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Fournaise E, Chaurand P. Increasing specificity in imaging mass spectrometry: high spatial fidelity transfer of proteins from tissue sections to functionalized surfaces. Anal Bioanal Chem 2014; 407:2159-66. [DOI: 10.1007/s00216-014-8300-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2014] [Revised: 10/23/2014] [Accepted: 10/24/2014] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Škrášková K, Heeren RM. A review of complementary separation methods and matrix assisted laser desorption ionization-mass spectrometry imaging: Lowering sample complexity. J Chromatogr A 2013; 1319:1-13. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2013.10.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Amstalden van Hove ER, Smith DF, Fornai L, Glunde K, Heeren RMA. An alternative paper based tissue washing method for mass spectrometry imaging: localized washing and fragile tissue analysis. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2011; 22:1885-90. [PMID: 21952901 PMCID: PMC3177040 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-011-0203-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2011] [Revised: 06/14/2011] [Accepted: 06/22/2011] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Surface treatment of biological tissue sections improves detection of peptides and proteins for mass spectrometry imaging. However, liquid surface treatments can result in diffusion of surface analytes and fragile tissue sections can be easily damaged by typical washing solvents. Here, we present a new surface washing procedure for mass spectrometry imaging. This procedure uses solvent wetted fiber-free paper to enable local washing of tissue sections for mass spectrometry imaging and tissue profiling experiments. In addition, the method allows fragile tissues that cannot be treated by conventional washing techniques to be analyzed by mass spectrometry imaging.
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- FOM Institute AMOLF, Science Park 104, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- FOM Institute AMOLF, Science Park 104, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- JHU In Vivo Cellular and Molecular Imaging Center, The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD USA
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- FOM Institute AMOLF, Science Park 104, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- The Netherlands Proteomics Centre, Utrecht University, H.R. Kruytgebouw, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Affiliation(s)
- Kamila Chughtai
- FOM-Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Science Park 104, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- FOM-Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Science Park 104, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Groseclose MR, Andersson M, Hardesty WM, Caprioli RM. Identification of proteins directly from tissue: in situ tryptic digestions coupled with imaging mass spectrometry. JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY : JMS 2007; 42:254-62. [PMID: 17230433 DOI: 10.1002/jms.1177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 231] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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A novel method for on-tissue identification of proteins in spatially discrete regions is described using tryptic digestion followed by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) imaging mass spectrometry (IMS) with MS/MS analysis. IMS is first used to reveal the protein and peptide spatial distribution in a tissue section and then a serial section is robotically spotted with small volumes of trypsin solution to carry out in situ protease digestion. After hydrolysis, 2,5-Dihydroxybenzoic acid (DHB) matrix solution is applied to the digested spots, with subsequent analysis by IMS to reveal the spatial distribution of the various tryptic fragments. Sequence determination of the tryptic fragments is performed using on-tissue MALDI MS/MS analysis directly from the individual digest spots. This protocol enables protein identification directly from tissue while preserving the spatial integrity of the tissue sample. The procedure is demonstrated with the identification of several proteins in the coronal sections of a rat brain.
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- M Reid Groseclose
- Mass Spectrometry Research Center, Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, 465 21st Avenue South, Medical Research Building 3, Room 9160, Nashville, Tennessee 37232-8575, USA
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SHIMMA S, SETOU M. Mass Microscopy to Reveal Distinct Localization of Heme B (m/z 616) in Colon Cancer Liver Metastasis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007. [DOI: 10.5702/massspec.55.145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Hilario M, Kalousis A, Pellegrini C, Müller M. Processing and classification of protein mass spectra. MASS SPECTROMETRY REVIEWS 2006; 25:409-49. [PMID: 16463283 DOI: 10.1002/mas.20072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Among the many applications of mass spectrometry, biomarker pattern discovery from protein mass spectra has aroused considerable interest in the past few years. While research efforts have raised hopes of early and less invasive diagnosis, they have also brought to light the many issues to be tackled before mass-spectra-based proteomic patterns become routine clinical tools. Known issues cover the entire pipeline leading from sample collection through mass spectrometry analytics to biomarker pattern extraction, validation, and interpretation. This study focuses on the data-analytical phase, which takes as input mass spectra of biological specimens and discovers patterns of peak masses and intensities that discriminate between different pathological states. We survey current work and investigate computational issues concerning the different stages of the knowledge discovery process: exploratory analysis, quality control, and diverse transforms of mass spectra, followed by further dimensionality reduction, classification, and model evaluation. We conclude after a brief discussion of the critical biomedical task of analyzing discovered discriminatory patterns to identify their component proteins as well as interpret and validate their biological implications.
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- Melanie Hilario
- Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Computer Science Department, University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland.
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Alm R, Johansson P, Hjernø K, Emanuelsson C, Ringnér M, Häkkinen J. Detection and Identification of Protein Isoforms Using Cluster Analysis of MALDI−MS Mass Spectra. J Proteome Res 2006; 5:785-92. [PMID: 16602684 DOI: 10.1021/pr050354v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We describe an approach to screen large sets of MALDI-MS mass spectra for protein isoforms separated on two-dimensional electrophoresis gels. Mass spectra are matched against each other by utilizing extracted peak mass lists and hierarchical clustering. The output is presented as dendrograms in which protein isoforms cluster together. Clustering could be applied to mass spectra from different sample sets, dates, and instruments, revealed similarities between mass spectra, and was a useful tool to highlight peptide peaks of interest for further investigation. Shared peak masses in a cluster could be identified and were used to create novel peak mass lists suitable for protein identification using peptide mass fingerprinting. Complex mass spectra consisting of more than one protein were deconvoluted using information from other mass spectra in the same cluster. The number of peptide peaks shared between mass spectra in a cluster was typically found to be larger than the number of peaks that matched to calculated peak masses in databases, thus modified peaks are probably among the shared peptides. Clustering increased the number of peaks associated with a given protein.
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- Rikard Alm
- Department of Biochemistry, Lund University, Sweden
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Nadler TK, Wagenfeld BG, Huang Y, Lotti RJ, Parker KC, Vella GJ. Electronic Western blot of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometric-identified polypeptides from parallel processed gel-separated proteins. Anal Biochem 2004; 332:337-48. [PMID: 15325303 DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2004.06.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2004] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Identification of proteins previously separated by one-dimensional (1-D) or two-dimensional gel electrophoresis requires significant manipulations to digest the proteins into their respective peptides and to extract them from the gel prior to mass analysis. This article describes the simultaneous transfer and digestion of proteins directly from 1-D gels onto a membrane ready for matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) mass spectrometric (MS) analysis. Protein transfer and digestion efficiencies are estimated to be more than 95%. The effectiveness of this procedure is demonstrated by identifying 110 unique proteins derived from a lysate of Escherichia coli and 149 proteins derived from a mouse liver homogenate separated by 1-D sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE). Using crude mouse liver homogenates, four distinct glutathione S-transferase classes, ranging from 23 to 27 kDa, are identified from a separating gel, indicating the discriminating potential for this method. A Visual Basic program allowed visualization of the identified proteins according to their respective positions on the 1-D gels. In many cases, two or more proteins could be identified within a single band of the SDS gel. The "digital" images generated resemble Western blots without the use of antibodies or signal amplification techniques.
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- Timothy K Nadler
- Applied Biosystems, Advanced Research & Technology, 500 Old Connecticut Path, Framingham, MA 01701, USA.
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Binz PA, Müller M, Hoogland C, Zimmermann C, Pasquarello C, Corthals G, Sanchez JC, Hochstrasser DF, Appel RD. The molecular scanner: concept and developments. Curr Opin Biotechnol 2004; 15:17-23. [PMID: 15102461 DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2003.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Approaches aimed at deciphering the proteome have illustrated the need for relatively complex and highly sensitive methodologies. The major elements of proteome analysis, such as powerful protein separation and enzymatic processing, mass spectrometry and dedicated bioinformatics have been assembled in the development of the molecular scanner. This highly flexible and data-rich approach has combined the power of electrophoretic protein separation, the simultaneous digestion and transfer of proteins through an enzymatic membrane, the immediate use of the MALDI mass spectrometer to scan a collecting membrane, and the development of dedicated bioinformatics tools to perform protein identification and molecular imaging of the proteome. Clinical applications of the molecular scanner have also started to be developed for disease diagnosis in biological material.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Biotechnology/instrumentation
- Biotechnology/methods
- Biotechnology/trends
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Two-Dimensional/instrumentation
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Two-Dimensional/methods
- Equipment Design
- Gene Expression Profiling/instrumentation
- Gene Expression Profiling/methods
- Gene Expression Profiling/trends
- Humans
- Proteins/analysis
- Proteins/chemistry
- Proteomics/instrumentation
- Proteomics/methods
- Proteomics/trends
- Sequence Analysis, Protein/instrumentation
- Sequence Analysis, Protein/methods
- Sequence Analysis, Protein/trends
- Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization/instrumentation
- Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization/methods
- Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization/trends
- Systems Integration
- User-Computer Interface
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- Pierre-Alain Binz
- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Proteome Informatics Group, CMU, Michel Servet 1, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland.
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Marvin LF, Roberts MA, Fay LB. Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry in clinical chemistry. Clin Chim Acta 2003; 337:11-21. [PMID: 14568176 DOI: 10.1016/j.cccn.2003.08.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 165] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-Tof-MS) has recently become a popular and versatile method to analyze macromolecules from biological origin. In this paper, we will review the application of MALDI-Tof-MS in clinical chemistry and biology. MALDI-Tof-MS is used in clinical chemistry, e.g. disease markers can be identified with MALDI-MS analysis in combination with 1-D and 2-D gel electrophoresis separations thanks to either peptide mass fingerprinting (PMF) or peptide sequence tag (PST) followed by data base searching. In microbiology, MALDI-Tof-MS is employed to analyze specific peptides or proteins directly desorbed from intact viruses, bacteria and spores. The capability to register biomarker ions in a broad m/z range, which are unique and representative for individual microorganisms, forms the basis of taxonomic identification of bacteria by MALDI-Tof-MS. Moreover, this technique can be applied to study either the resistance of bacteria to antibiotics or the antimicrobial compounds secreted by other bacterial species. More recently, the method was also successfully applied to DNA sequencing (genotyping) as well as screening for mutations. High-throughput genotyping of single-nucleotide polymorphisms has the potential to become a routine method for both laboratory and clinical applications. Moreover, posttranscriptional modifications of RNA can be analyzed by MALDI using nucleotide-specific RNAses combined with further fragmentation by post source decay (PSD).
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- Laure F Marvin
- Nestlé Research Center, Nestec Ltd, Vers-chez-les-Blanc, PO Box 44, 1000 Lausanne 26, Switzerland.
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Coon JJ, Steele HA, Laipis PJ, Harrison WW. Direct Atmospheric Pressure Coupling of Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis to Mass Spectrometry for Rapid Protein Sequence Analysis. J Proteome Res 2003; 2:610-7. [PMID: 14692454 DOI: 10.1021/pr034031f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Using laser desorption-atmospheric pressure chemical ionization we describe a novel approach for coupling mass spectrometry to polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. In contrast to other approaches, the method allows for the direct sampling of a polyacrylamide gel-embedded protein without the addition of any exogenous matrixes and is performed at atmospheric pressure. After electrophoresis and enzymatic digestion, the gel is analyzed at AP by photons that desorb neutral peptide molecules, followed by corona discharge ionization in the gas-phase, and subsequent mass analysis. Our experimental results demonstrate the method to (1) rapidly identify electrophoresed proteins via "peptide fingerprinting" using protein databases, (2) detect single-amino acid polymorphisms, and (3) has potential for sub-picomole sensitivity while still maintaining in situ gel desorption-ionization at ambient conditions.
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- Joshua J Coon
- Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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McLean JA, Russell WK, Russell DH. A high repetition rate (1 kHz) microcrystal laser for high throughput atmospheric pressure MALDI-quadrupole-time-of-flight mass spectrometry. Anal Chem 2003; 75:648-54. [PMID: 12585497 DOI: 10.1021/ac026029y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Sample throughput has been increased in many areas of proteomics, but the last significant advance in lasers used for matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) was the introduction of cartridge-type N2 lasers (337 nm, 4-ns pulse widths, 1-30-Hz repetition rates) more than a decade ago. This report describes the application of a 1-kHz repetition rate Nd:YAG laser (355 nm, <500-ps pulse widths) for atmospheric pressure MALDI-QqTOFMS, and data obtained are compared to a conventional nitrogen laser. For example, the signal intensity for angiotensin II using the 1-kHz laser was in some cases enhanced by a factor of 80 and high-quality data could be obtained in as little as 1 s.
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- John A McLean
- The Laboratory for Biological Mass Spectrometry, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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Binz PA, Hochstrasser DF, Appel RD. Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics: Current Status and Potential Use in Clinical Chemistry. Clin Chem Lab Med 2003; 41:1540-51. [PMID: 14708878 DOI: 10.1515/cclm.2003.237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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For some years now, scientists have been spending a lot of effort in developing methods to analyse and compare complex protein samples. One of the goals of such global analyses of what is known as proteomes is to discover specific protein markers--or fingerprints of protein markers--from various types of affected biological samples. Considering the battery of technologies currently available, mass spectrometry (MS) constitutes an essential tool in proteomics. We describe here the type of MS instrumentation that is currently dedicated to proteomics research. We also describe the major experimental workflows that are typically used in proteomics today, with a focus on those incorporating MS as a major analysis tool.
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- Pierre-Alain Binz
- Proteome Informatics Group, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Müller M, Gras R, Binz PA, Hochstrasser DF, Appel RD. Molecular scanner experiment with human plasma: improving protein identification by using intensity distributions of matching peptide masses. Proteomics 2002; 2:1413-25. [PMID: 12422358 DOI: 10.1002/1615-9861(200210)2:10<1413::aid-prot1413>3.0.co;2-p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The development of high throughput utilities to identify proteins is a major challenge in present research in the field of proteomics. One such utility, the molecular scanner, uses proteins separated by two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis that are digested in the gel and during transfer onto a collecting membrane. After adding a matrix, the membrane is inserted into a matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-time of flight mass spectrometer and a peptide mass fingerprint (PMF) is measured for every scanned site. Since the spacing between scanned sites is much smaller than the size of the most abundant protein spots, there is a certain redundancy in the data that was used in an earlier experiment with Escherichia coli [1] to improve mass calibration and PMF identification results. It was observed that the signal intensity of a peptide mass as a function of the position on the membrane showed similar patterns if peptides stemmed from the same protein. Taking account of these similarities a clustering algorithm was used to find lists of experimental masses with similar intensity distributions, which provided clearer identification of the corresponding proteins. Here, these methods are applied to a human plasma scan, where proteins were highly modified and less separated. The presence of very abundant proteins like albumin and immunoglobulins added another difficulty. The calibration of the initial PMFs was not satisfactory and masses had to be recalibrated. After discarding chemical noise, the membrane was partitioned into regions and for each region protein identification was carried out separately. A new scoring method was used, where the PMF score was multiplied by a factor that measures the similarity of matching peptides. This method proved to be more robust than the method developed in [1] if the region where a protein was found had an extended, nonspherical shape and strong overlap with regions of other proteins. Many proteins annotated on the SWISS-2D PAGE human plasma master gel could be clearly identified and many interesting properties were observed.
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- Markus Müller
- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Taylor SW, Warnock DE, Glenn GM, Zhang B, Fahy E, Gaucher SP, Capaldi RA, Gibson BW, Ghosh SS. An alternative strategy to determine the mitochondrial proteome using sucrose gradient fractionation and 1D PAGE on highly purified human heart mitochondria. J Proteome Res 2002; 1:451-8. [PMID: 12645917 DOI: 10.1021/pr025533g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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An alternative strategy for mitochondrial proteomics is described that is complementary to previous investigations using 2D PAGE techniques. The strategy involves (a) obtaining highly purified preparations of human heart mitochondria using metrizamide gradients to remove cytosolic and other subcellular contaminant proteins; (b) separation of mitochondrial protein complexes using sucrose density gradients after solubilization with n-dodecyl-beta-D-maltoside; (c) 1D electrophoresis of the sucrose gradient fractions; (d) high-throughput proteomics using robotic gel band excision, in-gel digestion, MALDI target spotting and automated spectral acquisition; and (e) protein identification from mixtures of tryptic peptides by high-precision peptide mass fingerprinting. Using this approach, we rapidly identified 82 bona fide or potential mitochondrial proteins, 40 of which have not been previously reported using 2D PAGE techniques. These proteins include small complex I and complex IV subunits, as well as very basic and hydrophobic transmembrane proteins such as the adenine nucleotide translocase that are not recovered in 2D gels. The technique described here should also be useful for the identification of new protein-protein associations as exemplified by the validation of a recently discovered complex that involves proteins belonging to the prohibitin family.
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- Steven W Taylor
- MitoKor, 11494 Sorrento Valley Road, San Diego California 92121, USA.
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Current literature in mass spectrometry. JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY : JMS 2002; 37:765-776. [PMID: 12125010 DOI: 10.1002/jms.254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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