Interpretation and Deconvolution of Nanodisc Native Mass Spectra

Nanodiscs are a promising system for studying gas-phase and solution complexes of membrane proteins and lipids. We previously demonstrated that native electrospray ionization allows mass spectral analysis of intact Nanodisc complexes at single lipid resolution. This report details an improved theoretical framework for interpreting and deconvoluting native mass spectra of Nanodisc lipoprotein complexes. In addition to the intrinsic lipid count and charge distributions, Nanodisc mass spectra are significantly shaped by constructive overlap of adjacent charge states at integer multiples of the lipid mass. We describe the mathematical basis for this effect and develop a probability-based algorithm to deconvolute the underlying mass and charge distributions. The probability-based deconvolution algorithm is applied to a series of dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine Nanodisc native mass spectra and used to provide a quantitative picture of the lipid loss in gas-phase fragmentation.

Native Desorption Electrospray Ionization Liberates Soluble and Membrane Protein Complexes from Surfaces

Mass spectrometry (MS) applications for intact protein complexes typically require electrospray (ES) ionization and have not been achieved via direct desorption from surfaces. Desorption ES ionization (DESI) MS has however transformed the study of tissue surfaces through release and characterisation of small molecules. Motivated by the desire to screen for ligand binding to intact protein complexes we report the development of a native DESI platform. By establishing conditions that preserve non‐covalent interactions we exploit the surface to capture a rapid turnover enzyme–substrate complex and to optimise detergents for membrane protein study. We demonstrate binding of lipids and drugs to membrane proteins deposited on surfaces and selectivity from a mix of related agonists for specific binding to a GPCR. Overall therefore we introduce this native DESI platform with the potential for high‐throughput ligand screening of some of the most challenging drug targets including GPCRs.     

电喷雾质谱的非共价键蛋白质复合物研究

电喷雾质谱(ESI-MS)已经成为检测和研究生物分子弱相互作用,即非共价键作用的一个重要分析手段.ESI-MS除了具有快速、灵敏、专属的特点以外,还有能够直接得出复合物的分子量和化学计量比的优点.本文通过蛋白质与蛋白质、配体、金属离子的非共价复合物的例子阐述了ESI-MS技术的主要特性,综述了ESI-MS在非共价键蛋白质复合物方面的早期和近期应用研究成果.引用文献34篇.     

β-环糊精与蛋白质非共价复合物的电喷雾质谱研究

电喷雾质谱(ESI-MS)已经广泛应用于非共价复合物的检测和研究。ESI是一种极软的离子化过程,它不仅能在不断裂共价键的情况下使分子离子化,而且可以在离子化过程中保持分子间弱的非共价键作用。因此ESI-MS在研究非共价键复合物方面有着独特的作用,并且ESI-MS还能提供复合物重要的化学计量学信息。环糊精(简写为CD)是一类被大家所熟知的化合物,它可以和许多客体分子在水溶液里形成包合复合物,更为重要的是环糊精是目前人工合成模拟酶研究中最好的模型之一。通过对环糊精与生物分子间形成的非共价键复合物的研究常常可以揭示出天然生物体     

硫逐磷酸酯和二硫代磷酸酯的电喷雾电离质谱lectrosprayIon

研究了9种硫逐磷酸酯及二硫代磷酸酯的电喷雾电离 (ESI)质谱并归纳了谱图特征。根据碰撞诱导解离 (CID)的结果 ,讨论了其在ESI质谱的规律。     

二肽衍生物的电喷雾质谱研究

基于HIV整合酶核心结构域,合成了以HIV整合酶为靶标的二肽衍生物,采用多级质谱技术（二级、三级）研究二肽衍生物在质谱条件下的化学键断裂途径,发现主要的断裂方式为：氨基与羰基间的NH-CO键的断裂以及N-(苯并噻唑-2-基)甲酰氨基与亚甲基间的CO-C间的断裂。     

Liquid Native MALDI Mass Spectrometry for the Detection of Protein-Protein Complexes

Native mass spectrometry (MS) encompasses methods to keep noncovalent interactions of biomolecular complexes intact in the gas phase throughout the instrument and to measure the mass-to-charge ratios of supramolecular complexes directly in the mass spectrometer. Electrospray ionization (ESI) in nondenaturing conditions is now an established method to characterize noncovalent systems. Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI), on the other hand, consumes low quantities of samples and largely tolerates contaminants, making it a priori attractive for native MS. However, so-called native MALDI approaches have so far been based on solid deposits, where the rapid transition of the sample through a solid state can engender the loss of native conformations. Here we present a new method for native MS based on liquid deposits and MALDI ionization, unambiguously detecting intact noncovalent protein complexes by direct desorption from a liquid spot for the first time. To control for aggregation, we worked with HUαβ, a heterodimer that does not spontaneously rearrange into homodimers in solution. Screening through numerous matrix solutions to observe first the monomeric protein, then the dimer complex, we settled on a nondenaturing binary matrix solution composed of acidic and basic organic matrices in glycerol, which is stable in vacuo. The role of temporal and spatial laser irradiation patterns was found to be critical. Both a protein-protein and a protein-ligand complex could be observed free of aggregation. To minimize gas-phase dissociation, source parameters were optimized to achieve a conservation of complexes above 50% for both systems.

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Enhanced Nebulization Efficiency of Electrospray Mass Spectrometry: Improved Sensitivity and Detection Limit

A novel electrospray nebulizer has been designed, which includes an additional nebulization gas capillary inside the liquid capillary. This design offers significantly enhanced ionization efficiency compared with the classic nebulizer design and leads to improved sensitivity (by three to 10 times) and decreases the detection limit, on an average 10 times. We see these results as the first step in the design of ESI nebulizers offering improved sensitivity and higher robustness. Possible future developments would include optimization of the dimensions of the capillaries as well as testing the nebulizer for other matrices and analytes.     

亚微米电喷雾喷针在非变性质谱分析中的研究进展

非变性质谱技术已成为表征蛋白质结构的重要工具之一.与传统的电喷雾喷针(Electrospray emitter,ESI emitter)相比,亚微米电喷雾喷针具有改变离子电荷态分布和降低盐离子加合等多种特性,可在生理环境下直接解析蛋白质的结构.该文综述了亚微米电喷雾喷针的特性及其在非变性质谱分析中的应用,并对其未来的发...     

Native Electrospray Mass Spectrometry of DNA G-Quadruplexes in Potassium Solution

A commonly used electrolyte in electrospray mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) of biomolecules is ammonium acetate (NH₄OAc). Although some nucleic acid structures such as duplexes require only proper physiological ionic strength (whatever the monovalent ions) to be properly folded in ESI-MS conditions, the folding of some other nucleic acid structures such as DNA G-quadruplexes also depends on direct binding of specific cations. Here, we developed ESI-MS compatible conditions that allow one to observe DNA G-quaduplexes with K⁺ ions specifically bound between G-quartets. NH₄OAc was replaced with trimethylammonium acetate (TMAA), at concentrations up to 150 mM to provide physiological ionic strength, and the solution was doped with KCl at concentrations up to 1 mM. The trimethylammonium ion is too large to coordinate between G-quartets, where only K⁺ ions bind. Compared with the equivalent NH₄OAc/KCl mixtures, the TMAA/KCl mixtures provide cleaner spectra by suppressing the nonspecific adducts, and favor the formation of similar stacking arrangements as in 100 mM KCl (physiologically relevant cation) for the polymorphic human telomeric DNA G-quadruplexes. This new sample preparation method can be exploited to determine the number of potassium binding sites in new sequences, to screen ligand binding to the structures favored in potassium, and to transfer potassium-bound G-quadruplexes to the mass spectrometer for gas-phase structural probing, as illustrated herein with ion mobility spectrometry experiments.

电喷雾质谱在非共价生物—有机分子复合物研究中的应用

大量实验证明能够准确测定生物大分子分子量（２０，０００Ｄａ）的电喷雾质谱在分析溶液中生物化学作用方面有着巨大的潜力。本文综述了电喷雾质谱在分析液中特异性非共价生物－有机分子复合物方面的应用。     

Supercharging Protein Complexes from Aqueous Solution Disrupts their Native Conformations

The effects of aqueous solution supercharging on the solution- and gas-phase structures of two protein complexes were investigated using traveling-wave ion mobility-mass spectrometry (TWIMS-MS). Low initial concentrations of m-nitrobenzyl alcohol (m-NBA) in the electrospray ionization (ESI) solution can effectively increase the charge of concanavalin A dimers and tetramers, but at higher m-NBA concentrations, the increases in charge are accompanied by solution-phase dissociation of the dimers and up to a ~22% increase in the collision cross section (CCS) of the tetramers. With just 0.8% m-NBA added to the ESI solution of a ~630 kDa anthrax toxin octamer complex, the average charge is increased by only ~4% compared with the “native” complex, but it is sufficiently destabilized so that extensive gas-phase fragmentation occurs in the relatively high pressure regions of the TWIMS device. Anthrax toxin complexes exist in either a prechannel or a transmembrane channel state. With m-NBA, the prechannel state of the complex has the same CCS/charge ratio in the gas phase as the transmembrane channel state of the same complex formed without m-NBA, yet undergoes extensive dissociation, indicating that destabilization from supercharging occurs in the ESI droplet prior to ion formation and is not a result of Coulombic destabilization in the gas phase as a result of higher charging. These results demonstrate that the supercharging of large protein complexes is the result of conformational changes induced by the reagents in the ESI droplets, where enrichment of the supercharging reagent during droplet evaporation occurs.     

Synthesis and Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectra of Amino Acid Thiophosphoramidates of Nucleoside

Amino acid thiophosphoramidates of nucleoside were synthesized and determined by negative ion electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI‐MS) in conjunction with tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS). Hie fragmentation pathways were investigated. The results show that ESI‐MS is a useful tool for structural determination of amino acid thiophosphoramidates of nucleoside.     

Top-Down Mass Spectrometry of Supercharged Native Protein-Ligand Complexes

Tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) of intact, noncovalently-bound protein-ligand complexes can yield structural information on the site of ligand binding. Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) top-down MS of the 29 kDa carbonic anhydrase-zinc complex and adenylate kinase bound to adenosine triphosphate (ATP) with collisionally activated dissociation (CAD) and/or electron capture dissociation (ECD) generates product ions that retain the ligand and their identities are consistent with the solution phase structure. Increasing gas phase protein charging from electrospray ionization (ESI) by the addition of supercharging reagents, such as m-nitrobenzyl alcohol and sulfolane, to the protein analyte solution improves the capability of MS/MS to generate holo-product ions. Top-down proteomics for protein sequencing can be enhanced by increasing analyte charging.     

Monitoring the Formation of Coordination Complexes Using Electrospray Mass Spectrometry

Linked‐in : The rigid Schiff‐base ligand cis,trans‐1,3,5‐tris(pyridine‐2‐carboxaldimino) cyclohexane (ttop) is synthesized, and its complexation to copper(II) salts at a range of stoichiometries is investigated crystallographically by using electrospray mass spectrometry. Further, in‐situ mass spectrometry measurements allow the stepwise construction of the complexes to be observed.

     

Application of Electrospray Mass Spectrometry for Characterizing Supramolecular Coordination Complexes

The Electrospray Mass Spectrometry (ES-MS) of eight different supramolecular complexes shows that the molecular peaks of the desolvated multiply charged cations can be recorded more easily than by Fast-Atom-Bom-bardment Mass Spectrometry (FAB-MS) measurements of similar compound. The preliminary application of the ES-MS technique to self-assembled helical complexes obtained from ligands L³ to L⁸ with various metal ions (Cu, Co, Eu, Tb) indicates that ES mass spectra qualitatively reflect the species present MeCN solution.     

金属卟啉及其与咪唑络合物的电喷雾质谱研究

利用电喷雾电离质谱（ESI－MS）研究了3种金属卟啉化合物（MTPP＝MnTPP,TeTPP和CoTPP）,探讨了在这些化合物中苯取代基与卟啉环间的键合能力以及金属卟啉与咪唑的配位情况。研究结果表明,金属卟啉的外围取代基苯基与卟啉环的键合能力按Mn、Fe和Co的次序变弱。金属卟啉与咪唑形成的络合物的离子丰度随配体浓度的增加而增强;在相同的配体浓度下,络合物的离子丰度按Mn、Fe和Co顺序依次增加,其中,CoTPP络合物的稳定性最强。