled fragment ions. To the best of our knowledge, results on y fragment dissociation presented here provide the first experimental evidence for generation of sequence-scrambled fragments from CID of y ions through intermediate cyclic "b-type" ions.
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- Mahsan Miladi
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Baylor University, Waco, TX, 76798, USA
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Harrison AG, Tasoglu C, Yalcin T. Non-direct sequence ions in the tandem mass spectrometry of protonated peptide amides--an energy-resolved study. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2013; 24:1565-1572. [PMID: 23918462 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-013-0707-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2013] [Revised: 05/22/2013] [Accepted: 06/03/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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The fragmentation reactions of the MH(+) ions of Leu-enkephalin amide and a variety of heptapeptide amides have been studied in detail as a function of collision energy using a QqToF beam type mass spectrometer. The initial fragmentation of the protonated amides involves primarily formation of bn ions, including significant loss of NH3 from the MH(+) ions. Further fragmentation of these bn ions occurs following macrocyclization/ring opening leading in many cases to bn ions with permuted sequences and, thus, to formation of non-direct sequence ions. The importance of these non-direct sequence ions increases markedly with increasing collision energy, making peptide sequence determination difficult, if not impossible, at higher collision energies.
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- Alex G Harrison
- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 3H6, Canada,
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Zekavat B, Miladi M, Becker C, Munisamy SM, Solouki T. Combined use of post-ion mobility/collision-induced dissociation and chemometrics for b fragment ion analysis. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2013; 24:1355-1365. [PMID: 23836377 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-013-0673-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2012] [Revised: 05/01/2013] [Accepted: 05/06/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Although structural isomers may yield indistinguishable ion mobility (IM) arrival times and similar fragment ions in tandem mass spectrometry (MS), it is demonstrated that post-IM/collision-induced dissociation MS (post-IM/CID MS) combined with chemometrics can enable independent study of the IM-overlapped isomers. The new approach allowed us to investigate the propensity of selected b type fragment ions from AlaAlaAlaHisAlaAlaAla-NH2 (AAA(His)AAA) heptapeptide to form different isomers. Principle component analysis (PCA) of the unresolved post-IM/CID profiles indicated the presence of two different isomer types for b4(+), b5(+), and b6(+) and a single isomer type for b7(+) fragments of AAA(His)AAA. We employed a simple-to-use interactive self-modeling mixture analysis (SIMPLISMA) to calculate the total IM profiles and CID mass spectra of b fragment isomers. The deconvoluted CID mass spectra showed discernible fragmentation patterns for the two isomers of b4(+), b5(+), and b6(+) fragments. Under our experimental conditions, calculated percentages of the "cyclic" isomers (at the 95% confidence level for n = 3) for b4(+), b5(+), and b6(+) were 61 (± 5)%, 36 (± 5)%, and 48 (± 2)%, respectively. Results from the SIMPLISMA deconvolution of b5(+) species resembled the CID MS patterns of fully resolved IM profiles for the two b5(+) isomers. The "cyclic" isomers for each of the two-component b fragment ions were less susceptible to ion fragmentation than their "linear" counterparts.
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- Behrooz Zekavat
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Baylor University Sciences Building, Waco, TX 76798, USA
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Grzetic J, Oomens J. Spectroscopic identification of cyclic imide b2-ions from peptides containing Gln and Asn residues. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2013; 24:1228-1241. [PMID: 23722727 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-013-0661-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2013] [Revised: 04/16/2013] [Accepted: 04/29/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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In mass-spectrometry based peptide sequencing, formation of b- and y-type fragments by cleavage of the amide C-N bond constitutes the main dissociation pathway of protonated peptides under low-energy collision induced dissociation (CID). The structure of the b2 fragment ion from peptides containing glutamine (Gln) and asparagine (Asn) residues is investigated here by infrared ion spectroscopy using the free electron laser FELIX. The spectra are compared with theoretical spectra calculated using density functional theory for different possible isomeric structures as well as to experimental spectra of synthesized model systems. The spectra unambiguously show that the b2-ions do not possess the common oxazolone structure, nor do they possess the alternative diketopiperazine structure. Instead, cyclic imide structures are formed through nucleophilic attack by the amide nitrogen atom of the Gln and Asn side chains. The alternative pathway involving nucleophilic attack from the side-chain amide oxygen atom leading to cyclic isoimide structures, which had been suggested by several authors, can clearly be excluded based on the present IR spectra. This mechanism is perhaps surprising as the amide oxygen atom is considered to be the better nucleophile; however, computations show that the products formed via attack by the amide nitrogen are considerably lower in energy. Hence, b2-ions with Asn or Gln in the second position form structures with a five-membered succinimide or a six-membered glutarimide ring, respectively. b2-Ions formed from peptides with Asn in the first position are spectroscopically shown to possess the classical oxazolone structure.
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- Josipa Grzetic
- Radboud University Nijmegen, Institute for Molecules and Materials, FELIX Facility, 6525ED, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Guingab-Cagmat JD, Cagmat EB, Hayes RL, Anagli J. Integration of proteomics, bioinformatics, and systems biology in traumatic brain injury biomarker discovery. Front Neurol 2013; 4:61. [PMID: 23750150 PMCID: PMC3668328 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2013.00061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2013] [Accepted: 05/12/2013] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major medical crisis without any FDA-approved pharmacological therapies that have been demonstrated to improve functional outcomes. It has been argued that discovery of disease-relevant biomarkers might help to guide successful clinical trials for TBI. Major advances in mass spectrometry (MS) have revolutionized the field of proteomic biomarker discovery and facilitated the identification of several candidate markers that are being further evaluated for their efficacy as TBI biomarkers. However, several hurdles have to be overcome even during the discovery phase which is only the first step in the long process of biomarker development. The high-throughput nature of MS-based proteomic experiments generates a massive amount of mass spectral data presenting great challenges in downstream interpretation. Currently, different bioinformatics platforms are available for functional analysis and data mining of MS-generated proteomic data. These tools provide a way to convert data sets to biologically interpretable results and functional outcomes. A strategy that has promise in advancing biomarker development involves the triad of proteomics, bioinformatics, and systems biology. In this review, a brief overview of how bioinformatics and systems biology tools analyze, transform, and interpret complex MS datasets into biologically relevant results is discussed. In addition, challenges and limitations of proteomics, bioinformatics, and systems biology in TBI biomarker discovery are presented. A brief survey of researches that utilized these three overlapping disciplines in TBI biomarker discovery is also presented. Finally, examples of TBI biomarkers and their applications are discussed.
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Novel selective and irreversible mosquito acetylcholinesterase inhibitors for controlling malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases. Sci Rep 2013; 3:1068. [PMID: 23323211 PMCID: PMC3545233 DOI: 10.1038/srep01068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2012] [Accepted: 12/19/2012] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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We reported previously that insect acetylcholinesterases (AChEs) could be selectively and irreversibly inhibited by methanethiosulfonates presumably through conjugation to an insect-specific cysteine in these enzymes. However, no direct proof for the conjugation has been published to date, and doubts remain about whether such cysteine-targeting inhibitors have desirable kinetic properties for insecticide use. Here we report mass spectrometric proof of the conjugation and new chemicals that irreversibly inhibited African malaria mosquito AChE with bimolecular inhibition rate constants (kinact/KI) of 3,604–458,597 M−1sec−1 but spared human AChE. In comparison, the insecticide paraoxon irreversibly inhibited mosquito and human AChEs with kinact/KI values of 1,915 and 1,507 M−1sec−1, respectively, under the same assay conditions. These results further support our hypothesis that the insect-specific AChE cysteine is a unique and unexplored target to develop new insecticides with reduced insecticide resistance and low toxicity to mammals, fish, and birds for the control of mosquito-borne diseases.
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Banerjee S, Mazumdar S. Selective deletion of the internal lysine residue from the peptide sequence by collisional activation. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2012; 23:1967-1980. [PMID: 22923014 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-012-0456-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2012] [Revised: 07/15/2012] [Accepted: 07/20/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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The gas-phase peptide ion fragmentation chemistry is always the center of attraction in proteomics to analyze the amino acid sequence of peptides and proteins. In this work, we describe the formation of an anomalous fragment ion, which corresponds to the selective deletion of the internal lysine residue from a series of lysine containing peptides upon collisional activation in the ion trap. We detected several water-loss fragment ions and the maximum number of water molecules lost from a particular fragment ion was equal to the number of lysine residues in that fragment. As a consequence of this water-loss phenomenon, internal lysine residues were found to be deleted from the peptide ion. The N,N-dimethylation of all the amine functional groups of the peptide stopped the internal lysine deletion reaction, but selective N-terminal α-amino acetylation had no effect on this process indicating involvement of the side chains of the lysine residues. The detailed mechanism of the lysine deletion was investigated by multistage CID of the modified and unmodified peptides, by isotope labeling and by energy resolved CID studies. The results suggest that the lysine deletion might occur through a unimolecular multistep mechanism involving a seven-membered cyclic imine intermediate formed by the loss of water from a lysine residue in the protonated peptide. This intermediate subsequently undergoes degradation reaction to deplete the interior imine ring from the peptide backbone leading to the deletion of an internal lysine residue.
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- Shibdas Banerjee
- Department of Chemical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
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Dong NP, Liang YZ, Yi LZ. Investigation of scrambled ions in tandem mass spectra. Part 1. Statistical characterization. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2012; 23:1209-1220. [PMID: 22539146 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-012-0380-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2011] [Revised: 03/20/2012] [Accepted: 03/22/2012] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Scrambled ions have become the focus of recent investigations of peptide fragmentation. Here, an investigation of more than 390,000 high quality CID mass spectra is presented to explore the extent of scrambled ions in mass spectra and the possible fragmentation rules during scramble reactions. For the former, scrambled ions generally make up more than 10 % of mass spectra in number, although the abundances are less than 0.1 of the base peak. For the latter, relatively preferential re-opening sites were found for aliphatic residues Ala, Ile, Leu, and other residues such as Met, Gln, Ser, Phe, and Thr, whereas disfavored sites were found for basic residues Arg, Lys, and His, and Trp for both scrambled b and a ions. Similar preferential order in re-opening reaction was found in the reaction of losing internal residues when cleavage occurs at C-terminal side of 20 residues. However, when cleavage occurs at N-terminal side, Glu, Phe, and Trp become the most preferential sites. These results provide a deep insight into cleavage rules during scramble reactions for prediction of peptide mass spectra. Also, an additional investigation of whether scrambled ions could help discriminate false identifications from correct identifications was performed. Probing the number fraction of scrambled ions in falsely and correctly interpreted spectra and analyzing the correlation between scrambled ions and SEQUEST scores XCorr and Sp showed scrambled ions could at some extent help improve the discrimination in singly charged identifications, whereas no improvement was found for multiply charged results.
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- Nai-ping Dong
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, People's Republic of China
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Wassermann TN, Boyarkin OV, Paizs B, Rizzo TR. Conformation-specific spectroscopy of peptide fragment ions in a low-temperature ion trap. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2012; 23:1029-1045. [PMID: 22460621 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-012-0368-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2011] [Revised: 02/17/2012] [Accepted: 02/23/2012] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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We have applied conformer-selective infrared-ultraviolet (IR-UV) double-resonance photofragment spectroscopy at low temperatures in an ion trap mass spectrometer for the spectroscopic characterization of peptide fragment ions. We investigate b- and a-type ions formed by collision-induced dissociation from protonated leucine-enkephalin. The vibrational analysis and assignment are supported by nitrogen-15 isotopic substitution of individual amino acid residues and assisted by density functional theory calculations. Under such conditions, b-type ions of different size are found to appear exclusively as linear oxazolone structures with protonation on the N-terminus, while a rearrangement reaction is confirmed for the a (4) ion in which the side chain of the C-terminal phenylalanine residue is transferred to the N-terminal side of the molecule. The vibrational spectra that we present here provide a particularly stringent test for theoretical approaches.
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- Tobias N Wassermann
- Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Moléculaire, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Tirado M, Polfer NC. Defying entropy: forming large head-to-tail macrocycles in the gas phase. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2012; 51:6436-8. [PMID: 22615257 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201202405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2012] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Spectral fingerprints: Collision-induced dissociation (CID) of protonated peptides in the gas phase results in linear fragment ions with a five-membered oxazolone ring on their C-terminal side. Infrared spectroscopy confirms that smaller fragments adopt oxazolone structures. Conversely, in mid-sized and larger fragments an isomerization to "head-to-tail" macrocycles is observed (see picture).
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- Marcus Tirado
- Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Buckman Drive, P.O. Box 117200, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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Tirado M, Polfer NC. Defying Entropy: Forming Large Head-to-Tail Macrocycles in the Gas Phase. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2012. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201202405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Gucinski AC, Chamot-Rooke J, Nicol E, Somogyi Á, Wysocki VH. Structural influences on preferential oxazolone versus diketopiperazine b(2+) ion formation for histidine analogue-containing peptides. J Phys Chem A 2012; 116:4296-304. [PMID: 22448972 PMCID: PMC3523341 DOI: 10.1021/jp300262d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Studies of peptide fragment ion structures are important to aid in the accurate kinetic modeling and prediction of peptide fragmentation pathways for a given sequence. Peptide b(2)(+) ion structures have been of recent interest. While previously studied b(2)(+) ions that contain only aliphatic or simple aromatic residues are oxazolone structures, the HA b(2)(+) ion consists of both oxazolone and diketopiperazine structures. The structures of a series of histidine-analogue-containing Xxx-Ala b(2)(+) ions were studied by using action infrared multiphoton dissociation (IRMPD) spectroscopy, fragment ion hydrogen-deuterium exchange (HDX), and density functional theory (DFT) calculations to systematically probe the influence of different side chain structural elements on the resulting b(2)(+) ion structures formed. The b(2)(+) ions studied include His-Ala (HA), methylated histidine analogues, including π-methyl-HA and τ-methyl-HA, pyridylalanine (pa) analogues, including 2-(pa)A, 3-(pa)A, and 4-(pa)A, and linear analogues, including diaminobutanoic acid-Ala (DabA) and Lys-Ala (KA). The location and accessibility of the histidine π-nitrogen, or an amino nitrogen on an aliphatic side chain, were seen to be essential for diketopiperazine formation in addition to the more typical oxazolone structure formation, while blocking or removal of the τ-nitrogen did not change the b(2)(+) ion structures formed. Linear histidine analogues, DabA and KA, formed only diketopiperazine structures, suggesting that a steric interaction in the HisAla case may interfere with the complete trans-cis isomerization of the first amide bond that is necessary for diketopiperazine formation.
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- Ashley C Gucinski
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Arizona, 1306 East University Boulevard, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA.
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Bythell BJ, Hendrickson CL, Marshall AG. Relative stability of peptide sequence ions generated by tandem mass spectrometry. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2012; 23:644-654. [PMID: 22354685 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-012-0357-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2011] [Revised: 02/01/2012] [Accepted: 02/01/2012] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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We report the use of unimolecular dissociation by infrared radiation for gaseous multiphoton energy transfer to determine relative activation energy (E(a,laser)) for dissociation of peptide sequence ions. The sequence ions of interest are mass-isolated; the entire ion cloud is then irradiated with a continuous wave CO(2) laser, and the first order rate constant, k(d), is determined for each of a series of laser powers. Provided these conditions are met, a plot of the natural logarithm of k(d) versus the natural logarithm of laser power yields a straight line, whose slope provides a measure of E(a,laser). This method reproduces the E(a) values from blackbody radiative dissociation (BIRD) for the comparatively large, singly and doubly protonated bradykinin ions (nominally y ( 9 ) and y ( 9 ) ( 2+ )). The comparatively small sequence ion systems produce E(a,laser) values that are systematic underestimates of theoretical barriers calculated with density functional theory (DFT). However, the relative E(a,laser) values are in qualitative agreement with the mobile proton model and available theory. Additionally, novel protonated cyclic-dipeptide (diketopiperazine) fragmentation reactions are analyzed with DFT. FT-ICR MS provides access to sequence ions generated by electron capture dissociation, infrared multiphoton dissociation, and collisional activation methods (i.e., b ( n ), y ( m ) , c ( n ), z ( m ) ( • ) ions).
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- Benjamin J Bythell
- Ion Cyclotron Resonance Program, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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Tirado M, Rutters J, Chen X, Yeung A, van Maarseveen J, Eyler JR, Berden G, Oomens J, Polfer NC. Disfavoring macrocycle b fragments by constraining torsional freedom: the "twisted" case of QWFGLM b6. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2012; 23:475-482. [PMID: 22219043 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-011-0315-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2011] [Revised: 12/02/2011] [Accepted: 12/04/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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While recent studies have shown that for some peptides, such as oligoglycines and Leu-enkephalin, mid-sized b fragment ions exist as a mixture of oxazolone and macrocycle structures, other primary structure motifs, such as QWFGLM, are shown to exclusively give rise to macrocycle structures. The aim of this study was to determine if certain amino acid residues are capable of suppressing macrocycle formation in the corresponding b fragment. The residues proline and 4-aminomethylbenzoic acid (4AMBz) were chosen because of their intrinsic rigidity, in the expectation that limited torsional flexibility may impede "head-to-tail" macrocycle formation. The presence of oxazolone versus macrocycle b(6) fragment structures was validated by infrared multiple photon dissociation (IRMPD) spectroscopy, using the free electron laser FELIX. It is confirmed that proline disfavors macrocycle formation in the cases of QPWFGLM b(7) and in QPFGLM b(6). The 4AMBz substitution experiments show that merely QWFG(4AMBz)M b(6), with 4AMBz in the fifth position, exhibits a weak oxazolone band. This effect is likely ascribed to a stabilization of the oxazolone structure, due to an extended oxazolone ring-phenyl π-electron system, not due to the rigidity of the 4AMBz residue. These results show that some primary structures have an intrinsic propensity to form macrocycle structures, which is difficult to disrupt, even using residues with limited torsional flexibility.
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- Marcus Tirado
- Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, P.O. Box 117200, Gainesville, FL, 32611-7200, USA
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Grzetic J, Oomens J. Spectroscopic evidence for an oxazolone structure in anionic b-type peptide fragments. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2012; 23:290-300. [PMID: 22170467 PMCID: PMC3264858 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-011-0297-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2011] [Revised: 10/31/2011] [Accepted: 11/02/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Infrared spectra of anionic b-type fragments generated by collision induced dissociation (CID) from deprotonated peptides are reported. Spectra of the b(2) fragments of deprotonated AlaAlaAla and AlaTyrAla have been recorded over the 800-1800 cm(-1) spectral range by multiple-photon dissociation (MPD) spectroscopy using an FTICR mass spectrometer in combination with the free electron laser FELIX. Structural characterization of the b-type fragments is accomplished by comparison with density functional theory calculated spectra at the B3LYP/6-31++G(d,p) level for different isomeric structures. Although diketopiperazine structures represent the energetically lowest isomers, the IR spectra suggest an oxazolone structure for the b(2) fragments of both peptides. Deprotonation is shown to occur on the oxazolone α-carbon, which leads to a conjugated structure in which the negative charge is practically delocalized over the entire oxazolone ring, providing enhanced gas-phase stability.
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- Josipa Grzetic
- FOM Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen, Edisonbaan 14, 3439MN Nieuwegein, The Netherlands
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- FOM Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen, Edisonbaan 14, 3439MN Nieuwegein, The Netherlands
- van’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Dupré M, Cantel S, Martinez J, Enjalbal C. Occurrence of C-terminal residue exclusion in peptide fragmentation by ESI and MALDI tandem mass spectrometry. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2012; 23:330-346. [PMID: 22095165 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-011-0254-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2011] [Revised: 09/14/2011] [Accepted: 09/14/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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By screening a data set of 392 synthetic peptides MS/MS spectra, we found that a known C-terminal rearrangement was unexpectedly frequently occurring from monoprotonated molecular ions in both ESI and MALDI tandem mass spectrometry upon low and high energy collision activated dissociations with QqTOF and TOF/TOF mass analyzer configuration, respectively. Any residue localized at the C-terminal carboxylic acid end, even a basic one, was lost, provided that a basic amino acid such arginine and to a lesser extent histidine and lysine was present in the sequence leading to a fragment ion, usually depicted as (b(n-1) + H(2)O) ion, corresponding to a shortened non-scrambled peptide chain. Far from being an epiphenomenon, such a residue exclusion from the peptide chain C-terminal extremity gave a fragment ion that was the base peak of the MS/MS spectrum in certain cases. Within the frame of the mobile proton model, the ionizing proton being sequestered onto the basic amino acid side chain, it is known that the charge directed fragmentation mechanism involved the C-terminal carboxylic acid function forming an anhydride intermediate structure. The same mechanism was also demonstrated from cationized peptides. To confirm such assessment, we have prepared some of the peptides that displayed such C-terminal residue exclusion as a C-terminal backbone amide. As expected in this peptide amide series, the production of truncated chains was completely suppressed. Besides, multiply charged molecular ions of all peptides recorded in ESI mass spectrometry did not undergo such fragmentation validating that any mobile ionizing proton will prevent such a competitive C-terminal backbone rearrangement. Among all well-known nondirect sequence fragment ions issued from non specific loss of neutral molecules (mainly H(2)O and NH(3)) and multiple backbone amide ruptures (b-type internal ions), the described C-terminal residue exclusion is highly identifiable giving raise to a single fragment ion in the high mass range of the MS/MS spectra. The mass difference between this signal and the protonated molecular ion corresponds to the mass of the C-terminal residue. It allowed a straightforward identification of the amino acid positioned at this extremity. It must be emphasized that a neutral residue loss can be misattributed to the formation of a y(m-1) ion, i.e., to the loss of the N-terminal residue following the a(1)-y(m-1) fragmentation channel. Extreme caution must be adopted when reading the direct sequence ion on the positive ion MS/MS spectra of singly charged peptides not to mix up the attribution of the N- and C-terminal amino acids. Although such peculiar fragmentation behavior is of obvious interest for de novo peptide sequencing, it can also be exploited in proteomics, especially for studies involving digestion protocols carried out with proteolytic enzymes other than trypsin (Lys-N, Glu-C, and Asp-N) that produce arginine-containing peptides.
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- Mathieu Dupré
- Institut des Biomolécules Max Mousseron (IBMM), UMR 5247, Bâtiment Chimie (17), Université Montpellier 2, Universités Montpellier 1 et 2 - CNRS, Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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Zhang J, Al-Eryani R, Ball HL. Mass spectrometry analysis of 2-nitrophenylhydrazine carboxy derivatized peptides. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2011; 22:1958-1967. [PMID: 21952763 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-011-0220-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2011] [Revised: 07/14/2011] [Accepted: 07/19/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Peptides with two or more basic residues, including those with post-translational modifications (PTMs), such as methylation and phosphorylation, can be highly hydrophilic and, therefore, are often difficult to be retained on a reversed-phase (RP) column. In addition, these highly hydrophilic peptides may carry two or more positive charges, which often fragment poorly upon collisionally activated dissociation (CAD), resulting in few sequence-specific ions. C-terminal rearrangement may also occur during CAD. Furthermore, some PTMs are labile and tend to be lost when subjected to CAD as is the case with phosphorylation on serine or threonine. To overcome the difficulties of separation, detection, and fragmentation of highly hydrophilic peptides, we report here the effect of carboxy group derivatization with 2-nitrophenylhydrazine (this strategy will be called NPHylation for simplicity). NPHylation significantly increases the hydrophobicity of the peptides, eliminates C-terminal rearrangement in all cases, and offers enhanced sensitivity in some cases. In addition, the CAD spectra of the resulting NPHylated peptides carry more sequence-specific ions due to significant reduction of sequence scrambling as observed for peptide EHAGVISVL. Furthermore, the different carboxy derivatives of this peptide undergo sequence scrambling to varying degrees, which clearly demonstrates that the C-terminus has a profound effect on peptide fragmentation. Finally, sequence scrambling is a charge dependent phenomenon, which affects CAD of doubly charged peptides far more than their singly charged counterparts.
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- Junmei Zhang
- Protein Chemistry Technology Center, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390-8816, USA
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