Top down tandem mass spectrometric analysis of a chemically modified rough-type lipopolysaccharide vaccine candidate

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Oyler, B.L., Khan, M.M., Smith, D.F., Harberts, E.M., Kilgour, D.P.A. ORCID: 0000-0002-3860-7532, Ernst, R.K., Cross, A.S. and Goodlett, D.R., 2018. Top down tandem mass spectrometric analysis of a chemically modified rough-type lipopolysaccharide vaccine candidate. Journal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 29 (6), pp. 1221-1229. ISSN 1044-0305

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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1007/s13361-018-1897-y

Abstract

Recent advances in lipopolysaccharide (LPS) biology have led to its use in drug discovery pipelines, including vaccine and vaccine adjuvant discovery. Desirable characteristics for LPS vaccine candidates include both the ability to produce a specific antibody titer in patients and a minimal host inflammatory response directed by the innate immune system. However, in-depth chemical characterization of most LPS extracts has not been performed; hence, biological activities of these extracts are unpredictable. Additionally, the most widely adopted workflow for LPS structure elucidation includes nonspecific chemical decomposition steps before analyses, making structures inferred and not necessarily biologically relevant. In this work, several different mass spectrometry workflows that have not been previously explored were employed to show proof-of-principle for top down LPS primary structure elucidation, specifically for a rough-type mutant(J5) E.coli-derived LPS component of a vaccine candidate. First, ion mobility filtered precursor ions were subjected to collision induced dissociation (CID) to define differences in native J5 LPS v. chemically detoxified J5 LPS (dLPS). Next, ultra-high mass resolving power, accurate mass spectrometry was employed for unequivocal precursor and product ion empirical formulae generation. Finally, MS 3 analyses in an ion trap instrument showed that previous knowledge about dissociation of LPS components can be used to reconstruct and sequence LPS in a top down fashion. A structural rationale is also explained for differential inflammatory dose-response curves, in vitro, when HEK-Blue hTLR4 cells were administered increasing concentrations of native J5 LPS v. dLPS, which will be useful in future drug discovery efforts.

Item Type:

Journal article

Alternative Title:

Top down LPS vaccine analysis [running title]

Publication Title:

Journal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry

Creators:

Oyler, B.L., Khan, M.M., Smith, D.F., Harberts, E.M., Kilgour, D.P.A., Ernst, R.K., Cross, A.S. and Goodlett, D.R.

Publisher:

Springer

Date:

June 2018