Miljan Kuljanin, Dylan C. Mitchell, Devin K. Schweppe, Ajami S. Gikandi, David P. Nusinow, Nathan J. Bulloch, Ekaterina V. Vinogradova, David L. Wilson, Eric T. Kool, Joseph D. Mancias, Benjamin F. Cravatt & Steven P. Gygi
Nature Biotechnology, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-020-00778-3
Current methods used for measuring amino acid side-chain reactivity lack the throughput needed to screen large chemical libraries for interactions across the proteome. Here we redesigned the workflow for activity-based protein profiling of reactive cysteine residues by using a smaller desthiobiotin-based probe, sample multiplexing, reduced protein starting amounts and software to boost data acquisition in real time on the mass spectrometer. Our method, streamlined cysteine activity-based protein profiling (SLC-ABPP), achieved a 42-fold improvement in sample throughput, corresponding to profiling library members at a depth of >8,000 reactive cysteine sites at 18 min per compound. We applied it to identify proteome-wide targets of covalent inhibitors to mutant Kirsten rat sarcoma (KRAS)G12C and Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (BTK). In addition, we created a resource of cysteine reactivity to 285 electrophiles in three human cell lines, which includes >20,000 cysteines from >6,000 proteins per line. The goal of proteome-wide profiling of cysteine reactivity across thousand-member libraries under several cellular contexts is now within reach.
