High-density chemical cross-linking for modeling protein interactions.

ABSTRACT: Detailed mechanistic understanding of protein complex function is greatly enhanced by insights from its 3-dimensional structure. Traditional methods of protein structure elucidation remain expensive and labor-intensive and require highly purified starting material. Chemical cross-linking coupled with mass spectrometry offers an alternative that has seen increased use, especially in combination with other experimental approaches like cryo-electron microscopy. Here we report advances in method development, combining several orthogonal cross-linking chemistries as well as improvements in search algorithms, statistical analysis, and computational cost to achieve coverage of 1 unique cross-linked position pair for every 7 amino acids at a 1% false discovery rate. This is accomplished without an

SUBMITTER: Mintseris J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6955236 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature