Interpretation of Hydrogen/Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry

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This paper sheds light on the meaning of hydrogen/deuterium exchange-mass spectrometry (HDX-MS) data. HDX-MS data provide not structural information but dynamic information on an analyte protein. First, the reaction mechanism of backbone amide HDX reaction is considered and the correlation between the parameters from an X-ray crystal structure and the protection factors of HDX reactions of cytochrome c is evaluated. The presence of H-bonds in a protein structure has a strong influence on HDX rates which represent protein dynamics, while the solvent accessibility only weakly affects the HDX rates. Second, the energy diagrams of the HDX reaction at each residue in the presence and absence of perturbation are described. Whereas the free energy change upon mutation can be directly measured by the HDX rates, the free energy change upon ligand binding may be complicated due to the presence of unbound analyte protein in the protein-ligand mixture. Third, the meanings of HDX and other biophysical techniques are explained using a hypothetical protein folding well. The shape of the protein folding well describes the protein dynamics and provides Boltzmann distribution of open and closed states which yield HDX protection factors, while a protein’s crystal structure represents a snapshot near the bottom of the well. All biophysical data should be consistent yet provide different information because they monitor different parts of the same protein folding well.

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Hamuro, Y. (2024, May 1). Interpretation of Hydrogen/Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry. Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. American Chemical Society. https://doi.org/10.1021/jasms.4c00044

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