A biotin enrichment strategy identifies novel carbonylated amino acids in proteins from human plasma
Jesper F. Havelund, Katarzyna Wojdyla, Michael J. Davies, Ole N. Jensen, Ian Max Møller, Adelina Rogowska-Wrzesinska
Journal of Proteomics 156 (2017) 40-51
Protein carbonylation is an irreversible protein oxidation and is an important marker of protein damage, related to oxidative stress, disease and ageing. This paper describes a new method for the identification and characterization of 14 different types of carbonylated amino acids in proteins.
The proteins were derivatized with biotin-hydrazide, trypsin digested, and then enriched with monomeric avidin resin. Hot water elution was determined to be the most effective eluting agent, outperforming other approaches. Additionally, the authors developed a script to specifically detect and remove biotin ions from spectra, improving scores for most peptides.
Using this method, they identified 125 carbonylated residues in oxidized bovine serum albumin and assigned 133 carbonylated sites in 36 proteins in native human plasma protein samples. They also detected 10 previously undetected types of carbonylated amino acids in proteins.
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