Reference: Xiong L, et al. (2009) Methyl group migration during the fragmentation of singly charged ions of trimethyllysine-containing peptides: precaution of using MS/MS of singly charged ions for interrogating peptide methylation. J Am Soc Mass Spectrom 20(6):1172-81

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Core histones are susceptible to a range of post-translational modifications (PTMs), including acetylation, phosphorylation, methylation, and ubiquitination, which play important roles in the epigenetic control of gene expression. Here, we observed an unusual discrepancy between MALDI-MS/MS and ESI-MS/MS on the methylation of trimethyllysine-containing peptides with residues 9-17 from human histone H3 and residues 73-83 from yeast histone H3. It turned out that the discrepancy could be attributed to an unusual methyl group migration from the side chain of trimethyllysine to the C-terminal arginine residue during peptide fragmentation, and this methyl group transfer only occurred for singly charged ions, but not for doubly charged ions. The methyl group transfer argument received its support from the results on the studies of the fragmentation of the ESI- or MALDI-produced singly charged ions of several synthetic trimethyllysine-bearing peptides. The results presented in this study highlighted that caution should be exerted while MS/MS of singly charged ions is employed to interrogate the PTMs of trimethyllysine-containing peptides.

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Xiong L, Ping L, Yuan B, Wang Y
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