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Molecular & Cellular Proteomics 4:809-818, 2005.
© 2005 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

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Technology

Identification of Phosphopeptides by MALDI Q-TOF MS in Positive and Negative Ion Modes after Methyl Esterification^*,S

Chong-Feng Xu, Yun Lu, Jinghong Ma, Moosa Mohammadi and Thomas A. Neubert^,,¶

From the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York 10016

We have developed an efficient, sensitive, and specific method for the detection of phosphopeptides present in peptide mixtures by MALDI Q-TOF mass spectrometry. Use of the MALDI Q-TOF enables selection of phosphopeptides and characterization by CID of the phosphopeptides performed on the same sample spot. However, this type of experiment has been limited by low ionization efficiency of phosphopeptides in positive ion mode while selecting precursor ions of phosphopeptides. Our method entails neutralizing negative charges on acidic groups of nonphosphorylated peptides by methyl esterification before mass spectrometry in positive and negative ion modes. Methyl esterification significantly increases the relative signal intensity generated by phosphopeptides in negative ion mode compared with positive ion mode and greatly increases selectivity for phosphopeptides by suppressing the signal intensity generated by acidic peptides in negative ion mode. We used the method to identify 12 phosphopeptides containing 22 phosphorylation sites from low femtomolar amounts of a tryptic digest of ß-casein and -s-casein. We also identified 10 phosphopeptides containing five phosphorylation sites from an in-gel tryptic digest of 100 fmol of an in vitro autophosphorylated fibroblast growth factor receptor kinase domain and an additional phosphopeptide containing another phosphorylation site when 500 fmol of the digest was examined. The results demonstrate that the method is a fast, robust, and sensitive means of characterizing phosphopeptides present in low abundance mixtures of phosphorylated and nonphosphorylated peptides.

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