TY - JOUR
T1 - Combine and conquer
T2 - Surfactants, solvents, and chaotropes for robust mass spectrometry based analyses of membrane proteins
AU - Waas, Matthew
AU - Bhattacharya, Subarna
AU - Chuppa, Sandra
AU - Wu, Xiaogang
AU - Jensen, Davin R.
AU - Omasits, Ulrich
AU - Wollscheid, Bernd
AU - Volkman, Brian F.
AU - Noon, Kathleen R.
AU - Gundry, Rebekah L.
PY - 2014/2/4
Y1 - 2014/2/4
N2 - Mass spectrometry (MS) based proteomic technologies enable the identification and quantification of membrane proteins as well as their post-translational modifications. A prerequisite for their quantitative and reliable MS-based bottom-up analysis is the efficient digestion into peptides by proteases, though digestion of membrane proteins is typically challenging due to their inherent properties such as hydrophobicity. Here, we investigated the effect of eight commercially available MS-compatible surfactants, two organic solvents, and two chaotropes on the enzymatic digestion efficiency of membrane protein-enriched complex mixtures in a multiphase study using a gelfree approach. Multiple parameters, including the number of peptides and proteins identified, total protein sequence coverage, and digestion specificity were used to evaluate transmembrane protein digestion performance. A new open-source software tool was developed to allow for the specific assessment of transmembrane domain sequence coverage. Results demonstrate that while Progenta anionic surfactants outperform other surfactants when tested alone, combinations of guanidine and acetonitrile improve performance of all surfactants to near similar levels as well as enhance trypsin specificity to >90%, which has critical implications for future quantitative and qualitative proteomic studies.
AB - Mass spectrometry (MS) based proteomic technologies enable the identification and quantification of membrane proteins as well as their post-translational modifications. A prerequisite for their quantitative and reliable MS-based bottom-up analysis is the efficient digestion into peptides by proteases, though digestion of membrane proteins is typically challenging due to their inherent properties such as hydrophobicity. Here, we investigated the effect of eight commercially available MS-compatible surfactants, two organic solvents, and two chaotropes on the enzymatic digestion efficiency of membrane protein-enriched complex mixtures in a multiphase study using a gelfree approach. Multiple parameters, including the number of peptides and proteins identified, total protein sequence coverage, and digestion specificity were used to evaluate transmembrane protein digestion performance. A new open-source software tool was developed to allow for the specific assessment of transmembrane domain sequence coverage. Results demonstrate that while Progenta anionic surfactants outperform other surfactants when tested alone, combinations of guanidine and acetonitrile improve performance of all surfactants to near similar levels as well as enhance trypsin specificity to >90%, which has critical implications for future quantitative and qualitative proteomic studies.
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U2 - 10.1021/ac403185a
DO - 10.1021/ac403185a
M3 - Article
C2 - 24392666
AN - SCOPUS:84893556785
VL - 86
SP - 1551
EP - 1559
JO - Analytical Chemistry
JF - Analytical Chemistry
SN - 0003-2700
IS - 3
ER -