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J Mass Spectrom ; 35(3): 417-22, 2000 Mar.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-10767772

ABSTRACT

Fine metal or metal oxide powder as an alternative to conventional organic matrices in matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOFMS) has been utilized successfully for lower molecular mass analytes, poly(ethylene glycol) 200 (PEG 200) and methyl stearate. Eleven kinds of particle, Al, Mn, Mo, Si, Sn, SnO2, TiO2, W, WO3, Zn and ZnO, were evaluated. The analyte was mixed with a metal or metal oxide powder (inorganic matrix) with particle diameter of tens of micrometers and liquid dispersant, followed by application to the sample target. Using a commercial MALDI-TOFMS instrument equipped with an internal 337 nm pulsed nitrogen laser, the analytes, PEG 200 and methyl stearate, were ionized as the alkali metal ion adducted molecules [M+Na]+ or [M+K]+ when the inorganic matrices Mn, Mo, Si, Sn, TiO2, W, WO3, Zn or ZnO were used. In the case of an Al matrix, PEG 200 was ionized as [M+K]+, whereas methyl stearate was ionized as [M+H]+ and [M+Al]+. These particles have potential as the matrix for MALDI. During our examination, however, only SnO2 particles did not ionize either PEG 200 or methyl stearate. Based on our protocol, when TiO2 powder was suspended with liquid paraffin, PEG 200 and methyl stearate gave their MALDI-TOF mass spectra with the lowest background noise and highest intensity. TiO2 powder seemed to be a broad potential matrix for low molecular mass polar or non-polar analytes. The results suggested that bulk particles caused rapid heating/vaporization processes and ionized analyte molecules under irradiation with a pulsed UV laser. The present method can be readily applied to obtain the low background noise MALDI-TOF mass spectra of small-sized compounds.

2.
Anal Biochem ; 277(2): 177-86, 2000 Jan 15.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-10625504

ABSTRACT

Protein phosphorylation underlies numerous cellular signaling processes. Since a reliable prediction of phosphorylation site(s) based on a consensus amino acid sequence is rather difficult to date, determination of phosphorylation site(s) in phosphoproteins is a crucial step toward the understanding of their function at the molecular level. A conventional protocol for the determination of phosphorylation sites utilizes radioactive labeling of a phosphoprotein by (32)P and purification of digested peptides carrying radioactivity, followed by Edman degradation. This method is not only tedious, but also indirect because the evidence will be based on disappearance of a phenylthiohydantoin signal from the degradation cycle where the (32)P radioactivity is eluted. Several methodologies have been developed to determine the phosphorylation sites directly by using mass spectrometry. These include collision-induced dissociation (CID) and post-source decay (PSD), both of which tend to produce fragment ions less efficiently as the number of residues exceeds 20. Moreover, in both decay processes, there is a tendency for the phosphate group to be removed during the breakdown of the main peptide chain. We report a method that allows direct observation of phosphorylated peptide fragments of phosphopeptides exceeding 20 residues by using an in-source decay fragmentation by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry, yielding results which are difficult or impossible to obtain by existing methods using CID or PSD.


Subject(s)
Phosphopeptides/analysis , Phosphopeptides/chemistry , Animals , Humans , Phosphorylation , Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization/methods
3.
Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol ; 119(4): 739-46, 1998 Apr.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-9787765

ABSTRACT

Multifunctional Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase type II (CaMK II) plays a crucial role in mediation of cellular responses to rising cytosolic Ca2+ levels. We find that the novel peptide substrate PGTIEKKRSNAMKKMKSIEQHR serves as a highly potent substrate for CaMK II enzymes purified from both Drosophila and rat. The peptide is derived from a photoreceptor-specific protein, phosrestin I, of the Drosophila compound eye and is designated as phosrestide-1. Using saturating substrate concentrations, the enzymes from both species transfer the gamma-phosphoryl group of ATP to phosrestide-1 at a level three to ten times greater than to the commercially available mammalian-derived CaMK II substrates, autocamtide-3 and syntide-2. This indicates a conservation of substrate preferences for CaMK II derived from distantly related species, a dipteran fly and a mammal. Although phosrestide-1 contains two potential serine residues for CaMK II phosphorylation, we find that only the C-terminal serine is phosphorylated by rat CaMK II. However, removal of the upstream sequence containing the N-terminal serine substantially reduced the potency of phosrestide-1 as a CaMK II substrate to a level comparable to that of syntide-2 or autocamtide-3. We also find that a peptide representing the N-terminal segment of phosrestide-1 does not inhibit either CaMK II. Therefore, the enhanced potency of phosrestide-1 as a CaMK II substrate is likely to be due to a preferred conformation of the peptide induced by the N-terminal segment rather than to a specific binding of the enzymes to the N-terminus of the peptide. To the best of our knowledge, phosrestide-1 is the first CaMK II substrate which is designed based on an invertebrate sequence. The high phosphorylation level of phosrestide-1 by CaMK II of mammalian origin may reflect highly conserved CaMK II signaling cascades between vertebrates and invertebrates.


Subject(s)
Arrestins/chemistry , Brain/enzymology , Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases/metabolism , Peptide Fragments/chemistry , Phosphoproteins/chemistry , Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate/chemistry , Amino Acid Sequence , Animals , Binding Sites , Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase Type 2 , Drosophila/physiology , Insect Proteins/chemistry , Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins , Molecular Sequence Data , Peptides/metabolism , Phosphorylation , Rats , Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization , Substrate Specificity
4.
J Biol Chem ; 272(25): 15856-64, 1997 Jun 20.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-9188484

ABSTRACT

Interaction between the gamma subunit (Pgamma) of cGMP phosphodiesterase and the alpha subunit (Talpha) of transducin is a key step for the regulation of cGMP phosphodiesterase in retinal rod outer segments. Here we have utilized a combination of specific modification by an endogenous enzyme and site-directed mutagenesis of the Pgamma polycationic region to identify residues required for the interaction with Talpha. Pgamma, free or complexed with the alphabeta subunit (Palphabeta) of cGMP phosphodiesterase, was specifically radiolabeled by prewashed rod membranes in the presence of [adenylate-32P]NAD. Identification of ADP-ribose in the radiolabeled Pgamma and radiolabeling of arginine-replaced mutant forms of Pgamma indicate that both arginine 33 and arginine 36 are similarly ADP-ribosylated by endogenous ADP-ribosyltransferase, but only one arginine is modified at a time. Pgamma complexed with Talpha (both GTP- and GDP-bound forms) was not ADP-ribosylated; however, agmatine, which cannot interact with Talpha, was ADP-ribosylated in the presence of Talpha, suggesting that a Pgamma domain containing these arginines is masked by Talpha. A Pgamma mutant (R33,36K), as well as wild type Pgamma, inhibited both GTP hydrolysis of Talpha and GTP binding to Talpha. Moreover, GTP-bound Talpha activated Palphabeta that had been inhibited by R33,36K. However, another Pgamma mutant (R33,36L) could not inhibit these Talpha functions. In addition, GTP-bound Talpha could not activate Palphabeta inhibited by R33,36L. These results indicate that a Pgamma domain containing these arginines is required for its interaction with Talpha, but not with Palphabeta, and that positive charges in these arginines are crucial for the interaction.


Subject(s)
3',5'-Cyclic-GMP Phosphodiesterases/metabolism , Adenosine Diphosphate Ribose/metabolism , Transducin/metabolism , 3',5'-Cyclic-GMP Phosphodiesterases/genetics , Animals , Arginine/metabolism , Binding Sites , Cattle , Cyclic Nucleotide Phosphodiesterases, Type 6 , GTP Phosphohydrolases/metabolism , Guanosine 5'-O-(3-Thiotriphosphate)/metabolism , Guanosine Diphosphate/metabolism , Guanosine Triphosphate/metabolism , Mutagenesis, Site-Directed , NAD/metabolism , Pertussis Toxin , Rana catesbeiana , Recombinant Proteins/genetics , Recombinant Proteins/metabolism , Virulence Factors, Bordetella/metabolism
5.
Neuron ; 12(5): 997-1010, 1994 May.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-8185954

ABSTRACT

Activation of PI-PLC initiates two independent branches of protein phosphorylation cascades catalyzed by either PKC or Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase (CaMK). We find that phosrestin I (PRI), a Drosophila homolog of vertebrate photoreceptor arrestin, undergoes light-induced phosphorylation on a subsecond time scale which is faster than that of any other protein in vivo. We determine that a CaMK activity is responsible for in vitro PRI phosphorylation at Ser366 in the C-terminal tryptic segment, MetLysSer(P)IleGluGlnHisArg, in which Ser(P) represents phosphoserine366. We also demonstrate that Ser366 is the phosphorylation site of PRI in vivo by identifying the molecular species resulting from in-gel tryptic digestion of purified phospho-PRI using HPLC-electrospray ionization tandem quadrupole mass spectroscopy. From these data, we conclude that the CaMK pathway, not the PKC pathway, is responsible for the earliest protein phosphorylation event following activation of PI-PLC in living Drosophila photoreceptors.


Subject(s)
Arrestins , Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases/metabolism , Insect Hormones/metabolism , Phosphoproteins/metabolism , Phosphoric Diester Hydrolases/metabolism , Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate/metabolism , Amino Acid Sequence , Animals , Antigens/chemistry , Darkness , Drosophila , Eye Proteins/chemistry , Insect Hormones/chemistry , Insect Hormones/radiation effects , Kinetics , Light , Molecular Sequence Data , Peptide Fragments/chemistry , Peptide Fragments/isolation & purification , Peptide Fragments/metabolism , Phosphatidylinositol Diacylglycerol-Lyase , Phosphoinositide Phospholipase C , Phosphoproteins/chemistry , Phosphoproteins/radiation effects , Phosphorylation , Phosphoserine/analysis , Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate/radiation effects , Protein Denaturation , Protein Folding , Sequence Homology, Amino Acid , beta-Arrestins
6.
Photochem Photobiol ; 58(3): 409-12, 1993 Sep.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-8234476

ABSTRACT

3,7-Dimethyl-2,4,6,8,10-dodecapentaenal was synthesized for reconstitution of the retinochrome analog. Its opsin shift was 1000 cm-1 smaller than that of native retinochrome, whose chromophore contains the same number of double bonds. The conformational change from 6-s-trans to 6-s-cis, as figured in a retinal molecule, plays an important role in the formation of the retinochrome analog, based on the estimation of opsin shifts for retinal analogs locked in the 6-s conformation. Thus the conformation of the 6-7 single bond in the native retinochrome was suggested to be 6-s-cis. Analysis of the circular dichroic spectra of retinochrome analogs revealed that the 6-s conformation is independent of the appearance of the beta-band. The stereoselectivity in the photoisomerization of the retinal analogs by a retinochrome template depends on the hydrophobic binding in the region of the beta-ionone ring.


Subject(s)
Retinal Pigments/chemistry , Circular Dichroism , Molecular Conformation , Photochemistry , Retinaldehyde/analogs & derivatives , Retinaldehyde/chemistry , Rod Opsins/chemistry , Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet
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