De Novo Protein Sequencing by Combining Top-Down and Bottom-Up Tandem Mass Spectra
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- 作者：Xiaowen Liu ; Lennard J. M. Dekker ; Si Wu ; Martijn M. Vanduijn ; Theo M. Luider ; Nikola Toli膰 ; Qiang Kou ; Mikhail Dvorkin ; Sonya Alexandrova ; Kira Vyatkina ; Ljiljana Pa拧a-Toli膰 ; Pavel A. Pevzner
- 刊名：Journal of Proteome Research
- 出版年：2014
- 出版时间：July 3, 2014
- 年：2014
- 卷：13
- 期：7
- 页码：3241-3248
- 全文大小：395K
- ISSN：1535-3907
文摘
There are two approaches for de novo protein sequencing: Edman degradation and mass spectrometry (MS). Existing MS-based methods characterize a novel protein by assembling tandem mass spectra of overlapping peptides generated from multiple proteolytic digestions of the protein. Because each tandem mass spectrum covers only a short peptide of the target protein, the key to high coverage protein sequencing is to find spectral pairs from overlapping peptides in order to assemble tandem mass spectra to long ones. However, overlapping regions of peptides may be too short to be confidently identified. High-resolution mass spectrometers have become accessible to many laboratories. These mass spectrometers are capable of analyzing molecules of large mass values, boosting the development of top-down MS. Top-down tandem mass spectra cover whole proteins. However, top-down tandem mass spectra, even combined, rarely provide full ion fragmentation coverage of a protein. We propose an algorithm, TBNovo, for de novo protein sequencing by combining top-down and bottom-up MS. In TBNovo, a top-down tandem mass spectrum is utilized as a scaffold, and bottom-up tandem mass spectra are aligned to the scaffold to increase sequence coverage. Experiments on data sets of two proteins showed that TBNovo achieved high sequence coverage and high sequence accuracy.