Optimized cross-linking mass spectrometry for in situ interaction proteomics Journal Article


Authors: Ser, Z.; Cifani, P.; Kentsis, A.
Article Title: Optimized cross-linking mass spectrometry for in situ interaction proteomics
Abstract: Recent development of mass spectrometer cleavable protein cross-linkers and algorithms for their spectral identification now permits large-scale cross-linking mass spectrometry (XL-MS). Here, we optimized the use of cleavable disuccinimidyl sulfoxide (DSSO) cross-linker for labeling native protein complexes in live human cells. We applied a generalized linear mixture model to calibrate cross-link peptide-spectra matching (CSM) scores to control the sensitivity and specificity of large-scale XL-MS. Using specific CSM score thresholds to control the false discovery rate, we found that higher-energy collisional dissociation (HCD) and electron transfer dissociation (ETD) can both be effective for large-scale XL-MS protein interaction mapping. We found that the coverage of protein-protein interaction maps is significantly improved through the use of multiple proteases. In addition, the use of focused sample-specific search databases can be used to improve the specificity of cross-linked peptide spectral matching. Application of this approach to human chromatin labeled in live cells recapitulated known and revealed new protein interactions of nucleosomes and other chromatin-associated complexes in situ. This optimized approach for mapping native protein interactions should be useful for a wide range of biological problems. © 2019 American Chemical Society.
Keywords: mass spectrometry; proteomics; chromatin; bsa; cross-linking; protein-protein interactions; database search; false positive discovery; target-decoy strategy
Journal Title: Journal of Proteome Research
Volume: 18
Issue: 6
ISSN: 1535-3893
Publisher: American Chemical Society  
Date Published: 2019-06-07
Start Page: 2545
End Page: 2558
Language: English
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.9b00085
PUBMED: 31083951
PROVIDER: scopus
PMCID: PMC7473601
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  1. Alex   Kentsis
    103 Kentsis
  2. Paolo   Cifani
    32 Cifani
  3. Zheng Ser
    5 Ser