Top-down proteomics

DS Roberts, JA Loo, YO Tsybin, X Liu, S Wu… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Proteoforms, which arise from post-translational modifications, genetic polymorphisms and
RNA splice variants, play a pivotal role as drivers in biology. Understanding proteoforms is …

Deciphering combinatorial post-translational modifications by top-down mass spectrometry

JS Brodbelt - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Post-translational modifications (PTMs) create vast structural and functional diversity of
proteins, ultimately modulating protein function and degradation, influencing cellular …

Native top-down mass spectrometry with collisionally activated dissociation yields higher-order structure information for protein complexes

C Lantz, B Wei, B Zhao, W Jung… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Native mass spectrometry (MS) of proteins and protein assemblies reveals size and binding
stoichiometry, but elucidating structures to understand their function is more challenging …

Added value of internal fragments for top-down mass spectrometry of intact monoclonal antibodies and antibody–drug conjugates

B Wei, C Lantz, W Liu, R Viner… - Analytical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) and antibody–drug conjugates (ADCs) are two of the most
important therapeutic drug classes that require extensive characterization, whereas their …

Native top‐down mass spectrometry for higher‐order structural characterization of proteins and complexes

R Liu, S **a, H Li - Mass spectrometry reviews, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Progress in structural biology research has led to a high demand for powerful and yet
complementary analytical tools for structural characterization of proteins and protein …

Mass spectrometry-intensive top-down proteomics: an update on technology advancements and biomedical applications

T Xu, Q Wang, Q Wang, L Sun - Analytical Methods, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Proteoforms are all forms of protein molecules from the same gene because of variations at
the DNA, RNA, and protein levels, eg, alternative splicing and post-translational …

Seeing the complete picture: proteins in top-down mass spectrometry

T Habeck, F Lermyte - Essays in Biochemistry, 2023 - portlandpress.com
Top-down protein mass spectrometry can provide unique insights into protein sequence and
structure, including precise proteoform identification and study of protein–ligand and protein …

Proteoform‐selective imaging of tissues using mass spectrometry

M Yang, H Hu, P Su, PM Thomas… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Unraveling the complexity of biological systems relies on the development of new
approaches for spatially resolved proteoform‐specific analysis of the proteome. Herein, we …

Impact of internal fragments on top-down analysis of intact proteins by 193 nm UVPD

SD Dunham, B Wei, C Lantz, JA Loo… - Journal of proteome …, 2022 - ACS Publications
193 nm ultraviolet photodissociation (UVPD) allows high sequence coverage to be obtained
for intact proteins using terminal fragments alone. However, internal fragments, those that …

Internal fragments generated from different top-down mass spectrometry fragmentation methods extend protein sequence coverage

MA Zenaidee, B Wei, C Lantz, HT Wu… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Top-down mass spectrometry (TD-MS) of intact proteins results in fragment ions that can be
correlated to the protein primary sequence. Fragments generated can either be terminal …