Capture Compounds are trifunctional small molecules to reduce the complexity of the proteome by functional reversible small molecule-protein interaction followed by photo-crosslinking and purification. Here we use a Capture Compound with S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine-binding as selectivity function to isolate methyltransferases from an Escherichia coli whole cell lysate and identify them by MS.
Lenz, T., Poot, P., Gräbner, O., Glinski, M., Weinhold, E., Dreger, M., Köster, H. Profiling of Methyltransferases and Other S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine-binding Proteins by Capture Compound Mass Spectrometry (CCMS). J. Vis. Exp. (46), e2264, doi:10.3791/2264 (2010).