Multiple Reaction Monitoring to Identify Sites of Protein Phosphorylation with High Sensitivity

Phosphorylation governs the activity of many proteins. Insight into molecular mechanisms in biology would be immensely improved by robust, sensitive methods for identifying precisely sites of phosphate addition. An approach to selective mapping of protein phosphorylation sites on a specific target protein of interest using LC-MS is described here. In this approach multiple reaction monitoring is used as an extremely sensitive MS survey scan for potential phosphopeptides from a known protein. This is automatically followed by peptide sequencing of the phosphorylation of in a LC-MS of is of sequencing phosphopeptides of the of this approach in an a Phosphorylation sites on multiple reaction sequencing is to be a sensitive approach to the of protein Phosphorylation governs the activity of many proteins. Insight into molecular mechanisms in biology would be immensely improved by robust, sensitive methods for identifying precisely sites of phosphate addition. An approach to selective mapping of protein phosphorylation sites on a specific target protein of interest using LC-MS is described here. In this approach multiple reaction monitoring is used as an extremely sensitive MS survey scan for potential phosphopeptides from a known protein. 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