ArticleJournal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry2017
Native Mass Spectrometry Characterizes the Photosynthetic Reaction Center Complex from the Purple Bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides.
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- Characterizing Endogenous Protein Complexes with Biological Mass Spectrometry.Chemical reviews · 2022Review
- High-Resolution Native Mass Spectrometry.Chemical reviews · 2022Review
- Approaches to Heterogeneity in Native Mass Spectrometry.Chemical reviews · 2022Review
- Identifying key membrane protein lipid interactions using mass spectrometry.Nature protocols · 2018Article
- Primary and Higher Order Structure of the Reaction Center from the Purple Phototrophic Bacterium Blastochloris viridis: A Test for Native Mass Spectrometry.Journal of proteome research · 2018Article
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Abstract
Native mass spectrometry (MS) is an emerging approach to study protein complexes in their near-native states and to elucidate their stoichiometry and topology. Here, we report a native MS study of the membrane-embedded reaction center (RC) protein complex from the purple photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides. The membrane-embedded RC protein complex is stabilized by detergent micelles in aqueous solution, directly introduced into a mass spectrometer by nano-electrospray (nESI), and freed of detergents and dissociated in the gas phase by collisional activation. As the collision energy is increased, the chlorophyll pigments are gradually released from the RC complex, suggesting that native MS introduces a near-native structure that continues to bind pigments. Two bacteriochlorophyll a pigments remain tightly bound to the RC protein at the highest collision energy. The order of pigment release and their resistance to release by gas-phase activation indicates the strength of pigment interaction in the RC complex. This investigation sets the stage for future native MS studies of membrane-embedded photosynthetic pigment-protein and related complexes.Graphical Abstract.
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