PMID- 32380835 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210212 LR - 20210212 IS - 1520-6882 (Electronic) IS - 0003-2700 (Linking) VI - 92 IP - 11 DP - 2020 Jun 2 TI - Development of a Sample-Preparation Workflow for Sulfopeptide Enrichment: From Target Analysis to Challenges in Shotgun Sulfoproteomics. PG - 7964-7971 LID - 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c01342 [doi] AB - Protein tyrosine O-sulfation is an important post-translational modification, as it has been correlated to inflammation, virus infection, and signal pathways. Nevertheless, methods for the characterization of protein sulfation by sulfopeptide enrichment are currently limited. In this Article, two standard compounds, representative of mono- and disulfated peptides, were used to compare the enrichment capabilities of five sorbent materials: two commercial weak anion-exchange mixed-mode sorbents (Strata X-AW and Oasis WAX) and three phosphopeptide enrichment materials based on affinity chromatography to either immobilized metals (IMAC) or metal oxides, i.e., Fe(3+), TiO(2), or Ti(4+). The sulfopeptides were analyzed by ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC) multiple-reaction monitoring analysis and were stable under all the tested experimental conditions. Recoveries of the enrichment step from spiked bovine serum albumin digests were >80% for the commercial Fe-IMAC kit and the Strata X-AW sorbent. Shotgun proteomics was used on the same samples to evaluate the selectivity, calculated as the number of coenriched peptides, and it was found to be better for the Fe-IMAC kit. Therefore, the Fe-IMAC protocol was embedded in a shotgun-proteomics workflow and applied to serum spiked with the sulfopeptides before protein dephosphorylation and digestion. The recovery of the entire analytical workflow was 20%, which was compatible with previous data on TiO(2) phosphopeptide enrichment. Despite the potential, no sulfopeptide was confidently identified in serum digests by conventional shotgun proteomics, probably due to very low abundance of native sulfoproteins, poor ionization efficiency of sulfopeptides in the positive mode, and lack of unambiguous sulfopeptide identification by bioinformatics software. In this context, the use of negative-ionization mode with high-resolution mass spectrometry appeared promising to improve the sensibility and allow sulfopeptide identification in complex samples. FAU - Capriotti, Anna Laura AU - Capriotti AL AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-1017-9625 AD - Department of Chemistry, Sapienza Universita di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy. FAU - Cerrato, Andrea AU - Cerrato A AD - Department of Chemistry, Sapienza Universita di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy. FAU - Lagana, Aldo AU - Lagana A AD - Department of Chemistry, Sapienza Universita di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy. AD - CNR NANOTEC, Campus Ecotekne, University of Salento, Via Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy. FAU - Montone, Carmela Maria AU - Montone CM AD - Department of Chemistry, Sapienza Universita di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy. FAU - Piovesana, Susy AU - Piovesana S AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-7134-7421 AD - Department of Chemistry, Sapienza Universita di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy. FAU - Zenezini Chiozzi, Riccardo AU - Zenezini Chiozzi R AD - Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research and Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, Utrecht 3584 CH, Netherlands. AD - Netherlands Proteomics CentrePadualaan 8Utrecht3584 CHNetherlands. FAU - Cavaliere, Chiara AU - Cavaliere C AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-1332-682X AD - Department of Chemistry, Sapienza Universita di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20200520 PL - United States TA - Anal Chem JT - Analytical chemistry JID - 0370536 RN - 0 (Ferric Compounds) RN - 0 (Peptides) RN - 15FIX9V2JP (titanium dioxide) RN - D1JT611TNE (Titanium) SB - IM MH - Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid MH - Ferric Compounds/chemistry MH - Peptides/*analysis/metabolism MH - *Proteomics MH - Titanium/chemistry EDAT- 2020/05/10 06:00 MHDA- 2021/02/13 06:00 CRDT- 2020/05/09 06:00 PHST- 2020/05/10 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/02/13 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2020/05/09 06:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c01342 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Anal Chem. 2020 Jun 2;92(11):7964-7971. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c01342. Epub 2020 May 20.