Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Newly Emerging Coronavirus HCoV-19 Spike Protein and Human ACE2 Reveals Camouflaging Glycans and Unique Post-Translational Modifications

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    Experimental Models: Cell Lines
    SentencesResources
    Expression and purification of HCoV-19 spike ectodomain and hACE2: HCoV-19 S gene (virus isolate: Wuhan Hu-1; GenBank number QHD43416.1) was synthesized (Genscript) with codons optimized for insect cell expression.
    HCoV-19
    suggested: None
    The extracellular domain of hACE2 (Gln18-Ser740, NP_068576.1) with C-terminal Fc tag was expressed in HEK 293 cells were purified by protein A sepharose beads (GE Healthcare).
    HEK 293
    suggested: CLS Cat# 300192/p777_HEK293, RRID:CVCL_0045)
    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    The MS and MS/MS spectra were recorded using the Xcalibur software 2.3 (Thermo Scientific, USA)
    Xcalibur
    suggested: (Thermo Xcalibur, RRID:SCR_014593)
    Bioinformatics: The acquired MS raw files from deglycosylated peptides were searched by MaxQuant (version 1.6.10.43) against the human ACE2 sequence from UniProtKB and HCoV-19 S sequence (YP_009724390.1_3) from NCBI.
    MaxQuant
    suggested: (MaxQuant, RRID:SCR_014485)
    UniProtKB
    suggested: (UniProtKB, RRID:SCR_004426)
    The modified residues within each model were generated with Coot (Emsley et al., 2010).
    Coot
    suggested: (Coot, RRID:SCR_014222)
    All structural figures were performed by PyMOL (Schrödinger Inc. U.S.A.).
    PyMOL
    suggested: (PyMOL, RRID:SCR_000305)

    Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).


    Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.

    Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.


    Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.


    Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.


    Results from rtransparent:
    • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

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