We performed a reanalysis of a SARS-CoV-2-human protein-protein interaction map from MSV000085144/PXD018117. With open modification searching (OMS) any type of PTM can be identified in an unbiased fashion, without the need to explicitly specify a limited number of variable modifications. This makes it possible to explore the general presence of PTMs in the context of the SARS-CoV-2 virus-host interactome. The reanalysis with ANN-SoLo (RMSV000000359.1) resulted in an over two-fold increase in identified spectra. Based on these identifications, our detected protein interactions showed a high overlap with independent mass spectrometry-based SARS-CoV-2 studies and virus-host interactions for alternative viruses, as well as previously unknown protein interactions. Additionally, we identified several novel modification sites on SARS-CoV-2 proteins that we investigated in relation to their interactions with host proteins. This reanalysis with MSFragger showed a decent overlap with the results from ANN-SoLo, illustrating that our results are not unique to ANN-SoLo and that a similar analysis could also be done with alternative OMS tools.
In the original study affinity purification was performed using 27 SARS-CoV-2 proteins that were individually tagged and expressed in triplicate in HEK-293T cells. Bead-bound proteins were denatured, reduced, carbamidomethylated, and enzymatically digested using trypsin, and each sample was injected via an Easy-nLC 1200 (Thermo Fisher Scientific) into a Q-Exactive Plus mass spectrometer (Thermo Fisher Scientific). The SARS-CoV-2 proteins that were included are: all mature nonstructural proteins (Nsps), except for Nsp3 and Nsp16; a mutated version of Nsp5 to disable its proteolytic activity (Nsp5_C145A); and all predicted SARS-CoV-2 open reading frames (Orfs), including the spike (S), membrane (M), nucleocapsid (N), and envelope (E) protein.
First, the downloaded raw files were converted to MGF files using ThermoRawFileParser (version 1.2.3). Next, OMS was performed using MSFragger (version 3.5) and FragPipe (version 18.0) against a concatenated FASTA file containing human protein sequences (Uniprot reviewed sequences downloaded on 2020/02/28), the SARS-CoV-2 protein sequences (version 2020/03/05), and the green fluorescent protein sequence. An equal number of decoy protein sequences were generated using FragPipe. The MSFragger search settings included a precursor mass tolerance between -150 Da and 500 Da, a fragment mass tolerance of 0.02 Da, and trypsin cleavage with up to two missed cleavages. Cysteine carbamidomethylation was used as a fixed modification, and oxidation of methionine and N-terminal acetylation were used as variable modifications. Other search settings were kept at their default values. PSMs were processed using PeptideProphet (version 4.4.0) with the FragPipe default settings for open searches and filtered at 1% FDR.
[doi:10.25345/C53X83Q6B]
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Keywords: SARS-CoV-2 ; coronavirus ; COVID-19 ; PPI ; open modification searching
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