The Mass Spectrometry society of Japan - The 71st Annual Conference on Mass Spectrometry, Japan

Abstract

Symposium Sessions

Day 3, May 17(Wed.) 14:37-14:59 Room A (Special Conference Room)

Co-Fractionation Mass Spectrometry analysis of very large cellular protein complexes

(Tokushima Univ.)
oHarunori Yoshikawa

Several different methods have been developed to analyze protein complexes. In addition to Affinity-Purification (AP)-MS and proximity labelling approaches, e.g. BioID and APEX, Co-Fractionation Mass Spectrometry (CF-MS) analysis has been recently introduced for the systematic characterization of cellular protein complexes. Using uHPLC-based Size Exclusion Chromatography (SEC), we have shown that even very large cellular complexes, including ribosomes and polysomes, can be separated efficiently by uHPLC using SEC columns with a pore size of 2,000Å. Here, we apply this technique to isolate and characterize intact nucleolar pre-ribosomal particles from human cells.