The effectiveness of filtering glycopeptide peak list files for Y ions

Mol Omics. 2020 Apr 1;16(2):147-155. doi: 10.1039/c9mo00178f. Epub 2020 Feb 17.

Abstract

Intact glycopeptide analysis is becoming more common with developments in mass spectrometry instrumentation and fragmentation approaches. In particular, collision-based fragmentation approaches such as higher energy collisional dissociation (HCD) and radical-driven fragmentation approaches such as electron transfer dissociation (ETD) provide complementary information, but bioinformatic strategies to utilize this combined information are currently lacking. In this work we adapted a software tool, MS-Filter, to search HCD peak list files for predicted Y ions based on matched EThcD results to propose additional glycopeptide assignments. The strategy proved to be extremely powerful for O-glycopeptide data, and also of benefit for N-linked data, where it allowed rescue of low confidence results from database searching.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Computational Biology / methods*
  • Databases, Protein
  • Glycopeptides / urine*
  • Humans
  • Mass Spectrometry
  • Software

Substances

  • Glycopeptides