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High Accuracy Molecular Weight Determination and Variation Characterization of Proteins Up To 80 ku by Ionspray Mass Spectrometry

  • Rang Feng
  • Yasuo Konishi
  • Alexander W. Bell
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A quadrupole mass spectrometer with an ionspray interface was used to measure the molecular weight (MW) of proteins up to 80,000 u . With the improvements in instrument cahbration by a statistical averaging method and in data analysis by a gaussian curve-fitting method, precision of MW determination as high as 12 ppm was achieved with equine myoglobin (MW 16,950.4 ± 0.2 u). Exact MW determination of three components in cerato-ulmin revealed that the two minor ones had lost amino acid residues Ser and Ser-Asp, respectively, from the major component (MW 7618.4 ± 0.2 u). MW classifIcation of eight components in the Fab fragment of a monoclonal antibody revealed that one set of four had MW − 47,540 u and the other − 47,640 u. The MW difference of 100.2 ± 0.6 u between fragment 1 and 2, attributed to inhomogeneous cleavage at the Fab C-terminus, was probably due to one additional Thr in 1. The MW of bovine serum albumin (BSA) was found to be 66,431.5 ± 1.3 u, − 164 u higher than the calculated sequence MW, most probably because of the incorrectness in the previously reported BSA amino acid sequence. The MW of human serum transferrin (79,556.8 ± 1.7 u) was shown to be 4414 u higher than the sequence MW, pointing to a glycosylation of 22.7 sugar units in this protein. The greater complexity in bovine serum transferrin (MW 78,030.5 ± 1.8 and 78,326 ± 3.3 u for the two major components) was correlated with the heterogeneity in the glycosylation.

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Charge State Ally Topic Ratio Unit Molecular Weight Difference Convolution Effect 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Rang Feng
    • 1
  • Yasuo Konishi
    • 1
  • Alexander W. Bell
    • 1
  1. 1.Bioteclmology Research InstituteNational Research Council of CanadaMontrealCanada

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