ETD and sequential ETD localize the residues involved in D2-A2A heteromerization

Ludovic Mullerab, Shelley N. Jacksona and Amina S. Woods*a
aStructural Biology Unit, NIDA IRP, NIH, 333 Cassell Drive, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA. E-mail: awoods@intra.nida.nih.gov; Fax: +1-443-740-2144; Tel: +1-443-740-2747
bUniversity of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Received 20th May 2014 , Accepted 21st August 2014

First published on 28th August 2014


Abstract

Certain amino acid residues and posttranslational modifications play an important role in the formation of noncovalent complexes (NCXs) by electrostatic interactions. Electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) is the most widely used MS technique for the study of NCXs, due to its softer ionization process and compatibility with the solution phase of NCX mixtures. In order to locate the site where interactions are forming in NCXs involving phosphopeptides and adjacent arginines, tandem mass spectrometry studies using collision-induced dissociation (CID) and electron transfer dissociation (ETD) were performed on NCXs at different charge states. CID fragmentation revealed two dissociation pathways: one in which the electrostatic interaction is disrupted and another in which the covalent bond attaching the phosphate group to the amino acid residue is cleaved, while the electrostatic interaction is maintained. ETD and sequential ETD/ETD, and CID/ETD allow the determination of the NCX interaction site. These results confirmed the involvement of the phosphorylated amino acid and at least two adjacent arginines as the binding site.


Introduction

Noncovalent complexes (NCXs) are formed from a wide variety of interactions that include hydrophobic interactions,1 electrostatic (coulombic) interactions,2,3 and hydrogen bonding,4,5 which is actually a weak electrostatic interaction.6 Electrostatic interactions are of particular importance in determining the quaternary structure of interacting molecules and determining their conformation which gives specificity to the proteins involved7 such as in receptor heteromerization.8,9 Certain amino acid residues and posttranslational modifications play an important role in the formation of NCXs by electrostatic interactions.6,10,11 The use of mass spectrometry to study NCXs in biological systems has sky rocketed in recent years.6,12,13 Mass spectrometry is well-suited to study electrostatic interactions as they are strengthened and stabilized in the gas phase when compared to solution phase, due to the dielectric constant of the solvent, which weakens electrostatic interactions in solution phase.6,14 Electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) is the most widely used MS technique for the study of NCXs, due to its softer ionization process and compatibility with the solution phase of NCX mixtures. ESI-MS has been successfully used to analyze protein complexes,14–16 protein–peptide complexes,17,18 NCXs of peptides,19–21 NCXs of DNA and RNA,22–24 and NCXs in drug discovery.25

Several studies using mass spectrometry have probed the electrostatic interaction forming NCXs to determine its location and stability/strength. First, NCXs enzymatic digests have been conducted to determine the possible binding sites for peptide–peptide2,26 and protein–peptide27 interactions. However, the interpretation of results can be complicated due to the plethora of peaks and background ions resulting from the digest, although it narrows down the possible location of the electrostatic interaction. Tandem MS experiments using collision-induced dissociation (CID) have analyzed the gas-phase stability of NCXs of different molecules, in order to compare the strength of the noncovalent bond holding complexes together.20,21,28,29 Furthermore, results from studies analyzing the fragmentation of NCXs formed with phospho/sulfopeptides, using CID revealed two dissociation pathways for these complexes: one in which the electrostatic interaction is disrupted leading to the two intact partners and another in which the covalent bond attaching the phosphate/sulfate group to the amino acid residue is cleaved, while the electrostatic interaction is maintained.19,21,30 Similar dissociation pathways in which the noncovalent bond was maintained, has been observed in NCXs between oligonucleotide/polybasic compounds,31 ribonuclease–nucleotide32 and DNA/peptides.33 While these results confirm the role of certain amino acid residues and chemical groups (including phosphate/sulfate), in the formation, stability and strength of NCXs, they do not allow the assignment of the specific sites involved in the electrostatic interactions, especially when more than one possible binding site is present on the domains involved.

CID fragmentation can be complemented by using either electron capture dissociation (ECD) or electron transfer dissociation (ETD), which cleave the peptide backbone while side chains and post-translational modifications, such as phosphorylation, are left intact.34–36 In one previous study, ECD was conducted on weakly bound polypeptide complexes and produced some intramolecular fragmentation ions without weak bond dissociation.37 Our group showed how ETD can be an effective tool for the identification of the specific amino acid residues involved in electrostatic interactions (NCXs) between peptides.38 ECD has recently been used to elucidate the site of binding between ATP and protein.39 In this study, we investigated the interaction between epitopes from D2 and A2A receptors, known to be biologically involved via receptor heteromerization.9,40 Both CID and ETD were conducted on the NCX, and the use of sequential ETD experiments on NCX fragments will be introduced to identify the site of interaction when multiple sites of interaction are possible.

Materials and methods

Chemicals

The basic epitope RRRRKRVNTKRSSR (R4), [C73H142N38O19, 1855.13 u] a linear motif in the third intracellular loop of the D2 receptor, and the acidic epitope SAQEpSQGNT (pS), [C34H59N12O19P, 1000.35 u] a linear motif located in the carboxy terminus of the Adenosine A2A receptor, where p denotes a phosphorylated residue, were synthesized at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Sequencing and Synthesis Laboratory (Baltimore MD). EtOH was purchased from the Warner-Graham Company (Cockeysville, MD).

Sample preparation and analysis

Peptides stock solutions were prepared in water at a concentration of 1 nmol μL−1. A mixture of 1[thin space (1/6-em)]:[thin space (1/6-em)]4 (basic[thin space (1/6-em)]:[thin space (1/6-em)]acidic) ratio was prepared and diluted in 50% ethanol prior to mass analysis.

Mass spectrometer

Analysis was conducted on a LTQ Orbitrap Velos mass spectrometer (Thermo Electron, San Jose, CA) with a static nanospray source in positive ion mode. A spray voltage of 1.5 kV was used with 2 μm nanospray tips (New Objective, Woburn, MA). A mass selection window of 2 mass units was used for MSn analysis. CID experiments were conducted with collision energies of 12 to 17. ETD experiments were conducted via a modification involving a chemical ionization source at the rear of the instrument. Fluoranthene ions were used as the ETD reagent. The anion target was 5e6 and the activation time for the ETD reaction was 100 ms. All mass spectra in this study, are the sum of 25 to 50 scans. The mass resolution was set at 60[thin space (1/6-em)]000 for an m/z 400. The MS3 sequential experiments were performed in the linear ion trap. To simplify notations, protonated species [M + nH]n+ are labeled as Mn+.

Results and discussion

In order to investigate the stability of the interaction involved in NCX formation, a mixture of two peptide R4 and pS, known to form complexes, was analyzed by ESI-MS. Fig. 1A shows an ESI-MS spectrum for a sample mixture of R4 and pS in positive ion mode. The major peaks observed correspond to the peptide R4 with 3 to 6 charges and pS with one charge. The multiple charges on R4 are expected since it contains seven arginines residues. The NCX formed between R4 and pS is also observed with 4 to 6 positive charges. Fig. 1B shows the CID MS/MS spectrum for the NCX4+observed in Fig. 1A at m/z 715.13 Da. The dissociation of the NCX4+ peak resulted in a singly charged ion corresponding to pS (m/z 1001.36 Da) and a very intense triply charged ion attributed to R43+ (m/z 619.38 Da). This result suggests an uneven sharing of charges between the two partners of the complex when disrupted by CID. The positive charges stay mainly on the basic epitopes. These fragment ions result from the disruption of the electrostatic interaction between the two peptides. A second pathway, cleaving the covalent bond between the oxygen and the phosphate lead to the formation of the ion fragments at m/z 646.04 Da corresponding to [R4 + HPO3]3+, and [pS-HPO3]+ at 921.39 Da. This type of fragmentation for NCXs has been reported in previous studies.19,21,30,41 An additional fragment ion from the acidic [pS-H3PO4]+ at 903.38 Da can be observed as a consecutive loss of water from [pS-HPO3]+ or the loss of H3PO4 from pS+.
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Fig. 1 Ion mass spectrum (A) from a peptide mixture of SAQEpSQGNT(pS) and RRRRKRVNTKRSSR(R4) and product-ion spectra of the [NCX + 4H]4+with (B) CID and (C) ETD.

The ETD product-ion spectrum from the NCX4+, in Fig. 1C, shows a very different fragmentation of the complex compared to the CID. Unlike CID, the NCX did not dissociate into the parent peptides, but mainly produced c and z ions, fragmenting along both peptides. Intramolecular fragments which conserved the electrostatic bond have been marked with an asterisk *. These fragment ions allowed the identification of the amino acids involved in the binding. For the basic peptide (R4) the ions of the c serie (c*4–c*13, color purple) and the z serie (z′*12–z′*14, color pink), that were interacting with the phosphate, all contained the two adjacent arginines (Arg3 (3rd arginine of the peptides) and Arg4). Likewise, the fragment ions from the acidic peptide (pS): c*5–c*8 (color orange) and z′*5–z′*9 (color green) that were interacting with R4, contained the phosphoserine. Other complementary fragment ions from R4 are also present in the spectrum (c and z′ in blue) but do not offer any information on the interaction site of the complex.

CID and ETD experiments were also conducted on both NCX5+ and NCX6+ (Fig. 2). The CID spectra again show two fragmentation pathways. The first one is the complex dissociation, leading to pS at m/z 1001.36 and R4 at m/z 464.79 in Fig. 2A (corresponding to R44+) or at m/z 372.03 in Fig. 2B (corresponding to R45+). As observed with NCX4+, the charges are not evenly shared in this complex as most of them are on the basic epitope. For every charge state tested, pS is singly charged and R4 is multiply charged (one charge less than the complex), which is understandable considering the number of arginines in R4. Finally, as for the NCX4+, another fragmentation pathway is observed, in which an additional mass of 79.97 u (corresponding to HPO3) is seen on the basic peptide [R4 + HPO3]. The relative intensity of this peak (R4 + HPO3), compared to R4, shows a net decrease when the number of positive charges increase. An explanation, that we proposed,19 is that as the number of charges on the complex increases the stabilization of the guanidinium group and decreases the deprotonation of the phosphate group, thus weakening the electrostatic bond.


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Fig. 2 CID-product-ion spectra from a peptide mixture of SAQEpSQGNT and RRRRKRVNTKRSSR of the (A) [NCX + 5H]5+ and the (B) [NCX + 6H]6+. ETD-product-ion spectra of (C) [NCX + 5H]5+and +(D) [NCX + 6H]6+.

ETD spectra were also recorded for NCX5+ (Fig. 2C) and NCX6+ (Fig. 2D). Similar to the ETD mass spectrum of the NCX4+ ion (Fig. 1C), numerous ion fragments are observed from the cleavage of peptide bonds in both epitopes (ESI). Ion fragments from the basic peptide which is still interacting with pS (c*4–c*13 and z′*12–z′*14 respectively in purple and pink) and their complementary fragment ions (c1–c2 and z2–z10) are observed. Basic peptides fragments still involved in the interaction always contain Arg3 (3rd arginine of the peptides) and contain at least two adjacent arginines. To form the complex, we previously showed that two arginines were required,10 these results confirm it and show that they are essential for the complex stability. Overall ETD fragments from R4 are more intense with the NCX6+ and NCX5+ than with the NCX4+, this can be explained by the fact, that as observed in CID, and as expected, most of the charges are on the basic epitopes. These charges allow us to better see the fragment ions from R4 by mass spectrometry and make the cleavage by ETD easier. However, when looking at the acidic peptides, ETD results in fewer fragments (Fig. 2C and D). Ion fragments (c*8 and z′*6–z′*9) still interacting with R4 are seen in both spectra. The diagnostic ion c*7 is present only in the ETD spectrum of NCX6+. Surprisingly, we have less coverage on the acidic peptides than with the NCX4+. This lack of fragmentation from the acidic peptide is an issue in determining the binding site and is explained by the higher number of charges on the basic epitope.

To have access to the binding site, MS3 sequential ETD (ETD/ETD) were attempted on the ETD-fragment [c4 + SAQEpSQGNT + 2H]2+ at m/z 821.90 from the [NCX + 5H]5+ (Fig. 3A). The parent ion is only doubly charged, for a better visibility of the intensity of the fragments the mass range 1000–1700 has been multiplied by 3. c- and z-ions fragments from the acidic peptide (c*5–c*8 and z′*5–z′*8) where the interaction was intact with c4 from R4 are seen. This pattern correspond exactly to the one obtained with the [NCX + 4H]4+ (Fig. 1C), confirming that the phosphoserine is the preferred interaction site with the c4 fragment. c4 is able to lose one of the arginine from each side of the chain. The same experiment was conducted on the ETD-fragment [c3 + SAQEpSQGNT + 2H]2+ at m/z 743.85 from the [NCX + 6H]6+ confirming the phosphoserine as the preferred site of interaction (data not shown). Sequential ETD of the ion fragment (R4 + HPO3)4+ from the CID of NCX5+ was also performed to confirm the binding site on the basic epitope. The CID/ETD spectrum is presented in Fig. 3B, and shows the cleavage of peptide bonds on R4. Ion fragments still interacting with the phosphate (c*3–c*13 and z′*12–z′*14 respectively in purple and pink) and their complementary fragment ions (c1–c3 and z2–z10) are observed. The same series of ions are observed in Fig. 2A and B, confirming the Arg3 as the most favorable site on the basic epitope. All ETD fragment ions, conserving the interaction, possess at least two adjacent arginines.


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Fig. 3 (A) Sequential ETD/ETD-product-ion spectra from [c4 + SAQEpSQGNT + 2H]2+ at m/z 821.90 from the ETD of the [NCX + 5H]5+. (B) Sequential CID/ETD-product-ion spectra of the [RRRRKRVNTKRSSR + HPO3 + 4H ]4+ at m/z 484.78 from the CID of the [NCX + 5H]5+.

Conclusions

CID experiments show that the electrostatic interaction is so stable that often a covalent bond will break before the electrostatic bond is disturbed .This work demonstrates the utility of ETD for studying NCX by generating intermolecular fragments from both partners. Similar to CID, ETD spectra are highly dependent on the charge states of the parent ions. The comparison of the product-ion mass spectra at different charge states shows less information at higher charges as it leads to less fragmentation from the acidic partner. To overcome this issue, the determination of the interaction site of the NCX has been done using sequential ETD/ETD. We confirmed the involvement of the phosphorylated amino acid at every charge state. ETD and sequential CID/ETD confirmed that the arginines’ guanidinium groups are the binding site and that at least two adjacent arginines are needed. Future work will include using ETD and sequential ETD to probe for the interaction sites in more complex NCXs involving proteins.

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