期刊
JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL AND BIOMEDICAL ANALYSIS
卷 198, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpba.2021.113995
关键词
HRMS; Peptide mapping; Protein modification
资金
- Research Laboratories Postdoc Research Fellow Program
Protein conjugation is an effective method to add different functionalities to proteins, but identifying products, optimizing reaction conditions, and synthesizing desired molecules can be challenging. Therefore, quick and easy analytical methods are needed for reaction monitoring to guide this complex process.
Protein conjugation is an effective way to impart different functionalities to the original protein. Conjugation using a native protein (a protein that does not contain special unnatural amino acid for conjugation) typically generates complex mixtures mainly due to the presence of multiple chemically similar competing conjugation sites. It is therefore a challenge to identify products, to optimize the reaction conditions, and to synthesize desired molecules. In order to guide this challenging process, quick and easy analytical methods are in great need for reaction monitoring. An analytical platform was developed for this purpose by using liquid chromatography/high resolution mass spectrometry (LC/HRMS) coupled with a custom-built software tool via Visual Basic for Applications in Excel (VBA). It allows for not only the determination of site-selective modification, but also the evaluation of the scope for possible modification sites. This vendor neutral VBA based software tool combined with enzymatic digestion, especially the SMART Digest (TM) method, and LC/HRMS would shorten the experimental time and data analysis from days to a few hours. Open-source VBA features a data fitting interface with the support for arbitrary functions and flexible global fits. Two conjugated proteins were used to demonstrate the capability of this VBA tool. Major conjugation sites are presented in a graphic format via its mass and ion intensity and chemists can visually estimate the ratio of modified vs unmodified proteins. (C) 2021 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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