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ArticleJournal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry2017

Investigating the Structural Compaction of Biomolecules Upon Transition to the Gas-Phase Using ESI-TWIMS-MS.

Paul W A Devine, Henry C Fisher, Antonio N Calabrese, Fiona Whelan, Daniel R Higazi, Jennifer R Potts, David C Lowe, Sheena E Radford, Alison E Ashcroft

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Article in Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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9 authors.

Paul W A DevineAstbury Center for Structural Molecular Biology, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.
Henry C FisherAstbury Center for Structural Molecular Biology, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.
Antonio N CalabreseAstbury Center for Structural Molecular Biology, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.
Fiona WhelanDepartment of Biology, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, UK.
Daniel R HigaziIpsen Ltd. UK, Wrexham Industrial Estate, 9 Ash Road North, Wrexham, LL13 9UF, UK.
Jennifer R PottsDepartment of Biology, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, UK.
David C LoweMedImmune, Sir Aaron Klug Building, Granta Science Park, Cambridge, CB21 6GH, UK.
Sheena E RadfordAstbury Center for Structural Molecular Biology, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.
Alison E AshcroftAstbury Center for Structural Molecular Biology, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK. a.e.ashcroft@leeds.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-1676-123X

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/E012558/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/J011819/1British Heart Foundation FS/12/36/29588European Research Council 322408European Research Council ERC/322408Medical Research Council G1001063
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Abstract

Collision cross-section (CCS) measurements obtained from ion mobility spectrometry-mass spectrometry (IMS-MS) analyses often provide useful information concerning a protein's size and shape and can be complemented by modeling procedures. However, there have been some concerns about the extent to which certain proteins maintain a native-like conformation during the gas-phase analysis, especially proteins with dynamic or extended regions. Here we have measured the CCSs of a range of biomolecules including non-globular proteins and RNAs of different sequence, size, and stability. Using traveling wave IMS-MS, we show that for the proteins studied, the measured CCS deviates significantly from predicted CCS values based upon currently available structures. The results presented indicate that these proteins collapse to different extents varying on their elongated structures upon transition into the gas-phase. Comparing two RNAs of similar mass but different solution structures, we show that these biomolecules may also be susceptible to gas-phase compaction. Together, the results suggest that caution is needed when predicting structural models based on CCS data for RNAs as well as proteins with non-globular folds. Graphical Abstract ᅟ.

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GasesIon Mobility SpectrometryProteinsRNASpectrometry, Mass, Electrospray IonizationGasesProteinsRNAElectrospray ionizationIon mobility spectrometryMass spectrometryProteinsRNAs

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PMID28484973
PMCPMC5556138

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