Early Scanning of Nascent Polypeptides inside the Ribosomal Tunnel by NAC

In this study, NAC was UV-crosslinked using the photo-crosslinking amino acid p-benzoyl-L-phenylalanine (pBPA) in order to determine specific interaction sites of the alphaNAC N-terminus in the native protein structure. Furthermore, quantitative chemical crosslinking coupled to mass spectrometry (q-XL-MS) was used to compare crosslink abundances of a NAC mutant versus wild type NAC in order to determine the influence of the mutated motive on the structural dynamics of NAC.