Extensive non-canonical phosphorylation in human cells revealed using strong-anion exchange-mediated phosphoproteomics
Gemma Hardman, Simon Perkins, Zheng Ruan, Natarajan Kannan, Philip Brownridge, Dominic P Byrne, Patrick A. Eyers, Andrew R. Jones and Claire E. Eyers
bioRxiv posted 13 October 2017, 202820
Protein phosphorylation is an essential PTM, and there are many well-established workflows to determine the localization of phosphorylation on peptides containing serine, threonine, and tyrosine residues. Based on evidence suggesting that histidine phosphorylation also plays a role in human biology, the authors set out to develop a method to find these sites of non-canonical phosphorylation.
The phosphoramidate bond in phosphohistidine is susceptible to hydrolysis under the traditional acidic conditions used for phosphopeptide analysis. To avoid this, they developed an enrichment strategy based on strong anion exchange chromatography, providing enrichment of acid-labile phosphopeptides at or near neutral pH.
They were able to extend this approach to other labile phosphosites and in a HeLa cell lysate identified ~300 pHis-containing peptides and 2740 peptides with sites of phosphorylation on Arg, Lys, Asp and Glu.
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