U of New South Wales Wilkins Lab - PRMT6 substrate specificity analysis

PRMT6 substrate specificity analysis
Data License: CC BY 4.0 | ProteomeXchange: PXD016711
  • Organism: Homo sapiens
  • Instrument: Orbitrap Fusion Lumos
  • SpikeIn: No
  • Keywords: Arginine methyltransferase, enzyme specificity, synthetic peptides
  • Lab head: Marc Wilkins Submitter: Joshua Hamey
Abstract
Protein arginine methyltransferase 6 (PRMT6) catalyses the asymmetric dimethylation of arginines on numerous substrate proteins within the human cell. In particular, PRMT6 methylates histone H3 arginine 2 (H3R2) which affects both gene repression and activation. However, the substrate specificity of PRMT6 has not been comprehensively analysed. Here we have systematically characterised the substrate recognition motif of PRMT6 in context of the histone H3 tail, finding that it has broad specificity and recognises the RG motif. Working with a H3 tail peptide as a template, on which we made 204 amino acid substitutions, we use targeted mass spectrometry to measure the effect on PRMT6 in vitro activity. We first show that PRMT6 methylates R2 and R8 in the H3 peptide, although H3R8 is methylated with lower efficiency and is not an in vivo PRMT6 substrate. Then, using parallel reaction monitoring (PRM) with electron transfer dissociation (ETD), we quantify the effect of 194 of these amino acid substitutions on methylation at both H3R2 and H3R8. In both cases, we find that PRMT6 is capable of tolerating essentially any amino acid substitution in the H3 peptide, but that positively charged and bulky residues are preferred near the target arginine. We show that PRMT6 prefers glycine in the position immediately following the target arginine, indicating that PRMT6 recognises the RG motif. We confirm this preference for the RG motif on another PRMT6 substrate, histone H4R3. This broad specificity, along with recognition of RG rather than RGG, is distinctive among the PRMT family and has implications for the development of drugs to selectively target PRMT6.
Experiment Description
For initial analysis of PRMT6 activity towards the wild-type sequence H3 or H4 peptide, a synthetic H3 peptides corresponding to H3 (sequence ARTKQTARKSTGGKA, 2 μM) (ChinaPeptides) or H4 (sequence SGRGKGGKGLGKGGAK, 2 μM) (ChinaPeptides) wasere incubated with purified PRMT6 (1 μM) in in vitro methylation buffer (50 mM HEPES, 20 mM NaCl, 1 mM EDTA, pH 7.4) in the presence of S-Adenosyl-L-methionine-D3 (S-methyl-D3) tetra-(p-Toluenesulfonate) salt (500 μM) (Medical Isotopes) overnight at 37 °C. For analysis of PRMT6 specificity, H3 or H4 peptide sets (2 μM per peptide, 40 μM total) (ChinaPeptides) were incubated with or without purified PRMT6 (1 μM or 0.1 μM) in in vitro methylation buffer and 500 μM D3-AdoMet, as above. For confirmation of PRMT6 specificity, peptides carrying single or double amino acid substitutions (2 μM) (ChinaPeptides) were assayed with PRMT6 (1 μm) for 1 hr, as above. Histone H3 Ppeptides were analysed by LC-PRM-ETD on an Orbitrap Fusion Lumos Tribrid mass spectrometer. Precursor scans were acquired in the Orbitrap (m/z 300 - 1500, resolution = 60,000 at m/z 200, maximum injection time = 50 ms, automated gain control (AGC) target = 4 × 105). Subsequently, ions at specified m/z values were sequentially isolated in the quadrupole (isolation window = 0.5 m/z), fragmented by ETD (using calibrated charge-dependent ETD parameters and no supplemental activation) and fragment ions detected in the Orbitrap (m/z 150 - 1750, resolution = 7500 at m/z 200, maximum injection time = 22 ms, AGC target = 5 × 104). In order to ensure short duty cycles and thus frequent sampling, peptides were analysed in groups of amino acid substitutions (e.g A+C+D+E or F+G+H+I/L or K+M+N+P or Q+R+S or T+V+W+Y), such that no more than 21 m/z values were analysed in a single run. For analysis of the wild-type H3 peptide assay the same parameters were used, except that fragment ion scans were acquired with a resolution of 30,000 and a maximum injection time of 54 ms. Histone H4 peptides, both wild-type and the G4X peptide set, were analysed by LC-MS/MS on an Orbitrap Fusion Lumos Tribrid mass spectrometer.
Created on 2/23/21, 7:20 AM
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