An informatic framework for decoding protein complexes by top-down mass spectrometry.

Skinner, Owen S; Havugimana, Pierre C; Haverland, Nicole A; Fornelli, Luca; Early, Bryan P; Greer, Joseph B; Fellers, Ryan T; Durbin, Kenneth R et al. · Nat Methods · 2016

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Efforts to map the human protein interactome have resulted in information about thousands of multi-protein assemblies housed in public repositories, but the molecular characterization and stoichiometry of their protein subunits remains largely unknown. Here, we report a computational search strategy that supports hierarchical top-down analysis for precise identification and scoring of multi-proteoform complexes by native mass spectrometry.

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