title: Determination of phosphorylation sites in the DivIVA cytoskeletal protein of Streptomyces coelicolor by targeted LC-MS/MS.
abstract: The filamentous bacterium Streptomyces coelicolor modulates polar growth and branching by phosphorylating the cytoskeletal protein DivIVA. Previous MALDI-TOF analysis of DivIVA showed that a large 7.2 kDa tryptic peptide was multiply phosphorylated. To aid localization of the phosphorylation sites, we introduced additional tryptic cleavage sites into DivIVA, and the resulting phosphopeptides were analyzed by LC-MS/MS. Phosphopeptide isomers could be separated chromatographically, but because of overlapping elution and spectrum quality, site assignment by standard software tools was ambiguous. Because fragment ions carrying the phosphate group are essential for confident localization, large numbers of spectra were collected using targeted LC-MS/MS, and a special script was developed for plotting the elution of site-determining fragments from those spectra under the XIC of the parent ions. Where multiple phosphopeptide isomers were present, the elution of the site-determining y-ions perfectly coincided with the elution of the corresponding phosphopeptide isomer. This method represents a useful tool for user inspection of spectra derived from phosphopeptide isomers and significantly increases confidence when defining phosphorylation sites. In this way, we show that DivIVA is phosphorylated in vivo on five sites in the C-terminal part of the protein (T304, S309, S338, S344, and S355). The data have been deposited to the ProteomeXchange Consortium with identifier PXD000095.
authors.affiliation: John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom. gerhard.saalbach@jic.ac.uk
authors.forename: Gerhard
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Saalbach
authors.forename: Antje M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Hempel
authors.forename: Marielle
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vigouroux
authors.forename: Klas
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Flärdh
authors.forename: Mark J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Buttner
authors.forename: Michael J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Naldrett
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D003598:Cytoskeletal Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D007536:Isomerism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010748:Phosphopeptides / Q000737:chemistry; D010766:Phosphorylation; D011499:Protein Processing, Post-Translational; D048372:Streptomyces coelicolor / Q000378:metabolism*; D053719:Tandem Mass Spectrometry
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins; D003598:Cytoskeletal Proteins; C104636:DivIVA protein, bacteria; D010748:Phosphopeptides
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