A mass spectrometry-based hybrid method for structural modeling of protein complexes.

Politis, Argyris; Stengel, Florian; Hall, Zoe; Hernández, Helena; Leitner, Alexander; Walzthoeni, Thomas; Robinson, Carol V; Aebersold, Ruedi · Nat Methods · 2014

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

We describe a method that integrates data derived from different mass spectrometry (MS)-based techniques with a modeling strategy for structural characterization of protein assemblies. We encoded structural data derived from native MS, bottom-up proteomics, ion mobility-MS and chemical cross-linking MS into modeling restraints to compute the most likely structure of a protein assembly. We used the method to generate near-native models for three known structures and characterized an assembly intermediate of the proteasomal base.

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