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ArticleJournal of structural biology2011

The beginning of a beautiful friendship: cross-linking/mass spectrometry and modelling of proteins and multi-protein complexes.

Juri Rappsilber

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Article in Journal of structural biology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 215 papers.

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215 citing papers in PubMed.

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Juri RappsilberWellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, Michael Swann Building, King's Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JR Scotland, UK. juri.rappsilber@ed.ac.uk

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Wellcome Trust 084229
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

After more than a decade of method development, cross-linking in combination with mass spectrometry and bioinformatics is finally coming of age. This technology now provides improved opportunities for modelling by mapping structural details of functional complexes in solution. The structure of proteins or protein complexes is ascertained by identifying amino acid pairs that are positioned in close proximity to each other. The validity of this technique has recently been benchmarked for large multi-protein complexes, by comparing cross-link data with that from a crystal structure of RNA polymerase II. Here, the specific nature of this cross-linking data will be discussed to assess the technical challenges and opportunities for model building. We believe that once remaining technological challenges of cross-linking/mass spectrometry have been addressed and cross-linking/mass spectrometry data has been incorporated into modelling algorithms it will quickly become an indispensable companion of protein and protein complex modelling and a corner-stone of integrated structural biology.

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Models, MolecularProtein ConformationAlgorithmsAmino Acid SequenceComputational BiologyCross-Linking ReagentsMass SpectrometryMolecular Sequence DataMultiprotein ComplexesProteinsCross-Linking ReagentsMultiprotein ComplexesProteins

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PMID21029779
PMCPMC3043253

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