A method for selective enrichment and analysis of nitrotyrosine-containing peptides in complex proteome samples
A method for selective enrichment and analysis of nitrotyrosine-containing peptides in complex proteome samples
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DOI:
10.1021/pr0606934
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发表时间:
2007-01-01
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4.4
通讯作者:
Smith, Richard D.
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作者:
Zhang, Qibin;Qian, Wei-Jun;Smith, Richard D.
Elevated levels of protein tyrosine nitration have been found in various neurodegenerative diseases and age-related pathologies. Until recently, however, the lack of an efficient enrichment method has prevented the analysis of this important low-level protein modification. We have developed a method that specifically enriches nitrotyrosine-containing peptides so that both nitrotyrosine peptides and specific nitration sites can be unambiguously identified with LC-MS/MS. The procedure consists of the derivatization of nitrotyrosine into free sulfhydryl groups followed by high efficiency enrichment of sulfhydryl-containing peptides with thiopropyl sepharose beads. The derivatization process includes: ( 1) acetylation with acetic anhydride to block all primary amines, ( 2) reduction of nitrotyrosine to aminotyrosine, ( 3) derivatization of aminotyrosine with N-Succinimidyl S-Acetylthioacetate (SATA), and ( 4) deprotection of S-acetyl on SATA to form free sulfhydryl groups. The high specificity of this method is demonstrated by the contrasting percentage of nitrotyrosine-derivatized peptides in the identified tandem mass spectra between enriched and unenriched samples. Global analysis of unenriched in vitro nitrated human histone H1.2, bovine serum albumin ( BSA), and mouse brain homogenate samples had 9%, 9%, and 5.9% of identified nitrotyrosine-containing peptides, while the enriched samples had 91%, 62%, and 35%, respectively. Duplicate LC-MS/MS analyses of the enriched mouse brain homogenate identified 150 unique nitrated peptides covering 102 proteins with an estimated 3.3% false discovery rate.