Protein primary structure of the Vaccinia virion at increased resolution
Tuan Ngo, Yeva Mirzakhanyan, Nissin Moussatche and Paul David Gershon
Journal of Virology, published online August 24, 2016
The vaccinia virus is a large, complex member of the poxvirus family, and was utilized in the eradication of smallpox. Though widely studied, the details of its protein components were not fully understood. The authors here undertook a very detailed analysis or the proteome of vaccinia with a variety of sample preparations and methods.
Four endoproeteases and CNBr digested the virion proteome, and LC-MS/MS with CID, HCD, or ETD followed by Mascot search produced new details on vaccinia. Additionally 18O-ATP labelling and IMAC preparation helped elucidate the phosphopeptides.
This resulted in the detection of over 88% of the theoretical proteome including the first-time detection of products from 27 open reading frames. Additionally the size of the characterized virion phosphoproteome was doubled from 189 to 396 unique phosphorylation sites. |