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CURRENT OPINION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY
Volume 80, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
CURRENT BIOLOGY LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2023.102599
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Protein conformational dynamics; Crosslinking mass spectrometry; Photoactivatable crosslinking; Quantitative analysis; Protein structure modelling and prediction
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Crosslinking mass spectrometry captures protein structures in solution, revealing spatial proximities and conformation-specific crosslinks. Advances in crosslinking MS, such as photoactivatable crosslinking and in-situ crosslinking, will enable the study of protein conformation dynamics at a pseudo-atomic resolution in the cellular context and potentially in a time-resolved manner.
Crosslinking mass spectrometry captures protein structures in solution. The crosslinks reveal spatial proximities as distance restraints, but do not easily reveal which of these restraints derive from the same protein conformation. This superposition can be reduced by photo-crosslinking, and adding information from protein structure models, or quantitative crosslinking reveals conformation-specific crosslinks. As a consequence, crosslinking MS has proven useful already in the context of multiple dynamic protein systems. We foresee a breakthrough in the resolution and scale of studying protein dynamics when crosslinks are used to guide deep-learning-based protein modelling. Advances in crosslinking MS, such as photoactivatable crosslinking and in-situ crosslinking, will then reveal protein conformation dynamics in the cellular context, at a pseudo-atomic resolution, and plausibly in a time-resolved manner.
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