Detection of pseudouridine and other modifications in tRNA by cyanoethylation and MALDI mass spectrometry
AUTOR(ES)
Mengel-Jørgensen, Jonas
FONTE
Oxford University Press
RESUMO
Mass spectrometry plays a central role in the characterisation of modified nucleotides, but pseudouridine is a mass-silent post-transcriptional modification and hence not detectable by direct mass spectrometric analysis. We show by the use of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionisation (MALDI) mass spectrometry that pseudouridines in tRNA can be specifically cyanoethylated by acrylonitrile without affecting the uridines. The tRNA was cyanoethylated and then subjected to digestion with either RNase A or RNase T1. Cyanoethylated digestion fragments were identified by mass spectrometric comparison of untreated and acrylonitrile-treated samples, where the addition of one acrylonitrile resulted in a mass increment of 53.0 Da. The exact modified nucleotide could be identified by tandem mass spectrometry on the cyanoethylated digestion fragment. The methodology was used to identify additional one 4-thiouridine and one pseudouridine in tRNATyrII from Escherichia coli. Furthermore, we observed that RNase A is highly tolerant towards nucleotide modifications, only being inhibited by 2′-O-methylation, whereas RNase T1 cleavage is affected by most nucleotide modifications.
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