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• the invention provides a set of two or more mass labels, each label in the set comprising a mass marker moiety attached via at least one amide bond to a mass normalisation moiety, wherein the aggregate mass of each label in the set may be the same or different and the mass of the mass marker moiety of each label in the set may be the same or different, and wherein in any group of labels within the set having a mass marker moiety of a common mass each label has an aggregate mass different from all other labels in that group, and wherein in any group of labels within the set having a common aggregate mass each label has a mass marker moiety having a mass different from that of all other mass marker moieties in that group, such that all of the mass labels in the set are distinguishable from each other by mass spectrometry, and wherein the mass marker moiety comprises an amino acid and the mass normalisation moiety comprises an amino acid.
• Figure 9a shows a synthetic pathway for the preparation of an FMOC protected, deuterated methionine residue and figure 9b shows a synthetic pathway for the preparation of a reactive linker that can act as a sensitivity enhancer;
• each label in the set has a common aggregate mass and each label in the set has a mass marker moiety of a unique mass.
• the set of labels need not be limited to the two preferred embodiments described above, and may for example comprise labels of both types, provided that all labels are distinguishable by mass spectrometry, as outlined above.
• skeleton or backbone may be for example comprise one or more amino acids.
• the skeleton comprises a number of amino acids linked by amide bonds.
• other units such as aryl ether units may also be present.
• the skeleton or backbone may comprise substituents pendent from it, or atomic or isotopic replacements within it, without changing the common basic structure.
• a set of mass labels of the second type referred to above comprises mass labels with the formula:
• M is the mass normalisation moiety
• X is the mass marker moiety
• A is a mass adjuster moiety
• L is the cleavable linker comprising the amide bond
• y and z are integers of 0 or greater
• y+z is an integer of 1 or greater.
• M is a fragmentation resistant group
• L is a linker that is susceptible to fragmentation " on collision with another molecule or atom
• X is preferably a pre-ionised, fragmentation resistant group.
• the sum of the masses of M and X is the same for all members of the set.
• M and X have the same basic structure or core structure, this structure being modified by the mass adjuster moieties.
• the mass adjuster moiety ensures that the sum of the masses of M and X in is the same for all mass labels in a set, but ensures that each X has a distinct (unique) mass.
• linker groups which may be used to connect molecules of interest to the mass label compounds of this invention.
• a variety of linkers is known in the art which may be introduced between the mass labels of this invention and their covalently attached analyte. Some of these linkers may be cleavable. Oligo- or poly-ethylene g ⁇ ycols or then derivatives may be used as linkers, such as those disclosed in Maskos, U. & Southern, E.M. Nucleic Acids Research 20: 1679 -1684, 1992.
• Succinic acid based linkers are also widely used, although these are less preferred for applications involving the labelling of oligonucleotides as they are generally base labile and are thus incompatible with the base mediated de-protection steps used in a number of oligonucleotide synthesisers.
• Fragmentation of peptides by collision induced dissociation is used in this invention to identify tags on proteins.
• Narious mass analyser geometries may be used to fragment peptides and to determine the mass of the fragments.
• This mechanism requires a carbonyl group from an amide bond adjacent to a protonated amide on the N-temnnal side of the protonated amide to carry out the nucleophilic attack.
• a charged oxazolonium ion gives rise to b-series ions, while proton transfer from the N-terminal fragment to the C- terminal fragment gives rise to y-series ions as shown in figure 16a.
• This requirement for an appropriately located carbonyl group does not account for cleavage at amide bonds adjacent to the N-terminal amino acid, when the N-te ⁇ ninus is not protected and, in general, b-series ions are not seen for the amide between the N-terrninal and second amino acid in a peptide.
• the tags have the same mass but in the first tag there is an alanine residue with heavy isotopes in the third position of the fripeptide while in the second tag there is an aspartic acid residue with heavy isotopes in the first position of the fripeptide.
• the ions are excited to larger orbits by applying a radio- frequency pulse to two 'transmitter plates' which form two further opposing sides of the box.
• the cycloidal motion of the ions generate corresponding electric fields in the remaining two opposing sides of the box which comprise the 'receiver plates'.
• the excitation pulses excite ions to larger orbits which decay as the coherent motions of the ions is lost through collisions.
• the corresponding signals detected by the receiver plates are converted to a mass spectrum by Fourier Transform (FT) analysis.
• FT Fourier Transform
• the labelled peptides After attachment of the tags, the labelled peptides will have a mass that is shifted by the mass of the tag.
• the mass of the peptide may be sufficient to identify the source protein.
• the tag needs to be detected which can be achieved by selected reaction monitoring with a triple quadrupole, discussed in more detail below.
• the first quadrupole of the friple quadrupole is set to let through ions whose mass-to-charge ratio corresponds to that of the peptide of interest, adjusted for the mass of the marker.
• the selected ions are then subjected to collision induced dissociation (CID) in the second quadrupole. Under the sort of conditions used in the analysis of peptides the ions will fragment mostly at the amide bonds in the molecule.
• CID collision induced dissociation
• An alternative method used with quadrupole/time-of-flight mass spectrometers scans for doubly charged ions by identifying ions which when subjected to CID produce daughter ions with higher mass-to-charge ratios than the parent ion.
• a further method of identifying doubly charged ions is to look for sets of peaks in the spectrum which are only 0.5 daltons apart with appropriate intensity ratios which would indicate that the ions are the same differing only by the proportion of 13 C present in the molecule.
• each peptide in the sample there should be a double peak of equal intensity for each peptide where the double peak is 2 Daltons apart. This is complicated slightly by intrinsic peptide isotope peaks but allows for automated scanning of the CID spectrum for doublets. The differences in mass between doublets can be determined to identify the amino acid by the two fragments differ. This method may be applicable with the methods of this invention if N-terminal peptides are isolated.
• LC-MS/MS liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry
• Two protein samples can be compared by labelling the cysteine residues with a different isotopically modified biotin tag. This approach is slightly more redundant than an approach based on isolating terminal peptides as, on average, more than one peptide per protein is isolated so there are more peptide species in the sample than protein species. This increase in complexity is made worse by the nature of the tags used by Gygi et al.
• the alpha amino group of the dipeptide tag has been guanidinated to differentiate the fragmentation product of this amino acid from the fragmentation product of the second methionine residue and the natural methionine residues in protein and to promote protonation at this position in the tag during ionisation in a mass spectrometer, hi addition these tags comprise a thiol reactive maleimide functionality.
• a protocol for the analysis of a protein sample containing polypeptides with cysteine residues comprises the steps of: 1. Reducing and reacting all cysteine residues in at least one protein sample with a maleimide affinity ligand mass tag;
• the protein samples may be digested with the sequence specific endoprotease before or after reaction of the sample with the affinity ligand mass tag.
• a protocol for the analysis of a protein sample containing carbohydrate modified polypeptides comprises the steps of:
• Hydrazide reagents such as Biocytin hydrazide (Pierce & Warriner Ltd, Chester, UK) will react with carbonyl groups in carbonyl-containing carbohydrate species (E.A. Bayer et al. , Anal. Biochem. 170: 271 - 281, "Biocytin hydrazide - a selective label for sialic acids, galactose, and other sugars in glycoconjugates using avidin biotin technology", 1988).
• a carbonyl group can be tagged with an amine modified biotin, such as Biocytin and EZ-LinkTM PEO-Biotin (Pierce & Warriner Ltd, Chester, UK), using reductive alkylation (Means G.E., Methods Enzymol 47: 469-478, "Reductive alkylation of amino groups.” 1977; Rayment I., Methods Enzymol 276: 171-179, "Reductive alkylation of lysine residues to alter crystallization properties of proteins.” 1997). Proteins bearing vicinal-diol containing carbohydrate modifications in a complex mixture can thus be biotinylated. Biotinylated, hence carbohydrate modified, proteins may then be isolated using an avidinated solid support.
• an amine modified biotin such as Biocytin and EZ-LinkTM PEO-Biotin (Pierce & Warriner Ltd, Chester, UK)
• a set of peptide mass tags according to this invention can be synthesised for the analysis of carbohydrate modified peptides that have been oxidised with periodate, as shown in Figure 6a.
• Figure 6a shows a set of two tags derived from methionine. Different isotopically substituted forms of methionine would be used to prepare the two different tags. The total mass of each of the two tags is the same but the N-terminal methionine in each tag differs from the other tag by three Daltons.
• the alpha amino group of the dipeptide tag has been guanidfnated to differentiate the fragmentation product of this amino acid from the fragmentation product of the second methionine residue and to promote protonation at this position in the tag during ionisation in a mass spectrometer.
• a further embodiment of the second aspect of this invention comprises the steps of:
• the protein sample may be digested with the sequence specific endoprotease before or after reaction of the sample with the affinity ligand mass tag.
• Phosphorylation is a ubiquitous reversible post-translational modification that appears in the majority of signalling pathways of almost all organisms as phosphorylation is widely used as a transient signal to mediate changes in the state of individual proteins. It is an important area of research and tools which allow the analysis of the dynamics of phosphorylation are essential to a full understanding of how cells responds to stimuli, which includes the responses of cells to drugs.
• a tag peptide of the form shown in figure 7 would allow direct labelling of beta- eliminated phosphothreonine and phosphoserine residues without a dithiol linker.
• the tag tetrapeptide of figure 7 is derived from methionine. Different isotopically substituted forms of methionine would be used to prepare the two different tags. The total mass of each of the two tags is the same but the N-terminal methionine in each tag differs from the other tag by three Daltons.
• phosphotyrosine binding antibodies can be used in the context of this invention to isolate peptides from proteins containing phosphotyrosine residues.
• the tyrosine- phosphorylated proteins in a complex mixture may be isolated using anti-phosphotyrosine antibody affinity columns.
• a protocol for the analysis of a sample of proteins, which contains proteins phosphorylated at tyrosine comprises the steps of:

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