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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 277, Issue 48, Pages 46487-46492Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M207370200
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The homodimeric form of a recombinant cytokine interleukin-6 (IL-6(D)) is known to antagonize IL-6 signaling. In this study, spatially proximal residues between IL-6 chains in IL-6, were identified using a method for specific recognition of intermolecular cross-linked peptides. Our strategy involved mixing 1:1 N-15-labeled and unlabeled (N-14) protein to form a mixture of isotopically labeled and unlabeled homodimers, which was chemically cross-linked. This cross-linked IL-6(D) was subjected to proteolysis by trypsin and the generated peptides were analyzed by electrospray ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MS). Molecular ions from crosslinked peptides of intermolecular origin are labeled with [N-15/N-15] + [N-15/N-14] + [N-14/N-15] + [N-14/N-14] yielding readily identified triplet/quadruplet MS peaks. All other peptide species are labeled with [N-15] + [N-14] yielding doublet peaks. Intermolecular cross-linked peptides were identified by MS, and cross-linked residues were identified. This intermolecular cross-link detection method, which we have designated mixed isotope cross-linking MIX may have more general application to protein-protein interaction studies. The pattern of proximal residues found was consistent with IL-6(D) having a domain-swapped fold similar to IL-10 and interferon-gamma. This fold implies that IL-6(D)-mediated antagonism of IL-6 signaling is caused by obstruction of cooperative gp130 binding on IL-6(D), rather than direct blocking of gp-130-binding sites on IL-6(D).
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