PMID- 27225419 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20180914 LR - 20181202 IS - 1879-1123 (Electronic) IS - 1044-0305 (Print) IS - 1044-0305 (Linking) VI - 27 IP - 9 DP - 2016 Sep TI - Optimization of Electrospray Ionization by Statistical Design of Experiments and Response Surface Methodology: Protein-Ligand Equilibrium Dissociation Constant Determinations. PG - 1520-30 LID - 10.1007/s13361-016-1417-x [doi] AB - Electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) binding studies between proteins and ligands under native conditions require that instrumental ESI source conditions are optimized if relative solution-phase equilibrium concentrations between the protein-ligand complex and free protein are to be retained. Instrumental ESI source conditions that simultaneously maximize the relative ionization efficiency of the protein-ligand complex over free protein and minimize the protein-ligand complex dissociation during the ESI process and the transfer from atmospheric pressure to vacuum are generally specific for each protein-ligand system and should be established when an accurate equilibrium dissociation constant (KD) is to be determined via titration. In this paper, a straightforward and systematic approach for ESI source optimization is presented. The method uses statistical design of experiments (DOE) in conjunction with response surface methodology (RSM) and is demonstrated for the complexes between Plasmodium vivax guanylate kinase (PvGK) and two ligands: 5'-guanosine monophosphate (GMP) and 5'-guanosine diphosphate (GDP). It was verified that even though the ligands are structurally similar, the most appropriate ESI conditions for KD determination by titration are different for each. Graphical Abstract ᅟ. FAU - Pedro, Liliana AU - Pedro L AD - Eskitis Institute for Drug Discovery, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. FAU - Van Voorhis, Wesley C AU - Van Voorhis WC AD - Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. FAU - Quinn, Ronald J AU - Quinn RJ AD - Eskitis Institute for Drug Discovery, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. r.quinn@griffith.edu.au. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20160525 PL - United States TA - J Am Soc Mass Spectrom JT - Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry JID - 9010412 RN - 0 (Ligands) RN - 0 (Proteins) SB - IM MH - Ligands MH - Proteins/*chemistry MH - Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization PMC - PMC4972871 OTO - NOTNLM OT - ESI-FTMS OT - Kd OT - Plasmodium vivax Guanylate Kinase (PvGK) OT - Protein-ligand complex EDAT- 2016/05/27 06:00 MHDA- 2018/09/15 06:00 PMCR- 2016/05/25 CRDT- 2016/05/27 06:00 PHST- 2014/11/02 00:00 [received] PHST- 2016/05/04 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2016/04/29 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2016/05/27 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2016/05/27 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/09/15 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2016/05/25 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1007/s13361-016-1417-x [pii] AID - 1417 [pii] AID - 10.1007/s13361-016-1417-x [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Am Soc Mass Spectrom. 2016 Sep;27(9):1520-30. doi: 10.1007/s13361-016-1417-x. Epub 2016 May 25.