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Jiang T, Wan G, Zhang H, Gyawali YP, Underbakke ES, Feng C. Mapping the Intersubunit Interdomain FMN-Heme Interactions in Neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase by Targeted Quantitative Cross-Linking Mass Spectrometry. Biochemistry 2024; 63:1395-1411. [PMID: 38747545 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.4c00157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2024]
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Nitric oxide synthase (NOS) in mammals is a family of multidomain proteins in which interdomain electron transfer (IET) is controlled by domain-domain interactions. Calmodulin (CaM) binds to the canonical CaM-binding site in the linker region between the FMN and heme domains of NOS and allows tethered FMN domain motions, enabling an intersubunit FMN-heme IET in the output state for NO production. Our previous cross-linking mass spectrometric (XL MS) results demonstrated site-specific protein dynamics in the CaM-responsive regions of rat neuronal NOS (nNOS) reductase construct, a monomeric protein [Jiang et al., Biochemistry, 2023, 62, 2232-2237]. In this work, we have extended our combined approach of XL MS structural mapping and AlphaFold structural prediction to examine the homodimeric nNOS oxygenase/FMN (oxyFMN) construct, an established model of the NOS output state. We employed parallel reaction monitoring (PRM) based quantitative XL MS (qXL MS) to assess the CaM-induced changes in interdomain dynamics and interactions. Intersubunit cross-links were identified by mapping the cross-links onto top AlphaFold structural models, which was complemented by comparing their relative abundances in the cross-linked dimeric and monomeric bands. Furthermore, contrasting the CaM-free and CaM-bound nNOS samples shows that CaM enables the formation of the intersubunit FMN-heme docking complex and that CaM binding induces extensive, allosteric conformational changes across the NOS regions. Moreover, the observed cross-links sites specifically respond to changes in ionic strength. This indicates that interdomain salt bridges are responsible for stabilizing and orienting the output state for efficient FMN-heme IET. Taken together, our targeted qXL MS results have revealed that CaM and ionic strength modulate specific dynamic changes in the CaM/FMN/heme complexes, particularly in the context of intersubunit interdomain FMN-heme interactions.
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- Ting Jiang
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, United States
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- Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, United States
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, United States
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Zhu Z, Zhong X, Wang B, Lu H, Li L. Probing Protein Structural Changes in Alzheimer's Disease via Quantitative Cross-linking Mass Spectrometry. Anal Chem 2024; 96:7506-7515. [PMID: 38690851 PMCID: PMC11114074 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.4c00182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2024]
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurological disorder featuring abnormal protein aggregation in the brain, including the pathological hallmarks of amyloid plaques and hyperphosphorylated tau. Despite extensive research efforts, understanding the molecular intricacies driving AD development remains a formidable challenge. This study focuses on identifying key protein conformational changes associated with the progression of AD. To achieve this, we employed quantitative cross-linking mass spectrometry (XL-MS) to elucidate conformational changes in the protein networks in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). By using isotopically labeled cross-linkers BS3d0 and BS3d4, we reveal a dynamic shift in protein interaction networks during AD progression. Our comprehensive analysis highlights distinct alterations in protein-protein interactions within mild cognitive impairment (MCI) states. This study accentuates the potential of cross-linked peptides as indicators of AD-related conformational changes, including previously unreported site-specific binding between α-1-antitrypsin (A1AT) and complement component 3 (CO3). Furthermore, this work enables detailed structural characterization of apolipoprotein E (ApoE) and reveals modifications within its helical domains, suggesting their involvement in MCI pathogenesis. The quantitative approach provides insights into site-specific interactions and changes in the abundance of cross-linked peptides, offering an improved understanding of the intricate protein-protein interactions underlying AD progression. These findings lay a foundation for the development of potential diagnostic or therapeutic strategies aimed at mitigating the negative impact of AD.
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- Zexin Zhu
- School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 53705, United States
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- School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 53705, United States
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 53705, United States
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- School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 53705, United States
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- School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 53705, United States
- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
- Lachman Institute for Pharmaceutical Development, School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705, USA
- Wisconsin Center for NanoBioSystems, School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705, USA
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Mu Y, Zhao S, Liu J, Liu Z, He J, Cao H, Zhao H, Wang C, Jin Y, Qi Y, Wang F. Assessment of the Conformation Stability and Glycosylation Heterogeneity of Lactoferrin by Native Mass Spectrometry. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2024; 72:10089-10096. [PMID: 38626386 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.3c08860] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/18/2024]
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Lactoferrin (LTF) has diverse biological activities and is widely used in functional foods and active additives. Nevertheless, evaluating the proteoform heterogeneity, conformational stability, and activity of LTF remains challenging during its production and storage processes. In this study, we describe the implementation of native mass spectrometry (nMS), glycoproteomics, and an antimicrobial activity assay to assess the quality of LTF. We systematically characterize the purity, glycosylation heterogeneity, conformation, and thermal stability of LTF samples from different sources and transient high-temperature treatments by using nMS and glycoproteomics. Meanwhile, the nMS peak intensity and antimicrobial activity of LTF samples after heat treatment decreased significantly, and the two values were positively correlated. The nMS results provide essential molecular insights into the conformational stability and glycosylation heterogeneity of different LTF samples. Our results underscore the great potential of nMS for LTF quality control and activity evaluation in industrial production.
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- Yu Mu
- College of Food Science and Engineering, Ocean University of Dalian, Dalian 116023, China
- CAS Key Laboratory of Separation Sciences for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Separation Sciences for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Separation Sciences for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- College of Pharmacy, Dalian Medical University, Dalian 116044, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Separation Sciences for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- Inner Mongolia Dairy Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd., Hohhot 010110, China
- Inner Mongolia National Center of Technology Innovation for Dairy Co. Ltd., Hohhot 010110, China
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- Inner Mongolia Dairy Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd., Hohhot 010110, China
- Inner Mongolia National Center of Technology Innovation for Dairy Co. Ltd., Hohhot 010110, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Separation Sciences for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- Inner Mongolia Dairy Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd., Hohhot 010110, China
- Inner Mongolia National Center of Technology Innovation for Dairy Co. Ltd., Hohhot 010110, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Separation Sciences for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- College of Food Science and Engineering, Ocean University of Dalian, Dalian 116023, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Separation Sciences for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- Inner Mongolia National Center of Technology Innovation for Dairy Co. Ltd., Hohhot 010110, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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Hevler JF, Heck AJR. Higher-Order Structural Organization of the Mitochondrial Proteome Charted by In Situ Cross-Linking Mass Spectrometry. Mol Cell Proteomics 2023; 22:100657. [PMID: 37805037 PMCID: PMC10651688 DOI: 10.1016/j.mcpro.2023.100657] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2023] [Revised: 09/14/2023] [Accepted: 10/04/2023] [Indexed: 10/09/2023] Open
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Mitochondria are densely packed with proteins, of which most are involved physically or more transiently in protein-protein interactions (PPIs). Mitochondria host among others all enzymes of the Krebs cycle and the oxidative phosphorylation pathway and are foremost associated with cellular bioenergetics. However, mitochondria are also important contributors to apoptotic cell death and contain their own genome indicating that they play additionally an eminent role in processes beyond bioenergetics. Despite intense efforts in identifying and characterizing mitochondrial protein complexes by structural biology and proteomics techniques, many PPIs have remained elusive. Several of these (membrane embedded) PPIs are less stable in vitro hampering their characterization by most contemporary methods in structural biology. Particularly in these cases, cross-linking mass spectrometry (XL-MS) has proven valuable for the in-depth characterization of mitochondrial protein complexes in situ. Here, we highlight experimental strategies for the analysis of proteome-wide PPIs in mitochondria using XL-MS. We showcase the ability of in situ XL-MS as a tool to map suborganelle interactions and topologies and aid in refining structural models of protein complexes. We describe some of the most recent technological advances in XL-MS that may benefit the in situ characterization of PPIs even further, especially when combined with electron microscopy and structural modeling.
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- Johannes F Hevler
- Division of Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research and Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Netherlands Proteomics Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Division of Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research and Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Netherlands Proteomics Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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Liu H. Cyanobacterial Phycobilisome Allostery as Revealed by Quantitative Mass Spectrometry. Biochemistry 2023; 62:1307-1320. [PMID: 36943676 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.3c00047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/23/2023]
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Phycobilisomes (PBSs) are the major photosynthetic light-harvesting complexes in cyanobacteria and red algae. PBS, a multisubunit protein complex, has two major interfaces that comprise intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs): rod-core and core-membrane. IDRs do not form regular, three-dimensional structures on their own. Their presence in the photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes portends their structural and functional importance. A recent model suggests that PB-loop, an IDR located on the PBS subunit ApcE and C-terminal extension (CTE) of the PBS subunit ApcG, forms a structural protrusion on the PBS core-membrane side, facing the thylakoid membrane. Here, the structural synergy between the rod-core region and the core-membrane region was investigated using quantitative mass spectrometry (MS). The AlphaFold-predicted CpcG-CTE structure was first modeled onto the PBS rod-core region, guided and justified by the isotopically encoded structural MS data. Quantitative cross-linking MS analysis revealed that the structural proximity of the PB-loop in ApcE and ApcG-CTE is significantly disturbed in the absence of six PBS rods, which are attached to PBS via CpcG-CTE, indicative of drastic conformational changes and decreased structural integrity. These results suggest that CpcG-rod attachment on the PBS rod-core side is essentially required for the PBS core-membrane structural assembly. The hypothesized long-range synergy between the rod-core interface (where the orange carotenoid protein also functions) and the terminal energy emitter of PBS must have important regulatory roles in PBS core assembly, light-harvesting, and excitation energy transmission. These data also lend strategies that genetic truncation of the light-harvesting antennas aimed for improved photosynthetic productivity must rely on an in-depth understanding of their global structural integrity.
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- Haijun Liu
- Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, United States
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Disulfide bond and crosslinking analyses reveal inter-domain interactions that contribute to the rigidity of placental malaria VAR2CSA structure and formation of CSA binding channel. Int J Biol Macromol 2023; 226:143-158. [PMID: 36470436 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2022.11.258] [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: 08/26/2022] [Revised: 11/15/2022] [Accepted: 11/24/2022] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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VAR2CSA, a multidomain Plasmodium falciparum protein, mediates the adherence of parasite-infected red blood cells to chondroitin 4-sulfate (C4S) in the placenta, contributing to placental malaria. Therefore, detailed understanding of VAR2CSA structure likely help developing strategies to treat placental malaria. The VAR2CSA ectodomain consists of an N-terminal segment (NTS), six Duffy binding-like (DBL) domains, and three interdomains (IDs) present in sequence NTS-DBL1x-ID1-DBL2x-ID2-DBL3x-DBL4ε-ID3-DBL5ε-DBL6ε. Recent electron microscopy studies showed that VAR2CSA is compactly organized into a globular structure containing C4S-binding channel, and that DBL5ε-DBL6ε arm is attached to the NTS-ID3 core structure. However, the structural elements involved in inter-domain interactions that stabilize the VAR2CSA structure remain largely not understood. Here, limited proteolysis and peptide mapping by mass spectrometry showed that VAR2CSA contains several inter-domain disulfide bonds that stabilize its compact structure. Chemical crosslinking-mass spectrometry showed that all IDs interact with DBL4ε; additionally, IDs interact with other DBL domains, demonstrating that IDs are the key structural scaffolds that shape the functional NTS-ID3 core. Ligand binding analysis suggested that NTS considerably restricts the C4S binding. Overall, our study revealed that inter-domain disulfide bonds and interactions between IDs and DBL domains contribute to the stability of VAR2CSA structural architecture and formation of C4S-binding channel.
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Huebbers JW, Mantz M, Panstruga R, Huesgen PF. Proteomics dataset on detached and purified Arabidopsis thaliana rosette leaf trichomes. Data Brief 2023; 46:108897. [PMID: 36817732 PMCID: PMC9936375 DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2023.108897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2022] [Revised: 01/09/2023] [Accepted: 01/09/2023] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Trichomes are highly specialized uni- or multicellular outgrowths of epidermal cells of plant organs that, in the case of leaves, contribute to plant resistance against abiotic and biotic stress. The model plant Arabidopsis thaliana features single-celled non-glandular rosette leaf trichomes that are dispensable under laboratory conditions. Trichomes have therefore become a successful model to identify plant genes involved in cellular differentiation and cell wall development. We have recently devised an improved method for the enrichment of plant leaf trichomes that relies on the biochemical weakening of the trichome-leaf junctions and a magnetic stirrer-based mechanical stimulus for trichome release followed by density gradient purification of trichomes. Here we provide detailed information on a label-free quantitative (LFQ) shotgun proteomics dataset collected at four stages while applying this protocol to isolate trichomes from rosette leaves of A. thaliana, from (i) whole seedlings before enrichment, from (ii) trichome-depleted material after separation, from (iii) detached trichomes, and from (iv) enriched trichomes after sucrose density gradient centrifugation. Proteins were extracted, digested with trypsin and the resulting peptides identified by nanoflow-chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry. This dataset informs on proteins and biochemical processes present and/or enriched in A. thaliana rosette leaf trichomes, complementing recent large-scale proteome maps. The data further enables comparative analysis with trichome proteomic data from other plant species, may be reanalyzed using different software packages or search settings, and may serve as a reference benchmark for future method refinement.
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- Jan W. Huebbers
- Unit of Plant Molecular Cell Biology, Institute for Biology I, RWTH Aachen University, Worringerweg 1, Aachen 52056, Germany
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- Central Institute for Engineering, Electronics and Analytics, ZEA-3, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Wilhelm-Johnen-Str, Jülich 52425,Germany,Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD) Medical Faculty and University Hospital, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Unit of Plant Molecular Cell Biology, Institute for Biology I, RWTH Aachen University, Worringerweg 1, Aachen 52056, Germany
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- Central Institute for Engineering, Electronics and Analytics, ZEA-3, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Wilhelm-Johnen-Str, Jülich 52425,Germany,Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD) Medical Faculty and University Hospital, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany,Department for Chemistry, Institute of Biochemistry, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany,Corresponding author at: Central Institute for Engineering, Electronics and Analytics, ZEA-3, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Wilhelm-Johnen-Str, Jülich 52425, Germany.
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Yadav R, Courouble VV, Dey SK, Harrison JJE, Timm J, Hopkins JB, Slack RL, Sarafianos SG, Ruiz FX, Griffin PR, Arnold E. Biochemical and structural insights into SARS-CoV-2 polyprotein processing by Mpro. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2022; 8:eadd2191. [PMID: 36490335 PMCID: PMC9733933 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.add2191] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2022] [Accepted: 11/02/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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SARS-CoV-2, a human coronavirus, is the causative agent of the COVID-19 pandemic. Its genome is translated into two large polyproteins subsequently cleaved by viral papain-like protease and main protease (Mpro). Polyprotein processing is essential yet incompletely understood. We studied Mpro-mediated processing of the nsp7-11 polyprotein, whose mature products include cofactors of the viral replicase, and identified the order of cleavages. Integrative modeling based on mass spectrometry (including hydrogen-deuterium exchange and cross-linking) and x-ray scattering yielded a nsp7-11 structural ensemble, demonstrating shared secondary structural elements with individual nsps. The pattern of cross-links and HDX footprint of the C145A Mpro and nsp7-11 complex demonstrate preferential binding of the enzyme active site to the polyprotein junction sites and additional transient contacts to help orient the enzyme on its substrate for cleavage. Last, proteolysis assays were used to characterize the effect of inhibitors/binders on Mpro processing/inhibition using the nsp7-11 polyprotein as substrate.
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- Ruchi Yadav
- Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine (CABM), Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, FL, USA
- Skaggs Graduate School of Chemical and Biological Sciences, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, FL, USA
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- Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine (CABM), Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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- Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine (CABM), Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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- BioCAT, Department of Physics, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Division of Laboratory of Biochemical Pharmacology and Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Division of Laboratory of Biochemical Pharmacology and Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
- Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine (CABM), Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, FL, USA
- Skaggs Graduate School of Chemical and Biological Sciences, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, FL, USA
- Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, FL, USA
- Department of Molecular Medicine, UF Scripps Biomedical Research, University of Florida, Jupiter, FL, USA
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- Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine (CABM), Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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Sijacki T, Alcón P, Chen ZA, McLaughlin SH, Shakeel S, Rappsilber J, Passmore LA. The DNA-damage kinase ATR activates the FANCD2-FANCI clamp by priming it for ubiquitination. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2022; 29:881-890. [PMID: 36050501 PMCID: PMC7613635 DOI: 10.1038/s41594-022-00820-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2022] [Accepted: 07/18/2022] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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DNA interstrand cross-links are tumor-inducing lesions that block DNA replication and transcription. When cross-links are detected at stalled replication forks, ATR kinase phosphorylates FANCI, which stimulates monoubiquitination of the FANCD2-FANCI clamp by the Fanconi anemia core complex. Monoubiquitinated FANCD2-FANCI is locked onto DNA and recruits nucleases that mediate DNA repair. However, it remains unclear how phosphorylation activates this pathway. Here, we report structures of FANCD2-FANCI complexes containing phosphomimetic FANCI. We observe that, unlike wild-type FANCD2-FANCI, the phosphomimetic complex closes around DNA, independent of the Fanconi anemia core complex. The phosphomimetic mutations do not substantially alter DNA binding but instead destabilize the open state of FANCD2-FANCI and alter its conformational dynamics. Overall, our results demonstrate that phosphorylation primes the FANCD2-FANCI clamp for ubiquitination, showing how multiple posttranslational modifications are coordinated to control DNA repair.
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- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
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- Technische Universität Berlin, Chair of Bioanalytics, Berlin, Germany
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- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
- Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Australia
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- Technische Universität Berlin, Chair of Bioanalytics, Berlin, Germany
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Wang S, Wu R, Lu J, Jiang Y, Huang T, Cai YD. Protein-protein interaction networks as miners of biological discovery. Proteomics 2022; 22:e2100190. [PMID: 35567424 DOI: 10.1002/pmic.202100190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2021] [Revised: 03/28/2022] [Accepted: 04/29/2022] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) form the basis of a myriad of biological pathways and mechanism, such as the formation of protein-complexes or the components of signaling cascades. Here, we reviewed experimental methods for identifying PPI pairs, including yeast two-hybrid, mass spectrometry, co-localization, and co-immunoprecipitation. Furthermore, a range of computational methods leveraging biochemical properties, evolution history, protein structures and more have enabled identification of additional PPIs. Given the wealth of known PPIs, we reviewed important network methods to construct and analyze networks of PPIs. These methods aid biological discovery through identifying hub genes and dynamic changes in the network, and have been thoroughly applied in various fields of biological research. Lastly, we discussed the challenges and future direction of research utilizing the power of PPI networks. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
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- Steven Wang
- Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Bio-Med Big Data Center, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
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Sarnowski CP, Bikaki M, Leitner A. Cross-linking and mass spectrometry as a tool for studying the structural biology of ribonucleoproteins. Structure 2022; 30:441-461. [PMID: 35366400 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2022.03.003] [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: 07/29/2021] [Revised: 02/03/2022] [Accepted: 03/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Cross-linking and mass spectrometry (XL-MS) workflows represent an increasingly popular technique for low-resolution structural studies of macromolecular complexes. Cross-linking reactions take place in the solution state, capturing contact sites between components of a complex that represent the native, functionally relevant structure. Protein-protein XL-MS protocols are widely adopted, providing precise localization of cross-linking sites to single amino acid positions within a pair of cross-linked peptides. In contrast, protein-RNA XL-MS workflows are evolving rapidly and differ in their ability to localize interaction regions within the RNA sequence. Here, we review protein-protein and protein-RNA XL-MS workflows, and discuss their applications in studies of protein-RNA complexes. The examples highlight the complementary value of XL-MS in structural studies of protein-RNA complexes, where more established high-resolution techniques might be unable to produce conclusive data.
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- Chris P Sarnowski
- Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, Department of Biology, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland; Systems Biology PhD Program, University of Zürich and ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, Department of Biology, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, Department of Biology, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland.
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Zhang W, Liu Z, Zhou Y, Lai C, Sun B, He M, Zhai Z, Wang J, Wang Q, Wang X, Wang F, Pan Y. Elucidating the molecular mechanisms of perfluorooctanoic acid-serum protein interactions by structural mass spectrometry. CHEMOSPHERE 2022; 291:132945. [PMID: 34798108 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.132945] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2021] [Revised: 11/08/2021] [Accepted: 11/14/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) is a persistent environmental pollutant and will continually accumulate in blood due to its chemical inertness and strong interaction with serum proteins, especially serum albumin (SA), inducing highly adverse health risks. However, the molecular mechanisms of dynamic interactions between PFOA with serum proteins remain unclear, limiting the development of potential therapeutic strategies. Herein, we developed an integrated structural strategy to systematically profile the molecular details of dynamic interactions among PFOA, SA, and β-cyclodextrin (β-CD) by combing native mass spectrometry (nMS), lysine reactivity profiling (LRP), and molecular docking (MD) simulation. The SA site 1, site 2 pockets, and cleft nearby are observed as the primary interaction regions of PFOA. Further, β-CD can disrupt the PFOA combinations with bovine SA regions around sites Lys20, Lys280, Lys350, and Lys431-Lys439, with an overall reversing efficiency of about 26% at an identical concentration to PFOA. The interactome of PFOA with complex human serum proteins is globally profiled with molecular interaction details, including human serum albumin, apolipoprotein A-I, alpha-2-macroglobulin, and complement C3. Our results reveal molecular insights into the detail of the interaction between PFOA and serum proteins, beneficial to understanding PFOA toxicology.
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- Wenxiang Zhang
- Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China; CAS Key Laboratory of Separation Sciences for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, 116023, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Separation Sciences for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, 116023, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Separation Sciences for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, 116023, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Separation Sciences for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, 116023, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Separation Sciences for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, 116023, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Separation Sciences for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, 116023, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Separation Sciences for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, 116023, China
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- The Second Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, 116023, China
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- The Second Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, 116023, China
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- Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry of State Ethnic Affairs Commission, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, South-Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, 430074, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Separation Sciences for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, 116023, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China.
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- Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China.
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Yu C, Wang X, Huang L. Developing a Targeted Quantitative Strategy for Sulfoxide-Containing MS-Cleavable Cross-Linked Peptides to Probe Conformational Dynamics of Protein Complexes. Anal Chem 2022; 94:4390-4398. [PMID: 35193351 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.1c05298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
In recent years, cross-linking mass spectrometry (XL-MS) has made enormous strides as a technology for probing protein-protein interactions (PPIs) and elucidating architectures of multisubunit assemblies. To define conformational and interaction dynamics of protein complexes under different physiological conditions, various quantitative cross-linking mass spectrometry (QXL-MS) strategies based on stable isotope labeling have been developed. These QXL-MS approaches have effectively allowed comparative analysis of cross-links to determine their relative abundance changes at global scales. Although successful, it remains challenging to consistently obtain quantitative measurements on low-abundant cross-links. Therefore, targeted QXL-MS is needed to enable MS "Western" analysis of cross-links to enhance sensitivity and reliability in quantitation. To this end, we have established a robust parallel reaction monitoring (PRM)-based targeted QXL-MS platform using sulfoxide-containing MS-cleavable cross-linker disuccinimidyl sulfoxide (DSSO), permitting label-free comparative analysis of selected cross-links across multiple samples. In addition, we have applied this methodology to study phosphorylation-dependent conformational dynamics of the human 26S proteasome. The PRM-based targeted QXL-MS analytical platform described here is applicable for all sulfoxide-containing MS-cleavable cross-linkers and can be directly adopted for comparative studies of protein-protein interactions in various cellular contexts.
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- Clinton Yu
- Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of California, Irvine, Medical Science I, D233, Irvine, California 92697-4560, United States
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- Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of California, Irvine, Medical Science I, D233, Irvine, California 92697-4560, United States
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- Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of California, Irvine, Medical Science I, D233, Irvine, California 92697-4560, United States
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Wippel HH, Chavez JD, Tang X, Bruce JE. Quantitative interactome analysis with chemical cross-linking and mass spectrometry. Curr Opin Chem Biol 2022; 66:102076. [PMID: 34393043 PMCID: PMC8837725 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2021.06.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2021] [Revised: 06/17/2021] [Accepted: 06/23/2021] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Structural plasticity and dynamic protein-protein interactions are critical determinants of protein function within living systems. Quantitative chemical cross-linking with mass spectrometry (qXL-MS) is an emerging technology able to provide information on changes in protein conformations and interactions. Importantly, qXL-MS is applicable to complex biological systems, including living cells and tissues, thereby providing insights into proteins within their native environments. Here, we present an overview of recent technological developments and applications involving qXL-MS, including design and synthesis of isotope-labeled cross-linkers, development of new liquid chromatography-MS methodologies, and computational developments enabling interpretation of the data.
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- Helisa H Wippel
- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
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Li C, Engholm-Keller K, Lund MN. Site-Specific Characterization of Heat-Induced Disulfide Rearrangement in Beta-Lactoglobulin by Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2022; 70:847-856. [PMID: 35025507 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.1c06844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Disulfides are important for maintaining the protein native structure, but they may undergo rearrangement in the presence of free Cys residues, especially under elevated temperatures. Disulfide rearrangement may result in protein aggregation, which is associated with in vivo pathologies in organisms and in vitro protein functionality in food systems. In a food context, it is therefore important to understand the process of disulfide rearrangement on a site-specific level in order to control aggregation. In the present study, a liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS)-based bottom-up site-specific proteomic approach was optimized to study disulfide rearrangements in beta-lactoglobulin (β-LG) under different heat treatments (60-90 °C). Artifactual disulfide rearrangement observed during sample preparation using a conventional protocol was detected and minimized by blocking the remaining free Cys residues with iodoacetamide in the presence of urea after heat treatment. Use of endoproteinase Glu-C for enzymatic hydrolysis allowed, for the first time, identification and comparison of the relative intensity of all theoretically possible β-LG disulfide cross-links formed by the heat treatments. Non-native disulfides were formed from heat treatment at approx. 70 °C where β-LG started to unfold, while higher levels of inter-molecular disulfide links were formed at ≥80 °C, in agreement with β-LG aggregation detected by size exclusion chromatography analysis. Collectively, the Cys residues of the surface-located native disulfide Cys66-Cys160 were proposed to be more reactive, participating in heat-induced disulfide rearrangement, compared to other Cys residues. The abundant signal of non-native disulfide bonds containing Cys66, especially Cys66-Cys66, observed after heating suggested that Cys66 is a key disulfide-linked Cys residue in β-LG participating in heat-induced inter-molecular disulfide bonds and the corresponding protein aggregation.
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- Chengkang Li
- Department of Food Science, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Rolighedsvej 26, Frederiksberg 1958, Denmark
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- Department of Food Science, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Rolighedsvej 26, Frederiksberg 1958, Denmark
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- Department of Food Science, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Rolighedsvej 26, Frederiksberg 1958, Denmark
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, Copenhagen N 2200, Denmark
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Akey CW, Singh D, Ouch C, Echeverria I, Nudelman I, Varberg JM, Yu Z, Fang F, Shi Y, Wang J, Salzberg D, Song K, Xu C, Gumbart JC, Suslov S, Unruh J, Jaspersen SL, Chait BT, Sali A, Fernandez-Martinez J, Ludtke SJ, Villa E, Rout MP. Comprehensive structure and functional adaptations of the yeast nuclear pore complex. Cell 2022; 185:361-378.e25. [PMID: 34982960 PMCID: PMC8928745 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.12.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 40.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2021] [Revised: 11/26/2021] [Accepted: 12/13/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) mediate the nucleocytoplasmic transport of macromolecules. Here we provide a structure of the isolated yeast NPC in which the inner ring is resolved by cryo-EM at sub-nanometer resolution to show how flexible connectors tie together different structural and functional layers. These connectors may be targets for phosphorylation and regulated disassembly in cells with an open mitosis. Moreover, some nucleoporin pairs and transport factors have similar interaction motifs, which suggests an evolutionary and mechanistic link between assembly and transport. We provide evidence for three major NPC variants that may foreshadow functional specializations at the nuclear periphery. Cryo-electron tomography extended these studies, providing a model of the in situ NPC with a radially expanded inner ring. Our comprehensive model reveals features of the nuclear basket and central transporter, suggests a role for the lumenal Pom152 ring in restricting dilation, and highlights structural plasticity that may be required for transport.
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- Christopher W Akey
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Boston University School of Medicine, 700 Albany Street, Boston, MA 02118, USA.
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- Section of Molecular Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Boston University School of Medicine, 700 Albany Street, Boston, MA 02118, USA; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 364 Plantation Street, Worcester, MA 01605, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA; Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Laboratory of Cellular and Structural Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Laboratory of Mass Spectrometry and Gaseous Ion Chemistry, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 364 Plantation Street, Worcester, MA 01605, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 364 Plantation Street, Worcester, MA 01605, USA
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- School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
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- Section of Molecular Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO, USA
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- Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO, USA; Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Laboratory of Mass Spectrometry and Gaseous Ion Chemistry, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA; Quantitative Biosciences Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, 1 Baylor Plaza, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.
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- Section of Molecular Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
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- Laboratory of Cellular and Structural Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA.
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Yılmaz Ş, Busch F, Nagaraj N, Cox J. Accurate and Automated High-Coverage Identification of Chemically Cross-Linked Peptides with MaxLynx. Anal Chem 2022; 94:1608-1617. [PMID: 35014260 PMCID: PMC8792900 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.1c03688] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Cross-linking combined with mass spectrometry (XL-MS) provides a wealth of information about the three-dimensional (3D) structure of proteins and their interactions. We introduce MaxLynx, a novel computational proteomics workflow for XL-MS integrated into the MaxQuant environment. It is applicable to noncleavable and MS-cleavable cross-linkers. For both, we have generalized the Andromeda peptide database search engine to efficiently identify cross-linked peptides. For noncleavable peptides, we implemented a novel dipeptide Andromeda score, which is the basis for a computationally efficient N-squared search engine. Additionally, partial scores summarize the evidence for the two constituents of the dipeptide individually. A posterior error probability (PEP) based on total and partial scores is used to control false discovery rates (FDRs). For MS-cleavable cross-linkers, a score of signature peaks is combined with the conventional Andromeda score on the cleavage products. The MaxQuant 3D peak detection was improved to ensure more accurate determination of the monoisotopic peak of isotope patterns for heavy molecules, which cross-linked peptides typically are. A wide selection of filtering parameters can replace the manual filtering of identifications, which is often necessary when using other pipelines. On benchmark data sets of synthetic peptides, MaxLynx outperforms all other tested software on data for both types of cross-linkers and on a proteome-wide data set of cross-linked Drosophila melanogaster cell lysate. The workflow also supports ion mobility-enhanced MS data. MaxLynx runs on Windows and Linux, contains an interactive viewer for displaying annotated cross-linked spectra, and is freely available at https://www.maxquant.org/.
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- Şule Yılmaz
- Computational Systems Biochemistry Research Group, Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry, Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152 Martinsried, Germany
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- Bruker Daltonics GmbH & Co. KG, 28359 Bremen, Germany
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- Computational Systems Biochemistry Research Group, Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry, Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152 Martinsried, Germany.,Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, 5007 Bergen, Norway
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Foster B, Attwood M, Gibbs-Seymour I. Tools for Decoding Ubiquitin Signaling in DNA Repair. Front Cell Dev Biol 2021; 9:760226. [PMID: 34950659 PMCID: PMC8690248 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2021.760226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2021] [Accepted: 11/09/2021] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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The maintenance of genome stability requires dedicated DNA repair processes and pathways that are essential for the faithful duplication and propagation of chromosomes. These DNA repair mechanisms counteract the potentially deleterious impact of the frequent genotoxic challenges faced by cells from both exogenous and endogenous agents. Intrinsic to these mechanisms, cells have an arsenal of protein factors that can be utilised to promote repair processes in response to DNA lesions. Orchestration of the protein factors within the various cellular DNA repair pathways is performed, in part, by post-translational modifications, such as phosphorylation, ubiquitin, SUMO and other ubiquitin-like modifiers (UBLs). In this review, we firstly explore recent advances in the tools for identifying factors involved in both DNA repair and ubiquitin signaling pathways. We then expand on this by evaluating the growing repertoire of proteomic, biochemical and structural techniques available to further understand the mechanistic basis by which these complex modifications regulate DNA repair. Together, we provide a snapshot of the range of methods now available to investigate and decode how ubiquitin signaling can promote DNA repair and maintain genome stability in mammalian cells.
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Piersimoni L, Kastritis PL, Arlt C, Sinz A. Cross-Linking Mass Spectrometry for Investigating Protein Conformations and Protein-Protein Interactions─A Method for All Seasons. Chem Rev 2021; 122:7500-7531. [PMID: 34797068 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00786] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Mass spectrometry (MS) has become one of the key technologies of structural biology. In this review, the contributions of chemical cross-linking combined with mass spectrometry (XL-MS) for studying three-dimensional structures of proteins and for investigating protein-protein interactions are outlined. We summarize the most important cross-linking reagents, software tools, and XL-MS workflows and highlight prominent examples for characterizing proteins, their assemblies, and interaction networks in vitro and in vivo. Computational modeling plays a crucial role in deriving 3D-structural information from XL-MS data. Integrating XL-MS with other techniques of structural biology, such as cryo-electron microscopy, has been successful in addressing biological questions that to date could not be answered. XL-MS is therefore expected to play an increasingly important role in structural biology in the future.
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- Lolita Piersimoni
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry & Bioanalytics, Institute of Pharmacy, Kurt-Mothes-Strasse 3, D-06120 Halle (Saale), Germany.,Center for Structural Mass Spectrometry, Kurt-Mothes-Strasse 3, D-06120 Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Interdisciplinary Research Center HALOmem, Charles Tanford Protein Center, Kurt-Mothes-Strasse 3a, D-06120 Halle (Saale), Germany.,Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Kurt-Mothes-Strasse 3, D-06120 Halle (Saale), Germany.,Biozentrum, Weinbergweg 22, D-06120 Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry & Bioanalytics, Institute of Pharmacy, Kurt-Mothes-Strasse 3, D-06120 Halle (Saale), Germany.,Center for Structural Mass Spectrometry, Kurt-Mothes-Strasse 3, D-06120 Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry & Bioanalytics, Institute of Pharmacy, Kurt-Mothes-Strasse 3, D-06120 Halle (Saale), Germany.,Center for Structural Mass Spectrometry, Kurt-Mothes-Strasse 3, D-06120 Halle (Saale), Germany
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Ziemianowicz DS, Saltzberg D, Pells T, Crowder DA, Schräder C, Hepburn M, Sali A, Schriemer DC. IMProv: A Resource for Cross-link-Driven Structure Modeling that Accommodates Protein Dynamics. Mol Cell Proteomics 2021; 20:100139. [PMID: 34418567 PMCID: PMC8452774 DOI: 10.1016/j.mcpro.2021.100139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2020] [Revised: 07/27/2021] [Accepted: 08/11/2021] [Indexed: 11/01/2022] Open
Abstract
Proteomics methodology has expanded to include protein structural analysis, primarily through cross-linking mass spectrometry (XL-MS) and hydrogen-deuterium exchange mass spectrometry (HX-MS). However, while the structural proteomics community has effective tools for primary data analysis, there is a need for structure modeling pipelines that are accessible to the proteomics specialist. Integrative structural biology requires the aggregation of multiple distinct types of data to generate models that satisfy all inputs. Here, we describe IMProv, an app in the Mass Spec Studio that combines XL-MS data with other structural data, such as cryo-EM densities and crystallographic structures, for integrative structure modeling on high-performance computing platforms. The resource provides an easily deployed bundle that includes the open-source Integrative Modeling Platform program (IMP) and its dependencies. IMProv also provides functionality to adjust cross-link distance restraints according to the underlying dynamics of cross-linked sites, as characterized by HX-MS. A dynamics-driven conditioning of restraint values can improve structure modeling precision, as illustrated by an integrative structure of the five-membered Polycomb Repressive Complex 2. IMProv is extensible to additional types of data.
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- Daniel S Ziemianowicz
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Robson DNA Science Centre, Arnie Charbonneau Cancer Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Robson DNA Science Centre, Arnie Charbonneau Cancer Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Robson DNA Science Centre, Arnie Charbonneau Cancer Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Robson DNA Science Centre, Arnie Charbonneau Cancer Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Robson DNA Science Centre, Arnie Charbonneau Cancer Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Robson DNA Science Centre, Arnie Charbonneau Cancer Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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Biological mass spectrometry (MS) encompasses a range of methods for characterizing proteins and other biomolecules. MS is uniquely powerful for the structural analysis of endogenous protein complexes, which are often heterogeneous, poorly abundant, and refractive to characterization by other methods. Here, we focus on how biological MS can contribute to the study of endogenous protein complexes, which we define as complexes expressed in the physiological host and purified intact, as opposed to reconstituted complexes assembled from heterologously expressed components. Biological MS can yield information on complex stoichiometry, heterogeneity, topology, stability, activity, modes of regulation, and even structural dynamics. We begin with a review of methods for isolating endogenous complexes. We then describe the various biological MS approaches, focusing on the type of information that each method yields. We end with future directions and challenges for these MS-based methods.
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- Rivkah Rogawski
- Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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- Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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Courouble VV, Dey SK, Yadav R, Timm J, Harrison JJEK, Ruiz FX, Arnold E, Griffin PR. Revealing the Structural Plasticity of SARS-CoV-2 nsp7 and nsp8 Using Structural Proteomics. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2021; 32:1618-1630. [PMID: 34121407 PMCID: PMC8231661 DOI: 10.1021/jasms.1c00086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2021] [Revised: 05/24/2021] [Accepted: 05/28/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Coronavirus (CoV) nonstructural proteins (nsps) assemble to form the replication-transcription complex (RTC) responsible for viral RNA synthesis. nsp7 and nsp8 are important cofactors of the RTC, as they interact and regulate the activity of RNA-dependent RNA polymerase and other nsps. To date, no structure of the full-length SARS-CoV-2 nsp7:nsp8 complex has been published. The current understanding of this complex is based on structures from truncated constructs, with missing electron densities, or from related CoV species where SARS-CoV-2 nsp7 and nsp8 share upward of 90% sequence identity. Despite available structures solved using crystallography and cryo-EM representing detailed static snapshots of the nsp7:nsp8 complex, it is evident that the complex has a high degree of structural plasticity. However, relatively little is known about the conformational dynamics of the individual proteins and how they complex to interact with other nsps. Here, the solution-based structural proteomic techniques, hydrogen-deuterium exchange mass spectrometry (HDX-MS) and cross-linking mass spectrometry (XL-MS), illuminate the dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 full-length nsp7 and nsp8 proteins and the nsp7:nsp8 protein complex. Results presented from the two techniques are complementary and validate the interaction surfaces identified from the published three-dimensional heterotetrameric crystal structure of the SARS-CoV-2 truncated nsp7:nsp8 complex. Furthermore, mapping of XL-MS data onto higher-order complexes suggests that SARS-CoV-2 nsp7 and nsp8 do not assemble into a hexadecameric structure as implied by the SARS-CoV full-length nsp7:nsp8 crystal structure. Instead, our results suggest that the nsp7:nsp8 heterotetramer can dissociate into a stable dimeric unit that might bind to nsp12 in the RTC without significantly altering nsp7-nsp8 interactions.
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- Valentine V. Courouble
- Department of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, FL 33458, USA
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- Center for Advanced Biotechnology & Medicine, and Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Center for Advanced Biotechnology & Medicine, and Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Center for Advanced Biotechnology & Medicine, and Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Center for Advanced Biotechnology & Medicine, and Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
- Department of Chemistry, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon, Box LG 56, Legon-Accra, Ghana
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- Center for Advanced Biotechnology & Medicine, and Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Center for Advanced Biotechnology & Medicine, and Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, FL 33458, USA
- Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, Florida 33458, USA
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Lenz S, Sinn LR, O'Reilly FJ, Fischer L, Wegner F, Rappsilber J. Reliable identification of protein-protein interactions by crosslinking mass spectrometry. Nat Commun 2021; 12:3564. [PMID: 34117231 PMCID: PMC8196013 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23666-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2020] [Accepted: 04/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Protein-protein interactions govern most cellular pathways and processes, and multiple technologies have emerged to systematically map them. Assessing the error of interaction networks has been a challenge. Crosslinking mass spectrometry is currently widening its scope from structural analyses of purified multi-protein complexes towards systems-wide analyses of protein-protein interactions (PPIs). Using a carefully controlled large-scale analysis of Escherichia coli cell lysate, we demonstrate that false-discovery rates (FDR) for PPIs identified by crosslinking mass spectrometry can be reliably estimated. We present an interaction network comprising 590 PPIs at 1% decoy-based PPI-FDR. The structural information included in this network localises the binding site of the hitherto uncharacterised protein YacL to near the DNA exit tunnel on the RNA polymerase.
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- Swantje Lenz
- Bioanalytics, Institute of Biotechnology, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Bioanalytics, Institute of Biotechnology, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Bioanalytics, Institute of Biotechnology, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Bioanalytics, Institute of Biotechnology, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Bioanalytics, Institute of Biotechnology, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Bioanalytics, Institute of Biotechnology, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany. .,Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
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Liu W, Yu J, Li W, Jiang Z, Li T, Cao L, Tu P, Li J, Song Y. Simultaneous determination of eight tryptic peptides in musk using high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry. J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci 2021; 1171:122624. [PMID: 33756451 DOI: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2021.122624] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2020] [Revised: 02/07/2021] [Accepted: 02/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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In comparison of herbal medicines, less attention has been paid onto animal medicines, partially attributing to the protein-enriched property. Particularly, it is still challenging to conduct quality evaluation for the animal medicines because of the lack of a fit-for-purpose analytical tool. Herein, an attempt was made to propose a workflow allowing the quality assessment of animal medicines by LC-MS/MS, and musk that is one of the most precious traditional Chinese medicines was employed as a representative case for utility illustration. After the extraction of protein from musk with a well-defined protocol, tryptic digestion was conducted to hydrolyze proteins into peptides, and the peptide-enriched sample was subjected to nanoLC-Orbitrap MS measurement. The tandem mass spectral dataset was retrieved in Human Swiss-Prot FASTA database, and the sequences together with the sources of 733 tryptic peptides, in total, were annotated. Because of the abundant distributions, eight peptides were chosen as the analytes for quantitative measurements, and their quantitative MS parameters, such as ion transitions and collision energies, were rapid optimized in an authentic compound-free manner using online energy-resolved MS (ER-MS). On the other side, the annotated peptides were structurally consolidated via synthesizing reference peptides. When the synthetic peptides were applied for parameter optimization with the authentic compound-dependent manner, the values were almost identical with those from online ER-MS measurements. After being validated with diverse assays, the developed method was applied for the simultaneous determination of eight peptides in 28 batches of musk samples, including captive (C1-C18) and wild ones (W1-W10). Significant differences took place for the content patterns of concerned tryptic peptides between the captive and wild musk samples. Trace distributions occurred for DVDAAYMNK in most batches. Captive samples were rich of QSLEASLAETEGR, TLLDIDNTR, and EVATNSELVQSGK, whereas wild samples were able to accumulate YLGYLEQLLR. Together, the present study provided a meaningful approach for the quality evaluation of musk, as well as other peptide-enriched animal medicines, even if the absences of authentic peptides.
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- Wenjing Liu
- Modern Research Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine, School of Chinese Materia Medica, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China
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- Zhangzhou Pien-Tze-Huang Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Zhangzhou 3630002, China
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- Modern Research Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine, School of Chinese Materia Medica, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China
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- Zhangzhou Pien-Tze-Huang Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Zhangzhou 3630002, China
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- Modern Research Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine, School of Chinese Materia Medica, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China
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- Modern Research Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine, School of Chinese Materia Medica, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China
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- Modern Research Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine, School of Chinese Materia Medica, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China
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- Modern Research Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine, School of Chinese Materia Medica, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China.
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- Modern Research Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine, School of Chinese Materia Medica, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China.
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Fauser J, Itzen A, Gulen B. Current Advances in Covalent Stabilization of Macromolecular Complexes for Structural Biology. Bioconjug Chem 2021; 32:879-890. [PMID: 33861574 DOI: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.1c00118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Structural characterization of macromolecular assemblies is often limited by the transient nature of the interactions. The development of specific chemical tools to covalently tether interacting proteins to each other has played a major role in various fundamental discoveries in recent years. To this end, protein engineering techniques such as mutagenesis, incorporation of unnatural amino acids, and methods using synthetic substrate/cosubstrate derivatives were employed. In this review, we give an overview of both commonly used and recently developed biochemical methodologies for covalent stabilization of macromolecular complexes enabling structural investigation via crystallography, nuclear magnetic resonance, and cryo-electron microscopy. We divided the strategies into nonenzymatic- and enzymatic-driven cross-linking and further categorized them in either naturally occurring or engineered covalent linkage. This review offers a compilation of recent advances in diverse scientific fields where the structural characterization of macromolecular complexes was achieved by the aid of intermolecular covalent linkage.
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- Joel Fauser
- Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich (CIPSM), Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, 85747 Garching, Germany.,Department of Biochemistry and Signal Transduction, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), 20246 Hamburg, Germany
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- Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich (CIPSM), Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, 85747 Garching, Germany.,Department of Biochemistry and Signal Transduction, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), 20246 Hamburg, Germany
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- Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich (CIPSM), Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, 85747 Garching, Germany.,Department of Biochemistry and Signal Transduction, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), 20246 Hamburg, Germany
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Courouble VV, Dey SK, Yadav R, Timm J, Harrison JJEK, Ruiz FX, Arnold E, Griffin PR. Resolving the Dynamic Motions of SARS-CoV-2 nsp7 and nsp8 Proteins Using Structural Proteomics. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2021:2021.03.06.434214. [PMID: 33688660 PMCID: PMC7941636 DOI: 10.1101/2021.03.06.434214] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Coronavirus (CoV) non-structural proteins (nsps) assemble to form the replication-transcription complex (RTC) responsible for viral RNA synthesis. nsp7 and nsp8 are important cofactors of the RTC, as they interact and regulate the activity of RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) and other nsps. To date, no structure of full-length SARS-CoV-2 nsp7:nsp8 complex has been published. Current understanding of this complex is based on structures from truncated constructs or with missing electron densities and complexes from related CoV species with which SARS-CoV-2 nsp7 and nsp8 share upwards of 90% sequence identity. Despite available structures being solved using crystallography and cryo-EM representing detailed snapshots of the nsp7:nsp8 complex, it is evident that the complex has a high degree of structural plasticity. However, relatively little is known about the conformational dynamics of the complex and how it assembles to interact with other nsps. Here, the solution-based structural proteomic techniques, hydrogen-deuterium exchange mass spectrometry (HDX-MS) and crosslinking mass spectrometry (XL-MS), illuminate the structural dynamics of the SARS-CoV-2 full-length nsp7:nsp8 complex. The results presented from the two techniques are complementary and validate the interaction surfaces identified from the published three-dimensional heterotetrameric crystal structure of SARS-CoV-2 truncated nsp7:nsp8 complex. Furthermore, mapping of XL-MS data onto higher order complexes suggests that SARS-CoV-2 nsp7 and nsp8 do not assemble into a hexadecameric structure as implied by the SARS-CoV full-length nsp7:nsp8 crystal structure. Instead our results suggest that the nsp7:nsp8 heterotetramer can dissociate into a stable dimeric unit that might bind to nsp12 in the RTC without altering nsp7-nsp8 interactions.
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- Valentine V. Courouble
- Department of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, FL 33458, USA
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- Center for Advanced Biotechnology & Medicine, and Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Center for Advanced Biotechnology & Medicine, and Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Center for Advanced Biotechnology & Medicine, and Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Center for Advanced Biotechnology & Medicine, and Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
- Department of Chemistry, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon, Box LG 56, Legon-Accra, Ghana
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- Center for Advanced Biotechnology & Medicine, and Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Center for Advanced Biotechnology & Medicine, and Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, FL 33458, USA
- Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, Florida 33458, USA
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Kalathiya U, Padariya M, Faktor J, Coyaud E, Alfaro JA, Fahraeus R, Hupp TR, Goodlett DR. Interfaces with Structure Dynamics of the Workhorses from Cells Revealed through Cross-Linking Mass Spectrometry (CLMS). Biomolecules 2021; 11:382. [PMID: 33806612 PMCID: PMC8001575 DOI: 10.3390/biom11030382] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2021] [Revised: 02/26/2021] [Accepted: 03/01/2021] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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The fundamentals of how protein-protein/RNA/DNA interactions influence the structures and functions of the workhorses from the cells have been well documented in the 20th century. A diverse set of methods exist to determine such interactions between different components, particularly, the mass spectrometry (MS) methods, with its advanced instrumentation, has become a significant approach to analyze a diverse range of biomolecules, as well as bring insights to their biomolecular processes. This review highlights the principal role of chemistry in MS-based structural proteomics approaches, with a particular focus on the chemical cross-linking of protein-protein/DNA/RNA complexes. In addition, we discuss different methods to prepare the cross-linked samples for MS analysis and tools to identify cross-linked peptides. Cross-linking mass spectrometry (CLMS) holds promise to identify interaction sites in larger and more complex biological systems. The typical CLMS workflow allows for the measurement of the proximity in three-dimensional space of amino acids, identifying proteins in direct contact with DNA or RNA, and it provides information on the folds of proteins as well as their topology in the complexes. Principal CLMS applications, its notable successes, as well as common pipelines that bridge proteomics, molecular biology, structural systems biology, and interactomics are outlined.
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- Umesh Kalathiya
- International Centre for Cancer Vaccine Science, University of Gdansk, ul. Kładki 24, 80-822 Gdansk, Poland; (M.P.); (J.F.); (J.A.A.); (R.F.); (T.R.H.)
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- International Centre for Cancer Vaccine Science, University of Gdansk, ul. Kładki 24, 80-822 Gdansk, Poland; (M.P.); (J.F.); (J.A.A.); (R.F.); (T.R.H.)
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- International Centre for Cancer Vaccine Science, University of Gdansk, ul. Kładki 24, 80-822 Gdansk, Poland; (M.P.); (J.F.); (J.A.A.); (R.F.); (T.R.H.)
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- Protéomique Réponse Inflammatoire Spectrométrie de Mass—PRISM, Inserm U1192, University Lille, CHU Lille, F-59000 Lille, France;
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- International Centre for Cancer Vaccine Science, University of Gdansk, ul. Kładki 24, 80-822 Gdansk, Poland; (M.P.); (J.F.); (J.A.A.); (R.F.); (T.R.H.)
- Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland EH4 2XR, UK
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- International Centre for Cancer Vaccine Science, University of Gdansk, ul. Kładki 24, 80-822 Gdansk, Poland; (M.P.); (J.F.); (J.A.A.); (R.F.); (T.R.H.)
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- International Centre for Cancer Vaccine Science, University of Gdansk, ul. Kładki 24, 80-822 Gdansk, Poland; (M.P.); (J.F.); (J.A.A.); (R.F.); (T.R.H.)
- Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland EH4 2XR, UK
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- International Centre for Cancer Vaccine Science, University of Gdansk, ul. Kładki 24, 80-822 Gdansk, Poland; (M.P.); (J.F.); (J.A.A.); (R.F.); (T.R.H.)
- Department of Biochemistry & Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC V8Z 7X8, Canada
- Genome BC Proteome Centre, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC V8Z 5N3, Canada
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Singh J, Ponnaiyan S, Gieselmann V, Winter D. Generation of Antibodies Targeting Cleavable Cross-Linkers. Anal Chem 2021; 93:3762-3769. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c04043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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- Jasjot Singh
- Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical Faculty, University of Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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- Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical Faculty, University of Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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- Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical Faculty, University of Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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- Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical Faculty, University of Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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Swamy KBS, Schuyler SC, Leu JY. Protein Complexes Form a Basis for Complex Hybrid Incompatibility. Front Genet 2021; 12:609766. [PMID: 33633780 PMCID: PMC7900514 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2021.609766] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2020] [Accepted: 01/20/2021] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Proteins are the workhorses of the cell and execute many of their functions by interacting with other proteins forming protein complexes. Multi-protein complexes are an admixture of subunits, change their interaction partners, and modulate their functions and cellular physiology in response to environmental changes. When two species mate, the hybrid offspring are usually inviable or sterile because of large-scale differences in the genetic makeup between the two parents causing incompatible genetic interactions. Such reciprocal-sign epistasis between inter-specific alleles is not limited to incompatible interactions between just one gene pair; and, usually involves multiple genes. Many of these multi-locus incompatibilities show visible defects, only in the presence of all the interactions, making it hard to characterize. Understanding the dynamics of protein-protein interactions (PPIs) leading to multi-protein complexes is better suited to characterize multi-locus incompatibilities, compared to studying them with traditional approaches of genetics and molecular biology. The advances in omics technologies, which includes genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics can help achieve this end. This is especially relevant when studying non-model organisms. Here, we discuss the recent progress in the understanding of hybrid genetic incompatibility; omics technologies, and how together they have helped in characterizing protein complexes and in turn multi-locus incompatibilities. We also review advances in bioinformatic techniques suitable for this purpose and propose directions for leveraging the knowledge gained from model-organisms to identify genetic incompatibilities in non-model organisms.
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- Krishna B. S. Swamy
- Division of Biological and Life Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad, India
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
- Division of Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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Hevler JF, Lukassen MV, Cabrera-Orefice A, Arnold S, Pronker MF, Franc V, Heck AJR. Selective cross-linking of coinciding protein assemblies by in-gel cross-linking mass spectrometry. EMBO J 2021; 40:e106174. [PMID: 33459420 PMCID: PMC7883291 DOI: 10.15252/embj.2020106174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2020] [Revised: 12/03/2020] [Accepted: 12/10/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Cross-linking mass spectrometry has developed into an important method to study protein structures and interactions. The in-solution cross-linking workflows involve time and sample consuming steps and do not provide sensible solutions for differentiating cross-links obtained from co-occurring protein oligomers, complexes, or conformers. Here we developed a cross-linking workflow combining blue native PAGE with in-gel cross-linking mass spectrometry (IGX-MS). This workflow circumvents steps, such as buffer exchange and cross-linker concentration optimization. Additionally, IGX-MS enables the parallel analysis of co-occurring protein complexes using only small amounts of sample. Another benefit of IGX-MS, demonstrated by experiments on GroEL and purified bovine heart mitochondria, is the substantial reduction of undesired over-length cross-links compared to in-solution cross-linking. We next used IGX-MS to investigate the complement components C5, C6, and their hetero-dimeric C5b6 complex. The obtained cross-links were used to generate a refined structural model of the complement component C6, resembling C6 in its inactivated state. This finding shows that IGX-MS can provide new insights into the initial stages of the terminal complement pathway.
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- Johannes F Hevler
- Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research and Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.,Netherlands Proteomics Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research and Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.,Netherlands Proteomics Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research and Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.,Netherlands Proteomics Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research and Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.,Netherlands Proteomics Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research and Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.,Netherlands Proteomics Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Matzinger M, Mechtler K. Cleavable Cross-Linkers and Mass Spectrometry for the Ultimate Task of Profiling Protein-Protein Interaction Networks in Vivo. J Proteome Res 2021; 20:78-93. [PMID: 33151691 PMCID: PMC7786381 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.0c00583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Cross-linking mass spectrometry (XL-MS) has matured into a potent tool to identify protein-protein interactions or to uncover protein structures in living cells, tissues, or organelles. The unique ability to investigate the interplay of proteins within their native environment delivers valuable complementary information to other advanced structural biology techniques. This Review gives a comprehensive overview of the current possible applications as well as the remaining limitations of the technique, focusing on cross-linking in highly complex biological systems like cells, organelles, or tissues. Thanks to the commercial availability of most reagents and advances in user-friendly data analysis, validation, and visualization tools, studies using XL-MS can, in theory, now also be utilized by nonexpert laboratories.
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- Manuel Matzinger
- Research
Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Campus-Vienna-Biocenter 1, Vienna 1030, Austria
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- Research
Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Campus-Vienna-Biocenter 1, Vienna 1030, Austria
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Bruckmann C, Tamburri S, De Lorenzi V, Doti N, Monti A, Mathiasen L, Cattaneo A, Ruvo M, Bachi A, Blasi F. Mapping the native interaction surfaces of PREP1 with PBX1 by cross-linking mass-spectrometry and mutagenesis. Sci Rep 2020; 10:16809. [PMID: 33033354 PMCID: PMC7545097 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-74032-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2019] [Accepted: 09/25/2020] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Both onco-suppressor PREP1 and the oncogene MEIS1 bind to PBX1. This interaction stabilizes the two proteins and allows their translocation into the nucleus and thus their transcriptional activity. Here, we have combined cross-linking mass-spectrometry and systematic mutagenesis to detail the binding geometry of the PBX1-PREP1 (and PBX1-MEIS1) complexes, under native in vivo conditions. The data confirm the existence of two distinct interaction sites within the PBC domain of PBX1 and unravel differences among the highly similar binding sites of MEIS1 and PREP1. The HR2 domain has a fundamental role in binding the PBC-B domain of PBX1 in both PREP1 and MEIS1. The HR1 domain of MEIS1, however, seem to play a less stringent role in PBX1 interaction with respect to that of PREP1. This difference is also reflected by the different binding affinity of the two proteins to PBX1. Although partial, this analysis provides for the first time some ideas on the tertiary structure of the complexes not available before. Moreover, the extensive mutagenic analysis of PREP1 identifies the role of individual hydrophobic HR1 and HR2 residues, both in vitro and in vivo.
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- Chiara Bruckmann
- IFOM (Foundation FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology), Via Adamello 16, 20139, Milan, Italy.
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- IFOM (Foundation FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology), Via Adamello 16, 20139, Milan, Italy
- Department of Experimental Oncology, European Institute of Oncology, Via Adamello 16, 20139, Milan, Italy
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- IFOM (Foundation FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology), Via Adamello 16, 20139, Milan, Italy
- Center for Nanotechnology Innovation@NEST, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Piazza San Silvestro 12, 56124, Pisa, Italy
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- Institute of Biostructures and Bioimaging (IBB)-CNR, Via Mezzocannone 16, 80134, Naples, Italy
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- Institute of Biostructures and Bioimaging (IBB)-CNR, Via Mezzocannone 16, 80134, Naples, Italy
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- IFOM (Foundation FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology), Via Adamello 16, 20139, Milan, Italy
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- IFOM (Foundation FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology), Via Adamello 16, 20139, Milan, Italy
- Cogentech S.R.L. Benefit Corporation IT, Via Adamello 16, 20139, Milan, Italy
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- Institute of Biostructures and Bioimaging (IBB)-CNR, Via Mezzocannone 16, 80134, Naples, Italy
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- IFOM (Foundation FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology), Via Adamello 16, 20139, Milan, Italy
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- IFOM (Foundation FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology), Via Adamello 16, 20139, Milan, Italy.
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Cardon T, Franck J, Coyaud E, Laurent EMN, Damato M, Maffia M, Vergara D, Fournier I, Salzet M. Alternative proteins are functional regulators in cell reprogramming by PKA activation. Nucleic Acids Res 2020; 48:7864-7882. [PMID: 32324228 PMCID: PMC7641301 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkaa277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2019] [Revised: 04/06/2020] [Accepted: 04/21/2020] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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It has been recently shown that many proteins are lacking from reference databases used in mass spectrometry analysis, due to their translation templated on alternative open reading frames. This questions our current understanding of gene annotation and drastically expands the theoretical proteome complexity. The functions of these alternative proteins (AltProts) still remain largely unknown. We have developed a large-scale and unsupervised approach based on cross-linking mass spectrometry (XL-MS) followed by shotgun proteomics to gather information on the functional role of AltProts by mapping them back into known signalling pathways through the identification of their reference protein (RefProt) interactors. We have identified and profiled AltProts in a cancer cell reprogramming system: NCH82 human glioma cells after 0, 16, 24 and 48 h Forskolin stimulation. Forskolin is a protein kinase A activator inducing cell differentiation and epithelial–mesenchymal transition. Our data show that AltMAP2, AltTRNAU1AP and AltEPHA5 interactions with tropomyosin 4 are downregulated under Forskolin treatment. In a wider perspective, Gene Ontology and pathway enrichment analysis (STRING) revealed that RefProts associated with AltProts are enriched in cellular mobility and transfer RNA regulation. This study strongly suggests novel roles of AltProts in multiple essential cellular functions and supports the importance of considering them in future biological studies.
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- Tristan Cardon
- Univ. Lille, Inserm, CHU Lille, U1192-Protéomique Réponse Inflammatoire Spectrométrie de Masse (PRISM), F-59000 Lille, France
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- Univ. Lille, Inserm, CHU Lille, U1192-Protéomique Réponse Inflammatoire Spectrométrie de Masse (PRISM), F-59000 Lille, France
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- Univ. Lille, Inserm, CHU Lille, U1192-Protéomique Réponse Inflammatoire Spectrométrie de Masse (PRISM), F-59000 Lille, France
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- Univ. Lille, Inserm, CHU Lille, U1192-Protéomique Réponse Inflammatoire Spectrométrie de Masse (PRISM), F-59000 Lille, France
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- Univ. Lille, Inserm, CHU Lille, U1192-Protéomique Réponse Inflammatoire Spectrométrie de Masse (PRISM), F-59000 Lille, France.,Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies, University of Salento, 73100 Lecce, Italy
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies, University of Salento, 73100 Lecce, Italy
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies, University of Salento, 73100 Lecce, Italy
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- Univ. Lille, Inserm, CHU Lille, U1192-Protéomique Réponse Inflammatoire Spectrométrie de Masse (PRISM), F-59000 Lille, France.,Institut Universitaire de France (IUF),75005 Paris, France
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- Univ. Lille, Inserm, CHU Lille, U1192-Protéomique Réponse Inflammatoire Spectrométrie de Masse (PRISM), F-59000 Lille, France.,Institut Universitaire de France (IUF),75005 Paris, France
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Kurt LU, Clasen MA, Santos MDM, Souza TACB, Andreassa EC, Lyra EB, Lima DB, Gozzo FC, Carvalho PC. RawVegetable - A data assessment tool for proteomics and cross-linking mass spectrometry experiments. J Proteomics 2020; 225:103864. [PMID: 32526479 DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2020.103864] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2019] [Revised: 04/29/2020] [Accepted: 06/03/2020] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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We present RawVegetable, a software for mass spectrometry data assessment and quality control tailored toward shotgun proteomics and cross-linking experiments. RawVegetable provides four main modules with distinct features: (A) The charge state chromatogram that independently displays the ion current for each charge state; useful for optimizing the chromatography for highly charged ions and with lower XIC values such as those typically found in cross-linking experiments. (B) The XL-Artefact determination, which flags possible noncovalently associated peptides. (C) The TopN density estimation, for detecting retention time intervals of under or over-sampling, and (D) The chromatography reproducibility module, which provides pairwise comparisons between multiple experiments. RawVegetable, a tutorial, and the example data are freely available for academic use at: http://patternlabforproteomics.org/rawvegetable. SIGNIFICANCE: Chromatography optimization is a critical step for any shotgun proteomic or cross-linking mass spectrometry experiment. Here, we present a nifty solution with several key features, such as displaying individual charge state chromatograms, highlighting chromatographic regions of under- or over-sampling and checking for reproducibility.
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- Louise U Kurt
- Laboratory for Structural and Computational Proteomics, Carlos Chagas Institute, Fiocruz, Paraná, Brazil.
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- Laboratory for Structural and Computational Proteomics, Carlos Chagas Institute, Fiocruz, Paraná, Brazil
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- Laboratory for Structural and Computational Proteomics, Carlos Chagas Institute, Fiocruz, Paraná, Brazil
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- Laboratory for Structural and Computational Proteomics, Carlos Chagas Institute, Fiocruz, Paraná, Brazil
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- Laboratory for Structural and Computational Proteomics, Carlos Chagas Institute, Fiocruz, Paraná, Brazil
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- Institute of Chemistry, University of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Chemistry, University of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Laboratory for Structural and Computational Proteomics, Carlos Chagas Institute, Fiocruz, Paraná, Brazil.
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Kohl B, Brüderlin M, Ritz D, Schmidt A, Hiller S. Protocol for High-Yield Production of Photo-Leucine-Labeled Proteins in Escherichia coli. J Proteome Res 2020; 19:3100-3108. [PMID: 32412763 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.0c00105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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UV-cross-linking mass spectrometry is an emerging technique to obtain structural information of biomacromolecules and their complexes in vivo and in vitro. In particular, certain photo-reactive amino acids (pA) such as photo-leucine (pLeu) and photo-methionine can provide unique short-distance information on the structural core regions of proteins. Here, we present a protocol for high-yield incorporation of pLeu in proteins recombinantly expressed in Escherichia coli. The protein of interest is expressed at high cell densities, which reduces the required amount of the pA by a factor of 10, as compared to the standard protocols, while maintaining high incorporation rates. For the two chaperones, trigger factor and SecB, up to 3 mg of pLeu-labeled protein were thus obtained from 100 mL of cell culture, with label incorporation rates of up to 34%. For trigger factor, UV-induced cross-linking leads to the identification of 12 cross-links that are in agreement with the published three-dimensional structures. The accessibility of milligram amounts of pLeu-labeled proteins at low costs will be highly useful to address structural biology questions.
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- Bastian Kohl
- Biozentrum, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 70, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
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- Biozentrum, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 70, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
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- Biozentrum, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 70, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
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- Biozentrum, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 70, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
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- Biozentrum, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 70, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
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Zhao Z, Engholm-Keller K, Poojary MM, Boelt SG, Rogowska-Wrzesinska A, Skibsted LH, Davies MJ, Lund MN. Generation of Aggregates of α-Lactalbumin by UV-B Light Exposure. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2020; 68:6701-6714. [PMID: 32396720 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.0c00757] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Whey proteins are widely used as ingredients in the form of aggregates to obtain certain functionalities in food applications. The aim of this study was to understand how UV illumination generates aggregates of α-lactalbumin (α-LA) as an alternative to heat treatments traditionally used for industrial production of protein aggregates. Absorption of UV light by α-LA caused cleavage of disulfide bonds and release of thiol groups, which resulted in primarily disulfide-mediated aggregation. This process mediated efficient aggregation with up to 98% monomer conversion into aggregates through formation of intermolecular disulfide bonds, while only minor levels of nonreducible cross-links were observed. SDS-PAGE analysis revealed that illumination led to formation of dimeric, trimeric, and oligomeric forms of α-LA. LC-MS/MS analysis showed that all of the four native disulfide bonds in α-LA were cleaved by UV illumination but to different extents, and the extent of cleavage was found to be higher in the absence of calcium. Seventeen different non-native disulfides were formed after 24 h of UV illumination. Two dityrosine bonds were identified (Tyr103-Tyr103 and Tyr36-Tyr103) alongside ditryptophan (Trp118-Trp118) and tyrosine-tryptophan (Tyr50-Trp60) cross-links. In addition, Trp60, Trp118, Cys73, Cys91, Cys120, Phe80, Met90, His68, and His107 were found to be oxidized up to 12% as compared to a nonilluminated control. Our work illustrates that light exposure can be used for generation of α-LA aggregates, but optimization of the illumination conditions is required to reduce oxidative damage to Trp, Cys, Phe, Met, and His residues.
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- Zichen Zhao
- Department of Food Science, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Rolighedsvej 26, 1958 Frederiksberg C, Denmark
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- Department of Food Science, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Rolighedsvej 26, 1958 Frederiksberg C, Denmark
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- Department of Food Science, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Rolighedsvej 26, 1958 Frederiksberg C, Denmark
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
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- Department of Food Science, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Rolighedsvej 26, 1958 Frederiksberg C, Denmark
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
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- Department of Food Science, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Rolighedsvej 26, 1958 Frederiksberg C, Denmark
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
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Cross-linking/mass spectrometry to get a closer view on protein interaction networks. Curr Opin Biotechnol 2020; 63:48-53. [DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2019.12.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2019] [Revised: 12/02/2019] [Accepted: 12/09/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Koukos P, Bonvin A. Integrative Modelling of Biomolecular Complexes. J Mol Biol 2020; 432:2861-2881. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2019.11.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2019] [Revised: 11/12/2019] [Accepted: 11/13/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Müller F, Rappsilber J. A protocol for studying structural dynamics of proteins by quantitative crosslinking mass spectrometry and data-independent acquisition. J Proteomics 2020; 218:103721. [PMID: 32109607 DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2020.103721] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2019] [Revised: 11/13/2019] [Accepted: 02/24/2020] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Quantitative crosslinking mass spectrometry (QCLMS) reveals structural details of protein conformations in solution. QCLMS can benefit from data-independent acquisition (DIA), which maximises accuracy, reproducibility and throughput of the approach. This DIA-QCLMS protocol comprises of three main sections: sample preparation, spectral library generation and quantitation. The DIA-QCLMS workflow supports isotope-labelling as well as label-free quantitation strategies, uses xiSEARCH for crosslink identification, and xiDIA-Library to create a spectral library for a peptide-centric quantitative approach. We integrated Spectronaut, a leading quantitation software, to analyse DIA data. Spectronaut supports DIA-QCLMS data to quantify crosslinks. It can be used to reveal the structural dynamics of proteins and protein complexes, even against a complex background. In combination with photoactivatable crosslinkers (photo-DIA-QCLMS), the workflow can increase data density and better capture protein dynamics due to short reaction times. Additionally, this can reveal conformational changes caused by environmental influences that would otherwise affect crosslinking itself, such as changing pH conditions. SIGNIFICANCE: This protocol is an detailed step-by-step description on how to implement our previously published DIA-QCLMS workflow (Müller et al. Mol Cell Proteomics. 2019 Apr;18(4):786-795). It includes sample preparation for QCLMS, Optimization of DIA strategies, implementation of the Spectronaut software and required python scripts and guideline on how to analyse quantitative crosslinking data. The DIA-QCLMS workflow widen the scope for a range of new crosslinking applications and this step-by-step protocol enhances the accessibility to a broad scientific user base.
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- Fränze Müller
- Bioanalytics, Institute of Biotechnology, Technische Universität Berlin, 13355 Berlin, Germany
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- Bioanalytics, Institute of Biotechnology, Technische Universität Berlin, 13355 Berlin, Germany; Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3BF, Scotland, United Kingdom.
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Beveridge R, Stadlmann J, Penninger JM, Mechtler K. A synthetic peptide library for benchmarking crosslinking-mass spectrometry search engines for proteins and protein complexes. Nat Commun 2020; 11:742. [PMID: 32029734 PMCID: PMC7005041 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-14608-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2019] [Accepted: 01/21/2020] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Crosslinking-mass spectrometry (XL-MS) serves to identify interaction sites between proteins. Numerous search engines for crosslink identification exist, but lack of ground truth samples containing known crosslinks has precluded their systematic validation. Here we report on XL-MS data arising from measuring synthetic peptide libraries that provide the unique benefit of knowing which identified crosslinks are true and which are false. The data are analysed with the most frequently used search engines and the results filtered to an estimated false discovery rate of 5%. We find that the actual false crosslink identification rates range from 2.4 to 32%, depending on the analysis strategy employed. Furthermore, the use of MS-cleavable crosslinkers does not reduce the false discovery rate compared to non-cleavable crosslinkers. We anticipate that the datasets acquired during this research will further drive optimisation and development of XL-MS search engines, thereby advancing our understanding of vital biological interactions.
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- Rebecca Beveridge
- Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Campus-Vienna-Biocenter 1, 1030, Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA), Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Dr. Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030, Vienna, Austria.
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- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA), Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Dr. Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030, Vienna, Austria
- Department of medical Genetics, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Campus, 2350 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver, BCV6T 1Z3, Canada
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- Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Campus-Vienna-Biocenter 1, 1030, Vienna, Austria.
- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA), Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Dr. Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030, Vienna, Austria.
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Makarov AA, Zou J, Houston DR, Spanos C, Solovyova AS, Cardenal-Peralta C, Rappsilber J, Schirmer EC. Lamin A molecular compression and sliding as mechanisms behind nucleoskeleton elasticity. Nat Commun 2019; 10:3056. [PMID: 31296869 PMCID: PMC6624373 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-11063-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2018] [Accepted: 06/20/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Lamin A is a nuclear intermediate filament protein critical for nuclear architecture and mechanics and mutated in a wide range of human diseases. Yet little is known about the molecular architecture of lamins and mechanisms of their assembly. Here we use SILAC cross-linking mass spectrometry to determine interactions within lamin dimers and between dimers in higher-order polymers. We find evidence for a compression mechanism where coiled coils in the lamin A rod can slide onto each other to contract rod length, likely driven by a wide range of electrostatic interactions with the flexible linkers between coiled coils. Similar interactions occur with unstructured regions flanking the rod domain during oligomeric assembly. Mutations linked to human disease block these interactions, suggesting that this spring-like contraction can explain in part the dynamic mechanical stretch and flexibility properties of the lamin polymer and other intermediate filament networks.
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- Alex A Makarov
- Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, Max Born Crescent, Edinburgh, EH9 3BF, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, Max Born Crescent, Edinburgh, EH9 3BF, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, Max Born Crescent, Edinburgh, EH9 3BF, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, Max Born Crescent, Edinburgh, EH9 3BF, UK
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- Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences/NUPPA, The Medical School, University of Newcastle, Framlington Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, Max Born Crescent, Edinburgh, EH9 3BF, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, Max Born Crescent, Edinburgh, EH9 3BF, UK.
- Chair of Bioanalytics, Institute of Biotechnology, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, 13355, Germany.
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- Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, Max Born Crescent, Edinburgh, EH9 3BF, UK.
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Inferring Protein-Protein Interaction Networks From Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomic Approaches: A Mini-Review. Comput Struct Biotechnol J 2019; 17:805-811. [PMID: 31316724 PMCID: PMC6611912 DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2019.05.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2019] [Revised: 05/20/2019] [Accepted: 05/26/2019] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Studying protein-protein interaction networks provide key evidence for the underlying molecular mechanisms. Mass spectrometry-based proteomic approaches have been playing a pivotal role in deciphering these interaction networks, along with precise quantification for individual interactions. In this mini-review we discuss the available techniques and methods for qualitative and quantitative elucidation of protein-protein interaction networks. We then summarize the down-stream computational strategies for identification and quantification of interactions from those techniques. Finally, we highlight the challenges and limitations of current computational pipelines in eliminating false positive interactors, followed by a summary of the innovative algorithms to address these issues, along with the scope for future improvements.
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Iacobucci C, Piotrowski C, Aebersold R, Amaral BC, Andrews P, Bernfur K, Borchers C, Brodie NI, Bruce JE, Cao Y, Chaignepain S, Chavez JD, Claverol S, Cox J, Davis T, Degliesposti G, Dong MQ, Edinger N, Emanuelsson C, Gay M, Götze M, Gomes-Neto F, Gozzo FC, Gutierrez C, Haupt C, Heck AJR, Herzog F, Huang L, Hoopmann MR, Kalisman N, Klykov O, Kukačka Z, Liu F, MacCoss MJ, Mechtler K, Mesika R, Moritz RL, Nagaraj N, Nesati V, Neves-Ferreira AGC, Ninnis R, Novák P, O'Reilly FJ, Pelzing M, Petrotchenko E, Piersimoni L, Plasencia M, Pukala T, Rand KD, Rappsilber J, Reichmann D, Sailer C, Sarnowski CP, Scheltema RA, Schmidt C, Schriemer DC, Shi Y, Skehel JM, Slavin M, Sobott F, Solis-Mezarino V, Stephanowitz H, Stengel F, Stieger CE, Trabjerg E, Trnka M, Vilaseca M, Viner R, Xiang Y, Yilmaz S, Zelter A, Ziemianowicz D, Leitner A, Sinz A. First Community-Wide, Comparative Cross-Linking Mass Spectrometry Study. Anal Chem 2019; 91:6953-6961. [PMID: 31045356 PMCID: PMC6625963 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b00658] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The number of publications in the field of chemical cross-linking combined with mass spectrometry (XL-MS) to derive constraints for protein three-dimensional structure modeling and to probe protein-protein interactions has increased during the last years. As the technique is now becoming routine for in vitro and in vivo applications in proteomics and structural biology there is a pressing need to define protocols as well as data analysis and reporting formats. Such consensus formats should become accepted in the field and be shown to lead to reproducible results. This first, community-based harmonization study on XL-MS is based on the results of 32 groups participating worldwide. The aim of this paper is to summarize the status quo of XL-MS and to compare and evaluate existing cross-linking strategies. Our study therefore builds the framework for establishing best practice guidelines to conduct cross-linking experiments, perform data analysis, and define reporting formats with the ultimate goal of assisting scientists to generate accurate and reproducible XL-MS results.
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- Claudio Iacobucci
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Bioanalytics, Institute of Pharmacy, Charles Tanford Protein Center , Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , Kurt-Mothes-Strasse 3a , 06120 Halle/Saale , Germany
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Bioanalytics, Institute of Pharmacy, Charles Tanford Protein Center , Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , Kurt-Mothes-Strasse 3a , 06120 Halle/Saale , Germany
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- Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology , ETH Zurich , Otto-Stern-Weg 3 , 8093 Zurich , Switzerland.,Faculty of Science , University of Zurich , 8006 Zurich , Switzerland
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- Institute of Chemistry , University of Campinas , Campinas São Paulo 13083-970 , Brazil
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- Departments of Biological Chemistry, Bioinformatics, and Chemistry , University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , Michigan 48109 , United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, Center for Molecular Protein Science , Lund University , 221 00 Lund , Sweden
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- University of Victoria-Genome British Columbia Proteomics Centre , Vancouver Island Technology Park , Victoria , British Columbia V8Z 7X8 , Canada.,Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology , University of Victoria , Petch Building, Room 270d, 3800 Finnerty Road , Victoria , British Columbia V8P 5C2 , Canada.,Gerald Bronfman Department of Oncology, Jewish General Hospital , McGill University , 3755 Côte Ste-Catherine Road , Montréal , Quebec H3T 1E2 , Canada.,Proteomics Centre, Segal Cancer Centre, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital , McGill University , 3755 Côte Ste-Catherine Road , Montréal , Quebec H3T 1E2 , Canada
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- University of Victoria-Genome British Columbia Proteomics Centre , Vancouver Island Technology Park , Victoria , British Columbia V8Z 7X8 , Canada
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- Department of Genome Sciences , University of Washington , Seattle , Washington 98195 , United States
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- National Institute of Biological Sciences , Beijing 7 Science Park Road, ZGC Life Science Park , 102206 Beijing , China
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- CBMN, UMR 5248, CNRS , Université de Bordeaux, INP Bordeaux , Pessac 33607 , France
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- Department of Genome Sciences , University of Washington , Seattle , Washington 98195 , United States
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- Centre de Génomique Fonctionnelle, Plateforme Protéome , Université de Bordeaux , Bordeaux 33000 , France
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- Computational Systems Biochemistry Research Group , Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry , Am Klopferspitz 18 , 82152 Martinsried , Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry , University of Washington , Seattle , Washington 98195 , United States
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- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology , Cambridge Biomedical Campus , Francis Crick Avenue , Cambridge CB2 0QH , U.K
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- National Institute of Biological Sciences , Beijing 7 Science Park Road, ZGC Life Science Park , 102206 Beijing , China
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Safra Campus Givat Ram , The Hebrew University of Jerusalem , Jerusalem 91904 , Israel
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- Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, Center for Molecular Protein Science , Lund University , 221 00 Lund , Sweden
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- Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) , The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST) , Baldiri Reixac 10 , 08028 Barcelona , Spain
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- Institute for Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Charles Tanford Protein Center , Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , Kurt-Mothes-Strasse 3a , 06120 Halle/Saale , Germany
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- Laboratory of Toxinology , Oswaldo Cruz Institute , Fiocruz, Avenida Brasil 4365 (Moorish Castle) , Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro , Rio de Janeiro 21040-900 , Brazil
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- Institute of Chemistry , University of Campinas , Campinas São Paulo 13083-970 , Brazil
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- Department of Physiology & Biophysics , University of California , Irvine , California 92697 , United States
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- Interdisciplinary Research Center HALOmem, Institute for Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Charles Tanford Protein Center , Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , Kurt-Mothes-Strasse 3a , 06120 Halle/Saale , Germany
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- Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research and Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences , University of Utrecht and Netherlands Proteomics Centre , Padualaan 8 , 3584 CH Utrecht , The Netherlands
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- Gene Center Munich, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy , Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich , Feodor-Lynen-Strasse 25 , 81377 Munich , Germany
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- Department of Physiology & Biophysics , University of California , Irvine , California 92697 , United States
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- Institute for Systems Biology , 401 Terry Avenue North , Seattle , Washington 98109 , United States
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Safra Campus Givat Ram , The Hebrew University of Jerusalem , Jerusalem 91904 , Israel
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- Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research and Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences , University of Utrecht and Netherlands Proteomics Centre , Padualaan 8 , 3584 CH Utrecht , The Netherlands
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- Institute of Microbiology , BIOCEV , Prumyslova 595 , 252 50 Vestec , Czech Republic
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- Leibniz Institute of Molecular Pharmacology (FMP) , Robert-Rössle-Strasse 10 , 13125 Berlin , Germany
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- Department of Genome Sciences , University of Washington , Seattle , Washington 98195 , United States
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- Protein Chemistry Facility, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) and Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) , Vienna Biocenter (VBC) , Dr. Bohr-Gasse 3 , 1030 Vienna , Austria
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Safra Campus Givat Ram , The Hebrew University of Jerusalem , Jerusalem 91904 , Israel
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- Institute for Systems Biology , 401 Terry Avenue North , Seattle , Washington 98109 , United States
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- Biochemistry Core Facility , Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry , Am Klopferspitz 18 , 82152 Martinsried , Germany
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- Analytical Biochemistry, CSL Limited , Bio21 Institute , 30 Flemington Road , 3010 Parkville, Melbourne , Australia
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- Laboratory of Toxinology , Oswaldo Cruz Institute , Fiocruz, Avenida Brasil 4365 (Moorish Castle) , Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro , Rio de Janeiro 21040-900 , Brazil
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- Analytical Biochemistry, CSL Limited , Bio21 Institute , 30 Flemington Road , 3010 Parkville, Melbourne , Australia
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- Institute of Microbiology , BIOCEV , Prumyslova 595 , 252 50 Vestec , Czech Republic
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- Chair of Bioanalytics, Institute of Biotechnology Technische Universität Berlin , 13355 Berlin , Germany
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- Analytical Biochemistry, CSL Limited , Bio21 Institute , 30 Flemington Road , 3010 Parkville, Melbourne , Australia
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- University of Victoria-Genome British Columbia Proteomics Centre , Vancouver Island Technology Park , Victoria , British Columbia V8Z 7X8 , Canada
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- Departments of Biological Chemistry, Bioinformatics, and Chemistry , University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , Michigan 48109 , United States
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- Departments of Biological Chemistry, Bioinformatics, and Chemistry , University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , Michigan 48109 , United States
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- Discipline of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences , University of Adelaide , North Terrace, Adelaide , South Australia 5005 , Australia
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- Department of Pharmacy , University of Copenhagen , 2100 Copenhagen , Denmark
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- Chair of Bioanalytics, Institute of Biotechnology Technische Universität Berlin , 13355 Berlin , Germany.,Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences , University of Edinburgh , EH9 3BF Edinburgh , U.K
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Safra Campus Givat Ram , The Hebrew University of Jerusalem , Jerusalem 91904 , Israel
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- University of Konstanz , Department of Biology , Universitätsstrasse 10 , 78457 Konstanz , Germany
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- Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology , ETH Zurich , Otto-Stern-Weg 3 , 8093 Zurich , Switzerland.,PhD Program in Systems Biology , University of Zurich and ETH Zurich , 8092 Zurich , Switzerland
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- Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research and Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences , University of Utrecht and Netherlands Proteomics Centre , Padualaan 8 , 3584 CH Utrecht , The Netherlands
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- Interdisciplinary Research Center HALOmem, Institute for Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Charles Tanford Protein Center , Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , Kurt-Mothes-Strasse 3a , 06120 Halle/Saale , Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Robson DNA Science Centre , University of Calgary , 3330 Hospital Drive North West , Calgary , Alberta T2N 4N1 , Canada
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- Department of Cell Biology , University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania 15213 , United States
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- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology , Cambridge Biomedical Campus , Francis Crick Avenue , Cambridge CB2 0QH , U.K
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Safra Campus Givat Ram , The Hebrew University of Jerusalem , Jerusalem 91904 , Israel
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Antwerp , Groenenborgerlaan 171 , 2020 Antwerp , Belgium.,The Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology and School of Molecular and Cellular Biology , University of Leeds , LS2 9JT Leeds , U.K
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- Gene Center Munich, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy , Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich , Feodor-Lynen-Strasse 25 , 81377 Munich , Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Molecular Pharmacology (FMP) , Robert-Rössle-Strasse 10 , 13125 Berlin , Germany
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- University of Konstanz , Department of Biology , Universitätsstrasse 10 , 78457 Konstanz , Germany
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- Protein Chemistry Facility, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) and Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) , Vienna Biocenter (VBC) , Dr. Bohr-Gasse 3 , 1030 Vienna , Austria
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- Department of Pharmacy , University of Copenhagen , 2100 Copenhagen , Denmark
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- UCSF Mass Spectrometry Facility , Genentech Hall, 600 16th Street , San Francisco , California 94158 , United States
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- Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) , The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST) , Baldiri Reixac 10 , 08028 Barcelona , Spain
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- Thermo Fisher Scientific , 355 River Oaks Parkway , San Jose , California 95134 , United States
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- Department of Cell Biology , University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania 15213 , United States
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- Computational Systems Biochemistry Research Group , Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry , Am Klopferspitz 18 , 82152 Martinsried , Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry , University of Washington , Seattle , Washington 98195 , United States
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- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Robson DNA Science Centre , University of Calgary , 3330 Hospital Drive North West , Calgary , Alberta T2N 4N1 , Canada
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- Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology , ETH Zurich , Otto-Stern-Weg 3 , 8093 Zurich , Switzerland
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Bioanalytics, Institute of Pharmacy, Charles Tanford Protein Center , Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , Kurt-Mothes-Strasse 3a , 06120 Halle/Saale , Germany
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Schmitt LR, Henderson R, Barrett A, Darula Z, Issaian A, D'Alessandro A, Clendenen N, Hansen KC. Mass spectrometry-based molecular mapping of native FXIIIa cross-links in insoluble fibrin clots. J Biol Chem 2019; 294:8773-8778. [PMID: 31028172 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ac119.007981] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2019] [Revised: 04/22/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
Abstract
The roles of factor XIIIa-specific cross-links in thrombus formation, regression, or probability for embolization are largely unknown. A molecular understanding of fibrin architecture at the level of these cross-links could inform the development of therapeutic strategies to prevent the sequelae of thromboembolism. Here, we present an MS-based method to map native factor XIIIa cross-links in the insoluble matrix component of whole-blood or plasma-fibrin clots and in in vivo thrombi. Using a chaotrope-insoluble digestion method and quantitative cross-linking MS, we identified the previously mapped fibrinogen peptides that are responsible for covalent D-dimer association, as well as dozens of novel cross-links in the αC region of fibrinogen α. Our findings expand the known native cross-linked species from one to over 100 and suggest distinct antiparallel registries for interprotofibril association and covalent attachment of serpins that regulate clot dissolution.
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- Anesthesiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado 80045 and
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- Laboratory of Proteomics Research, Biological Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-6701 Szeged, Hungary
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- From the Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics and
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- Anesthesiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado 80045 and
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- From the Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics and
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