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High-throughput in vitro refolding of proteins that contain disulfide bonds, for which soluble expression is particularly difficult, is severely impeded by the absence of effective methods for detecting their native forms. We demonstrate such a method, which combines mass spectrometry with mild reductions, requires no prior experimentation or knowledge of proteins' physicochemical characteristics, function or activity, and is amenable to automation. These are necessary criteria for structural genomics and proteomics applications.
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This research was supported by National Institutes of Health grants GM-24893 (to H.A.S.) and GM-16609 (to F.W.M.), by NORT(DNT), Hungary, OTKA-NF61431 (to E.W.), and by UTEP startup money (to M.N.). E.W. is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute international scholar and an EMBO-HHMI start up grantee.
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Narayan, M., Welker, E., Zhai, H. et al. Detecting native folds in mixtures of proteins that contain disulfide bonds. Nat Biotechnol 26, 427–429 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt1380
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