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Here is presented the NIST Mass Calculator to provide both a relative molecular mass value (Mr) and an associated uncertainty value of a given protein sequence. The calculation of a protein Mr based on its amino acid residue sequence is performed by many
Meghan C. Burke, Zheng Zhang, Yuri A. Mirokhin, Dmitrii V. Tchekhovskoi, Yuxue Liang, Stephen E. Stein
We present a method for FDR estimation of mass spectral library search identifications made by a recently developed method for peptide identification, the hybrid search, based on an extension of the target-decoy approach. In addition to estimating
Tingting Wang, Ai Nguyen, Linwen Zhang, Illarion Turko
In the last decade, filamentous M13 bacteriophage has emerged into numerous biotechnological applications as a promising nontoxic and self-assembling biomaterial with specific binding properties. This raises a question about its upscale production that
Jeffrey W. Hudgens, Elyssia S. Gallagher, Ioannis L. Karageorgos, Kyle W. Anderson, Richard Y. Huang, Guodong Chen, George M. Bou-Assaf, Alfonso Espada, Michael J. Chalmers, Edu Harguindey, Hui-Min Zhang, Benjamin T. Walters, Jennifer Zhang, John Venable, Caitlin Steckler, In Hee Park, Ansgar Brock, Xiaojun Lu, Ratnesh Pandey, Arun Chandramohan, Ganesh Srinivasan Anand, Sasidhar N. Nirudodhi, Justin Sperry, Jason C. Rouse, James A. Carroll, Kasper D. Rand, Ulrike Leurs, David D. Weis, Mohammed A. Al-Naqshabandi, Daniel Deredge, Patrick Wintrode, Malvina Papanastasiou, John D. Lambris, Sheng Li, Sarah Urata
The spreadsheet file reported herein provides centroid data, descriptive of deuterium uptake, for the Fab Fragment of NISTmAb (PDB: 5K8A) reference material, as measured by the bottom-up hydrogen-deuterium exchange mass spectrometry (HDX-MS) method. The
Poly(ADP ribose) polymerase 1 (PARP1) is a multifunctional DNA repair protein of the base excision repair pathway and plays a major role in the repair of DNA strand breaks and in replication and transcriptional regulation among other functions. Mounting
Max J. Lerman, Shinichiro Muramoto, Navein Arumugasaamy, Michael Van Order, Josephine Lembong, Anushka Gerald, John G. Gillen, John P. Fisher
Traditional 2D culture systems made of polystyrene (PS) require the addition of surface chemistry beyond the nominal phenyl groups present to facilitate and encourage cell adhesion. Determining the surface properties which enhance protein adhesion from
Mak Saito, Erin Bertrand, Megan Duffy, David Gaylord, Noelle Held, Judson Harvey, Robert Hettich, Pratik Jagtap, Michael G. Janech, Danie Kinkade, Dasha Leary, Matt McIlvin, Eli Moore, Robert Morris, Ben Neely, Brook Nunn, Jaclyn Sanders, Adam Shepherd, Nick Symmonds, David Walsh
Ocean metaproteomics is an emerging field that provides an exciting new datatype with potential to enable discoveries regarding marine microbial communities and their underlying impact on global biogeochemical processes. For example, recent ocean
Mark S. Lowenthal, Christina M. Jones, Joan Adamo, Robert Bienvenu, Owen Fields, Soma Ghosh, Michael Liebman, Robert Schuck, Scott Steele
Building on the recent advances in next-generation sequencing, the integration of genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and other approaches hold tremendous promise for precision medicine. The approval and adoption of these rapidly advancing technologies and
Harmonization of diagnostic test results is fundamental to the effective use of laboratory testing in the diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of disease. Formal approaches to harmonization and standardization provide a rigorous and high quality Roadmap to
Circulating in blood, extracellular vesicles (EVs) and lipoprotein particles (LPs) have diagnostic and prognostic value. To unambiguously define their functions, separation protocols need to be developed. However, because of their similar size and density
Ben Neely, Katherine Prager, Alison Bland, Christine Fontaine, Frances Gulland, Michael G. Janech
Urinary markers for the assessment of kidney diseases in wild animals are limited, in part, due to the lack of urinary proteome data, especially for marine mammals. One of the most prevalent kidney diseases in marine mammals is caused by Leptospira
Jennifer K. Mulligan, Tucker Williamson, Nicholas Reaves, William Carroll, Sarah Stephenson, Peng Gao, Richard R. Drake, Ben Neely, Rodney J. Schlosser, Carl Atkinson
Background: Innate immune factors, including the complement system, have been implicated in the pathogenesis of chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP). Here we examine complement activity within the respiratory mucosa of CRSwNP patients, and a
Kyle W. Anderson, Elyssia S. Gallagher, Jeffrey W. Hudgens
Membrane proteins are currently the most common targets for pharmaceuticals. However, characterization of their structural dynamics by hydrogen/deuterium exchange mass spectrometry (HDX- MS) is sparse due to insufficient automated methods to handle full
Deepali Rathore, John E. Schiel, Anneliese Faustino, Eric Pang, Michael Boyne, Sarah M. Rogstad
Introduction: Mass spectrometry (MS) is widely used in the characterization of biomolecules including peptide and protein therapeutics. These biotechnology products have seen rapid growth over the past few decades and continue to dominate the global
Nicole A. Schneck, Karen W. Phinney, Sang Bok Lee, Mark Lowenthal
Quantification of cardiac troponin I (cTnI), a protein biomarker used for diagnosing myocardial infarction, has been achieved in native patient plasma based on an immunoaffinity enrichment strategy and isotope dilution (ID) liquid chromatography-tandem
Qian Dong, Yuxue Liang, Xinjian Yan, Sanford Markey, Yuri Mirokhin, Dmitrii V. Tchekhovskoi, Tallat H. Bukhari, Stephen E. Stein
We describe the creation of a mass spectral library composed of all identifiable spectra derived from the tryptic digest of a therapeutic monoclonal antibody. The NISTmAb library is a unique reference peptide spectral library developed from a total of six
David T. Gallagher, Ioannis L. Karageorgos, Jeffrey W. Hudgens, Connor V. Galvin
This article describes the crystal packing of the unliganded antibody fragment from the NIST reference antibody 8671, whose atomic coordinates are available as Protein Data Bank structure 5K8A [1]. Here we give information on the crystallization and
Natalia Mast, Joseph Lin, Kyle Anderson, Ingemar Bjorkhem, Irina A. Pikuleva
Cytochrome P450 46A1 (CYP46A1) converts cholesterol to 24-hydroxycholesterol and thereby controls the major pathways of cholesterol removal from the brain. Cyp46a1-/- mice have a reduction in the rate of cholesterol biosynthesis in the brain and
The increasing interest in extracellular vesicles (EVs) research is fueled by reports indicating their unique role in intercellular communication and potential connection to the development of common human diseases. The unique role assumes unique protein
Meghan C. Burke, Yuri A. Mirokhin, Dmitrii V. Tchekhovskoi, Sanford P. Markey, Stephen E. Stein, Jenny Heidbrink Thompson, Christopher Larkin
We present a mass spectral library based method to identify tandem mass spectra of peptides that contain unanticipated modifications and amino acid variants. We describe this as a hybrid method since it combines matching both ion m/z and mass losses. The
As the speed and quality of different analytical platforms increase, it is more common to collect data across multiple biological domains in parallel (i.e., genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics). There is a growing interest in algorithms
Ariel H. Hecht, Jeff E. Glasgow, Paul Jaschke, Lukmaan Bawazer, Matthew S. Munson, Jennifer R. Cochran, Drew Endy, Marc L. Salit
Our understanding of translation represents a cornerstone of molecular biology and underpins our capacity to engineer living matter. For decades, the codon AUG and a few near-cognates (GUG, UUG) have been exclusively considered as start codons for
A proof-of-concept for new methodology to detect and potentially quantify mAb aggregation is presented. Assay development included using an aggregated mAb as bait for screening of a phage display peptide library and identifying those peptides with random