Mass spectrometry using electrospray ionization

GRD Prabhu, ER Williams, M Wilm… - Nature Reviews Methods …, 2023 - nature.com
Applying a high voltage to a liquid passing through a capillary disintegrates the liquid
meniscus to generate a fine spray of charged droplets. As the droplets evaporate, polar …

Dissecting the structural heterogeneity of proteins by native mass spectrometry

DJ Reid, S Thibert, M Zhou - Protein Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A single gene yields many forms of proteins via combinations of posttranscriptional/
posttranslational modifications. Proteins also fold into higher‐order structures and interact …

Dissecting the thermodynamics of ATP binding to GroEL one nucleotide at a time

T Walker, HM Sun, T Gunnels, V Wysocki… - ACS Central …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Variable-temperature electrospray ionization (vT-ESI) native mass spectrometry (nMS) is
used to determine the thermodynamics for stepwise binding of up to 14 ATP molecules to …

Advancing cyclic ion mobility mass spectrometry methods for studying biomolecules: toward the conformational dynamics of mega Dalton protein aggregates

JA Harrison, A Pruska, P Bittner, A Muck… - Analytical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Native mass spectrometry is a powerful tool for the analysis of noncovalent complexes.
When coupled with high-resolution ion mobility, this technique can be used to investigate …

Digital quadrupole isolation and electron capture dissociation on an extended mass range Q-TOF provides sequence and structure information on proteins and …

C Lantz, R Schrader, J Meeuwsen, J Shaw… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Electron capture dissociation (ECD) is now a well-established method for sequencing
peptides and performing top-down analysis on proteins of less than 30 kDa, and there is …

Surface activity of amines provides evidence for the combined ESI mechanism of charge reduction for protein complexes

TE Walker, A Laganowsky, DH Russell - Analytical chemistry, 2022 - ACS Publications
Charge reduction reactions are important for native mass spectrometry (nMS) because lower
charge states help retain native-like conformations and preserve noncovalent interactions of …

Optimization of a Digital Mass Filter for the Isolation of Intact Protein Complexes in Stability Zone 1, 1

RL Schrader, TE Walker, S Chakravorty… - Analytical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Digital mass filters are advantageous for the analysis of large molecules due to the ability to
perform ion isolation of high-m/z ions without the generation of very high radio frequency …

Native Capillary Electrophoresis–Mass Spectrometry of Near 1 MDa Non‐Covalent GroEL/GroES/Substrate Protein Complexes

AL Marie, F Georgescauld, KR Johnson… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Protein complexes are essential for proteins' folding and biological function. Currently,
native analysis of large multimeric protein complexes remains challenging. Structural …

Mechanistic insights into IscU conformation regulation for Fe–S cluster biogenesis revealed by variable temperature electrospray ionization native ion mobility mass …

CW Lin, SD Oney-Hawthorne, ST Kuo… - Biochemistry, 2022 - ACS Publications
Iron–sulfur (Fe–S) cluster (ISC) cofactors are required for the function of many critical cellular
processes. In the ISC Fe–S cluster biosynthetic pathway, IscU assembles Fe–S cluster …

Thermodynamic coupling between neighboring binding sites in homo‐oligomeric ligand sensing proteins from mass resolved ligand‐dependent population …

W Li, AS Norris, K Lichtenthal, S Kelly, EC Ihms… - Protein …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Homo‐oligomeric ligand‐activated proteins are ubiquitous in biology. The functions of such
molecules are commonly regulated by allosteric coupling between ligand‐binding sites …