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- Allison, Timothy M., et al.
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Computational Strategies and Challenges for Using Native Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry in Biophysics and Structural Biology
- 2020
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Ingår i: Analytical Chemistry. - : American Chemical Society (ACS). - 0003-2700 .- 1520-6882. ; 92:16, s. 10872-10880
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Native mass spectrometry (MS) allows the interrogation of structural aspects of macromolecules in the gas phase, under the premise of having initially maintained their solution-phase noncovalent interactions intact. In the more than 25 years since the first reports, the utility of native MS has become well established in the structural biology community. The experimental and technological advances during this time have been rapid, resulting in dramatic increases in sensitivity, mass range, resolution, and complexity of possible experiments. As experimental methods have improved, there have been accompanying developments in computational approaches for analyzing and exploiting the profusion of MS data in a structural and biophysical context. In this perspective, we consider the computational strategies currently being employed by the community, aspects of best practice, and the challenges that remain to be addressed. Our perspective is based on discussions within the European Cooperation in Science and Technology Action on Native Mass Spectrometry and Related Methods for Structural Biology (EU COST Action BM1403), which involved participants from across Europe and North America. It is intended not as an in-depth review but instead to provide an accessible introduction to and overview of the topic—to inform newcomers to the field and stimulate discussions in the community about addressing existing challenges. Our complementary perspective (http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.9b05792) focuses on software tools available to help researchers tackle some of the challenges enumerated here.
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- Allison, Timothy M., et al.
(författare)
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Software Requirements for the Analysis and Interpretation of Native Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry Data
- 2020
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Ingår i: Analytical Chemistry. - : American Chemical Society. - 0003-2700 .- 1520-6882. ; 92:16, s. 10881-10890
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The past few years have seen a dramatic increase in applications of native mass and ion mobility spectrometry, especially for the study of proteins and protein complexes. This increase has been catalyzed by the availability of commercial instrumentation capable of carrying out such analyses. As in most fields, however, the software to process the data generated from new instrumentation lags behind. Recently, a number of research groups have started addressing this by developing software, but further improvements are still required in order to realize the full potential of the data sets generated. In this perspective, we describe practical aspects as well as challenges in processing native mass spectrometry (MS) and ion mobility-MS data sets and provide a brief overview of currently available tools. We then set out our vision of future developments that would bring the community together and lead to the development of a common platform to expedite future computational developments, provide standardized processing approaches, and serve as a location for the deposition of data for this emerging field. This perspective has been written by members of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology Action on Native MS and Related Methods for Structural Biology (EU COST Action BM1403) as an introduction to the software tools available in this area. It is intended to serve as an overview for newcomers and to stimulate discussions in the community on further developments in this field, rather than being an in-depth review. Our complementary perspective (http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.9b05791) focuses on computational approaches used in this field.
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- Gabelica, Valérie, et al.
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Fundamentals of ion mobility spectrometry
- 2018
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Ingår i: Current opinion in chemical biology. - : Elsevier BV. - 1367-5931 .- 1879-0402. ; 42, s. 51-59
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Fundamental questions in ion mobility spectrometry have practical implications for analytical applications in general, and omics in particular, in three respects. (1) Understanding how ion mobility and collision cross section values depend on the collision gas, on the electric field and on temperature is crucial to ascertain their transferability across instrumental platforms. (2) Predicting collision cross section values for new analytes is necessary to exploit the full potential of ion mobility in discovery workflows. (3) Finally, understanding the fate of ion structures in the gas phase is essential to infer meaningful information on solution structures based on gas-phase ion mobility measurements. We review here the most recent advances in ion mobility fundamentals, relevant to these three aspects.
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- Marchand, Adrien, et al.
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Sequence and solvent effects on telomeric DNA bimolecular G-quadruplex folding kinetics
- 2013
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Ingår i: Journal of Physical Chemistry B. - : American Chemical Society (ACS). - 1520-5207 .- 1520-6106. ; 117:41, s. 12391-12401
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Telomeric DNA sequences are particularly polymorphic: the adopted structure is exquisitely sensitive to the sequence and to the chemical environment, for example, solvation. Dehydrating conditions are known to stabilize G-quadruplex structures, but information on how solvation influences the individual rates of folding and unfolding of G-quadruplexes remains scarce. Here, we used electrospray mass spectrometry for the first time to monitor bimolecular G-quadruplex formation from 12-mer telomeric strands, in the presence of common organic cosolvents (methanol, ethanol, isopropanol, and acetonitrile). Based on the ammonium ion distribution, the total dimer signal was decomposed into contributions from the parallel and antiparallel structures to obtain individual reaction rates, and the antiparallel G-quadruplex structure was found to form faster than the parallel one. A dimeric reaction intermediate, in rapid equilibrium with the single strands, was also identified. Organic cosolvents increase the stability of the final structures mainly by increasing the folding rates. Our quantitative analysis of reaction rate dependence on cosolvent percentage shows that organic cosolvent molecules can be captured or released upon G-quadruplex formation, highlighting that they are not inert with DNA. In contrast to the folding rates, the G-quadruplex unfolding rates are almost insensitive to solvation effects, but are instead governed by the sequence and by the final structure: parallel dimers dissociate slower than antiparallel dimers only when thymine bases are present at the 5′-end. These results contribute unraveling the folding pathways of telomeric G-quadruplexes. The solvent effects revealed here enlighten that G-quadruplex structure in dehydrated, and molecularly crowded environments are modulated by the nature of cosolvent (e.g., methanol favors antiparallel structures) due to direct interactions, and by the time scale of the reaction, with > 200-fold acceleration of bimolecular G-quadruplex formation in the presence of 60% cosolvent. © 2013 American Chemical Society.
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