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. 2017 Jun 19;7:3789. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-03922-3

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Workflow of HR-HDXMS. (A) Amino acid subfragments are determined from overlapping peptides generated by proteolytic digest of the protein. (B) The rate of hydrogen-deuterium exchange (k ex) of each subfragment is calculated by linear and non-linear least squares analysis. (C) The free energy value ΔGex derived from k ex is used to generate a stability fingerprint of the protein. (D) The protein fingerprint helps in understanding protein dynamics and allows predictions about residues that might be essential for protein stability and/or function.