Photodissociative Cross-Linking of Non-covalent Peptide-Peptide Ion Complexes in the Gas Phase
- University of Washington, Department of Chemistry, Bagley Hall (United States)
- Czech Academy of Sciences, Laboratory of Biomolecular Recognition, Institute of Biotechnology (Czech Republic)
- Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry (Czech Republic)
- Valspar Corporation (United States)
We report a gas-phase UV photodissociation study investigating non-covalent interactions between neutral hydrophobic pentapeptides and peptide ions incorporating a diazirine-tagged photoleucine residue. Phenylalanine (Phe) and proline (Pro) were chosen as the conformation-affecting residues that were incorporated into a small library of neutral pentapeptides. Gas-phase ion-molecule complexes of these peptides with photo-labeled pentapeptides were subjected to photodissociation. Selective photocleavage of the diazirine ring at 355 nm formed short-lived carbene intermediates that underwent cross-linking by insertion into H–X bonds of the target peptide. The cross-link positions were established from collision-induced dissociation tandem mass spectra (CID-MS{sup 3}) providing sequence information on the covalent adducts. Effects of the amino acid residue (Pro or Phe) and its position in the target peptide sequence were evaluated. For proline-containing peptides, interactions resulting in covalent cross-links in these complexes became more prominent as proline was moved towards the C-terminus of the target peptide sequence. The photocross-linking yields of phenylalanine-containing peptides depended on the position of both phenylalanine and photoleucine. Density functional theory calculations were used to assign structures of low-energy conformers of the (GLPMG + GLL*LK + H){sup +} complex. Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics trajectory calculations were used to capture the thermal motion in the complexes within 100 ps and determine close contacts between the incipient carbene and the H–X bonds in the target peptide. This provided atomic-level resolution of potential cross-links that aided spectra interpretation and was in agreement with experimental data. .
- OSTI ID:
- 22776869
- Journal Information:
- Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, Vol. 29, Issue 8; Other Information: Copyright (c) 2018 American Society for Mass Spectrometry; http://www.springer-ny.com; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1044-0305
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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