Native Top-Down Mass Spectrometry for Characterizing Sarcomeric Proteins Directly from Cardiac Tissue Lysate

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Abstract

Native top-down mass spectrometry (nTDMS) has emerged as a powerful structural biology tool that can localize post-translational modifications (PTMs), explore ligand-binding interactions, and elucidate the three-dimensional structure of proteins and protein complexes in the gas-phase. Fourier-transform ion cyclotron resonance (FTICR) MS offers distinct capabilities for nTDMS, owing to its ultrahigh resolving power, mass accuracy, and robust fragmentation techniques. Previous nTDMS studies using FTICR have mainly been applied to overexpressed recombinant proteins and protein complexes. Here, we report the first nTDMS study that directly analyzes human heart tissue lysate by direct infusion FTICR MS without prior chromatographic separation strategies. We have achieved comprehensive nTDMS characterization of cardiac contractile proteins that play critical roles in heart contraction and relaxation. Specifically, our results reveal structural insights into ventricular myosin light chain 2 (MLC-2v), ventricular myosin light chain 1 (MLC-1v), and alpha-tropomyosin (α-Tpm) in the sarcomere, the basic contractile unit of cardiac muscle. Furthermore, we verified the calcium (Ca2+) binding domain in MLC-2v. In summary, our nTDMS platform extends the application of FTICR MS to directly characterize the structure, PTMs, and metal-binding of endogenous proteins from heart tissue lysate without prior separation methods.

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