| Nr |
64 (Research article) |
| Authors |
Hauri, Simon; Khakzad, Hamed; Happonen, Lotta; Teleman, Johan; Malmström, Johan; Malmström, Lars |
| Title |
Rapid determination of quaternary protein structures in complex biological samples. |
| Journal |
Nat Commun (2019) 10 192 |
| DOI |
10.1038/s41467-018-07986-1 |
| Citations |
55 citations (journal impact: 12.12) |
| Abstract |
The understanding of complex biological systems is still hampered by limited knowledge of biologically relevant quaternary protein structures. Here we demonstrate quaternary structure determination in biological samples using a combination of chemical cross-linking high-resolution mass spectrometry and high-accuracy protein structure modeling. This approach termed targeted cross-linking mass spectrometry TX-MS relies on computational structural models to score sets of targeted cross-linked peptide signals acquired using a combination of mass spectrometry acquisition techniques. We demonstrate the utility of TX-MS by creating a high-resolution quaternary model of a 1.8 MDa protein complex composed of a pathogen surface protein and ten human plasma proteins. The model is based on a dense network of cross-link distance constraints obtained directly in a mixture of human plasma and live bacteria. These results demonstrate that TX-MS can increase the applicability of flexible backbone docking algorithms to large protein complexes by providing rich cross-link distance information from complex biological samples. |