Unique insights to intrinsically disordered proteins provided by ion mobility mass spectrometry

D Stuchfield, P Barran - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2018 - Elsevier
Entire functional proteins as well as large regions of proteins lack structural elements which
are resolvable via crystallography or NMR. These intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) or …

Intrinsic disorder in proteins: a challenge for (un) structural biology met by ion mobility–mass spectrometry

E Jurneczko, F Cruickshank, M Porrini… - Biochemical Society …, 2012 - portlandpress.com
The link between structure and function of a given protein is a principal tenet of biology. The
established approach to understand the function of a protein is to 'solve'its structure and …

Ion mobility spectrometry-mass spectrometry of intrinsically unfolded proteins: trying to put order into disorder

TW Knapman, NM Valette… - Current Analytical …, 2013 - ingentaconnect.com
Intrinsically disordered proteins do not adopt well-defined native structures and therefore
present an intriguing challenge in terms of structural elucidation as they are relatively …

[HTML][HTML] Structural proteomics methods to interrogate the conformations and dynamics of intrinsically disordered proteins

R Beveridge, AN Calabrese - Frontiers in chemistry, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and regions of intrinsic disorder (IDRs) are abundant
in proteomes and are essential for many biological processes. Thus, they are often …

Emerging role of mass spectrometry‐based structural proteomics in elucidating intrinsic disorder in proteins

G Mitra - Proteomics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Inherent disorder is an integral part of all proteomes, represented as fully or partially
unfolded proteins. The lack of order in intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) results in an …

Mass spectrometry methods for intrinsically disordered proteins

R Beveridge, Q Chappuis, C Macphee, P Barran - Analyst, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
In the last ten years mass spectrometry has emerged as a powerful biophysical technique
capable of providing unique insights into the structure and dynamics of proteins. Part of this …

Relating gas phase to solution conformations: Lessons from disordered proteins

R Beveridge, AS Phillips, L Denbigh, HM Saleem… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years both mass spectrometry (MS) and ion mobility mass spectrometry (IM‐MS)
have been developed as techniques with which to study proteins that lack a fixed tertiary …

Application of native mass spectrometry in studying intrinsically disordered proteins: A special focus on neurodegenerative diseases

G Mitra - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Proteins and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are integral part of the proteome, regulating vital
biological processes. Such proteins gained further visibility due to their key role in …

Partially disordered proteins studied by ion mobility-mass spectrometry: implications for the preservation of solution phase structure in the gas phase

S Vahidi, BB Stocks, L Konermann - Analytical chemistry, 2013 - ACS Publications
The coupling of electrospray ionization (ESI) with ion mobility-mass spectrometry (IM-MS)
allows structural studies on biological macromolecules in a solvent-free environment …

Are charge-state distributions a reliable tool describing molecular ensembles of intrinsically disordered proteins by native MS?

A Natalello, C Santambrogio… - Journal of The American …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Native mass spectrometry (MS) has become a central tool of structural proteomics, but its
applicability to the peculiar class of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) is still object of …