Resolving Isotopic Fine Structure to Detect and Quantify Natural Abundance- and Hydrogen/deuterium Exchange-derived Isotopomers

Overview

Journal Anal Chem

Specialty Chemistry

Date 2013 Dec 17

PMID 24328359

Citations 6

Authors

Qian Liu

Michael L Easterling

Jeffrey N Agar

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Abstract

Hydrogen/deuterium exchange (HDX) mass spectrometry (MS) is used for analyzing protein dynamics, protein folding/unfolding, and molecular interactions. Until this study, HDX MS experiments employed mass spectral resolving powers that afforded only one peak per nominal mass in a given peptide's isotope distribution, and HDX MS data analysis methods were developed accordingly. A level of complexity that is inherent to HDX MS remained unaddressed, namely, various combinations of natural abundance heavy isotopes and exchanged deuterium shared the same nominal mass and overlapped at previous resolving powers. For example, an A + 2 peak is comprised of (among other isotopomers) a two-(2)H-exchanged/zero-(13)C isotopomer, a one-(2)H-exchanged/one-(13)C isotopomer, and a zero-(2)H-exchanged/two-(13)C isotopomer. Notably, such isotopomers differ slightly in mass as a result of the ∼3 mDa mass defect between (2)H and (13)C atoms. Previous HDX MS methods did not resolve these isotopomers, requiring a natural-abundance-only (before HDX or "time zero") spectrum and data processing to remove its contribution. It is demonstrated here that high-resolution mass spectrometry can be used to detect isotopic fine structure, such as in the A + 2 profile example above, deconvolving the isotopomer species resulting from deuterium incorporation. Resolving isotopic fine structure during HDX MS therefore permits direct monitoring of HDX, which can be calculated as the sum of the fractional peak magnitudes of the deuterium-exchanged isotopomers. This obviates both the need for a time zero spectrum as well as data processing to account for natural abundance heavy isotopes, saving instrument and analysis time.

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