Combined Metabolic and Chemical (CoMetChem) Labeling Using Stable Isotopes – a Strategy to Reveal Site-Specific Histone Acetylation and Deacetylation Rates by LC-MS

22 February 2021, Version 2

Abstract

Histone acetylation is an important, reversible post-translational protein modification and a hallmark of epigenetic regulation. However, little is known about the dynamics of this process, due to the lack of analytical methods that can capture site-specific acetylation and deacetylation reactions. We present a new approach that combines metabolic and chemical labeling (CoMetChem) using uniformly 13C-labeled glucose and stable isotope labeled acetic anhydride. Thereby, chemically equivalent, fully acetylated histone species are generated enabling accurate relative quantification of site-specific lysine acetylation in tryptic peptides using high-resolution mass spectrometry. We show that CoMetChem enables site-specific quantification of the incorporation or loss of lysine acetylation over time, allowing the determination of reaction rates for acetylation and deacetylation. Thus, the CoMetChem methodology provides a comprehensive description of site-specific acetylation dynamics.

Keywords

Mass Spectrometry
Proteomics
Fluxomics
Histone Acetylation

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