Presented here is a protocol for a capillary electrophoresis-based hydrogen/deuterium exchange (HDX) approach coupled with top-down mass spectrometry. This approach characterizes the difference in higher-order structures between different protein species, including proteins in different states and different proteoforms, by conducting concurrent differential HDX and electrophoretic separation.
Chaihu, L., Yao, X., Xu, X., Zhu, Z., Chen, D. D. Y., Wang, G. Capillary Electrophoresis-based Hydrogen/Deuterium Exchange for Conformational Characterization of Proteins with Top-down Mass Spectrometry. J. Vis. Exp. (172), e62672, doi:10.3791/62672 (2021).