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ArticleMolecular & cellular proteomics : MCP2016

Serum Albumin Domain Structures in Human Blood Serum by Mass Spectrometry and Computational Biology.

Adam Belsom, Michael Schneider, Lutz Fischer, Oliver Brock, Juri Rappsilber

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Article in Molecular & cellular proteomics : MCP, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 56 papers.

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56 citing papers in PubMed, 104 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Adam BelsomFrom the ‡Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3BF, United Kingdom;
Michael Schneider§Robotics and Biology Laboratory, Technische Universität Berlin, 10587 Berlin, Germany;
Lutz FischerFrom the ‡Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3BF, United Kingdom;
Oliver Brock§Robotics and Biology Laboratory, Technische Universität Berlin, 10587 Berlin, Germany;
Juri RappsilberFrom the ‡Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3BF, United Kingdom; ¶Department of Bioanalytics, Institute of Biotechnology, Technische Universität Berlin, 13355 Berlin, Germany. juri.rappsilber@ed.ac.uk.
Technische Universität Berlin · DEUniversity of Edinburgh · GBWellcome Centre for Cell Biology · GB

Funding

Predicting Protein Structure with Guided Conformation Space SearchR01GM076706 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST · PI GIERASCH, LILA M · 2006 to 2011
$1.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS 1 R01 GM076706NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM076706Wellcome Trust 091020Wellcome Trust 092076Wellcome Trust 103139Wellcome Trust 103139/Z/13/ZWellcome Trust JR 084229
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chemical cross-linking combined with mass spectrometry has proven useful for studying protein-protein interactions and protein structure, however the low density of cross-link data has so far precluded its use in determining structures de novo. Cross-linking density has been typically limited by the chemical selectivity of the standard cross-linking reagents that are commonly used for protein cross-linking. We have implemented the use of a heterobifunctional cross-linking reagent, sulfosuccinimidyl 4,4'-azipentanoate (sulfo-SDA), combining a traditional sulfo-N-hydroxysuccinimide (sulfo-NHS) ester and a UV photoactivatable diazirine group. This diazirine yields a highly reactive and promiscuous carbene species, the net result being a greatly increased number of cross-links compared with homobifunctional, NHS-based cross-linkers. We present a novel methodology that combines the use of this high density photo-cross-linking data with conformational space search to investigate the structure of human serum albumin domains, from purified samples, and in its native environment, human blood serum. Our approach is able to determine human serum albumin domain structures with good accuracy: root-mean-square deviation to crystal structure are 2.8/5.6/2.9 Å (purified samples) and 4.5/5.9/4.8Å (serum samples) for domains A/B/C for the first selected structure; 2.5/4.9/2.9 Å (purified samples) and 3.5/5.2/3.8 Å (serum samples) for the best out of top five selected structures. Our proof-of-concept study on human serum albumin demonstrates initial potential of our approach for determining the structures of more proteins in the complex biological contexts in which they function and which they may require for correct folding. Data are available via ProteomeXchange with identifier PXD001692.

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Computational BiologyCross-Linking ReagentsCrystallography, X-RayHumansMass SpectrometryModels, MolecularPhotochemical ProcessesProtein DomainsSerum AlbuminSerum Albumin, HumanSuccinimidesValeratesALB protein, humanCross-Linking ReagentsSerum AlbuminSerum Albumin, HumanSuccinimidesValerates

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PMID26385339
PMCPMC4813692
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