Biological Sciences Division , Pacific Northwest National Laboratory , Richland , Washington 99352 , United States.
Anal Chem. 2018 Sep 18;90(18):10889-10896. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.8b02397. Epub 2018 Aug 29.
Phosphoproteomics greatly augments proteomics and holds tremendous potential for insights into the modulation of biological systems for various disease states. However, numerous challenges hinder conventional methods in terms of measurement sensitivity, throughput, quantification, and capabilities for confident phosphopeptide and phosphosite identification. In this work, we report the first example of integrating structures for lossless ion manipulations ion mobility-mass spectrometry (SLIM IM-MS) with online reversed-phase liquid chromatography (LC) to evaluate its potential for addressing the aforementioned challenges. A mixture of 51 heavy-labeled phosphopeptides was analyzed with a SLIM IM module having integrated ion accumulation and long-path separation regions. The SLIM IM-MS provided limits of detection as low as 50-100 pM (50-100 amol/μL) for several phosphopeptides, with the potential for significant further improvements. In addition, conventionally problematic phosphopeptide isomers could be resolved following an 18 m SLIM IM separation. The 2-D LC-IM peak capacity was estimated as ∼9000 for a 90 min LC separation coupled to an 18 m SLIM IM separation, considerably higher than LC alone and providing a basis for both improved identification and quantification, with additional gains projected with the future use of longer path SLIM IM separations. Thus, LC-SLIM IM-MS offers great potential for improving the sensitivity, separation, and throughput of phosphoproteomics analyses.
磷酸化蛋白质组学极大地扩展了蛋白质组学,为深入了解各种疾病状态下生物系统的调控提供了巨大的潜力。然而,许多挑战在测量灵敏度、通量、定量以及对有信心的磷酸肽和磷酸化位点鉴定的能力方面限制了传统方法。在这项工作中,我们报告了将用于无损离子操控的结构(ion mobility-mass spectrometry,IM-MS)与在线反相液相色谱(liquid chromatography,LC)集成的首个实例,以评估其解决上述挑战的潜力。使用具有集成离子积累和长路径分离区域的 SLIM IM 模块分析了 51 种重标记的磷酸肽混合物。SLIM IM-MS 对几种磷酸肽的检测限低至 50-100 pM(50-100 amol/μL),有望进一步显著提高。此外,在经过 18 m 的 SLIM IM 分离后,可以解决通常存在问题的磷酸肽异构体。当将 90 min 的 LC 分离与 18 m 的 SLIM IM 分离耦合时,二维 LC-SLIM IM 的峰容量估计约为 9000,显著高于单独的 LC,为改进鉴定和定量提供了基础,并通过未来使用更长路径的 SLIM IM 分离获得了额外的收益。因此,LC-SLIM IM-MS 为提高磷酸化蛋白质组学分析的灵敏度、分离和通量提供了巨大的潜力。