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ArticleMolecular & cellular proteomics : MCP2009

Sensitive and specific identification of wild type and variant proteins from 8 to 669 kDa using top-down mass spectrometry.

N Murat Karabacak, Long Li, Ashutosh Tiwari, Lawrence J Hayward, Pengyu Hong, Michael L Easterling, Jeffrey N Agar

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Article in Molecular & cellular proteomics : MCP, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers.

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7 authors.

N Murat KarabacakDepartment of Chemistry and Volen Center for Complex Systems, National Center of Behavioral Genomics, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454, USA.
Long Li
Ashutosh Tiwari
Lawrence J Hayward
Pengyu Hong
Michael L Easterling
Jeffrey N Agar

Funding

Structural Consequences of ALS-related Modifications of SOD1R01NS065263 · NINDS · NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY · PI AGAR, JEFFREY NEIL · 2009 to 2013
$1.7M
Role of SOD Instability in ALS Motor Neuron ToxicityR01NS044170 · NINDS · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI HAYWARD, LAWRENCE J · 2002 to 2006
$1.7M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS044170NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS065263
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Top-down and bottom-up mass spectrometry methods can generate gas phase fragments and use these to identify proteins. Top-down methods, in addition, can provide the mass of the protein itself and therefore additional structural information. Despite the conceptual advantage of top-down methods, the market share advantage belongs to bottom-up methods as a result of their more robust sample preparation, fragmentation, and data processing methods. Here we report improved fragmentation and data processing methods for top-down mass spectrometry. Specifically we report the use of funnel-skimmer dissociation, a variation of nozzle-skimmer dissociation, and compare its performance with electron capture dissociation. We also debut BIG Mascot, an extended version of Mascot with incorporated top-down MS(2) search ability and the first search engine that can perform both bottom-up and top-down searches. Using BIG Mascot, we demonstrated the ability to identify proteins 1) using only intact protein MS(1), 2) using only MS(2), and 3) using the combination of MS(1) and MS(2). We correctly identified proteins with a wide range of masses, including 13 amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-associated variants of the protein Cu/Zn-superoxide dismutase, and extended the upper mass limit of top-down protein identification to 669 kDa by identifying thyroglobulin.

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AlgorithmsAmino Acid SequenceAnimalsCattleDatabases, ProteinHorsesHumansMass SpectrometryMolecular Sequence DataMolecular WeightMutant ProteinsSensitivity and SpecificitySolventsSuperoxide DismutaseThyroglobulinMutant ProteinsSolventsSuperoxide DismutaseThyroglobulin

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PMID19074999
PMCPMC2667363

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