Lars Kolbowski

Technische Universität Berlin | TUB · Institute of Biotechnology

The mzIdentML data format, originally developed by the Proteomics Standards Initiative in 2011, is the open XML data standard for peptide and protein identification results coming from mass spectrometry. We present mzIdentML version 1.3.0, which introduces new functionality and support for additional use cases. First of all, a new mechanism for enc...

Cross-linking mass spectrometry (MS) is currently transitioning from a routine tool in structural biology to enabling structural systems biology. MS-cleavable cross-linkers could substantially reduce the associated search space expansion by allowing a MS³-based approach for identifying cross-linked peptides. However, MS² (MS/MS)-based approaches cu...

The mzIdentML file format, originally developed by the Proteomics Standards Initiative in 2011, is the open XML data standard for peptide and protein identification results coming from mass spectrometry. We present mzIdentML version 1.3.0, which introduces new functionality and support for additional use cases. First of all, a new mechanism for enc...

Crosslinking mass spectrometry provides pivotal information on the structure and interaction of proteins. MS-cleavable crosslinkers are regarded as a cornerstone for the analysis of complex mixtures. Yet they fragment under similar conditions as peptides, leading to mixed fragmentation spectra of the crosslinker and peptide. This hampers selecting...

Crosslinking MS is currently transitioning from a routine tool in structural biology to enabling structural systems biology. MS-cleavable crosslinkers could substantially reduce the associated search space expansion by allowing an MS3-based approach for identifying crosslinked peptides. However, MS2-based approaches currently outperform approaches...

Proteome-wide crosslinking mass spectrometry studies have coincided with the advent of mass spectrometry (MS)-cleavable crosslinkers that can reveal the individual masses of the two crosslinked peptides. However, recently, such studies have also been published with noncleavable crosslinkers, suggesting that MS-cleavability is not essential. We ther...

Proteome-wide crosslinking mass spectrometry studies have coincided with the advent of MS-cleavable crosslinkers that can reveal the individual masses of the two crosslinked peptides. However, recently such studies have also been published with non-cleavable crosslinkers suggesting that MS-cleavability is not essential. We therefore examined in det...

We analyzed the backbone fragmentation behavior of tryptic peptides of a four protein mixture and of E. coli lysate subjected to Ultraviolet Photodissociation (UVPD) at 213 nm on a commercially available UVPD-equipped tribrid mass spectrometer. We obtained 15,178 unique high-confidence peptide UVPD spectrum matches by re-cording a reference beam-ty...

We analyzed the backbone fragmentation behavior of tryptic peptides of a four protein mixture and of E. coli lysate subjected to Ultraviolet Photodissociation (UVPD) at 213 nm on a commercially available UVPD-equipped tribrid mass spectrometer. We obtained 15,178 high-confidence peptide-spectrum matches by additionally recording a reference beam-ty...

xiView provides a common platform for the downstream analysis and visualisation of Crosslinking Mass Spectrometry data. It is independent of the search software used and its input is compliant with the relevant mass spectrometry data standards. It uses established visualisation techniques, notably Multiple Coordinated Views, to help the user explor...

Quantitative cross-linking mass spectrometry (QCLMS) reveals structural detail on altered protein states in solution. On its way to becoming a routine technology, QCLMS could benefit from data-independent acquisition (DIA), which generally enables greater reproducibility than data-dependent acquisition (DDA) and increased throughput over targeted m...

We present xiSPEC, a standard compliant, next-generation web-based spectrum viewer for visualizing, analyzing and sharing mass spectrometry data. Peptide-spectrum matches from standard proteomics and cross-linking experiments are supported. xiSPEC is to date the only browser-based tool supporting the standardized file formats mzML and mzIdentML def...

We compared the five different ways of fragmentation available on a tribrid mass spectrometer and optimized their collision energies with regard to optimal sequence coverage of cross-linked peptides. We created a library of bis(sulfosuccinimidyl)suberate (BS3/DSS) cross-linked precursors, derived from the tryptic digests of three model proteins (Hu...