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Development of pulse labelling technology for studying the dynamics of protein complexes.
Fiala, Jan ; Novák, Petr (advisor) ; Preisler, Jan (referee) ; Sosic, Alice (referee)
(IN ENGLISH) Structural mass spectrometry (MS) is an evolving field of structural biology introducing novel techniques for the characterization of biomolecules. Although MS-based techniques only can provide "low-resolution" information compared to standard high-resolution techniques representing by X-ray crystallography, cryo-electron microscopy or nuclear magnetic resonance, its uniqueness lies in the ability to easily obtain structural information about various biomolecules in their native or native-like environment. By employing various approaches, from protein covalent labelling through chemical cross- linking to ion mobility, structural MS provides insight into the structure and dynamics of proteins and their complexes over a broad timescale. This thesis is dedicated to the development of novel structural MS approaches based on pulse covalent labelling and chemical cross-linking. Employing the developed quench-flow microfluidics apparatus, we performed footprinting experiments on proteins and protein complexes in timescale from a few microseconds to single seconds. Specifically, fast photochemical oxidation of proteins (FPOP) and novel fast fluoro alkylation of proteins (FFAP) techniques were utilized to track structural changes of myoglobin upon release of the prosthetic heme group....
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Utilization of DESI/DAPPI-MS and MALDI-MS for studying biological objects
Kaftan, Filip ; Cvačka, Josef (advisor) ; Valterová, Irena (referee) ; Preisler, Jan (referee)
(EN) Presented PhD thesis was aimed at the utilization of desorption ionization mass spectrometric techniques to study different types of biological samples. An important part of this thesis was the construction of a universal platform for ambient ionization techniques (AIT) in mass spectrometry (MS) for the experiments performed in combination with desorption electrospray ionization (DESI) and desorption atmospheric pressure photoionization (DAPPI). Initially manual platform for AIT was during the development rebuild into a motorized platform operated by software via user interface of the mass spectrometer. Using the motorized platform it was possible to carry out a one- dimensional (1-D) and two dimensional (2-D) samples analysis with a defined step size of imaging. Platform designed for AIT in MS was tested in DESI-MS mode by model analyte Rhodamine B and by plant samples which were represented by Aconitum plicatum. The platform was also tested on biological samples of vernix caseosa using DAPPI-MS ion source. Model analyte rhodamine B was in DESI-MS technique used to study the basic desorption ionization processes occurring in the DESI during the sample analysis. In order to highlight the surface structures the colloidal solution of ferrite nanoparticles was added into the sprayed liquid. For...
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