Probing large conformational rearrangements in wild-type and mutant spectrin using structural mass spectrometry
Sriswasdi S, Harper SL, Tang HY, Gallagher PG, Speicher DW. Probing large conformational rearrangements in wild-type and mutant spectrin using structural mass spectrometry. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2014, 111: 1801-1806. PMID: 24453214, PMCID: PMC3918770, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1317620111.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMass spectrometryConformational changesStructural mass spectrometryLarge conformational rearrangementsCell membraneMembrane integrityMass spectrometry characterizationRed cell spectrinUnidentified mechanistic insightCell membrane integrityProtein complexesMacromolecular complexesDiverse functionsCell shapeBiological processesFlexible proteinsConformational rearrangementsDimer-tetramer equilibriumRed cell membraneOpen dimersCell typesΑ-spectrinKey mechanistic roleTetramerization siteBiophysical data