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Grasso G. THE USE OF MASS SPECTROMETRY TO STUDY ZN-METALLOPROTEASE-SUBSTRATE INTERACTIONS. MASS SPECTROMETRY REVIEWS 2020; 39:574-585. [PMID: 31898821 DOI: 10.1002/mas.21621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2019] [Accepted: 12/19/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Zinc metalloproteases (ZnMPs) participate in diverse biological reactions, encompassing the synthesis and degradation of all the major metabolites in living organisms. In particular, ZnMPs have been recognized to play a very important role in controlling the concentration level of several peptides and/or proteins whose homeostasis has to be finely regulated for the correct physiology of cells. Dyshomeostasis of aggregation-prone proteins causes pathological conditions and the development of several different diseases. For this reason, in recent years, many analytical approaches have been applied for studying the interaction between ZnMPs and their substrates and how environmental factors can affect enzyme activities. In this scenario, mass spectrometric methods occupy a very important role in elucidating different aspects of ZnMPs-substrates interaction. These range from identification of cleavage sites to quantitation of kinetic parameters. In this work, an overview of all the main achievements regarding the application of mass spectrometric methods to investigating ZnMPs-substrates interactions is presented. A general experimental protocol is also described which may prove useful to the study of similar interactions. © 2020 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Mass Spec Rev.
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- Giuseppe Grasso
- Department of Chemical Sciences, Università degli Studi di Catania, Viale Andrea Doria 6, Catania, 95125, Italy
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Hawkins CL, Davies MJ. Detection, identification, and quantification of oxidative protein modifications. J Biol Chem 2019; 294:19683-19708. [PMID: 31672919 PMCID: PMC6926449 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.rev119.006217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 205] [Impact Index Per Article: 41.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Exposure of biological molecules to oxidants is inevitable and therefore commonplace. Oxidative stress in cells arises from both external agents and endogenous processes that generate reactive species, either purposely (e.g. during pathogen killing or enzymatic reactions) or accidentally (e.g. exposure to radiation, pollutants, drugs, or chemicals). As proteins are highly abundant and react rapidly with many oxidants, they are highly susceptible to, and major targets of, oxidative damage. This can result in changes to protein structure, function, and turnover and to loss or (occasional) gain of activity. Accumulation of oxidatively-modified proteins, due to either increased generation or decreased removal, has been associated with both aging and multiple diseases. Different oxidants generate a broad, and sometimes characteristic, spectrum of post-translational modifications. The kinetics (rates) of damage formation also vary dramatically. There is a pressing need for reliable and robust methods that can detect, identify, and quantify the products formed on amino acids, peptides, and proteins, especially in complex systems. This review summarizes several advances in our understanding of this complex chemistry and highlights methods that are available to detect oxidative modifications-at the amino acid, peptide, or protein level-and their nature, quantity, and position within a peptide sequence. Although considerable progress has been made in the development and application of new techniques, it is clear that further development is required to fully assess the relative importance of protein oxidation and to determine whether an oxidation is a cause, or merely a consequence, of injurious processes.
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- Clare L Hawkins
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2200, Denmark
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2200, Denmark
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Comprehensive identification of protein disulfide bonds with pepsin/trypsin digestion, Orbitrap HCD and Spectrum Identification Machine. J Proteomics 2018; 198:78-86. [PMID: 30557666 DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2018.12.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2018] [Revised: 12/04/2018] [Accepted: 12/12/2018] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Disulfide bonds (SS) are post-translational modifications important for the proper folding and stabilization of many cellular proteins with therapeutic uses, including antibodies and other biologics. With budding advances of biologics and biosimilars, there is a mounting need for a robust method for accurate identification of SS. Even though several mass spectrometry methods have emerged for this task, their practical use rests on the broad effectiveness of both sample preparation methods and bioinformatics tools. Here we present a new protocol tailored toward mapping SS; it uses readily available reagents, instruments, and software. For sample preparation, a 4-h pepsin digestion at pH 1.3 followed by an overnight trypsin digestion at pH 6.5 can maximize the release of SS-containing peptides from non-reduced proteins, while minimizing SS scrambling. For LC/MS/MS analysis, SS-containing peptides can be efficiently fragmented with HCD in a Q Exactive Orbitrap mass spectrometer, preserving SS for subsequent identification. Our bioinformatics protocol describes how we tailored our freely downloadable and easy-to-use software, Spectrum Identification Machine for Cross-Linked Peptides (SIM-XL), to minimize false identification and facilitate manual validation of SS-peptide mass spectra. To substantiate this optimized method, we've comprehensively identified 14 out of 17 known SS in BSA. SIGNIFICANCE: Comprehensive and accurate identification of SS in proteins is critical for elucidating protein structures and functions. Yet, it is far from routine to accomplish this task in many analytical or core laboratories. Numerous published methods require complex sample preparation methods, specialized mass spectrometers and cumbersome or proprietary software tools, thus cannot be easily implemented in unspecialized laboratories. Here, we describe a robust and rapid SS mapping approach that utilizes readily available reagents, instruments, and software; it can be easily implemented in any analytical core laboratories, and tested for its impact on the research community.
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Hägglund P, Mariotti M, Davies MJ. Identification and characterization of protein cross-links induced by oxidative reactions. Expert Rev Proteomics 2018; 15:665-681. [DOI: 10.1080/14789450.2018.1509710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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- Per Hägglund
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Lelyveld VS, Björkbom A, Ransey EM, Sliz P, Szostak JW. Pinpointing RNA-Protein Cross-Links with Site-Specific Stable Isotope-Labeled Oligonucleotides. J Am Chem Soc 2015; 137:15378-81. [PMID: 26583201 PMCID: PMC4697197 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b10596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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High affinity RNA-protein interactions
are critical to cellular
function, but directly identifying the determinants of binding within
these complexes is often difficult. Here, we introduce a stable isotope
mass labeling technique to assign specific interacting nucleotides
in an oligonucleotide-protein complex by photo-cross-linking. The
method relies on generating site-specific oxygen-18-labeled phosphodiester
linkages in oligonucleotides, such that covalent peptide-oligonucleotide
cross-link sites arising from ultraviolet irradiation can be assigned
to specific sequence positions in both RNA and protein simultaneously
by mass spectrometry. Using Lin28A and a let-7 pre-element RNA, we
demonstrate that mass labeling permits unambiguous identification
of the cross-linked sequence positions in the RNA-protein complex.
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- Victor S Lelyveld
- Department of Molecular Biology and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital , Boston, Massachusetts 02114, United States
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital , Boston, Massachusetts 02114, United States.,Department of Biosciences, Åbo Akademi University , Åbo FI-20520, Finland
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital , Boston, Massachusetts 02114, United States.,Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University , Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
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Borges CR, Sherma ND. Techniques for the analysis of cysteine sulfhydryls and oxidative protein folding. Antioxid Redox Signal 2014; 21:511-31. [PMID: 24383618 PMCID: PMC4076987 DOI: 10.1089/ars.2013.5559] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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SIGNIFICANCE Modification of cysteine thiols dramatically affects protein function and stability. Hence, the abilities to quantify specific protein sulfhydryl groups within complex biological samples and map disulfide bond structures are crucial to gaining greater insights into how proteins operate in human health and disease. RECENT ADVANCES Many different molecular probes are now commercially available to label and track cysteine residues at great sensitivity. Coupled with mass spectrometry, stable isotope-labeled sulfhydryl-specific reagents can provide previously unprecedented molecular insights into the dynamics of cysteine modification. Likewise, the combined application of modern mass spectrometers with improved sample preparation techniques and novel data mining algorithms is beginning to routinize the analysis of complex protein disulfide structures. CRITICAL ISSUES Proper application of these modern tools and techniques, however, still requires fundamental understanding of sulfhydryl chemistry as well as the assumptions that accompany sample preparation and underlie effective data interpretation. FUTURE DIRECTIONS The continued development of tools, technical approaches, and corresponding data processing algorithms will, undoubtedly, facilitate site-specific protein sulfhydryl quantification and disulfide structure analysis from within complex biological mixtures with ever-improving accuracy and sensitivity. Fully routinizing disulfide structure analysis will require an equal but balanced focus on sample preparation and corresponding mass spectral dataset reproducibility.
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- Chad R Borges
- Center for Personalized Diagnostics, The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University , Tempe, Arizona
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Liu F, van Breukelen B, Heck AJR. Facilitating protein disulfide mapping by a combination of pepsin digestion, electron transfer higher energy dissociation (EThcD), and a dedicated search algorithm SlinkS. Mol Cell Proteomics 2014; 13:2776-86. [PMID: 24980484 DOI: 10.1074/mcp.o114.039057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Disulfide bond identification is important for a detailed understanding of protein structures, which directly affect their biological functions. Here we describe an integrated workflow for the fast and accurate identification of authentic protein disulfide bridges. This novel workflow incorporates acidic proteolytic digestion using pepsin to eliminate undesirable disulfide reshuffling during sample preparation and a novel search engine, SlinkS, to directly identify disulfide-bridged peptides isolated via electron transfer higher energy dissociation (EThcD). In EThcD fragmentation of disulfide-bridged peptides, electron transfer dissociation preferentially leads to the cleavage of the S-S bonds, generating two intense disulfide-cleaved peptides as primary fragment ions. Subsequently, higher energy collision dissociation primarily targets unreacted and charge-reduced precursor ions, inducing peptide backbone fragmentation. SlinkS is able to provide the accurate monoisotopic precursor masses of the two disulfide-cleaved peptides and the sequence of each linked peptide by matching the remaining EThcD product ions against a linear peptide database. The workflow was validated using a protein mixture containing six proteins rich in natural disulfide bridges. Using this pepsin-based workflow, we were able to efficiently and confidently identify a total of 31 unique Cys-Cys bonds (out of 43 disulfide bridges present), with no disulfide reshuffling products detected. Pepsin digestion not only outperformed trypsin digestion in terms of the number of detected authentic Cys-Cys bonds, but, more important, prevented the formation of artificially reshuffled disulfide bridges due to protein digestion under neutral pH. Our new workflow therefore provides a precise and generic approach for disulfide bridge mapping, which can be used to study protein folding, structure, and stability.
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- Fan Liu
- From the ‡Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Bijvoet Centre for Biomolecular Research and Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Utrecht, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH, Utrecht, The Netherlands; §Netherlands Proteomics Center, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- From the ‡Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Bijvoet Centre for Biomolecular Research and Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Utrecht, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH, Utrecht, The Netherlands; §Netherlands Proteomics Center, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- From the ‡Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Bijvoet Centre for Biomolecular Research and Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Utrecht, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH, Utrecht, The Netherlands; §Netherlands Proteomics Center, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Goyder MS, Rebeaud F, Pfeifer ME, Kálmán F. Strategies in mass spectrometry for the assignment of Cys-Cys disulfide connectivities in proteins. Expert Rev Proteomics 2013; 10:489-501. [PMID: 24087910 DOI: 10.1586/14789450.2013.837663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
Abstract
Elucidating disulfide linkage patterns is a crucial part of protein characterization, for which mass spectrometry (MS) is now an indispensable analytical tool. In many cases, MS-based disulfide connectivity assignment is straightforwardly achieved using one-step protein fragmentation in the unreduced form followed by mass measurement of bridged fragments. By contrast, venom proteins, which are receiving increasing interest as potential therapeutics, are a challenge for MS-based disulfide assignment due to their numerous closely spaced cysteines and knotted disulfide structure, requiring creative strategies to determine their connectivity. Today, these include the use of an array of reagents for enzymatic and/or chemical cleavage, partial reduction, differential cysteine labeling and tandem MS. This review aims to describe the toolkit of techniques available to MS users approaching both straightforward and complex disulfide bridge assignments, with a particular focus on strategies utilizing standard instrumentation found in a well-equipped analytical or proteomics laboratory.
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- Miriam S Goyder
- Institute of Life Technologies, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO Valais/Wallis), 1950 Sion, Switzerland
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Disulfide bond assignment of an IgG1 monoclonal antibody by LC–MS with post-column partial reduction. Anal Biochem 2013; 436:93-100. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2013.01.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2012] [Accepted: 01/17/2013] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Li X, Xu W, Paporello B, Richardson D, Liu H. Liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry with post-column partial reduction for the analysis of native and scrambled disulfide bonds. Anal Biochem 2013; 439:184-6. [PMID: 23639491 DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2013.04.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2013] [Accepted: 04/22/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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A method capable of detecting both native and scrambled disulfide bonds has been established. Nonreduced protein digests were separated using a reversed-phase C18 column, partially reduced by post-column addition of a reducing reagent, and then analyzed by mass spectrometry. Disulfide bond linkage was established by matching the retention times of cysteine-containing peptides and confirmed by the detection of the molecular weight of the disulfide-linked peptides. The application of this method was demonstrated by determination of the disulfide bond structures of an immunoglobulin G1 (IgG1) molecule and lysozyme and by the detection of four scrambled disulfide bonds in the IgG1 molecule.
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- Xiaojuan Li
- Merck Research Laboratories, Union, NJ 07083, USA
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Jiang W, Murashko EA, Dubrovskii YA, Podolskaya EP, Babakov VN, Mikler J, Nachon F, Masson P, Schopfer LM, Lockridge O. Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry of titanium oxide-enriched peptides for detection of aged organophosphorus adducts on human butyrylcholinesterase. Anal Biochem 2013; 439:132-41. [PMID: 23624322 DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2013.04.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2013] [Revised: 04/11/2013] [Accepted: 04/12/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Exposure to nerve agents or organophosphorus (OP) pesticides can have life-threatening effects. Human plasma butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) inactivates these poisons by binding them to Ser198. After hours or days, these OP adducts acquire a negative charge by dealkylation in a process called aging. Our goal was to develop a method for enriching the aged adduct to facilitate detection of exposure. Human BChE inhibited by OP toxicants was incubated for 4 days to 6 years. Peptides produced by digestion with pepsin were enriched by binding to titanium oxide (TiO2) and analyzed by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry. It was found that with two exceptions, all aged OP adducts in peptide FGES198AGAAS were enriched by binding to Titansphere tips. Cresyl saligenin phosphate yielded two types of aged adduct, cresylphosphate and phosphate, but only the phosphate adduct bound to Titansphere. The nerve agent VR yielded no aged adduct, supporting crystal structure findings that the VR adduct on BChE does not age. The irreversible nature of aged OP adducts was demonstrated by the finding that after 6 years at room temperature in sterile pH 7.0 buffer, the adducts were still detectable. It was concluded that TiO2 microcolumns can be used to enrich aged OP-modified BChE peptide.
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- Wei Jiang
- Eppley Institute, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198, USA
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Rozbesky D, Sovova Z, Marcoux J, Man P, Ettrich R, Robinson CV, Novak P. Structural model of lymphocyte receptor NKR-P1C revealed by mass spectrometry and molecular modeling. Anal Chem 2013; 85:1597-604. [PMID: 23249299 DOI: 10.1021/ac302860m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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NKR-P1C is an activating immune receptor expressed on the surface of mouse natural killer cells. It has been widely used as a marker for NK cell identification in different mice strains. Recently we solved a crystal structure of the C-type lectin-like domain of a homologous protein, NKR-P1A, using X-ray crystallography and also described the strategy for rapid characterization of the protein conformation in solution. This procedure utilized chemical cross-linking, hydrogen/deuterium exchange, and molecular modeling. It was found that the solution structure differs from the crystal structure in the conformation of the loop region. The loop, detached from the protein compact core in the crystal structure, is closely attached to the core of the protein in solution. Here we present and interpret the solution structure of the C-type lectin-like domain of NKR-P1C using chemical cross-linking and molecular modeling. The validation of the model and conformation of the loop region in NKR-P1C were addressed using ion-mobility mass spectrometry.
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- Daniel Rozbesky
- Department of Biochemistry, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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Navrot N, Finnie C, Svensson B, Hägglund P. Plant redox proteomics. J Proteomics 2011; 74:1450-62. [PMID: 21406256 DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2011.03.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2011] [Revised: 02/28/2011] [Accepted: 03/01/2011] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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In common with other aerobic organisms, plants are exposed to reactive oxygen species resulting in formation of post-translational modifications related to protein oxidoreduction (redox PTMs) that may inflict oxidative protein damage. Accumulating evidence also underscores the importance of redox PTMs in regulating enzymatic activities and controlling biological processes in plants. Notably, proteins controlling the cellular redox state, e.g. thioredoxin and glutaredoxin, appear to play dual roles to maintain oxidative stress resistance and regulate signal transduction pathways via redox PTMs. To get a comprehensive overview of these types of redox-regulated pathways there is therefore an emerging interest to monitor changes in redox PTMs on a proteome scale. Compared to some other PTMs, e.g. protein phosphorylation, redox PTMs have received less attention in plant proteome analysis, possibly due to technical challenges such as with maintaining the in vivo redox states of proteins and the lability of certain PTMs, e.g. nitrosylations, during sample preparation and mass spectrometric analysis. The present review article provides an overview of the recent developments in the emerging area of plant redox proteomics.
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- Nicolas Navrot
- Enzyme and Protein Chemistry, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Building 224, DK-2800, Kgs Lyngby, Denmark
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Dave KA, Whelan F, Bindloss C, Furness SGB, Chapman-Smith A, Whitelaw ML, Gorman JJ. Sulfonation and phosphorylation of regions of the dioxin receptor susceptible to methionine modifications. Mol Cell Proteomics 2008; 8:706-19. [PMID: 19059900 DOI: 10.1074/mcp.m800459-mcp200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Tagged murine dioxin receptor was purified from mammalian cells, digested with trypsin, and analyzed by capillary HPLC-MALDI-TOF/TOF-MS and -MS/MS. Several chromatographically distinct semitryptic peptides matching two regions spanning residues Glu(409)-Arg(424) and Ser(547)-Arg(555) of the dioxin receptor were revealed by de novo sequencing. Methionine residues at 418 and 548 were detected in these peptides as either unmodified or modified by moieties of 16 (oxidation) or 57 amu (S-carboxamidomethylation) or in a form corresponding to degradative removal of 105 amu from the S-carboxamidomethylated methionine. MS/MS spectra revealed that the peptides containing modified methionine residues also existed in forms with a modification of +80 amu on serine residues 411, 415, and 547. The MS/MS spectra of these peptide ions also revealed diagnostic neutral loss fragment ions of 64, 98, and/or 80 amu, and in some instances combinations of these neutral losses were apparent. Taken together, these data indicated that serines 411 and 547 of the dioxin receptor were sulfonated and serine 415 was phosphorylated. Separate digests of the dioxin receptor were prepared in H(2)(16)O and H(2)(18)O, and enzymatic dephosphorylation was subsequently performed on the H(2)(16)O digest only. The digests were mixed in equal proportions and analyzed by capillary HPLC-MALDI-TOF/TOF-MS and -MS/MS. This strategy confirmed assignment of sulfonation as the cause of the +80-amu modifications on serines 411 and 547 and phosphorylation as the predominant cause of the +80-amu modification of serine 415. The relative quantitation of phosphorylation and sulfonation enabled by this differential phosphatase strategy also suggested the presence of sulfonation on a serine other than residue 411 within the sequence spanning Glu(409)-Arg(424). This represents the first description of post-translational sulfonation sites and identification of a new phosphorylation site of the latent dioxin receptor. Furthermore this is only the second report of serine sulfonation of eukaryotic proteins. Mutagenesis studies are underway to assess the functional consequences of these modifications.
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- Keyur A Dave
- Protein Discovery Centre, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, P. O. Royal Brisbane Hospital, Herston, Queensland 4029, Australia
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Huang SY, Wen CH, Li DT, Hsu JL, Chen C, Shi FK, Lin YY. Assignment of Disulfide-Linked Peptides Using Automatic a1 Ion Recognition. Anal Chem 2008; 80:9135-40. [DOI: 10.1021/ac8013725] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Sheng Yu Huang
- Life Science Business Unit and Computer Integrated Manufacturing Business Unit, C Sun MFG. LTD., 7F.-9, No.79, Sec. 1, Sintai Fifth Road, Sijhih City, Taipei County 221, Taiwan, and Institute of Biomedical Science, Academia Sinica, No.128, Sec. 2, Academia Road, Nangang District, Taipei City 115, Taiwan
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- Life Science Business Unit and Computer Integrated Manufacturing Business Unit, C Sun MFG. LTD., 7F.-9, No.79, Sec. 1, Sintai Fifth Road, Sijhih City, Taipei County 221, Taiwan, and Institute of Biomedical Science, Academia Sinica, No.128, Sec. 2, Academia Road, Nangang District, Taipei City 115, Taiwan
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- Life Science Business Unit and Computer Integrated Manufacturing Business Unit, C Sun MFG. LTD., 7F.-9, No.79, Sec. 1, Sintai Fifth Road, Sijhih City, Taipei County 221, Taiwan, and Institute of Biomedical Science, Academia Sinica, No.128, Sec. 2, Academia Road, Nangang District, Taipei City 115, Taiwan
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- Life Science Business Unit and Computer Integrated Manufacturing Business Unit, C Sun MFG. LTD., 7F.-9, No.79, Sec. 1, Sintai Fifth Road, Sijhih City, Taipei County 221, Taiwan, and Institute of Biomedical Science, Academia Sinica, No.128, Sec. 2, Academia Road, Nangang District, Taipei City 115, Taiwan
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- Life Science Business Unit and Computer Integrated Manufacturing Business Unit, C Sun MFG. LTD., 7F.-9, No.79, Sec. 1, Sintai Fifth Road, Sijhih City, Taipei County 221, Taiwan, and Institute of Biomedical Science, Academia Sinica, No.128, Sec. 2, Academia Road, Nangang District, Taipei City 115, Taiwan
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- Life Science Business Unit and Computer Integrated Manufacturing Business Unit, C Sun MFG. LTD., 7F.-9, No.79, Sec. 1, Sintai Fifth Road, Sijhih City, Taipei County 221, Taiwan, and Institute of Biomedical Science, Academia Sinica, No.128, Sec. 2, Academia Road, Nangang District, Taipei City 115, Taiwan
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- Life Science Business Unit and Computer Integrated Manufacturing Business Unit, C Sun MFG. LTD., 7F.-9, No.79, Sec. 1, Sintai Fifth Road, Sijhih City, Taipei County 221, Taiwan, and Institute of Biomedical Science, Academia Sinica, No.128, Sec. 2, Academia Road, Nangang District, Taipei City 115, Taiwan
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King GJ, Jones A, Kobe B, Huber T, Mouradov D, Hume DA, Ross IL. Identification of Disulfide-Containing Chemical Cross-Links in Proteins Using MALDI-TOF/TOF-Mass Spectrometry. Anal Chem 2008; 80:5036-43. [DOI: 10.1021/ac702277q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Gordon J. King
- Cooperative Research Centre for Chronic Inflammatory Diseases, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, St. Lucia Brisbane, 4072, School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, University of Queensland, St. Lucia Brisbane, 4072, Institute for Molecular Biosciences and Special Research Centre for Functional and Applied Genomics, University of Queensland, St. Lucia Brisbane, 4072, and The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Roslin, EH25 9PS, U.K
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- Cooperative Research Centre for Chronic Inflammatory Diseases, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, St. Lucia Brisbane, 4072, School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, University of Queensland, St. Lucia Brisbane, 4072, Institute for Molecular Biosciences and Special Research Centre for Functional and Applied Genomics, University of Queensland, St. Lucia Brisbane, 4072, and The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Roslin, EH25 9PS, U.K
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- Cooperative Research Centre for Chronic Inflammatory Diseases, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, St. Lucia Brisbane, 4072, School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, University of Queensland, St. Lucia Brisbane, 4072, Institute for Molecular Biosciences and Special Research Centre for Functional and Applied Genomics, University of Queensland, St. Lucia Brisbane, 4072, and The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Roslin, EH25 9PS, U.K
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- Cooperative Research Centre for Chronic Inflammatory Diseases, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, St. Lucia Brisbane, 4072, School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, University of Queensland, St. Lucia Brisbane, 4072, Institute for Molecular Biosciences and Special Research Centre for Functional and Applied Genomics, University of Queensland, St. Lucia Brisbane, 4072, and The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Roslin, EH25 9PS, U.K
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- Cooperative Research Centre for Chronic Inflammatory Diseases, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, St. Lucia Brisbane, 4072, School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, University of Queensland, St. Lucia Brisbane, 4072, Institute for Molecular Biosciences and Special Research Centre for Functional and Applied Genomics, University of Queensland, St. Lucia Brisbane, 4072, and The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Roslin, EH25 9PS, U.K
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- Cooperative Research Centre for Chronic Inflammatory Diseases, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, St. Lucia Brisbane, 4072, School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, University of Queensland, St. Lucia Brisbane, 4072, Institute for Molecular Biosciences and Special Research Centre for Functional and Applied Genomics, University of Queensland, St. Lucia Brisbane, 4072, and The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Roslin, EH25 9PS, U.K
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- Cooperative Research Centre for Chronic Inflammatory Diseases, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, St. Lucia Brisbane, 4072, School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, University of Queensland, St. Lucia Brisbane, 4072, Institute for Molecular Biosciences and Special Research Centre for Functional and Applied Genomics, University of Queensland, St. Lucia Brisbane, 4072, and The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Roslin, EH25 9PS, U.K
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Jiang H, Li M, Moy MA, Gong B, Wood TD. Preliminary mechanistic information on disulfide-bond formation and the role of hydrogen bonds by nanoelectrospray mass spectrometry. JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY : JMS 2008; 43:664-673. [PMID: 18172858 DOI: 10.1002/jms.1366] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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The formation of disulfide-bonds is vital for the proper folding of most secreted proteins and the stabilization of the final protein structure, including many of medical importance. The determination of disulfide-bonds is an important aspect of gaining a comprehensive understanding of the chemical structure of a protein. A long-term goal of ours is to examine the mechanism of disulfide-bond formation in aqueous solution and the potential role hydrogen bonds play in this process. Here, we report preliminary results from a method that utilizes the oxidizing power of iodine to generate disulfide bonds from synthesized model compounds, which is followed by nanoelectrospray ionization (nanoESI)- mass spectrometry (MS). By continuously monitoring the reaction mixture during disulfide formation, this nanoESI approach provides insight on the sequence of intermediate species formed, and how hydrogen-bonding donor/acceptor pairs may promote disulfide bond formation.
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- Honghai Jiang
- Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA
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Beck MR, DeKoster GT, Hambly DM, Gross ML, Cistola DP, Goldman WE. Structural features responsible for the biological stability of Histoplasma's virulence factor CBP. Biochemistry 2008; 47:4427-38. [PMID: 18361504 DOI: 10.1021/bi701495v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The virulence factor CBP is the most abundant protein secreted by Histoplasma capsulatum, a pathogenic fungus that causes histoplasmosis. Although the biochemical function and pathogenic mechanism of CBP are unknown, quantitative Ca (2+) binding measurements indicate that CBP has a strong affinity for calcium ( K D = 6.45 +/- 0.4 nM). However, no change in structure was observed upon binding of calcium, prompting a more thorough investigation of the molecular properties of CBP with respect to self-association, secondary structure, and stability. Over a wide range of pH values and salt concentrations, CBP exists predominantly as a stable, noncovalent homodimer in both its calcium-free and -bound states. Solution-state NMR and circular dichroism (CD) measurements indicated that the protein is largely alpha-helical, and its secondary structure content changes little over the range of pH values encountered physiologically. ESI-MS revealed that the six cysteine residues of CBP are involved in three intramolecular disulfide bonds that help maintain a highly protease resistant structure. Thermally and chemically induced denaturation studies indicated that unfolding of disulfide-intact CBP is reversible and provided quantitative measurements of protein stability. This disulfide-linked, protease resistant, homodimeric alpha-helical structure of CBP is likely to be advantageous for a virulence factor that must survive the harsh environment within the phagolysosomes of host macrophages.
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- Moriah R Beck
- Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
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Vilela RM, Lands LC, Chan HM, Azadi B, Kubow S. High hydrostatic pressure enhances whey protein digestibility to generate whey peptides that improve glutathione status in CFTR-deficient lung epithelial cells. Mol Nutr Food Res 2006; 50:1013-29. [PMID: 17054101 DOI: 10.1002/mnfr.200600074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Whey protein isolates (WPI) may provide anti-inflammatory benefits to cystic fibrosis (CF), which could be mediated via peptides, as proteolytic digests of WPI enhance intracellular glutathione (GSH) concentrations. The objectives of this study were to investigate whether high hydrostatic pressure can (i) improve the in vitro digestibility of WPI; and (ii) generate low molecular weight (< 1 kDa) peptides from WPI hydrolysates that exert GSH-enhancing and anti-inflammatory properties in wild type and mutant CF transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) tracheal epithelial cells. Hydrostatic pressure processing enhanced the in vitro digestibility of WPI to proteolytic enzymes resulting in altered peptide profiles as assessed by CZE and GC-MS. The exposure of mutant CFTR cells to low molecular weight (< 1 kDa) peptides isolated from WPI hydrolysates exposed to pressure processing (pressurized WPI hydrolysates, pWPH), showed increased intracellular levels of reduced GSH and total GSH relative to treatment with peptides obtained from native WPI hydrolysates (nWPH). A tendency for decreased interleukin-8 secretion was associated with the pWPH and nWPH treatments in mutant CFTR cells, which was not observed in wild type cells. Hydrostatic pressure processing of whey proteins appears to enhance their impact on cellular GSH status in cells with the mutant CFTR condition.
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- Regina Maria Vilela
- School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, MacDonald Campus of McGill University, Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, Canada
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Tomidokoro Y, Lashley T, Rostagno A, Neubert TA, Bojsen-Møller M, Braendgaard H, Plant G, Holton J, Frangione B, Révész T, Ghiso J. Familial Danish dementia: co-existence of Danish and Alzheimer amyloid subunits (ADan AND A{beta}) in the absence of compact plaques. J Biol Chem 2005; 280:36883-94. [PMID: 16091362 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m504038200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Familial Danish dementia is an early onset autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder linked to a genetic defect in the BRI2 gene and clinically characterized by dementia and ataxia. Cerebral amyloid and preamyloid deposits of two unrelated molecules (Danish amyloid (ADan) and beta-amyloid (Abeta)), the absence of compact plaques, and neurofibrillary degeneration indistinguishable from that observed in Alzheimer disease (AD) are the main neuropathological features of the disease. Biochemical analysis of extracted amyloid and preamyloid species indicates that as the solubility of the deposits decreases, the heterogeneity and complexity of the extracted peptides exponentially increase. Nonfibrillar deposits were mainly composed of intact ADan-(1-34) and its N-terminally modified (pyroglutamate) counterpart together with Abeta-(1-42) and Abeta-(4-42) in approximately 1:1 mixture. The post-translational modification, glutamate to pyroglutamate, was not present in soluble circulating ADan. In the amyloid fractions, ADan was heavily oligomerized and highly heterogeneous at the N and C terminus, and, when intact, its N terminus was post-translationally modified (pyroglutamate), whereas Abeta was mainly Abeta-(4-42). In all cases, the presence of Abeta-(X-40) was negligible, a surprising finding in view of the prevalence of Abeta40 in vascular deposits observed in sporadic and familial AD, Down syndrome, and normal aging. Whether the presence of the two amyloid subunits is imperative for the disease phenotype or just reflects a conformational mimicry remains to be elucidated; nonetheless, a specific interaction between ADan oligomers and Abeta molecules was demonstrated in vitro by ligand blot analysis using synthetic peptides. The absence of compact plaques in the presence of extensive neuro fibrillar degeneration strongly suggests that compact plaques, fundamental lesions for the diagnosis of AD, are not essential for the mechanism of dementia.
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- Yasushi Tomidokoro
- Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York 10016, USA
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Sun G, Anderson VE. A strategy for distinguishing modified peptides based on post-digestion 18O labeling and mass spectrometry. RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY : RCM 2005; 19:2849-56. [PMID: 16155976 DOI: 10.1002/rcm.2133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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The simultaneous identification of multiple different protein modifications, with or without known mass changes, is a challenging application of mass spectrometry. In this contribution, a strategy for distinguishing modified peptides within a large background of unmodified peptides was demonstrated by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOFMS) analysis of cytochrome c (Cyt-c) modified with 4-hydroxy-2-nonenal (HNE), based on post-digestion 18O labeling. Labeling of control Cyt-c peptides obtained from in-solution or in-gel digestion with 18O, prior to mixing in the ratio of 1:1 with peptides derived from a modified sample, identified more HNE modifications than a method based on a known mass increment search (Isom AL, Barnes S, Wilson L, Kirk M, Coward L, Darley-Usmar V. J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. 2004; 15: 1136), demonstrating the potential of this strategy to enhance the detection of modified peptides by mass spectrometry. A virtue of the strategy is that it obviates the need for isotopic labeling of the modifier, making the method applicable to the detection of modifications occurring in vivo. Additionally, this technique identified protease auto-cleavage peptides by their altered mass isotopomer distribution due to incomplete 18O exchange, and modified peptides containing 'protein carbonyls' by partial 18O exchange, allowing these peptides to be differentiated during data analysis.
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- Gang Sun
- Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.
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Wallis TP, Huang CY, Nimkar SB, Young PR, Gorman JJ. Determination of the disulfide bond arrangement of dengue virus NS1 protein. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:20729-41. [PMID: 14981082 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m312907200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The 12 half-cystines of NS1 proteins are absolutely conserved among flaviviruses, suggesting their importance to the structure and function of these proteins. In the present study, peptides from recombinant Dengue-2 virus NS1 were produced by tryptic digestion in 100% H(2)(16)O, peptic digestion in 50% H(2)(18)O, thermolytic digestion in 50% H(2)(18)O, or combinations of these digestion conditions. Peptides were separated by size exclusion and/or reverse phase high performance liquid chromatography and examined by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry, matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization post-source decay, and matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization tandem mass spectrometry. Where digests were performed in 50% H(2)(18)O, isotope profiles of peptide ions aided in the identification and characterization of disulfide-linked peptides. It was possible to produce two-chain peptides containing C1/C2, C3/C4, C5/C6, and C7/C12 linkages as revealed by comparison of the peptide masses before and after reduction and by post-source decay analysis. However, the remaining four half-cystines (C8, C9, C10, and C11) were located in a three-chain peptide of which one chain contained adjacent half-cystines (C9 and C10). The linkages of C8/C10 and C9/C11 were determined by tandem mass spectrometry of an in-source decay fragment ion containing C9, C10, and C11. This disulfide bond arrangement provides the basis for further refinement of flavivirus NS1 protein structural models.
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- Tristan P Wallis
- Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia
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Berhane BT, Limbach PA. Stable isotope labeling for matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry and post-source decay analysis of ribonucleic acids. JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY : JMS 2003; 38:872-878. [PMID: 12938108 DOI: 10.1002/jms.504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry is a powerful analytical tool for the structural characterization of oligonucleotides and nucleic acids. Here we report the application of stable isotope labeling for the simplified characterization of ribonucleic acids (RNAs). An (18)O label is incorporated at the 3'-phosphate of oligoribonucleotides during the enzymatic processing of intact RNAs. As implemented, a buffer solution containing a 50 : 50 mixture of H(2)O and (18)O-labeled H(2)O is used during endonuclease digestion. Upon digestion, characteristic doublets representative of the isotopic distribution of oxygen are noted for those products that contain 3'-phosphate groups. This approach is used to distinguish readily endonuclease digestion products from incomplete digestion products and non-specific cleavage products. In addition, RNase digestion products containing the characteristic isotopic doublet can be selected for further characterization by post-source decay (PSD) analysis. PSD products carrying the 3'-phosphate group will appear as a doublet, thereby simplifying fragment ion assignment.
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- Beniam T Berhane
- Rieveschl Laboratories for Mass Spectrometry, Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, P.O. Box 210172, Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA
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Developing the ability to quantify changes in protein abundance between cells subjected to a variety of physiological and environmental conditions is an extremely active area of proteome research. Although advances in chromatography, mass spectrometry instrumentation, and bioinformatics have contributed to producing a viable method for comparative proteome-wide analyses, the highest precision of quantitation is based, in part, upon improved methods for chemical and metabolic stable isotope labeling of proteins and peptides. The ability to quantify differences in protein expression and post-translational modifications using stable isotope labeling has been achieved, but insights into the biochemical mechanisms that will contribute to the development of new biotechnologies have yet to be realized.
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- Michael B Goshe
- Biological Sciences Division and Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, PO Box 999, MSIN K8-98, Richland, WA 99352, USA
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Ramjit HG. Kinetics of Disulphide–Disulphide Interchange Reactions in Polysulphide Polymers by Mass Spectrometry. I. JOURNAL OF MACROMOLECULAR SCIENCE PART A-PURE AND APPLIED CHEMISTRY 2003. [DOI: 10.1081/ma-120017257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Lando D, Peet DJ, Gorman JJ, Whelan DA, Whitelaw ML, Bruick RK. FIH-1 is an asparaginyl hydroxylase enzyme that regulates the transcriptional activity of hypoxia-inducible factor. Genes Dev 2002; 16:1466-71. [PMID: 12080085 PMCID: PMC186346 DOI: 10.1101/gad.991402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1139] [Impact Index Per Article: 51.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Mammalian cells adapt to hypoxic conditions through a transcriptional response pathway mediated by the hypoxia-inducible factor, HIF. HIF transcriptional activity is suppressed under normoxic conditions by hydroxylation of an asparagine residue within its C-terminal transactivation domain, blocking association with coactivators. Here we show that the protein FIH-1, previously shown to interact with HIF, is an asparaginyl hydroxylase. Like known hydroxylase enzymes, FIH-1 is an Fe(II)-dependent enzyme that uses molecular O(2) to modify its substrate. Together with the recently discovered prolyl hydroxylases that regulate HIF stability, this class of oxygen-dependent enzymes comprises critical regulatory components of the hypoxic response pathway.
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- David Lando
- Department of Molecular BioSciences (Biochemistry) and the Centre for the Molecular Genetics of Development, Adelaide University SA 5005, Australia
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Gorman JJ, Wallis TP, Pitt JJ. Protein disulfide bond determination by mass spectrometry. MASS SPECTROMETRY REVIEWS 2002; 21:183-216. [PMID: 12476442 DOI: 10.1002/mas.10025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 161] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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The determination of disulfide bonds is an important aspect of gaining a comprehensive understanding of the chemical structure of a protein. The basic strategy for obtaining this information involves the identification of disulfide-linked peptides in digests of proteins and the characterization of their half-cystinyl peptide constituents. Tools for disulfide bond analysis have improved dramatically in the past two decades, especially in terms of speed and sensitivity. This improvement is largely due to the development of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) and electrospray ionization (ESI), and complementary analyzers with high resolution and accuracy. The process of pairing half-cystinyl peptides is now generally achieved by comparing masses of non-reduced and reduced aliquots of a digest of a protein that was proteolyzed with intact disulfide bonds. Pepsin has favorable properties for generating disulfide-linked peptides, including its acidic pH optimum, at which disulfide bond rearrangement is precluded and protein conformations are likely to be unfolded and accessible to cleavage, and broad substrate specificity. These properties potentiate cleavage between all half-cystine residues of the substrate protein. However, pepsin produces complex digests that contain overlapping peptides due to ragged cleavage. This complexity can produce very complex spectra and/or hamper the ionization of some constituent peptides. It may also be more difficult to compute which half-cystinyl sequences of the protein of interest are disulfide-linked in non-reduced peptic digests. This ambiguity is offset to some extent by sequence tags that may arise from ragged cleavages and aid sequence assignments. Problems associated with pepsin cleavage can be minimized by digestion in solvents that contain 50% H(2) (18)O. Resultant disulfide-linked peptides have distinct isotope profiles (combinations of isotope ratios and average mass increases) compared to the same peptides with only (16)O in their terminal carboxylates. Thus, it is possible to identify disulfide-linked peptides in digests and chromatographic fractions, using these mass-specific markers, and to rationalize mass changes upon reduction in terms of half-cystinyl sequences of the protein of interest. Some peptides may require additional cleavages due to their multiple disulfide bond contents and/or tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) to determine linkages. Interpretation of the MS/MS spectra of peptides with multiple disulfides in supplementary digests is also facilitated by the presence of (18)O in their terminal carboxylates.
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- Jeffrey J Gorman
- CSIRO Health Sciences and Nutrition, 343 Royal Parade, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia.
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Lando D, Peet DJ, Whelan DA, Gorman JJ, Whitelaw ML. Asparagine hydroxylation of the HIF transactivation domain a hypoxic switch. Science 2002; 295:858-61. [PMID: 11823643 DOI: 10.1126/science.1068592] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1106] [Impact Index Per Article: 50.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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The hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs) 1alpha and 2alpha are key mammalian transcription factors that exhibit dramatic increases in both protein stability and intrinsic transcriptional potency during low-oxygen stress. This increased stability is due to the absence of proline hydroxylation, which in normoxia promotes binding of HIF to the von Hippel-Lindau (VHL tumor suppressor) ubiquitin ligase. We now show that hypoxic induction of the COOH-terminal transactivation domain (CAD) of HIF occurs through abrogation of hydroxylation of a conserved asparagine in the CAD. Inhibitors of Fe(II)- and 2-oxoglutarate-dependent dioxygenases prevented hydroxylation of the Asn, thus allowing the CAD to interact with the p300 transcription coactivator. Replacement of the conserved Asn by Ala resulted in constitutive p300 interaction and strong transcriptional activity. Full induction of HIF-1alpha and -2alpha, therefore, relies on the abrogation of both Pro and Asn hydroxylation, which during normoxia occur at the degradation and COOH-terminal transactivation domains, respectively.
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- David Lando
- Department of Molecular Biosciences (Biochemistry), Adelaide University, SA 5005, Australia
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