MAWLDI质谱检测蛋白质与富勒醇的非共价复合物

基质辅助激光解吸电离质谱由于受到酸性基质，样品制备，激光诱导聚合和基质加合物的形成等条件的限制而难以用于非共价复合物的检测。本文以芥子酸为基质，观察到蛋白质与富勒醇的特殊相互作用，一些质谱特征，如质量数迁移，宽的加合峰和定量结合比表明，在蛋白质和富勒醇之间形成了特殊的非共价复合物。     

MALDI质谱检测蛋白质与富勒醇的非共价复合物

基质辅助激光解吸电离(MALDI)质谱由于受到酸性基质、样品制备、激光诱导聚合和基质加合物的形成等条件的限制而难以用于非共价复合物的检测.本文以芥子酸为基质,观察到蛋白质与富勒醇的特殊相互作用,一些质谱特征,如质量数迁移、宽的加合峰和定量结合比表明,在蛋白质和富勒醇之间形成了特殊的非共价复合物.其中,血红蛋白与富勒醇的结合比是1:4,而肌红蛋白与富勒醇的结合比是1:1.实验结果表明:富勒醇可用来保护血红蛋白,有在酸性介质中防止其分解的作用.因此,通过在基质组份中添加特性有机化合物保护被测样品,有可能实现用MALDI质谱测定四级结构蛋白质的分子量.     

基质辅助激光解析飞行时间质谱快速测定水解胶原蛋白粉分子量

应用基质辅助激光解析电离飞行时间质谱(MALDI-TOF-MS)快速测定了水解胶原蛋白粉的分子量.分别以α-氰基-4-羟基内桂酸、2,5-二羟基苯甲酸和芥子酸为基质,在正离子模式下对水解胶原蛋白粉分子质量分布进行测定.结果显示:芥子酸为最适宜基质,分析条件为线性方式和反射方式相结合,可准确、快速确定水解胶原蛋白粉的分子...     

提高MALDI-MS测量溶菌酶分子量灵敏度的研究

近 1 0年来 ,基质辅助激光解吸质谱 (MALDI- MS)作为一种新兴的“软电离”质谱技术 [1,2 ] ,已很快地应用于生物大分子特别是蛋白质研究领域 [3 ] .MALDI- MS可在 1 0 - 12 mol甚至 1 0 - 15mol的水平上 ,准确地测定分子量高达几万到几十万的生物大分子 ;还可通过改变基质、溶液条件和样品的制备方法等实现大分子蛋白质非共价复合物的质谱检测 [4 ] .MALDI- MS能够得到如此广泛的应用 ,在很大程度上要归功于基质的辅助效应 .基质的作用主要可以概括如下 [5～ 7] :(1 )削弱样品分子间的相互作用 ;(2 )与样品分子结合并使之快速结晶 …     

电喷雾多级质谱研究功能小分子与蛋白质的非共价相互作用——推荐一个化学生物学教学实验

肌红蛋白不仅便宜易得,而且自身就是一种由蛋白质和铁卟啉环辅基通过非共价相互作用构成的复合物.因此,以肌红蛋白为研究模型,带领学生实践基于电喷雾多级质谱技术的酶抑制剂直接筛选策略,重点考查不同有机溶剂比例及pH等样品制备条件对复合物测定结果的影响,以及如何利用二级质谱技术实现功能小分子配体的在线定性分析.该实验已在我校化学生物学专业本科生"化学生物学综合实验"教学工作中进行了多轮教学实践,通过实践不断优化实验设计,取得了良好的教学效果.     

抗抑郁化合物SIPI5358与环糊精形成的非共价复合物

用电喷雾电离质谱(ESI-MS)和串级质谱(MS/MS),并结合紫外光谱、荧光光谱等方法,研究一种芳烷醇哌嗪类抗抑郁化合物SIPI5358与α-、β-、γ-环糊精(CD)制备得到的非共价复合物.质谱分析结果显示,SIPI5358分子可以和α-CD生成配合比为1∶1的非共价复合物,而与β-、γ-CD生成不同配合比的非共价复合物.串级质谱的结果进一步验证β-CD与SIPI5358非共价复合物的组成.用紫外光谱和荧光光谱实验对液相中非共价复合物的形成进行了辅助研究,结果均再次验证了非共价复合物的生成.荧光光谱实验测得SIPI5358与β-CD反应的生成常数Kf=3.45×103 mol.L-1.     

β-环糊精与青蒿素类药物非共价复合物的电喷雾质谱研究

采用电喷雾飞行时间质谱(ESI-TOF-MS)技术,对β-环糊精与3种青蒿素类药物所形成的复合物进行研究,在正离子检测方式下,将β-环糊精与青蒿素类药物等体积比混合后直接进样,然后利用源内碰撞诱导解离(CID)技术对其复合物进行分析.实验表明,在气相中,该非共价复合物可以稳定存在,其化学计量比分别为1∶ 1和2∶ 1.运用该法测定了1∶ 1包络物的结合常数,考察了质谱条件及溶液条件对形成包络物的影响,通过比较结合常数的大小,探讨了β-环糊精与青蒿素类药物在气相状态下的作用方式.     

电喷雾质谱法研究谷胱甘肽与L型芳香性氨基酸非共价复合物

为探索谷胱甘肽和L型芳香性氨基酸的非共价相互作用, 将一定化学剂量比的还原型γ-谷胱甘肽分别与L型芳香性氨基酸(包括苯丙氨酸、酪氨酸和色氨酸)在室温和生理pH条件下混合后, 温育1 h, 生成非共价复合物, 并使反应完全. 电喷雾质谱测量结果揭示谷胱甘肽和L型芳香性氨基酸反应可以生成非共价复合物. 在二级串级质谱MS2测得的复合物碎片离子峰中, 除芳香性氨基酸离子峰外, 还包括谷胱甘肽及其它再次碎裂产生的b2和y2碎片离子, 进一步确认了非共价复合物的形成. 紫外光谱也证实了电喷雾质谱的实验结果. 为避免严重的离子化效率差异和质谱信号的相互抑制作用, 定量评估了谷胱甘肽和酪氨酸的相互作用, 结果显示反应物的初始浓度应该选择在5×10-5~3.00×10-4 mol/L范围内. 用质谱滴定法测定了谷胱甘肽与3个芳香性氨基酸非共价复合物的解离常数, 结果表明, 谷胱甘肽复合物的稳定性按Tyr, Trp和Phe次序依次增大.     

介孔沸石材料负载传统基质用于激光解吸电离-飞行时间质谱分析小分子化合物

考察了介孔沸石材料负载传统有机基质α-氰基-4-羟基桂皮酸(CHCA)用于基质辅助激光解吸电离-飞行时间质谱(MALDI-TOF-MS)分析多肽Substance P和氟喹诺酮类药物等小分子的效果.在相同的MALDI-TOF-MS质谱条件下,与传统CHCA进行了比较,同时分别考察了不同硅铝比(SiO2/Al2 O3)的ZSM-5以及不同介孔大小的Beta与ZSM-5沸石载体对Substance P的检测效果.结果表明,沸石负载CHCA新型复合基质具有抑制碱金属离子峰、消除干扰碎片离子、简化与改善质谱图、提高离子化效率等优点.实验结果表明,沸石表面酸性越强,有力介孔能够充分包裹CHCA分子,则复合基质抑制干扰碎片和提高离子化效率的能力越高.复合基质成功应用于复杂样品中恩诺沙星与诺氟沙星药物小分子的MALDI-TOF-MS检测.     

β-环糊精与联苯胺非共价复合物的化学研究

在液相条件下制备了β-环糊精和联苯胺的非共价复合物,利用荧光光谱,核磁共振谱(^1H NMR)证明了它们在液相中的存在。利用电喷雾多级串联质谱(ESI—MS^n)技术对其气相中的化学行为进行了系统的研究,实验结果表明,在气相中,该特异性的非共价复合物可以稳定存在,其化学计量比分别为1：1和2：1。     

A Study of peptide-peptide interaction by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization

Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) mass spectrometry was used to study peptide-peptide interaction. The interaction was seen when 6-aza-2-thiothymine was used as a matrix (pH 5.4), but was disrupted with a more acidic matrix, alpha-cyano-4-hydroxycinnamic acid (pH 2.0). In the present study, we show that dynorphin, an opioid peptide, and five of its fragments that contain two adjacent basic residues (Arg6-Arg7), all interact noncovalently with peptides that contain two to five adjacent acidic residues (Asp or Glu). Two other nonrelated peptides containing two (Arg6-Arg7) or three (Arg1-Lys2-Arg3) adjacent basic amino acid residues were studied and exhibited the same behavior. However, peptides containing adjacent Lys or His did not form noncovalent complexes with acidic peptides. The noncovalent bonding was sufficiently stable that digestion with trypsin only cleaved Arg and Lys residues that were not involved in hydrogen bonding with the acidic residues. In an equimolar mixture of dynorphin, dynorphin fragments (containing the motif RR), and an acidic peptide (minigastrin), the acidic peptide preferentially complexed with dynorphin. If the concentration of minigastrin was increased 10 fold, noncovalent interaction was seen with dynorphin and all its fragments containing the motif RR. In the absence of dynorphin, minigastrin formed noncovalent complexes with all dynorphin fragments. These findings suggest that conformation, equilibrium, and concentration do play a role in the occurrence of peptide-peptide interaction. Observations from this study include: (1) ionic bonds were not disrupted by enzymatic digests, (2) conformation and concentration influenced complex formation, and (3) the complex did not form with fragments of dynorphin or unrelated peptides that did not contain the motifs RR or RKR, nor with a fragment of dynorphin where Arg7 was mutated to a phenylalanine residue. These findings strongly suggest that peptide-peptide interaction does occur, and can be studied by MALDI if near physiologic pH is maintained.     

Analysis of Melamine,Cyanuric Acid,Ammelide, and Ammeline Using Matrix‐Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization/Time‐of‐Flight Mass Spectrometry (MALDI/TOFMS)

Abstract

Melamine, cyanuric acid, two compounds connected to tainted pet food, and related analogs have been analyzed using matrix‐assisted laser desorption ionization/time‐of‐flight mass spectrometry. (M+H)⁺ ions were observed for ammelide and ammeline under positive ion conditions with sinapinic acid as the matrix. With alpha‐cyano‐4‐hydroxy‐cinnamic acid as the matrix, a matrix‐melamine complex was observed; however, no complex was observed with sinapinic acid as the matrix. (M?H)^? was observed for cyanuric acid with sinapinic acid as the matrix.     

Gas-Phase Binding of Noncovalent Complexes Between α-cyclodextrin and Amino Acids Investigated by Mass Spectrometry

Noncovalent complexes between cyclodextrins and small molecules have been extensively studied recently because of their widespread application in the pharmaceutical industry for chiral and molecular recognition. To date, gas phase noncovalent binding affinities between α-cyclodextrin and amino acids have not been widely investigated. In this study, gas-phase binding of noncovalent complexes between α-CD and amino acids was investigated by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS), demonstrating the formation of 1:1 stoichiometric noncovalent complexes. The binding of the complexes were further confirmed by collision-induced dissociation by tandem mass spectrometry. Mass spectrometric titrations between α-cyclodextrin and phenylalanine, glutamic acid, and arginine were performed to provide binding constants (lgK_a) as references for competitive ESI-MS. Calibration curves for the complexes of α-cyclodextrin with phenylalanine, glutamic acid, and arginine were plotted. Through competitive ESI-MS, the lgK_a for the complexes of α-CD with aspartic acid, lysine, proline, glycine, alanine, asparagine, cystine, glutamine, histidine, leucine, isoleucine, methionine, serine, threonine, and valine were measured directly. By comparison, it is seen that the measured binding constants for the complexes of α-cyclodextrin with basic amino acids such as arginine and lysine are lower than those for most complexes of neutral amino acids. The chiral selectivity of α-cyclodextrin for L- and D-isomers of methionine, threonine, asparagine, and phenylalanine determined by ESI-MS revealed its application as a chiral selector.     

Study of noncovalent enzyme—inhibitor complexes and metal binding stoichiometry of matrilysin by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry

Electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) was used to study the noncovalent metallo-enzyme—inhibitor complexes of matrilysin (a matrix metalloproteinase of mass 18,720 u) under gentle experimental conditions and to determine the metal ion association stoichiometries in both the free enzyme and the complexes. The metal association stoichiometries of the free matrilysin were found to be highly sensitive to solution pH changes. At pH 2.2 the enzyme existed as metal-free apo-matrilysin and was not capable of binding an inhibitor. At pH 4.5–7.0 the enzyme associated specifically with zinc and calcium cations and became active in inhibitor binding. Although the stoichiometries of the metal cofactors varied (zero to two zinc and/or calcium ions) in the free enzyme dependent on solution pH, the predominant form of the enzyme—inhibitor complexes in the pH range of 4.5–7.0, in contrast, always had the metal association stoichiometry of 2Zn + 2Ca, which was the same stoichiometry the most active free metallo-enzyme had at the optimal pH of 7. At the activity onset pH of 4.5 matrilysin existed mostly as apo-enzyme (but in a conformation different from the denatured one at pH 2.2) and bound to an inhibitor slowly (time constant ～ 2.5 min) to form the noncovalent metallo-enzyme—inhibitor complex. Of the two inhibitors studied, the one with the higher solution binding constant also produced larger ion signals for the noncovalent complex in the solvent-free gas phase, which pointed to the feasibility of the use of ESI-MS for inhibitor screening studies.     

Electrospray Mass Spectrometry of Biomacromolecular Complexes with Noncovalent Interactions—New Analytical Perspectives for Supramolecular Chemistry and Molecular Recognition Processes

The development of “soft” ionization methods in recent years has enabled substantial progress in the mass spectrometric characterization of macromolecules, in particular important biopolymers such as proteins and nucleic acids. In contrast to the still existing limitations for the determination of molecular weights by other ionization methods such as fast atom bombardment and plasma desorption, electrospray ionization (ESI) and matrix-assisted laser desorption have provided a breakthrough to macromolecules larger than 100 kDa. Whereas these methods have been successfully applied to determine the molecular weight and primary structure of biopolymers, the recently discovered direct characterization by ESI-MS of complexes containing noncovalent interactions (“noncovalent complexes”) opens new perspectives for supramolecular chemistry and analytical biochemistry. Unlike other ionization methods ESI-MS can be performed in homogeneous solution and under nearly physiological conditions of pH, concentration, and temperature. ESI mass spectra of biopolymers, particularly proteins, exhibit series of multiply charged macromolecular ions with charge states and distributions (“charge structures”) characteristic of structural states in solution, which enable a differentiation between native and denatured tertiary structures. In the first part of this article, fundamental principles, the present knowledge about ion formation mechanism(s) of ESI-MS, the relations between tertiary structures in solution and charge structures of macro-ions in the gas phase, and experimental preconditions for the identification of noncovalent complexes are described. The hitherto successful applications to the identification of enzyme–substrate and –inhibitor complexes, supramolecular protein–and protein–nucleotide complexes, double-stranded polynucleotides, as well as synthetic self-assembled complexes demonstrate broad potential for the direct analysis of specific noncovalent interactions. The present results suggest new applications for the characterization of supramolecular structures and molecular recognition processes that previously have not been amenable to mass spectrometry; for example, the sequence-specific oligomerization of polypeptides, antigen–antibody complexes, enzyme–and receptor–ligand interactions, and the evaluation of molecular specificity in combinatorial syntheses and self-assembled systems.     

Characterization of some synthetic Ru and Ir complexes by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry

Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOFMS) was applied to the analysis of Ru(OCOCF(3))(2)(CO)(PPh(3))(2), Ru(OCOC(3)F(7))(2)(CO)(PPh(3))(2), Ir(tBuppy)(3) and Ir(ppy)(2)(acac) complexes. A troublesome problem in the MALDI-TOFMS characterization of these metal complexes is the possible replacement of complex ligands by matrix. In this contribution, 10 matrices, ranging from acidic to basic, were investigated: alpha-cyano-4-hydroxycinnamic acid (CHCA), 2,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid (DHB), sinapinic acid (SA), dithranol, 2,4,6-trihydroxyactophenone (THAP), 6-azo-2-thiothymine (ATT), norharman, 2-[(2E)-3-(4-tert-butylphenyl)-2-methylprop-2-enylidene]malononitrile (DCTB), 4-nitroaniline (NA) and 2-amino-5-nitrophyridine (ANP). With most of the matrices, including the neutral and basic ones, matrix substitution of ligand could clearly be detected. Based on the experimental results, possible mechanisms of matrix substitution were discussed. It was demonstrated that the ligand exchange process might also occur through the gas-phase reactions initiated by laser shots. Among the matrices tested, DCTB was found to be the best one for the complexes that are prone to ligand exchange by matrix.     

Detection of immune complexes by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry

Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry (MALDI-MS) was used to detect an immune complex formed between beta-lactoglobulin and polyclonal anti-beta-lactoglobulin antibody in the gas phase. The most important experimental parameters to detect such a specific antibody-antigen complex by MALDI were the use of solutions at near-neutral pH and of sinapinic acid matrix prepared by the dried-droplet method. Under such conditions, predominantly one but also two molecules of antigen protein were complexed by the antibody. Specific formation of the antibody-antigen complex was confirmed by performing competitive reactions. Addition of antibody to a 1:1 mixture of beta-lactoglobulin and one control protein resulted not only in the appearance of the expected antibody-antigen complex, but also in a strong decrease in the free beta-lactoglobulin signal, while the abundance of the control protein was not influenced.     

Analysis of quaternary protein ensembles by matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry

The intact noncovalent structure of the homo-oligomeric complexes of streptavidin (52 kDa), alcohol dehydrogenase (150 kDa), and beef liver catalase (240 kDa) have been observed using the matrix 2,6-dihydroxyacetophenone in an organic solvent. Intact streptavidin tetramers could also be observed with ferulic acid and other hydroxyacetophenone derivatives. Intact complexes are observed only for the first shot at a given position, which may be due to physical segregation or precipitation of the noncovalent complexes at the crystal surface. This effect is independent of the macroscopic crystal structure or the type of substrate (hydrophobic versus hydrophilic). Observation of intact complexes is not affected by addition of less than 10 mM salts or buffers, and appears to be independent of the pH stability range of the protein samples investigated.     

The use of ECD/ETD to identify the site of electrostatic interaction in noncovalent complexes

Electrostatic interactions play an important role in the formation of noncovalent complexes. Our previous work has highlighted the role of certain amino acid residues, such as arginine, glutamate, aspartate, and phosphorylated/sulfated residues, in the formation of salt bridges resulting in noncovalent complexes between peptides. Tandem mass spectrometry (MS) studies of these complexes using collision-induced dissociation (CID) have provided information on their relative stability. However, product-ion spectra produced by CID have been unable to assign specifically the site of interaction for the complex. In this work, tandem MS experiments were conducted on noncovalent complexes using both electron capture dissociation (ECD) and electron-transfer dissociation (ETD). The resulting spectra were dominated by intramolecular fragments of the complex with the electrostatic interaction site intact. Based upon these data, we were able to assign the binding site for the peptides forming the noncovalent complex.