Title |
Metabolic De-Isotoping for Improved LC-MS Characterization of Modified RNAs
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Published in |
Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, April 2014
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DOI | 10.1007/s13361-014-0889-9 |
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Authors |
Collin Wetzel, Siwei Li, Patrick A. Limbach |
Abstract |
Mapping, sequencing, and quantifying individual noncoding ribonucleic acids (ncRNAs), including post-transcriptionally modified nucleosides, by mass spectrometry is a challenge that often requires rigorous sample preparation prior to analysis. Previously, we have described a simplified method for the comparative analysis of RNA digests (CARD) that is applicable to relatively complex mixtures of ncRNAs. In the CARD approach for transfer RNA (tRNA) analysis, two complete sets of digestion products from total tRNA are compared using the enzymatic incorporation of (16)O/(18)O isotopic labels. This approach allows one to rapidly screen total tRNAs from gene deletion mutants or comparatively sequence total tRNA from two related bacterial organisms. However, data analysis can be challenging because of convoluted mass spectra arising from the natural (13)C and (15) N isotopes present in the ribonuclease-digested tRNA samples. Here, we demonstrate that culturing in (12)C-enriched/(13)C-depleted media significantly reduces the isotope patterns that must be interpreted during the CARD experiment. Improvements in data quality yield a 35 % improvement in detection of tRNA digestion products that can be uniquely assigned to particular tRNAs. These mass spectral improvements lead to a significant reduction in data processing attributable to the ease of spectral identification of labeled digestion products and will enable improvements in the relative quantification of modified RNAs by the (16)O/(18)O differential labeling approach. |
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