Comment on "Protein sequences from mastodon and Tyrannosaurus rex revealed by mass spectrometry"

Mike Buckley; Angela Walker; Simon Y W Ho; Yue Yang; Colin Smith; Peter Ashton; Jane Thomas Oates; Enrico Cappellini; Hannah Koon; Kirsty Penkman; Ben Elsworth; Dave Ashford; Caroline Solazzo; Phillip Andrews; John Strahler; Beth Shapiro; Peggy Ostrom; Hasand Gandhi; Webb Miller; Brian Raney; Maria Ines Zylber; M Thomas P Gilbert; Richard V Prigodich; Michael Ryan; Kenneth F Rijsdijk; Anwar Janoo; Matthew J Collins

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Comment on "Protein sequences from mastodon and Tyrannosaurus rex revealed by mass spectrometry"

Mike Buckley, Angela Walker, Simon Y W Ho, Yue Yang, Colin Smith, Peter Ashton, Jane Thomas Oates, Enrico Cappellini, Hannah Koon, Kirsty Penkman, Ben Elsworth, Dave Ashford, Caroline Solazzo, Phillip Andrews, John Strahler, Beth Shapiro, Peggy Ostrom, Hasand Gandhi, Webb Miller, Brian RaneyMaria Ines Zylber, M Thomas P Gilbert, Richard V Prigodich, Michael Ryan, Kenneth F Rijsdijk, Anwar Janoo, Matthew J Collins

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Abstract

We used authentication tests developed for ancient DNA to evaluate claims by Asara et al. (Reports, 13 April 2007, p. 280) of collagen peptide sequences recovered from mastodon and Tyrannosaurus rex fossils. Although the mastodon samples pass these tests, absence of amino acid composition data, lack of evidence for peptide deamidation, and association of alpha1(I) collagen sequences with amphibians rather than birds suggest that T. rex does not.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	33; author reply 33
Journal	Science
Volume	319
Issue number	5859
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1147046
Publication status	Published - 4 Jan 2008

Keywords

Amino Acid Sequence
Animals
Bone and Bones
Collagen
Dinosaurs
Elephants
Fossils
Mass Spectrometry
Phylogeny
Comment
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

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Buckley, M., Walker, A., Ho, S. Y. W., Yang, Y., Smith, C., Ashton, P., Oates, J. T., Cappellini, E., Koon, H., Penkman, K., Elsworth, B., Ashford, D., Solazzo, C., Andrews, P., Strahler, J., Shapiro, B., Ostrom, P., Gandhi, H., Miller, W., ... Collins, M. J. (2008). Comment on "Protein sequences from mastodon and Tyrannosaurus rex revealed by mass spectrometry". Science, 319(5859), 33; author reply 33. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1147046

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