Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

Dissecting ribosomal particles throughout the kingdoms of life using advanced hybrid mass spectrometry methods

  • Michiel van de Waterbeemd,
  • Sem Tamara,
  • Kyle L. Fort,
  • Eugen Damoc,
  • Vojtech Franc,
  • Philipp Bieri,
  • Martin Itten,
  • Alexander Makarov,
  • Nenad Ban,
  • Albert J. R. Heck

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04853-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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The authors demonstrate a 3-tier mass spectrometry approach, including bottom-up and top-down proteomics, as well as native mass spectrometry to provide a detailed description of proteoforms, protein processing and post-translational modifications present within ribosomes from bacteria, plant, and human.