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Venter L, Loots DT, Mienie LJ, Jansen van Rensburg PJ, Mason S, Vosloo A, Lindeque JZ. Uncovering the metabolic response of abalone (Haliotis midae) to environmental hypoxia through metabolomics. Metabolomics 2018; 14:49. [PMID: 30830330 DOI: 10.1007/s11306-018-1346-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2017] [Accepted: 03/03/2018] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Oxygen is essential for metabolic processes and in the absence thereof alternative metabolic pathways are required for energy production, as seen in marine invertebrates like abalone. Even though hypoxia has been responsible for significant losses to the aquaculture industry, the overall metabolic adaptations of abalone in response to environmental hypoxia are as yet, not fully elucidated. OBJECTIVE To use a multiplatform metabolomics approach to characterize the metabolic changes associated with energy production in abalone (Haliotis midae) when exposed to environmental hypoxia. METHODS Metabolomics analysis of abalone adductor and foot muscle, left and right gill, hemolymph, and epipodial tissue samples were conducted using a multiplatform approach, which included untargeted NMR spectroscopy, untargeted and targeted LC-MS spectrometry, and untargeted and semi-targeted GC-MS spectrometric analyses. RESULTS Increased levels of anaerobic end-products specific to marine animals were found which include alanopine, strombine, tauropine and octopine. These were accompanied by elevated lactate, succinate and arginine, of which the latter is a product of phosphoarginine breakdown in abalone. Primarily amino acid metabolism was affected, with carbohydrate and lipid metabolism assisting with anaerobic energy production to a lesser extent. Different tissues showed varied metabolic responses to hypoxia, with the largest metabolic changes in the adductor muscle. CONCLUSIONS From this investigation, it becomes evident that abalone have well-developed (yet understudied) metabolic mechanisms for surviving hypoxic periods. Furthermore, metabolomics serves as a powerful tool for investigating the altered metabolic processes in abalone.
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- Leonie Venter
- Human Metabolomics, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, Private Bag X6001, Potchefstroom, 2520, South Africa
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- Human Metabolomics, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, Private Bag X6001, Potchefstroom, 2520, South Africa
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- Human Metabolomics, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, Private Bag X6001, Potchefstroom, 2520, South Africa
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- Human Metabolomics, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, Private Bag X6001, Potchefstroom, 2520, South Africa
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- Human Metabolomics, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, Private Bag X6001, Potchefstroom, 2520, South Africa
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- School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville Campus, Private Bag X54001, Durban, 4000, South Africa
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- Human Metabolomics, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, Private Bag X6001, Potchefstroom, 2520, South Africa.
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Disaggregation of Amylin Aggregate by Novel Conformationally Restricted Aminobenzoic Acid containing α/β and α/γ Hybrid Peptidomimetics. Sci Rep 2017; 7:40095. [PMID: 28054630 PMCID: PMC5214534 DOI: 10.1038/srep40095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2016] [Accepted: 12/01/2016] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Diabetes has emerged as a threat to the current world. More than ninety five per cent of all the diabetic population has type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Aggregates of Amylin hormone, which is co-secreted with insulin from the pancreatic β-cells, inhibit the activities of insulin and glucagon and cause T2DM. Importance of the conformationally restricted peptides for drug design against T2DM has been invigorated by recent FDA approval of Symlin, which is a large conformationally restricted peptide. However, Symlin still has some issues including solubility, oral bioavailability and cost of preparation. Herein, we introduced a novel strategy for conformationally restricted peptide design adopting a minimalistic approach for cost reduction. We have demonstrated efficient inhibition of amyloid formation of Amylin and its disruption by a novel class of conformationally restricted β-sheet breaker hybrid peptidomimetics (BSBHps). We have inserted β, γ and δ -aminobenzoic acid separately into an amyloidogenic peptide sequence, synthesized α/β, α/γ and α/δ hybrid peptidomimetics, respectively. Interestingly, we observed the aggregation inhibitory efficacy of α/β and α/γ BSBHps, but not of α/δ analogues. They also disrupt existing amyloids into non-toxic forms. Results may be useful for newer drug design against T2DM as well as other amyloidoses and understanding amyloidogenesis.
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A variety of proteases have been implicated in yeast PCD (programmed cell death) including the metacaspase Mca1 and the separase Esp1, the HtrA-like serine protease Nma111, the cathepsin-like serine carboxypeptideases and a range of vacuolar proteases. Proteasomal activity is also shown to have an important role in determining cell fate, with both pro- and anti-apoptotic roles. Caspase 3-, 6- and 8-like activities are detected upon stimulation of yeast PCD, but not all of this activity is associated with Mca1, implicating other proteases with caspase-like activity in the yeast cell death response. Global proteolytic events that accompany PCD are discussed alongside a consideration of the conservation of the death-related degradome (both at the level of substrate choice and cleavage site). The importance of both gain-of-function changes in the degradome as well as loss-of-function changes are highlighted. Better understanding of both death-related proteases and their substrates may facilitate the design of future antifungal drugs or the manipulation of industrial yeasts for commercial exploitation.
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Shen Y, Tolić N, Purvine SO, Smith RD. Improving collision induced dissociation (CID), high energy collision dissociation (HCD), and electron transfer dissociation (ETD) fourier transform MS/MS degradome-peptidome identifications using high accuracy mass information. J Proteome Res 2011; 11:668-77. [PMID: 22054047 DOI: 10.1021/pr200597j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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MS dissociation methods, including collision induced dissociation (CID), high energy collision dissociation (HCD), and electron transfer dissociation (ETD), can each contribute distinct peptidome identifications using conventional peptide identification methods (Shen et al. J. Proteome Res. 2011), but such samples still pose significant informatics challenges. In this work, we explored utilization of high accuracy fragment ion mass measurements, in this case provided by Fourier transform MS/MS, to improve peptidome peptide data set size and consistency relative to conventional descriptive and probabilistic scoring methods. For example, we identified 20-40% more peptides than SEQUEST, Mascot, and MS_GF scoring methods using high accuracy fragment ion information and the same false discovery rate (FDR) from CID, HCD, and ETD spectra. Identified species covered >90% of the collective identifications obtained using various conventional peptide identification methods, which significantly addresses the common issue of different data analysis methods generating different peptide data sets. Choice of peptide dissociation and high-precision measurement-based identification methods presently available for degradomic-peptidomic analyses needs to be based on the coverage and confidence (or specificity) afforded by the method, as well as practical issues (e.g., throughput). By using accurate fragment information, >1000 peptidome components can be identified from a single human blood plasma analysis with low peptide-level FDRs (e.g., 0.6%), providing an improved basis for investigating potential disease-related peptidome components.
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- Yufeng Shen
- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory , Richland, Washington 99354, United States.
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Liu X, Sirotkin Y, Shen Y, Anderson G, Tsai YS, Ting YS, Goodlett DR, Smith RD, Bafna V, Pevzner PA. Protein identification using top-down. Mol Cell Proteomics 2011; 11:M111.008524. [PMID: 22027200 DOI: 10.1074/mcp.m111.008524] [Citation(s) in RCA: 115] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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In the last two years, because of advances in protein separation and mass spectrometry, top-down mass spectrometry moved from analyzing single proteins to analyzing complex samples and identifying hundreds and even thousands of proteins. However, computational tools for database search of top-down spectra against protein databases are still in their infancy. We describe MS-Align+, a fast algorithm for top-down protein identification based on spectral alignment that enables searches for unexpected post-translational modifications. We also propose a method for evaluating statistical significance of top-down protein identifications and further benchmark various software tools on two top-down data sets from Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Salmonella typhimurium. We demonstrate that MS-Align+ significantly increases the number of identified spectra as compared with MASCOT and OMSSA on both data sets. Although MS-Align+ and ProSightPC have similar performance on the Salmonella typhimurium data set, MS-Align+ outperforms ProSightPC on the (more complex) Saccharomyces cerevisiae data set.
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- Xiaowen Liu
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, San Diego, California 92093, USA
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Vögtle FN, Prinz C, Kellermann J, Lottspeich F, Pfanner N, Meisinger C. Mitochondrial protein turnover: role of the precursor intermediate peptidase Oct1 in protein stabilization. Mol Biol Cell 2011; 22:2135-43. [PMID: 21525245 PMCID: PMC3128517 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e11-02-0169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2011] [Revised: 04/19/2011] [Accepted: 04/21/2011] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Most mitochondrial proteins are encoded in the nucleus as precursor proteins and carry N-terminal presequences for import into the organelle. The vast majority of presequences are proteolytically removed by the mitochondrial processing peptidase (MPP) localized in the matrix. A subset of precursors with a characteristic amino acid motif is additionally processed by the mitochondrial intermediate peptidase (MIP) octapeptidyl aminopeptidase 1 (Oct1), which removes an octapeptide from the N-terminus of the precursor intermediate. However, the function of this second cleavage step is elusive. In this paper, we report the identification of a novel Oct1 substrate protein with an unusual cleavage motif. Inspection of the Oct1 substrates revealed that the N-termini of the intermediates typically carry a destabilizing amino acid residue according to the N-end rule of protein degradation, whereas mature proteins carry stabilizing N-terminal residues. We compared the stability of intermediate and mature forms of Oct1 substrate proteins in organello and in vivo and found that Oct1 cleavage increases the half-life of its substrate proteins, most likely by removing destabilizing amino acids at the intermediate's N-terminus. Thus Oct1 converts unstable precursor intermediates generated by MPP into stable mature proteins.
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- F.-Nora Vögtle
- Institut für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie, ZBMZ, Universität Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
- Trinationales Graduiertenkolleg 1478, Universität Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
- Fakultät für Biologie, Universität Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Institut für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie, ZBMZ, Universität Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, 82152 Martinsried, Germany
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- Institut für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie, ZBMZ, Universität Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
- BIOSS, Centre for Biological Signalling Studies, Universität Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Institut für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie, ZBMZ, Universität Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
- BIOSS, Centre for Biological Signalling Studies, Universität Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Samir P, Link AJ. Analyzing the cryptome: uncovering secret sequences. AAPS JOURNAL 2011; 13:152-8. [PMID: 21327597 DOI: 10.1208/s12248-011-9252-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2010] [Accepted: 12/23/2010] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The mammalian cryptome consists of bioactive peptides generated by the proteolysis of precursor proteins. It is speculated that the cryptide repertoire increases the complexity of the proteome by an order of magnitude. Cryptides have been found to function in a wide range of processes including neuronal signaling, antigen presentation, and the inflammatory response. Due to their potential as therapeutic agents, there has been an increasing interest in studying cryptides. In this review, we discuss different approaches for discovering these hidden peptides and how proteomic tools can be utilized to aid in their identification and characterization.
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- Parimal Samir
- Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 37232-2363, USA
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Gupta N, Hixson KK, Culley DE, Smith RD, Pevzner PA. Analyzing protease specificity and detecting in vivo proteolytic events using tandem mass spectrometry. Proteomics 2010; 10:2833-44. [PMID: 20597098 DOI: 10.1002/pmic.200900821] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Although trypsin remains the most commonly used protease in MS, other proteases may be employed for increasing peptide coverage or generating overlapping peptides. Knowledge of the accurate specificity rules of these proteases is helpful for database search tools to detect peptides, and becomes crucial when label-free MS is used to discover in vivo proteolytic cleavages. Since in vivo cleavages are inferred by subtracting digestion-induced cleavages from all observed cleavages, it is important to ensure that the specificity rule used to identify digestion-induced cleavages are broad enough to capture even minor cleavages produced in digestion, to avoid erroneously identifying them as in vivo cleavages. In this study, we describe MS-Proteolysis, a software tool for identifying putative sites of in vivo proteolytic cleavage using label-free MS. The tool is used in conjunction with digestion by trypsin and three other proteases, whose specificity rules are revised and extended before inferring proteolytic cleavages. Finally, we show that comparative analysis of multiple proteases can be used to detect putative in vivo proteolytic sites on a proteome-wide scale.
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- Nitin Gupta
- Bioinformatics Program, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
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Shen Y, Liu T, Tolić N, Petritis BO, Zhao R, Moore RJ, Purvine SO, Camp DG, Smith RD. Strategy for degradomic-peptidomic analysis of human blood plasma. J Proteome Res 2010; 9:2339-46. [PMID: 20377236 PMCID: PMC2866148 DOI: 10.1021/pr901083m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Herein we describe a strategy for degradomic-peptidomic analyses. The human blood peptidome was isolated through application of AC/SEC, which enriched its components by >300-fold. The isolated peptidome components were separated by long column HRLC providing a peak capacity of approximately 300 for species having MWs of up to 20 kDa. The separated species were identified by the FT MS/MS-UStags sequencing method. We identified >200 peptidome components that originated from 29 protein substrates from the blood plasma of a single healthy person. The peptidome peptides identified had MWs range of 0.5-14 kDa and identifications were achieved with extremely low (near zero) false discovery rates through searching the IPI human protein database (approximately 70,000 entries). Some of the peptidome peptides identified have mutations and modifications such as acetylation, acetylhexosamine, amidation, cysteinylation, didehydro, oxidation, and pyro-glu. The capabilities described enable the global analysis of the peptidome peptides to identify degradome targets such as degradome proteases, proteases inhibitors, and other relevant substrates, the cleavage specificities for the degradation of individual substrates, as well as a potential basis for using the various extents of substrate degradation for diagnostic purposes.
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- Yufeng Shen
- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99354, USA.
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Kim BC, Lopez-Ferrer D, Lee SM, Ahn HK, Nair S, Kim SH, Kim BS, Petritis K, Camp DG, Grate JW, Smith RD, Koo YM, Gu MB, Kim J. Highly stable trypsin-aggregate coatings on polymer nanofibers for repeated protein digestion. Proteomics 2009; 9:1893-900. [PMID: 19288524 DOI: 10.1002/pmic.200800591] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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A stable and robust trypsin-based biocatalytic system was developed and demonstrated for proteomic applications. The system utilizes polymer nanofibers coated with trypsin aggregates for immobilized protease digestions. After covalently attaching an initial layer of trypsin to the polymer nanofibers, highly concentrated trypsin molecules are crosslinked to the layered trypsin by way of a glutaraldehyde treatment. This process produced a 300-fold increase in trypsin activity compared with a conventional method for covalent trypsin immobilization, and proved to be robust in that it still maintained a high level of activity after a year of repeated recycling. This highly stable form of immobilized trypsin was resistant to autolysis, enabling repeated digestions of BSA over 40 days and successful peptide identification by LC-MS/MS. This active and stable form of immobilized trypsin was successfully employed in the digestion of yeast proteome extract with high reproducibility and within shorter time than conventional protein digestion using solution phase trypsin. Finally, the immobilized trypsin was resistant to proteolysis when exposed to other enzymes (i.e., chymotrypsin), which makes it suitable for use in "real-world" proteomic applications. Overall, the biocatalytic nanofibers with trypsin aggregate coatings proved to be an effective approach for repeated and automated protein digestion in proteomic analyses.
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Shen Y, Tolić N, Hixson KK, Purvine SO, Anderson GA, Smith RD. De novo sequencing of unique sequence tags for discovery of post-translational modifications of proteins. Anal Chem 2008; 80:7742-54. [PMID: 18783246 DOI: 10.1021/ac801123p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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De novo sequencing is a spectrum analysis approach for mass spectrometry data to discover post-translational modifications in proteins; however, such an approach is still in its infancy and is still not widely applied to proteomic practices due to its limited reliability. In this work, we describe a de novo sequencing approach for the discovery of protein modifications based on identification of the proteome UStags (Shen, Y.; Tolić, N.; Hixson, K. K.; Purvine, S. O.; Pasa-Tolić, L.; Qian, W. J.; Adkins, J. N.; Moore, R. J.; Smith, R. D. Anal. Chem. 2008, 80, 1871-1882). The de novo information was obtained from Fourier-transform tandem mass spectrometry data for peptides and polypeptides from a yeast lysate, and the de novo sequences obtained were selected based on filter levels designed to provide a limited yet high quality subset of UStags. The DNA-predicted database protein sequences were then compared to the UStags, and the differences observed across or in the UStags (i.e., the UStags' prefix and suffix sequences and the UStags themselves) were used to infer possible sequence modifications. With this de novo-UStag approach, we uncovered some unexpected variances within several yeast protein sequences due to amino acid mutations and/or multiple modifications to the predicted protein sequences. To determine false discovery rates, two random (false) databases were independently used for sequence matching, and ~3% false discovery rates were estimated for the de novo-UStag approach. The factors affecting the reliability (e.g., existence of de novo sequencing noise residues and redundant sequences) and the sensitivity of the approach were investigated and described. The combined de novo-UStag approach complements the UStag method previously reported by enabling the discovery of new protein modifications.
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- Yufeng Shen
- Biological Science Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA.
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