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Title
Top-down mass spectrometry of intact membrane protein complexes reveals oligomeric state and sequence information in a single experiment
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Abstract
Here we study the intact stoichiometry and top-down fragmentation behavior of three integral membrane proteins which were natively reconstituted into detergent micelles: the mechano-sensitive ion channel of large conductance (MscL), the Kirbac potassium channel and the p7 viroporin from the hepatitis C virus. By releasing the proteins under nondenaturing conditions inside the mass spectrometer, we obtained their oligomeric sizes. Increasing the ion activation (collision energy) causes unfolding and subsequent ejection of a highly charged monomer from the membrane protein complexes. Further increase of the ion activation then causes collision-induced dissociation (CID) of the ejected monomers, with fragments observed which were predominantly found to stem from membrane-embedded regions. These experiments show how in a single experiment, we can probe the relation between higher-order structure and protein sequence, by combining the native MS data with fragmentation obtained from top-down MS.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Protein science. - Cambridge
Publication
Cambridge : 2015
ISSN
0961-8368
DOI
10.1002/PRO.2703
Volume/pages
24 :8 (2015) , p. 1292-1300
ISI
000358176100012
Pubmed ID
25970171
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UAntwerpen
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Research group
Project info
Developoing new tools for (un)structural biology by ion mobility-mass spectrometry and related methods..
4D Protein Structure.
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Affiliation
Publications with a UAntwerp address
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Last edited 09.10.2023
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