Identification of cross-linked peptides from large sequence databases
Oliver Rinner1, Jan Seebacher, Thomas Walzthoeni
1Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli Strasse 16, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland.
Nature Methods
|March 11, 2008
Abstract:
We describe a method to identify cross-linked peptides from complex samples and large protein sequence databases by combining isotopically tagged cross-linkers, chromatographic enrichment, targeted proteomics and a new search engine called xQuest. This software reduces the search space by an upstream candidate-peptide search before the recombination step. We showed that xQuest can identify cross-linked peptides from a total Escherichia coli lysate with an unrestricted database search.

