AUTOMATED CARBOXY-TERMINAL SEQUENCE-ANALYSIS OF PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS USING DIPHENYL PHOSPHOROISOTHIOCYANATIDATE

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作者
BAILEY, JM
NIKFARJAM, F
SHENOY, NR
SHIVELY, JE
机构
[1] Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Division of Immunology, Duarte, California
关键词
C-TERMINAL; PEPTIDES; PROTEINS; SEQUENCING; THIOHYDANTOINS;
D O I
10.1002/pro.5560011210
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Proteins and peptides can be sequenced from the carboxy-terminus with isothiocyanate reagents to produce amino acid thiohydantoin derivatives. Previous studies in our laboratory have focused on the automation of the thiocyanate chemistry using acetic anhydride and trimethylsilylisothiocyanate (TMS-ITC) to derivatize the C-terminal amino acid to a thiohydantoin and sodium trimethylsilanolate for specific hydrolysis of the derivatized C-terminal amino acid (Bailey, J.M., Shenoy, N.R., Ronk, M., & Shively, J.E., 1992, Protein Sci. 1, 68-80). A major limitation of this approach was the need to activate the C-terminus with acetic anhydride. We now describe the use of a new reagent, diphenyl phosphoroisothiocyanatidate (DPP-ITC) and pyridine, which combines the activation and derivatization steps to produce peptidylthiohydantoins. Previous work by Kenner et al. (Kenner, G.W., Khorana, H.G., & Stedman, R.J., 1953, Chem. Soc. J, 673-678) with this reagent demonstrated slow kinetics. Several days were required for complete reaction. We show here that the inclusion of pyridine was found to promote the formation of C-terminal thiohydantoins by DPP-ITC resulting in complete conversion of the C-terminal amino acid to a thiohydantoin in less than 1 h. Reagents such as imidazole, triazine, and tetrazole were also found to promote the reaction with DPP-ITC as effectively as pyridine. General base catalysts, such as triethylamine, do not promote the reaction, but are required to convert the C-terminal carboxylic acid to a salt prior to the reaction with DPP-ITC and pyridine. By introducing the DPP-ITC reagent and pyridine in separate steps in an automated sequencer, we observed improved sequencing yields for amino acids normally found difficult to derivatize with acetic anhydride/TMS-ITC. This was particularly true for aspartic acid, which now can be sequenced in yields comparable to most of the other amino acids. Automated programs are described for the C-terminal sequencing of peptides covalently attached to carboxylic acid-modified polyethylene and proteins (200 pmol to 5 nmol) noncovalently applied to Zitex (porous Teflon). The generality of our automated C-terminal sequencing methodology was examined by sequencing model peptides containing all 20 of the common amino acids. All of the amino acids tested were found to sequence in good yield except for proline, which was found not to be capable of derivatization. In spite of this limitation, the methodology should be a valuable tool for the C-terminal sequence analysis of peptides and proteins. This work represents the first time an automated, sequential, chemical method for C-terminal sequence analysis has been applied to subnanomolar amounts of protein samples.
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