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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 92, Issue 6, Pages 4459-4467Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b05481
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- National Science Foundation [CHE-1654608]
- National Institutes of Health [R01GM135682]
- Office of Postdoctoral Affairs of the Florida State University
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Glycoproteins play a central role in many biological processes including disease mechanisms. Nevertheless, because glycoproteins are heterogeneous entities, it remains unclear how glycosylation modulates the protein structure and function. Here, we assess the ability of tandem-trapped ion mobility spectrometry-mass spectrometry (tandem-TIMS/MS) to characterize the structure and sequence of the homotetrameric glycoprotein avidin. We show that (1) tandem-TIMS/MS retains native-like avidin tetramers with deeply buried solvent particles; (2) applying high activation voltages in the interface of tandem-TIMS results in collision-induced dissociation (CID) of avidin tetramers into compact monomers, dimers, and trimers with cross sections consistent with X-ray structures and reports from surface-induced dissociation (SID); (3) avidin oligomers are best described as heterogeneous ensembles with (essentially) random combinations of monomer glycoforms; (4) native top-down sequence analysis of the avidin tetramer is possible by CID in tandem-TIMS. Overall, our results demonstrate that tandem-TIMS/MS has the potential to correlate individual proteoforms to variations in protein structure.
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