Refolding reactions were essentially performed as above. Aliquots were withdrawn at different times and pulse-labeled for 12 s by 10-fold dilution with buffer E (20 mM Tris-HCl, 20 mM KCl, pD 7.5, 99.9% D
2O) to a final concentration of 90 % D
2O, followed by acid quenching (
Figure 4A). Intact proteins were immediately analyzed by LC-MS on a Waters
Synapt G1 mass spectrometer. To obtain H/DX data at peptide resolution, acid quenched samples were injected into an H/DX Waters nanoACQUITY UPLC (Wales et al., 2008 (
link)) and passed through a
Poroszyme immobilized pepsin cartridge (Applied Biosystems). Peptic peptides eluting from the pepsin column were trapped, desalted and then separated in 6 min with a 8-40 % acetonitrile gradient in 0.1 % formic acid pH 2.5. All chromatographic elements were held at 2.5°C. The average amount of back-exchange was 20-25 % (Wales et al., 2008 (
link)). All experiments were performed between 2-4 times. Mass spectra were processed with
DynamX software (Waters Corp., Milford, MA, USA). See Extended Experimental Procedures for detailed description.
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