Supramolecular Affinity Chromatography for Methylation-Targeted Proteomics

Autor: Alok Shaurya, Melissa J. Starke, Fraser Hof, Graham A. E. Garnett, Janessa Li
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Analytical Chemistry. 88:3697-3703
ISSN: 1520-6882
0003-2700
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5b04508
Popis: Proteome-wide studies of post-translationally methylated species using mass spectrometry are complicated by high sample diversity, competition for ionization among peptides, and mass redundancies. Antibody-based enrichment has powered methylation proteomics until now, but the reliability, pan-specificity, polyclonal nature, and stability of the available pan-specific antibodies are problematic and do not provide a standard, reliable platform for investigators. We have invented an anionic supramolecular host that can form host-guest complexes selectively with methyllysine-containing peptides and used it to create a methylysine-affinity column. The column resolves peptides on the basis of methylation-a feat impossible with a comparable commercial cation-exchange column. A proteolyzed nuclear extract was separated on the methyl-affinity column prior to standard proteomics analysis. This experiment demonstrates that such chemical methyl-affinity columns are capable of enriching and improving the analysis of methyllysine residues from complex protein mixtures. We discuss the importance of this advance in the context of biomolecule-driven enrichment methods.
Databáze: OpenAIRE