Citation: Wen Su, Siying Liu, Qingfu Zhang, Zhongyan Zhou, Na Wang, Lei Yue. Temperature-controlled electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry study on protein/small molecule interaction[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2025, 36(5): 110237. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2024.110237 shu

Temperature-controlled electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry study on protein/small molecule interaction

Wen Su ^{a, b, 1} ,
Siying Liu ^{a, 1} ,
Qingfu Zhang ^a ,
Zhongyan Zhou ^a ,
Na Wang ^{a, c, *,} ,
Lei Yue ^{a, *,}

a.
Department of Pharmacy, College of Biology, State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, Hunan University, Changsha 410000, China
b.
College of Pharmacy, Shaoyang University, Shaoyang 422000, China
c.
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan 411100, China

wna@hnust.edu.cn

yuelei@hnu.edu.cn

Received Date: 21 February 2024
Revised Date: 16 June 2024
Accepted Date: 10 July 2024
Available Online: 11 July 2024

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Traditional electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry (ESI-MSⁿ) has been a powerful tool in diverse research areas, however, it faces great limitations in the study of protein-small molecule interactions. In this article, the state-of-the-art temperature-controlled electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry (TC-ESI-MSⁿ) is applied to investigate interactions between ubiquitin and two flavonol molecules, respectively. The combination of collision-induced dissociation (CID) and MS solution-melting experiments facilitates the understanding of flavonol-protein interactions in a new dimension across varying temperature ranges. While structural changes of proteins disturbed by small molecules are unseen in ESI-MSⁿ, TC-ESI-MSⁿ allows a simultaneous assessment of the stability of the complex in both gas and liquid phases under various temperature conditions, meanwhile investigating the impact on the protein’s structure and tracking changes in thermodynamic data, and the characteristics of structural intermediates.
- Protein-small molecule interaction,
- Electrospray ionization,
- Tandem mass spectrometry,
- Ubiquitin,
- Flavonol
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