Quantification of Structural Alterations of L-Asp and L-Asn Residues in Peptides Related to Neuronal Diseases by Reversed-Phase High-Performance Liquid Chromatography
✍ Scribed by Yutaka Sadakane; Keiko Konoha; Masahiro Kawahara; Kazuya Nakagomi
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 267 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1612-1872
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
A method for analyzing the structural alterations in Asn or Asp residues was developed by using the peptides related to neuronal conformational diseases, i.e., the prion protein (PrP)^106–126^ and the Alzheimer's amyloid β (A__β__) protein^6–28^. The alterations were analyzed by reversed‐phase (RP) HPLC, because the peptides containing the structurally altered residues were diastereoisomers of each other, and they were separated with the mobile phase containing an MeCN/sodium phosphate solution and NaCl. The amount of L‐Asp, L‐isoAsp, D‐Asp, or D‐isoAsp residues in each PrP peptide isomer was simultaneously quantified by carrying out single HPLC analysis; these residues were generated by the deamidation of the Asn residue. Only 0.3% of the newly generated peptide containing the D‐Asp residue was detected. Furthermore, the investigation of the partial fragment of the A__β__ protein revealed that the present method possessed the ability of simultaneous analysis of the isomerizations of two Asp residues. These results implied that the present method was highly sensitive and reduced the time required for the analysis. This method may accelerate the elucidation of the PrP and A__β__ protein functions, because the structural alterations of Asn and Asp have been reported to influence these functions.