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Collision Cross Sections for Native Proteomics: Challenges and Opportunities.

ABSTRACT: Recent advancements place a comprehensive catalog of protein structure, oligomeric state, sequence, and modification status tentatively within reach, thus providing an unprecedented roadmap to therapies for many human diseases. To achieve this goal, revolutionary technologies capable of bridging key gaps in our ability to simultaneously measure protein composition and structure must be developed. Much of the current progress in this area has been catalyzed by mass spectrometry (MS) tools, which have become an indispensable resource for interrogating the structural proteome. For example, methods associated with native proteomics seek to comprehensively capture and quantify the endogenous assembly states for all proteins within an organism. Such technologies have often been partnered with ion mobility (IM) separation, from which collision cross section (CCS) information can be rapidly extracted to provide protein size information. IM technologies are also being developed that utilize CCS values to enhance the confidence of protein identification workflows derived from liquid chromatography-IM-MS analyses of enzymatically produced peptide mixtures. Such parallel advancements in technology beg the question: can CCS values prove similarly useful for the identification of intact proteins and their complexes in native proteomics? In this perspective, I examine current evidence and technology trends to explore the promise and limitations of such CCS information for the comprehensive analysis of multiprotein complexes from cellular mixtures.

SUBMITTER: Ruotolo BT

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8741738 | biostudies-literature |

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