Chemical derivatization of phosphoserine and phosphothreonine containing peptides to increase sensitivity for MALDI-based analysis and for selectivity of MS/MS analysis
Författare
Summary, in English
Protein phosphorylation is one of the most important and common ways of regulating protein function in cells. However, phosphopeptides are difficult to analyse, ionising poorly under standard MALDI conditions. Several methods have been developed to deal with the low sensitivity and specificity of phosphopeptide analysis. Here, we show an approach using a simple one-step beta-elimination/Michael addition reaction for the derivatization of phosphoserine and phosphothreonine. The substitution of the negatively charged phosphate group by a positively charged S-ethylpyridyl group greatly improves the ionisation of the modified peptides, especially in MALDI MS, increasing the sensitivity of the analysis. The modification allows the formation of a unique fragment ion at m/z 106 under mild collisional activation conditions, which can be used for parent (precursor) ion scanning in order to improve both the sensitivity and the selectivity of the analysis. The optimisation of the approach is described for a standard model peptide and protein and then applied to phosphorylation analysis in two biologically derived proteins purified from different experimental systems.
Publiceringsår
2006
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
757-766
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Proteomics
Volym
6
Issue
3
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Ämne
- Endocrinology and Diabetes
Nyckelord
- matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time of
- derivatization
- flight mass spectrometry
- phosphorylation
- sensitivity
- spectrometry
- tandem mass
Status
Published
Forskningsgrupp
- Insulin Signal Transduction
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1615-9861