Selective Deletion of the Internal Lysine Residue from the Peptide Sequence by Collisional Activation
作者:Shibdas Banerjee、Shyamalava Mazumdar
DOI:10.1007/s13361-012-0456-1
日期:2012.11.1
The gas-phase peptide ion fragmentation chemistry is always the center of attraction in proteomics to analyze the amino acid sequence of peptides and proteins. In this work, we describe the formation of an anomalous fragment ion, which corresponds to the selective deletion of the internal lysine residue from a series of lysine containing peptides upon collisional activation in the ion trap. We detected several water-loss fragment ions and the maximum number of water molecules lost from a particular fragment ion was equal to the number of lysine residues in that fragment. As a consequence of this water-loss phenomenon, internal lysine residues were found to be deleted from the peptide ion. The N,N-dimethylation of all the amine functional groups of the peptide stopped the internal lysine deletion reaction, but selective N-terminal α-amino acetylation had no effect on this process indicating involvement of the side chains of the lysine residues. The detailed mechanism of the lysine deletion was investigated by multistage CID of the modified and unmodified peptides, by isotope labeling and by energy resolved CID studies. The results suggest that the lysine deletion might occur through a unimolecular multistep mechanism involving a seven-membered cyclic imine intermediate formed by the loss of water from a lysine residue in the protonated peptide. This intermediate subsequently undergoes degradation reaction to deplete the interior imine ring from the peptide backbone leading to the deletion of an internal lysine residue.
气相肽离子碎裂化学一直是蛋白质组学中分析肽和蛋白质氨基酸序列的焦点。在本工作中,我们描述了异常碎片离子的形成,这些碎片离子对应于一系列含有赖氨酸的肽在离子阱中碰撞激活后选择性地删除内部赖氨酸残基。我们检测到了几个失水碎片离子,并且从一个特定碎片离子损失的最大水分子数等于该碎片中赖氨酸残基的数量。因此,内部赖氨酸残基被发现从肽离子中删除。所有胺官能团的N,N-二甲基化阻止了内部赖氨酸删除反应,但选择性N-末端α-氨基乙酰化对这一过程没有影响,表明涉及到赖氨酸残基的侧链。通过修饰和未修饰肽的多级CID、同位素标记和能量解析CID研究,详细探讨了赖氨酸删除的机制。结果表明,赖氨酸删除可能通过涉及由肽质子化中赖氨酸残基失水形成的七元环状亚胺中间体的单分子多步机制发生。随后,该中间体经历降解反应,从肽主链中耗尽内部亚胺环,导致删除内部赖氨酸残基。