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. 2013 Aug;13(15):2251-5.
doi: 10.1002/pmic.201300036. Epub 2013 Jul 1.

PTM MarkerFinder, a software tool to detect and validate spectra from peptides carrying post-translational modifications

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PTM MarkerFinder, a software tool to detect and validate spectra from peptides carrying post-translational modifications

Paolo Nanni et al. Proteomics. 2013 Aug.

Abstract

Mass spectrometry (MS) analysis of peptides carrying post-translational modifications is challenging due to the instability of some modifications during MS analysis. However, glycopeptides as well as acetylated, methylated and other modified peptides release specific fragment ions during CID (collision-induced dissociation) and HCD (higher energy collisional dissociation) fragmentation. These fragment ions can be used to validate the presence of the PTM on the peptide. Here, we present PTM MarkerFinder, a software tool that takes advantage of such marker ions. PTM MarkerFinder screens the MS/MS spectra in the output of a database search (i.e., Mascot) for marker ions specific for selected PTMs. Moreover, it reports and annotates the HCD and the corresponding electron transfer dissociation (ETD) spectrum (when present), and summarizes information on the type, number, and ratios of marker ions found in the data set. In the present work, a sample containing enriched N-acetylhexosamine (HexNAc) glycopeptides from yeast has been analyzed by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry on an LTQ Orbitrap Velos using both HCD and ETD fragmentation techniques. The identification result (Mascot .dat file) was submitted as input to PTM MarkerFinder and screened for HexNAc oxonium ions. The software output has been used for high-throughput validation of the identification results.

Keywords: Data mining; High-throughput proteomics; Interpretation of mass spectra; Mass spectrometry; Post-translational modifications.

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