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Del Castillo Alferez J, Kooiker A, van Alphen FPJ, van der Zwaan C, Brinkman HJ, Meijers JCM, Meijer AB, van den Biggelaar M, van Duijl TT, SYMPHONY Consortium. Proteolytic signatures of coagulation identified by plasma peptidomics. J Thromb Haemost 2025:S1538-7836(25)00267-3. [PMID: 40286914 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtha.2025.04.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Collaborators] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2024] [Revised: 03/12/2025] [Accepted: 04/15/2025] [Indexed: 04/29/2025]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Coagulation entails sequential proteolytic events in plasma, ultimately leading to fibrin clot formation. OBJECTIVES In this study, we employed a mass spectrometry-based peptidomics approach to characterize the molecular events of coagulation-induced limited proteolysis. METHODS Citrated plasma from healthy donors was in vitro-coagulated by recalcification combined with the addition of tissue factor (TF) in the absence or presence of hirudin. The formation of endogenous peptide products over time was monitored using a mass spectrometry approach with a de novo algorithm for peptide identification. RESULTS Plasma coagulation resulted in a distinct peptidome enriched with activation peptides of prothrombin and FXIIIA, fibrinopeptides A and B, reactive center loops of protease inhibitors, the bait region of α2-macroglobulin, and additional proteolytic hotspots outside the coagulation system. While thrombin inhibition blocked almost all TF-initiated limited proteolysis, most events were TF concentration-independent, with the exception of prothrombin, fibrinogen, FV, FXIIIA, α2-macroglobulin, protein C inhibitor, complement C3, and plexin domain-containing 2. The order of events of fibrinopeptide A and B formation-prothrombin conversion, FXIIIA activation, and protease inhibitor proteolysis-followed the kinetics of thrombin generation. CONCLUSION Plasma peptidomics of coagulation-initiated limited proteolysis captures peptide products derived from pro- and anticoagulant events and proteolytic signatures beyond the classical coagulation system. We envision that this peptidomics strategy enables the assessment of functional aspects of coagulation in bleeding and thrombotic disorders at the molecular level.
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- Department of Molecular Hematology, Sanquin Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Molecular Hematology, Sanquin Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Molecular Hematology, Sanquin Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Experimental Vascular Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Molecular Hematology, Sanquin Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Molecular Hematology, Sanquin Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Collaborators
Emile van den Akker, Wala Al Arashi, Ryanne Arisz, Lieke Baas, Ruben Bierings, Maartje van den Biggelaar, Johan Boender, Anske van der Bom, Mettine Bos, Martijn Brands, Annelien Bredenoord, Laura Bukkems, Lex Burdorf, Jessica Del Castillo Alferez, Michael Cloesmeijer, Marjon Cnossen, Mariëtte Driessens, Jeroen Eikenboom, Karin Fijnvandraat, Kathelijn Fischer, Geertje Goedhart, Tine Goedhart, Samantha Gouw, Rieke van der Graaf, Masja de Haas, Lotte Haverman, Jan Hazelzet, Shannon van Hoorn, Elise Huisman, Nathalie Jansen, Alexander Janssen, Sean de Jong, Sjoerd Koopman, Marieke Kruip, Sebastiaan Laan, Frank Leebeek, Nikki van Leeuwen, Hester Lingsma, Moniek de Maat, Ron Mathôt, Felix van der Meer, Karina Meijer, Sander Meijer, Stephan Meijer, Iris van Moort, Caroline Mussert, Hans Kristian Ploos van Amstel, Suzanne Polinder, Diaz Prameyllawati, Simone Reitsma, Eliza Roest, Lorenzo Romano, Saskia Schols, Roger Schutgens, Rolf Urbanus, Carin Uyl, Jan Voorberg, Huan Zhang, Minka Zivkovic,
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Ballouze R, Ismail MN, Abu Kassim NS, Salhimi SM, Mohamad I, Abd Mutalib NS, Hassim AA, Fazalul Rahiman SS. Detection of dynorphin 1-17 biotransformation fragments in human nasal polyps by UPLC-QTOF-MS. Anal Bioanal Chem 2024; 416:545-557. [PMID: 38040942 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-023-05061-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2023] [Revised: 11/06/2023] [Accepted: 11/13/2023] [Indexed: 12/03/2023]
Abstract
Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) is a persistent inflammation of the sinonasal mucosa. CRSwNP treatments are associated with inconsistent efficacy and recurrence of symptoms. Dynorphin 1-17 (DYN 1-17) and its fragments have been shown to modulate the immune response in various inflammatory conditions. This study aimed to investigate the effect of different pH and degrees of inflammation on DYN 1-17 metabolism in human CRSwNP tissues. DYN 1-17 was incubated with grade 3 and grade 4 inflamed tissues of CRSwNP patients at pH 5.5 and pH 7.4 over a range of incubation periods. The resulting fragments were identified using an ultra-performance liquid chromatography (UPLC) system coupled to quadrupole-time of flight (QTOF) mass spectrometry based on their accurate mass. The rate of DYN 1-17 fragmentation was slower at pH 5.5 in comparison to pH 7.4. The extent and rate of metabolism of DYN 1-17 were much lower in grade 3 inflamed tissue (31-32 fragments) than in grade 4 (34-41 fragments). N-Terminal fragments (DYN 1-15, 1-11, 1-10, and 1-6) were metabolized slower at pH 5.5 as compared to pH 7.4. DYN 1-12, 1-8, 2-10, 4-10, 5-10, and 8-14 were only observed under the inflammatory pH while DYN 5-17 and 6-17 were only identified upon incubation with grade 4 CRSwNP tissues. DYN 1-17 metabolism was significantly affected by the pH level and the severity of the inflammation of CRSwNP tissues, indicating the potential roles of DYN 1-17 and its fragments in modulating the inflammatory response and their avenue as therapeutics in future studies.
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- Rama Ballouze
- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 USM, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
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- Analytical Biochemistry Research Centre, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11900, Bayan Lepas, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
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- School of Chemistry and Environment, Faculty of Applied Science, Universiti Teknologi MARA, 72000, Kuala Pilah, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia Health Campus, 16150, Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Hospital Sultan Abdul Halim, 08000, Sungai Petani, Kedah, Malaysia
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 USM, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
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Liu R, Tan C, Wu J, Xu Y, Li X, Zhong Z, Li S, Qiu Y, Feng B. Characterization of genotype IV hepatitis E virus-like particles expressed in E.coli. Heliyon 2023; 9:e15284. [PMID: 37095953 PMCID: PMC10122030 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e15284] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2022] [Revised: 03/05/2023] [Accepted: 03/31/2023] [Indexed: 04/26/2023] Open
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HEV (Hepatitis E virus) is an infectious disease transmitted between humans and animals, which poses a severe threat to the biological safety and property throughout the world. The disease is especially severe in patients with potential liver cirrhosis and women during pregnancy. There is no specific and thorough HEV treatment at present. The development of hepatitis E virus vaccine is vital to the prevention of viral hepatitis worldwide. Since HEV cannot grow adequately in vitro, vaccine developed by devitalized virus particles does not work. Exploration of HEV-like structures is essential for the development of functional vaccines against HEV infection. ORF2 encodes the structural proteins of HEV, some of which can automatically assemble into virus-like particles (VLP) in this experiment, the recombinant capsid protein p27 was expressed in E. coli and the VLP formed by p27 was used to immunize mice. The results showed that the VLP formed by recombinant P27 had similar particle size to that of HEV; the immune dose produced by p27 was positively correlated with the immune effect. Compared with other genetic engineering subunit vaccines, P27 protein has a better application prospect.
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- Rushi Liu
- Laboratory of Medical Molecular and Immunological Diagnostics, School of Medicine, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, 410013, China
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- Laboratory of Medical Molecular and Immunological Diagnostics, School of Medicine, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, 410013, China
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- Nanya Middle School of Changsha, Changsha, 410129, China
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- Laboratory of Medical Molecular and Immunological Diagnostics, School of Medicine, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, 410013, China
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- Laboratory of Medical Molecular and Immunological Diagnostics, School of Medicine, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, 410013, China
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- Laboratory of Medical Molecular and Immunological Diagnostics, School of Medicine, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, 410013, China
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- Laboratory of Medical Molecular and Immunological Diagnostics, School of Medicine, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, 410013, China
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- School of Life Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, 410081, China
- Corresponding author.
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- The Affiliated Changsha Central Hospital, Hengyang Medical School, University of South China, 410008, China
- Corresponding author.
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Zhang Z, Li Y, Yuan W, Wang Z, Wan C. Proteomic-driven identification of short open reading frame-encoded peptides. Proteomics 2022; 22:e2100312. [PMID: 35384297 DOI: 10.1002/pmic.202100312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2022] [Revised: 03/29/2022] [Accepted: 03/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Accumulating evidence has shown that a large number of short open reading frames (sORFs) also have the ability to encode proteins. The discovery of sORFs opens up a new research area, leading to the identification and functional study of sORF encoded peptides (SEPs) at the omics level. Besides bioinformatics prediction and ribosomal profiling, mass spectrometry (MS) has become a significant tool as it directly detects the sequence of SEPs. Though MS-based proteomics methods have proved to be effective for qualitative and quantitative analysis of SEPs, the detection of SEPs is still a great challenge due to their low abundance and short sequence. To illustrate the progress in method development, we described and discussed the main steps of large-scale proteomics identification of SEPs, including SEP extraction and enrichment, MS detection, data processing and quality control, quantification, and function prediction and validation methods. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
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- Zheng Zhang
- School of Life Sciences and Hubei Key Laboratory of Genetic Regulation and Integrative Biology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, 430079, People's Republic of China
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- School of Life Sciences and Hubei Key Laboratory of Genetic Regulation and Integrative Biology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, 430079, People's Republic of China
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- School of Life Sciences and Hubei Key Laboratory of Genetic Regulation and Integrative Biology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, 430079, People's Republic of China
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- School of Life Sciences and Hubei Key Laboratory of Genetic Regulation and Integrative Biology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, 430079, People's Republic of China
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- School of Life Sciences and Hubei Key Laboratory of Genetic Regulation and Integrative Biology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, 430079, People's Republic of China
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A novel peptide identified from visceral ganglia induces oocyte maturation, spermatozoa active motility, and spawning in the pen shell Atrinapectinata. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2022; 598:9-14. [PMID: 35149434 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2022.02.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2022] [Accepted: 02/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The identification of novel peptides that regulate reproduction is essential for studying reproductive physiology in bivalves. Therefore, we aimed to identify peptides that affect the reproductive physiology of bivalves. We identified an oocyte maturation-, sperm motility-, and spawning-inducing peptide from the visceral ganglia of the pen shell, Atrina pectinata. The peptide consisted of 26 amino acid residues (GFDSINFPGTIDGFKDYSSNKKERLL). This peptide induced oocyte maturation and sperm motility activation at less than 1 nM upon the treatment of gonad fragments and induced spawning at 1 nmol when injected into mature individuals. Mature eggs and sperms artificially spawned by peptide administration were fertilized, and we confirmed that the development proceeded normally to veliger (D-shape) larvae. These results indicated that GFDSINFPGTIDGFKDYSSNKKERLL stimulated the gonads of pen shells and induced oocyte maturation, sperm motility activation, and spawning.
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Ito H, Matsui T, Konno R, Itakura M, Kodera Y. LC-MS peak assignment based on unanimous selection by six machine learning algorithms. Sci Rep 2021; 11:23411. [PMID: 34862414 PMCID: PMC8642397 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-02899-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2021] [Accepted: 11/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Recent mass spectrometry (MS)-based techniques enable deep proteome coverage with relative quantitative analysis, resulting in increased identification of very weak signals accompanied by increased data size of liquid chromatography (LC)–MS/MS spectra. However, the identification of weak signals using an assignment strategy with poorer performance results in imperfect quantification with misidentification of peaks and ratio distortions. Manually annotating a large number of signals within a very large dataset is not a realistic approach. In this study, therefore, we utilized machine learning algorithms to successfully extract a higher number of peptide peaks with high accuracy and precision. Our strategy evaluated each peak identified using six different algorithms; peptide peaks identified by all six algorithms (i.e., unanimously selected) were subsequently assigned as true peaks, which resulted in a reduction in the false-positive rate. Hence, exact and highly quantitative peptide peaks were obtained, providing better performance than obtained applying the conventional criteria or using a single machine learning algorithm.
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- Hiroaki Ito
- Department of Physics, School of Science, Kitasato University, 1-15-1 Kitasato, Minami-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, 252-0373, Japan
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- Department of Physics, School of Science, Kitasato University, 1-15-1 Kitasato, Minami-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, 252-0373, Japan.,Center for Disease Proteomics, School of Science, Kitasato University, 1-15-1 Kitasato, Minami-ku, Sagamihara, 252-0373, Japan
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- Department of Physics, School of Science, Kitasato University, 1-15-1 Kitasato, Minami-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, 252-0373, Japan
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- Center for Disease Proteomics, School of Science, Kitasato University, 1-15-1 Kitasato, Minami-ku, Sagamihara, 252-0373, Japan.,Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Kitasato University, 1-15-1 Kitasato, Minami-ku , Sagamihara, 252-0373, Japan
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- Department of Physics, School of Science, Kitasato University, 1-15-1 Kitasato, Minami-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, 252-0373, Japan. .,Center for Disease Proteomics, School of Science, Kitasato University, 1-15-1 Kitasato, Minami-ku, Sagamihara, 252-0373, Japan.
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