Combine and Conquer: Surfactants, Solvents, and Chaotropes for Robust Mass Spectrometry Based Analyses of Membrane Proteins

Autor: Bernd Wollscheid, Davin R. Jensen, Subarna Bhattacharya, Brian F. Volkman, Sandra Chuppa, Kathleen R. Noon, Matthew Waas, Xiaogang Wu, Ulrich Omasits, Rebekah L. Gundry
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Analytical Chemistry
Analytical Chemistry, 86 (3)
ISSN: 1520-6882
0003-2700
Popis: Mass spectrometry (MS) based proteomic technologies enable the identification and quantification of membrane proteins as well as their post-translational modifications. A prerequisite for their quantitative and reliable MS-based bottom-up analysis is the efficient digestion into peptides by proteases, though digestion of membrane proteins is typically challenging due to their inherent properties such as hydrophobicity. Here, we investigated the effect of eight commercially available MS-compatible surfactants, two organic solvents, and two chaotropes on the enzymatic digestion efficiency of membrane protein-enriched complex mixtures in a multiphase study using a gelfree approach. Multiple parameters, including the number of peptides and proteins identified, total protein sequence coverage, and digestion specificity were used to evaluate transmembrane protein digestion performance. A new open-source software tool was developed to allow for the specific assessment of transmembrane domain sequence coverage. Results demonstrate that while Progenta anionic surfactants outperform other surfactants when tested alone, combinations of guanidine and acetonitrile improve performance of all surfactants to near similar levels as well as enhance trypsin specificity to >90%, which has critical implications for future quantitative and qualitative proteomic studies.
Analytical Chemistry, 86 (3)
ISSN:1520-6882
ISSN:0003-2700
Databáze: OpenAIRE