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Identification of phosphorylation sites in proteins separated by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.

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A fast, sensitive, and robust procedure for the identification of precise phosphorylation sites in proteins separated by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis by a combination of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI/TOF) and online capillary liquid chromatography electrospray tandem ion trap mass spectromaetry (LC/ESI/MS/MS).
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We report a fast, sensitive, and robust procedure for the identification of precise phosphorylation sites in proteins separated by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis by a combination of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI/TOF) and on-line capillary liquid chromatography electrospray tandem ion trap mass spectrometry (LC/ESI/MS/MS). With this procedure, a single phosphorylation site was identified on as little as 20 ng (500 fmol) of the baculovirus-expressed catalytic domain of myosin I heavy-chain kinase separated by gel electrophoresis. The phosphoprotein is digested in the gel with trypsin, and the resulting peptides are extracted with >60% yield and analyzed by MALDI/TOF before and after digestion with a phosphatase to identify the phosphopeptides. The phosphopeptides are then separated and fragmented in an on-line LC/ESI ion trap mass spectrometer to identify the precise phosphorylation sites. This procedure eliminates any off-line HPLC separation and mi...

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Requirement of ATM-Dependent Phosphorylation of Brca1 in the DNA Damage Response to Double-Strand Breaks

TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that the checkpoint protein kinase ATM (mutated in ataxia telangiectasia) was required for phosphorylation of Brca1 in response to ionizing radiation.
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Analysis of protein phosphorylation using mass spectrometry: deciphering the phosphoproteome.

TL;DR: Several methods for enrichment of phosphorylated proteins and peptides are outlined and various options for their identification and quantitation are discussed with special emphasis on mass spectrometry-based techniques.
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Mass Spectrometric Sequencing of Proteins from Silver-Stained Polyacrylamide Gels

TL;DR: Silver staining allows a substantial shortening of sample preparation time and may, therefore, be preferable over Coomassie staining, and this work removes a major obstacle to the low-level sequence analysis of proteins separated on polyacrylamide gels.
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Femtomole sequencing of proteins from polyacrylamide gels by nano-electrospray mass spectrometry

TL;DR: A simple and robust technique for the sequencing of proteins isolated by polyacrylamide gel electro-phoresis, using nano-electrospray3,4 tandem mass spectrometry5,6 and multiple-sequence stretches of up to 16 amino acids are obtained.
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Error-tolerant identification of peptides in sequence databases by peptide sequence tags.

TL;DR: A new approach to the identification of mass spectrometrically fragmented peptides is demonstrated and an algorithm developed here that uses the sequence tag to find the peptide in a sequence database is up to 1 million-fold more discriminating than the partial sequence information alone.
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Reverse Transcriptase Motifs in the Catalytic Subunit of Telomerase

TL;DR: The reverse transcriptase protein fold, previously known to be involved in retroviral replication and retrotransposition, is essential for normal chromosome telomere replication in diverse eukaryotes.
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