Identification and affinity-quantification of ß-amyloid and α-synuclein polypeptides using on-line SAW-biosensor-mass spectrometry

J Am Soc Mass Spectrom. 2014 Aug;25(8):1472-81. doi: 10.1007/s13361-014-0904-1. Epub 2014 May 21.

Abstract

Bioaffinity analysis using a variety of biosensors has become an established tool for detection and quantification of biomolecular interactions. Biosensors, however, are generally limited by the lack of chemical structure information of affinity-bound ligands. On-line bioaffinity-mass spectrometry using a surface-acoustic wave biosensor (SAW-MS) is a new combination providing the simultaneous affinity detection, quantification, and mass spectrometric structural characterization of ligands. We describe here an on-line SAW-MS combination for direct identification and affinity determination, using a new interface for MS of the affinity-isolated ligand eluate. Key element of the SAW-MS combination is a microfluidic interface that integrates affinity-isolation on a gold chip, in-situ sample concentration, and desalting with a microcolumn for MS of the ligand eluate from the biosensor. Suitable MS-acquisition software has been developed that provides coupling of the SAW-MS interface to a Bruker Daltonics ion trap-MS, FTICR-MS, and Waters Synapt-QTOF- MS systems. Applications are presented for mass spectrometric identifications and affinity (K(D)) determinations of the neurodegenerative polypeptides, ß-amyloid (Aß), and pathophysiological and physiological synucleins (α- and ß-synucleins), two key polypeptide systems for Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, respectively. Moreover, first in vivo applications of αSyn polypeptides from brain homogenate show the feasibility of on-line affinity-MS to the direct analysis of biological material. These results demonstrate on-line SAW-bioaffinity-MS as a powerful tool for structural and quantitative analysis of biopolymer interactions.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Amino Acid Substitution
  • Amyloid beta-Peptides / analysis*
  • Amyloid beta-Peptides / chemistry
  • Amyloid beta-Peptides / radiation effects
  • Animals
  • Antibodies, Monoclonal / metabolism
  • Antibody Affinity
  • Biosensing Techniques
  • Brain / metabolism
  • Cyclotrons
  • Epitopes
  • Feasibility Studies
  • Fourier Analysis
  • Humans
  • Mass Spectrometry
  • Mice, Transgenic
  • Microfluidic Analytical Techniques
  • Molecular Weight
  • Mutant Proteins / analysis
  • Mutant Proteins / chemistry
  • Mutant Proteins / radiation effects
  • Neurons / chemistry
  • Recombinant Proteins / analysis
  • Recombinant Proteins / chemistry
  • Recombinant Proteins / radiation effects
  • Sound
  • alpha-Synuclein / analysis*
  • alpha-Synuclein / chemistry
  • alpha-Synuclein / genetics
  • alpha-Synuclein / radiation effects

Substances

  • Amyloid beta-Peptides
  • Antibodies, Monoclonal
  • Epitopes
  • Mutant Proteins
  • Recombinant Proteins
  • SNCA protein, human
  • alpha-Synuclein