title: Site-specific pyrolysis-induced cleavage at aspartic acid residue in peptides and proteins.
abstract: A simple and site-specific nonenzymatic method based on pyrolysis has been developed to cleave peptides and proteins. Pyrolytic cleavage was found to be specific and rapid as it induced a cleavage at the C-terminal side of aspartic acid in the temperature range of 220-250 degrees C in 10 s. Electrospray ionization (ESI) mass spectrometry (MS) and tandem-MS (MS/MS) were used to characterize and identify pyrolysis cleavage products, confirming that sequence information is conserved after the pyrolysis process in both peptides and protein tested. This suggests that pyrolysis-induced cleavage at aspartyl residues can be used as a rapid protein digestion procedure for the generation of sequence-specific protein biomarkers.
authors: Department of Chemistry, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071, USA.
authors: Shaofeng
authors: S
authors: Zhang
authors: Franco
authors: F
authors: Basile
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001224:Aspartic Acid / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D015394:Molecular Structure; D010455:Peptides / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D011506:Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D020539:Sequence Analysis, Protein / Q000379:methods*; D021241:Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization
chemical_list: D010455:Peptides; D011506:Proteins; D001224:Aspartic Acid