title: Limited proteolysis via millisecond digestions in protease-modified membranes.
abstract: Sequential adsorption of poly(styrene sulfonate) (PSS) and proteases in porous nylon yields enzymatic membrane reactors for limited protein digestion. Although a high local enzyme density (~30 mg/cm(3)) and small pore diameters in the membrane lead to digestion in <1 s, the low membrane thickness (170 μm) affords control over residence times at the millisecond level to limit digestion. Apomyoglobin digestion demonstrates that peptide lengths increase as the residence time in the membrane decreases. Moreover, electron transfer dissociation (ETD) tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) on a large myoglobin proteolytic peptide (8 kDa) provides a resolution of 1-2 amino acids. Under denaturing conditions, limited membrane digestion of bovine serum albumin (BSA) and subsequent ESI-Orbitrap MS analysis reveal large peptides (3-10 kDa) that increase the sequence coverage from 53% (2 s digestion) to 82% (0.05 s digestion). With this approach, we also performed membrane-based limited proteolysis of a large Arabidopsis GTPase, Root Hair Defective 3 (RHD3) and showed suitable probing for labile regions near the C-terminus to suggest what protein reconstruction might make RHD3 more suitable for crystallization.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA.
authors.forename: Yu-Jing
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.forename: Wei-Han
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Jinlan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dong
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Stefano
authors.forename: Federica
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Brandizzi
authors.forename: R Michael
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Garavito
authors.forename: Gavin E
authors.initials: GE
authors.lastname: Reid
authors.forename: Merlin L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Bruening
mesh_terms: D000327:Adsorption; D000818:Animals; D001059:Apoproteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000201:enzymology; D002417:Cattle; D020558:GTP Phosphohydrolases / Q000378:metabolism; D008958:Models, Molecular; D009211:Myoglobin / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D009757:Nylons / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D010447:Peptide Hydrolases / Q000378:metabolism*; D010455:Peptides / Q000032:analysis; D011137:Polystyrenes / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D016062:Porosity; D059748:Proteolysis; D012710:Serum Albumin, Bovine / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D013499:Surface Properties; D053719:Tandem Mass Spectrometry; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D001059:Apoproteins; D009211:Myoglobin; D009757:Nylons; D010455:Peptides; D011137:Polystyrenes; C010857:apomyoglobin; D012710:Serum Albumin, Bovine; C003321:polystyrene sulfonic acid; D010447:Peptide Hydrolases; D020558:GTP Phosphohydrolases