Electron-Capture and -Transfer Dissociation of Peptides Tagged with Tunable Fixed-Charge Groups: Structures and Dissociation Energetics
作者:Thomas W. Chung、Christopher L. Moss、Magdalena Zimnicka、Richard S. Johnson、Robert L. Moritz、František Tureček
DOI:10.1007/s13361-010-0012-9
日期:2011.1.1
Pyridiniummethylcarbonyl moieties that were previously designed on the basis of electronic structure analysis are now utilized as fixed-charge tags with tunable electronic properties to be used for N-terminal peptide derivatization and sequencing by electron-transfer dissociation. Dipeptides AK and KA were derivatized at the peptide N-terminus with 4-dimethylaminopyridinium-N-acetyl (DMAP-ac) and pyridinium-N-acetyl (pyrid-ac) tags of increasing intrinsic recombination energies. Upon the capture of a free electron or electron transfer from fluoranthene anions, (DMAP-ac-AK+H)2+, (DMAP-ac-KA+H)2+, (pyrid-ac-AK+H)2+ and (pyrid-ac-KA+H)2+ ions, as well as underivatized (AK+2H)2+, completely dissociated. The fixed-charge tags steered the dissociation upon electron transfer to form abundant backbone N–Cα bond cleavages, whereas the underivatized peptide mainly underwent H-atom and side-chain losses. Precursor ion structures for the tagged peptides were analyzed by an exhaustive conformational search combined with B3LYP/6-31+G(d,p) geometry optimization and single-point energy calculations in order to select the global energy minima. Structures, relative energies, transition states, ion–molecule complexes, and dissociation products were identified for several charge-reduced species from the tagged peptides. The electronic properties of the charge tags and their interactions with the peptide moieties are discussed. Electrospray ionization and electron-transfer dissociation of larger peptides are illustrated with a DMAP-tagged pentapeptide.
以前根据电子结构分析设计的吡啶甲基羰基现在被用作具有可调电子特性的固定电荷标签,通过电子转移解离用于肽 N 端衍生和测序。二肽 AK 和 KA 在肽 N 端用 4-二甲基氨基吡啶鎓-N-乙酰基(DMAP-ac)和吡啶鎓-N-乙酰基(pyrid-ac)标签衍生,标签的内在重组能不断增加。从荧蒽阴离子捕获自由电子或进行电子转移时,(DMAP-ac-AK+H)2+、(DMAP-ac-KA+H)2+、(吡啶-ac-AK+H)2+ 和 (吡啶-ac-KA+H)2+ 离子以及未充分活化的 (AK+2H)2+ 完全解离。固定电荷标签在电子转移时引导解离,形成大量的骨架 N-Cα 键裂解,而未充分活化的多肽主要发生 H 原子和侧链损失。通过详尽的构象搜索、B3LYP/6-31+G(d,p) 几何优化和单点能量计算,分析了标记肽的前体离子结构,以选择全局能量最小值。从标记肽中确定了几种电荷还原物种的结构、相对能量、过渡态、离子-分子复合物和解离产物。本文讨论了电荷标签的电子特性及其与肽分子的相互作用。以 DMAP 标记的五胜肽为例,说明了较大肽的电喷雾电离和电子转移解离。