Casein phosphoproteome: identification of phosphoproteins by combined mass spectrometry and two-dimensional gel electrophoresis

Electrophoresis. 2003 Aug;24(16):2824-37. doi: 10.1002/elps.200305545.

Abstract

We report a fast and easy-to-use procedure that combines polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis with matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization-time of flight-mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF) and nanoelectrospray-tandem mass spectrometry (nES-MS/MS) analysis for the identification of casein components and defined phosphorylated sites. This methodology ensured identification of more than 30 phosphorylated proteins, five beta-, fifteen alpha(s1)-, ten alpha(s2)-, and four kappa-casein (CN) components, including nonallelic, differently phosphorylated, and glycosylated forms. The sugar motif covalently bound to kappa-CN was identified as chains, trisaccharide GalNAc, Gal, NeuGc, and tetrasaccharide 1GalNAc, 1Gal, 2NeuGc. Also identified was a biantennary chain made up of both chains of trisaccharide 1GalNAc, 1Gal, 1NeuGc, and tetrasaccharide 1GalNAc, 1Gal, 2NeuGc moiety on a single kappa-CN component. The phosphate group on site Ser12 of tryptic peptide 8-22 of most phosphorylated alpha(s1)-CN (11 phosphate groups) was localized and the oligosaccharide sequence of the main tryptic glycopeptides of two kappa-CN components was determined by means of MS/MS analysis.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Carbohydrate Sequence
  • Caseins / analysis*
  • Caseins / chemistry
  • Electrophoresis, Gel, Two-Dimensional / methods
  • Glycoproteins / analysis
  • Glycosylation
  • Mass Spectrometry / methods
  • Oligosaccharides / analysis
  • Phosphoproteins / analysis*
  • Phosphoproteins / chemistry
  • Phosphorylation
  • Sequence Analysis
  • Sheep
  • Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization / methods
  • Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization / methods

Substances

  • Caseins
  • Glycoproteins
  • Oligosaccharides
  • Phosphoproteins