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Figure 4. MALDI-TOF/TOF product ion spectrum of the type 0 modified Munc13-1 peptide (peptide amino acids 3-9) [M + H + BuUrBu-OH] +<br />

at m/z 1072.6.<br />

Intrapeptide Cross-Linking Products (Type 1). Also for<br />

intrapeptide cross-links, MALDI-TOF/TOF data were comparable<br />

to ESI-CID-MS 2 data for Munc13-1 (data not shown) and a<br />

PPARR peptide (Supporting Information, Figure S4).<br />

Interpeptide Cross-Linking Products (Type 2). For interpeptide<br />

cross-links 2 within the Munc13-1 peptide, MALDI-TOF/<br />

TOF experiments impressively demonstrated the fragility of the<br />

urea cross-linker upon high-energy CID, which is the reason for<br />

the increased abundance of the two 26 u doublets of product ions<br />

dominating the product ion spectrum of the type 2 modified<br />

precursor ion at m/z 1789.2 (Figure 5, Table 1). According to this<br />

spectrum, the fragmentation characteristics of 1 seem to be<br />

perfectly suited for MALDI-TOF/TOF applications, being even<br />

better than for low-energy MS 2 experiments in a quadrupole ion<br />

trap (Figure 3). The two pairs of 26 u mass shifted product ions<br />

reveal that the R-peptide and �-peptide comprising the cross-linked<br />

product are modified either with 4-aminobutyric acid or with 1,3oxazepan-2-one.<br />

Additionally conducted MALDI-ISD-MS/MS experiments<br />

confirmed the amino acid sequences of both peptides<br />

connected via the BuUrBu linker. This fingerprint feature of two<br />

26 u doublets evidencing the interpeptide cross-link was also found<br />

in the MALDI-TOF/TOF fragment ion spectrum of an interpeptide<br />

(type 2) modified PPARR peptide (Lys-208 connected with Lys-<br />

216) as the most abundant signals in the mass spectrum (Figure<br />

S5, Supporting Information; Table 1). A full list of cross-linking<br />

products from PPARR, which were identified by nano-HPLC/<br />

MALDI-TOF/TOF-MS/MS, is presented in the Supporting Information<br />

(Table S1).<br />

CONCLUSIONS<br />

In this paper, we describe the synthesis and application of a<br />

novel dissociative amine-reactive cross-linker that shows enhanced<br />

6966 <strong>Analytical</strong> <strong>Chemistry</strong>, Vol. 82, No. 16, August 15, 2010<br />

fragmentation capabilities in both ESI-CID-ion trap-MS n and<br />

MALDI-TOF/TOF-CID-MS/MS and ISD-MS/MS and as such<br />

possesses a versatile applicability. The reactivity and the<br />

kinetics of our novel cross-linker were found to be comparable<br />

with that of other NHS esters, such as BS 3 . The cross-linker 1<br />

contains a urea moiety allowing for a facilitated cleavage upon<br />

CID. The key step in the fragmentation mechanism of the<br />

cross-linker is a nucleophilic attack at the urea carbonyl group,<br />

enabling a highly effective cleavage of the urea moiety. The<br />

synthesis of the cross-linker is simple compared to that of the<br />

previously published “Edman” cross-linker 13 and is achieved<br />

in two steps with inexpensive starting materials. The BuUrBu<br />

structure is symmetric, and hence, assignment of cross-linked<br />

product ions is facilitated compared to the rather complicated<br />

product ion spectra obtained with the previously published<br />

unsymmetric tandem MS cleavable linker. 13 The effective<br />

fragmentation properties of the CID cleavable cross-linker<br />

safeguarding for a selective identification of modified peptides<br />

by tandem MS improves the sensitivity of chemical crosslinking<br />

for protein structure analysis. This is highly advantageous<br />

for discriminating cross-linked species compared to<br />

isotope-labeled, i.e., deuterated linkers, which are employed<br />

as 1:1 mixtures of nondeuterated and deuterated derivatives,<br />

and in constrast to those, no decrease in MS signal intensity<br />

is observed for CID labile cross-linkers.<br />

Especially during MALDI-TOF/TOF experiments, higher quality<br />

MS/MS data were obtained compared to those for conventional<br />

noncleavable NHS esters, such as BS 3 . From CID MS 2 product<br />

ion mass spectra, the type of cross-linking present is readily<br />

visible: Peptides that are modified with a hydrolyzed linker<br />

(dead-end or type 0 cross-links) deliver a single pair of product<br />

ions mass shifted by 26 u due to the loss of 103 and 129 u

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