Article
A sensitive mass spectrum assay to characterize engineered methionine adenosyltransferases with S-alkyl methionine analogues as substrates.
Analytical biochemistry - 1 Apr 2014
Wang Rui, Zheng Weihong, Luo Minkui
Abstract excerpt
Methionine adenosyltransferases (MATs) catalyze the formation of S-adenosyl-l-methionine (SAM) inside living cells. Recently, S-alkyl analogues of SAM have been documented as cofactor surrogates to label novel targets of methyltransferases. However, these chemically synthesized SAM analogues are not suitable for cell-based studies because of their poor membrane permeability. This issue was recently addressed...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
- Enzyme Assays
- Humans
- Kinetics
- Methionine Adenosyltransferase
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Protein Engineering
- Rats
