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Po A, Eyers CE. Top-Down Proteomics and the Challenges of True Proteoform Characterization. J Proteome Res 2023; 22:3663-3675. [PMID: 37937372 PMCID: PMC10696603 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.3c00416] [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: 07/12/2023] [Revised: 10/09/2023] [Accepted: 10/20/2023] [Indexed: 11/09/2023]
Abstract
Top-down proteomics (TDP) aims to identify and profile intact protein forms (proteoforms) extracted from biological samples. True proteoform characterization requires that both the base protein sequence be defined and any mass shifts identified, ideally localizing their positions within the protein sequence. Being able to fully elucidate proteoform profiles lends insight into characterizing proteoform-unique roles, and is a crucial aspect of defining protein structure-function relationships and the specific roles of different (combinations of) protein modifications. However, defining and pinpointing protein post-translational modifications (PTMs) on intact proteins remains a challenge. Characterization of (heavily) modified proteins (>∼30 kDa) remains problematic, especially when they exist in a population of similarly modified, or kindred, proteoforms. This issue is compounded as the number of modifications increases, and thus the number of theoretical combinations. Here, we present our perspective on the challenges of analyzing kindred proteoform populations, focusing on annotation of protein modifications on an "average" protein. Furthermore, we discuss the technical requirements to obtain high quality fragmentation spectral data to robustly define site-specific PTMs, and the fact that this is tempered by the time requirements necessary to separate proteoforms in advance of mass spectrometry analysis.
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- Allen Po
- Centre
for Proteome Research, Faculty of Health & Life Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZB, U.K.
- Department
of Biochemistry, Cell & Systems Biology, Institute of Systems,
Molecular & Integrative Biology, Faculty of Health & Life
Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZB, U.K.
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- Centre
for Proteome Research, Faculty of Health & Life Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZB, U.K.
- Department
of Biochemistry, Cell & Systems Biology, Institute of Systems,
Molecular & Integrative Biology, Faculty of Health & Life
Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZB, U.K.
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Chen W, Ding Z, Zang Y, Liu X. Characterization of Proteoform Post-Translational Modifications by Top-Down and Bottom-Up Mass Spectrometry in Conjunction with Annotations. J Proteome Res 2023; 22:3178-3189. [PMID: 37728997 PMCID: PMC10563160 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.3c00207] [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: 04/07/2023] [Indexed: 09/22/2023]
Abstract
Many proteoforms can be produced from a gene due to genetic mutations, alternative splicing, post-translational modifications (PTMs), and other variations. PTMs in proteoforms play critical roles in cell signaling, protein degradation, and other biological processes. Mass spectrometry (MS) is the primary technique for investigating PTMs in proteoforms, and two alternative MS approaches, top-down and bottom-up, have complementary strengths. The combination of the two approaches has the potential to increase the sensitivity and accuracy in PTM identification and characterization. In addition, protein and PTM knowledge bases, such as UniProt, provide valuable information for PTM characterization and verification. Here, we present a software pipeline PTM-TBA (PTM characterization by Top-down and Bottom-up MS and Annotations) for identifying and localizing PTMs in proteoforms by integrating top-down and bottom-up MS as well as PTM annotations. We assessed PTM-TBA using a technical triplicate of bottom-up and top-down MS data of SW480 cells. On average, database search of the top-down MS data identified 2000 mass shifts, 814.5 (40.7%) of which were matched to 11 common PTMs and 423 of which were localized. Of the mass shifts identified by top-down MS, PTM-TBA verified 435 mass shifts using the bottom-up MS data and UniProt annotations.
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- Wenrong Chen
- Department
of BioHealth Informatics, Indiana University-Purdue
University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, United States
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- Department
of Computer Science, Tulane School of Science and Engineering, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118, United States
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- Department
of Biostatics and Health Data Sciences, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, United States
- Center
for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, United States
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- Tulane
Center for Biomedical Informatics and Genomics, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112, United States
- Deming Department
of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112, United States
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Chen W, Ding Z, Zang Y, Liu X. Characterization of proteoform post-translational modifications by top-down and bottom-up mass spectrometry in conjunction with UniProt annotations. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.04.04.535618. [PMID: 37066296 PMCID: PMC10104052 DOI: 10.1101/2023.04.04.535618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
Abstract
Many proteoforms can be produced from a gene due to genetic mutations, alternative splicing, post-translational modifications (PTMs), and other variations. PTMs in proteoforms play critical roles in cell signaling, protein degradation, and other biological processes. Mass spectrometry (MS) is the primary technique for investigating PTMs in proteoforms, and two alternative MS approaches, top-down and bottom-up, have complementary strengths. The combination of the two approaches has the potential to increase the sensitivity and accuracy in PTM identification and characterization. In addition, protein and PTM knowledgebases, such as UniProt, provide valuable information for PTM characterization and validation. Here, we present a software pipeline called PTM-TBA (PTM characterization by Top-down, Bottom-up MS and Annotations) for identifying and localizing PTMs in proteoforms by integrating top-down and bottom-up MS as well as UniProt annotations. We identified 1,662 mass shifts from a top-down MS data set of SW480 cells, 545 (33%) of which were matched to 12 common PTMs, and 351 of which were localized. PTM-TBA validated 346 of the 1,662 mass shifts using UniProt annotations or a bottom-up MS data set of SW480 cells.
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Ryan KA, Bruening ML. Online protein digestion in membranes between capillary electrophoresis and mass spectrometry. Analyst 2023; 148:1611-1619. [PMID: 36912593 DOI: 10.1039/d3an00106g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/10/2023]
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This research employs pepsin-containing membranes to digest proteins online after a capillary electrophoresis (CE) separation and prior to tandem mass spectrometry. Proteolysis after the separation allows the peptides from a given protein to enter the mass spectrometer in a single plug. Thus, migration time can serve as an additional criterion for confirming the identification of a peptide. The membrane resides in a sheath-flow electrospray ionization (ESI) source to enable digestion immediately before spray into the mass spectrometer, thus limiting separation of the digested peptides. Using the same membrane, digestion occurred reproducibly during 20 consecutive CE analyses performed over a 10 h period. Additionally, after separating a mixture of six unreduced proteins with CE, online digestion facilitated protein identification with at least 2 identifiable peptides for all the proteins. Sequence coverages were >75% for myoglobin and carbonic anhydrase II but much lower for proteins containing disulfide bonds. Development of methods for efficient separation of reduced proteins or identification of cross-linked peptides should enhance sequence coverages for proteins with disulfide bonds. Migration times for the peptides identified from a specific protein differed by <∼30 s, which allows for rejection of some spurious peptide identifications.
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- Kendall A Ryan
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA. .,Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
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Personality Traits Predict Life Satisfaction in Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) Patients. J Clin Med 2022; 11:jcm11216312. [PMID: 36362545 PMCID: PMC9654296 DOI: 10.3390/jcm11216312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2022] [Revised: 10/23/2022] [Accepted: 10/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Objectives: The objective of the current study is to establish the association between Big Five personality traits and life satisfaction in coronary heart disease (CHD) patients. Methods: The current study analyzed data from 566 patients with CHD with a mean age of 63.00 ± 15.23 years old (61.13% males) and 3018 healthy controls (63.95% females) with a mean age of 63.85 (S.D. = 9.59) years old from the UKHLS. A train-and-test approach accompanied by one-sample t-tests was used to analyze the differences in personality traits and life satisfaction between CHD patients and healthy controls while controlling for potential confounders. Two multiple regression models were applied to analyze the associations between personality traits and life satisfaction in CHD patients and healthy controls, respectively. Results: The current study found that CHD patients have lower conscientiousness scores than healthy controls. Moreover, neuroticism was negatively related to life satisfaction, and agreeableness, conscientiousness, and extraversion were positively related to life satisfaction in healthy controls. However, only neuroticism and agreeableness were related to life satisfaction in CHD patients. Conclusion: Health professionals and clinicians should utilize findings from the current study to make customized interventions based on CHD patients’ personality traits to gain better well-being outcomes such as life satisfaction.
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Malvaso A, Kang W. The relationship between areas of life satisfaction, personality, and overall life satisfaction: An integrated account. Front Psychol 2022; 13:894610. [PMID: 36211891 PMCID: PMC9532945 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.894610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2022] [Accepted: 06/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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A substantial amount of research has been conducted using a variety of methodological approaches to determine what influences life satisfaction. The bottom-up theory considers overall life satisfaction as a function of various areas of life satisfaction, whereas the top-down theory considers the areas of life satisfaction as a function of dispositional factors such as personality. We examined these models in a large-scale United Kingdom survey. Consistent with other studies, we found that both the bottom-up and top-down models of life satisfaction are supported in the United Kingdom by demonstrating that demographics, areas of life satsifaction, and personality traits can explain a significant portion of variances in overall areas of life satisfaction. We propose that future studies in life satisfaction research should consider the integrated account of life satisfaction rather than a unitary bottom-up or top-down perspective.
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- Antonio Malvaso
- Neuroimaging Research Unit, Division of Neuroscience, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
- Neurology Unit, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
- School of Medicine and Surgery, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy
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- Computational, Cognitive and Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory, Division of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- *Correspondence: Weixi Kang,
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Chen J, Cao D, Fortmann SD, Curcio CA, Feist RM, Crosson JN. Transthyretin proteoforms of intraocular origin in human subretinal fluid. Exp Eye Res 2022; 222:109163. [PMID: 35760119 DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2022.109163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2022] [Revised: 05/24/2022] [Accepted: 06/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
Abstract
Understanding the molecular composition of ocular tissues and fluids could inform new approaches to prevalent causes of blindness. Subretinal fluid accumulating between the photoreceptor outer segments and retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) is potentially a rich source of proteins and lipids normally cycling among outer retinal cells and choroid. Herein, intact post-translationally modified proteins (proteoforms) were extracted from subretinal fluids of five patients with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD), analyzed by tandem mass spectrometry, and compared to published data on these same proteins as synthesized by other organs. Single-nuclei transcriptomic data from non-diseased human retina/RPE were used to identify whether proteins in subretinal fluid were of potential ocular origin. Two human donor eyes with normal maculas were immunoprobed for transthyretin (TTR) with appropriate controls. The three most abundant proteins detected in subretinal fluid were albumin, TTR, and apolipoprotein A-I. Remarkably, TTR relative to the other proteins was more abundant than its serum counterpart, suggestive of TTR being synthesized predominantly locally. Six post-translationally modified protein forms (proteoforms) of TTR were detected, with the relative amount of glutathionylated TTR being much higher in the subretinal fluid (12-43%) than values reported for serum (<5%) and cerebrospinal fluid (0.4-13%). Moreover, a putative glycosylated TTR dimer of 32,428 Da was detected as the fourth most abundant protein. The high abundance of TTR and putative TTR dimer in subretinal fluid was supported by analysis of available single-nuclei transcriptomic data, which showed strong and specific signal for TTR in RPE. Immunohistochemistry further showed strong diffuse TTR immunoreactivity in choroidal stroma that contrasted with vertically aligned signal in the outer segment zone of the subretinal space and negligible signal in RPE cell bodies. These results suggest that TTR in the retina is synthesized intraocularly, and glutathionylation is crucial for its normal function. Further studies on the composition, function, and quantities of TTR and other proteoforms in subretinal fluid could inform mechanisms, diagnostic methods, and treatment strategies for age-related macular degeneration, familial amyloidosis, and other retinal diseases involving dysregulation of physiologic lipid transfer and oxidative stress.
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- Jianzhong Chen
- Department of Optometry and Vision Science, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States.
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States.
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States
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Thomas SL, Thacker JB, Schug KA, Maráková K. Sample preparation and fractionation techniques for intact proteins for mass spectrometric analysis. J Sep Sci 2020; 44:211-246. [DOI: 10.1002/jssc.202000936] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2020] [Revised: 10/28/2020] [Accepted: 10/29/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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- Shannon L. Thomas
- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry The University of Texas Arlington Arlington Texas USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry The University of Texas Arlington Arlington Texas USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry The University of Texas Arlington Arlington Texas USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis and Nuclear Pharmacy Faculty of Pharmacy Comenius University in Bratislava Bratislava Slovakia
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Srzentić K, Fornelli L, Tsybin YO, Loo JA, Seckler H, Agar JN, Anderson LC, Bai DL, Beck A, Brodbelt JS, van der Burgt YEM, Chamot-Rooke J, Chatterjee S, Chen Y, Clarke DJ, Danis PO, Diedrich JK, D'Ippolito RA, Dupré M, Gasilova N, Ge Y, Goo YA, Goodlett DR, Greer S, Haselmann KF, He L, Hendrickson CL, Hinkle JD, Holt MV, Hughes S, Hunt DF, Kelleher NL, Kozhinov AN, Lin Z, Malosse C, Marshall AG, Menin L, Millikin RJ, Nagornov KO, Nicolardi S, Paša-Tolić L, Pengelley S, Quebbemann NR, Resemann A, Sandoval W, Sarin R, Schmitt ND, Shabanowitz J, Shaw JB, Shortreed MR, Smith LM, Sobott F, Suckau D, Toby T, Weisbrod CR, Wildburger NC, Yates JR, Yoon SH, Young NL, Zhou M. Interlaboratory Study for Characterizing Monoclonal Antibodies by Top-Down and Middle-Down Mass Spectrometry. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2020; 31:1783-1802. [PMID: 32812765 PMCID: PMC7539639 DOI: 10.1021/jasms.0c00036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
Abstract
The Consortium for Top-Down Proteomics (www.topdownproteomics.org) launched the present study to assess the current state of top-down mass spectrometry (TD MS) and middle-down mass spectrometry (MD MS) for characterizing monoclonal antibody (mAb) primary structures, including their modifications. To meet the needs of the rapidly growing therapeutic antibody market, it is important to develop analytical strategies to characterize the heterogeneity of a therapeutic product's primary structure accurately and reproducibly. The major objective of the present study is to determine whether current TD/MD MS technologies and protocols can add value to the more commonly employed bottom-up (BU) approaches with regard to confirming protein integrity, sequencing variable domains, avoiding artifacts, and revealing modifications and their locations. We also aim to gather information on the common TD/MD MS methods and practices in the field. A panel of three mAbs was selected and centrally provided to 20 laboratories worldwide for the analysis: Sigma mAb standard (SiLuLite), NIST mAb standard, and the therapeutic mAb Herceptin (trastuzumab). Various MS instrument platforms and ion dissociation techniques were employed. The present study confirms that TD/MD MS tools are available in laboratories worldwide and provide complementary information to the BU approach that can be crucial for comprehensive mAb characterization. The current limitations, as well as possible solutions to overcome them, are also outlined. A primary limitation revealed by the results of the present study is that the expert knowledge in both experiment and data analysis is indispensable to practice TD/MD MS.
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- Kristina Srzentić
- Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-0001, United States
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- Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-0001, United States
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- Spectroswiss, EPFL Innovation Park, Building I, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
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- Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-0001, United States
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- Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States
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- National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, Florida 32310, United States
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- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22901, United States
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- Centre d'immunologie Pierre Fabre, 74160 Saint-Julien-en-Genevois, France
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- Biogen, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142-1031, United States
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- The University of Edinburgh, EH9 3FJ Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Consortium for Top-Down Proteomics, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, United States
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- The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, United States
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- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, United States
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- University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, United States
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- University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1224, United States
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- National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, Florida 32310, United States
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- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22901, United States
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- Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030-3411, United States
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- The University of Edinburgh, EH9 3FJ Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22901, United States
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- Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-0001, United States
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- Spectroswiss, EPFL Innovation Park, Building I, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, Florida 32310, United States
- Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32310-4005, United States
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- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Leiden University Medical Centre, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99354, United States
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- University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
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- Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California 94080-4990, United States
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- Biogen, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142-1031, United States
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99354, United States
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- University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- University of Antwerp, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium
- University of Leeds, LS2 9JT Leeds, United Kingdom
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- Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-0001, United States
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- National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, Florida 32310, United States
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- Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, United States
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- The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, United States
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- University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, United States
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- Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030-3411, United States
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99354, United States
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Schaffer LV, Millikin RJ, Shortreed MR, Scalf M, Smith LM. Improving Proteoform Identifications in Complex Systems Through Integration of Bottom-Up and Top-Down Data. J Proteome Res 2020; 19:3510-3517. [PMID: 32584579 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.0c00332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
Abstract
Cellular functions are performed by a vast and diverse set of proteoforms. Proteoforms are the specific forms of proteins produced as a result of genetic variations, RNA splicing, and post-translational modifications (PTMs). Top-down mass spectrometric analysis of intact proteins enables proteoform identification, including proteoforms derived from sequence cleavage events or harboring multiple PTMs. In contrast, bottom-up proteomics identifies peptides, which necessitates protein inference and does not yield proteoform identifications. We seek here to exploit the synergies between these two data types to improve the quality and depth of the overall proteomic analysis. To this end, we automated the large-scale integration of results from multiprotease bottom-up and top-down analyses in the software program Proteoform Suite and applied it to the analysis of proteoforms from the human Jurkat T lymphocyte cell line. We implemented the recently developed proteoform-level classification scheme for top-down tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) identifications in Proteoform Suite, which enables users to observe the level and type of ambiguity for each proteoform identification, including which of the ambiguous proteoform identifications are supported by bottom-up-level evidence. We used Proteoform Suite to find instances where top-down identifications aid in protein inference from bottom-up analysis and conversely where bottom-up peptide identifications aid in proteoform PTM localization. We also show the use of bottom-up data to infer proteoform candidates potentially present in the sample, allowing confirmation of such proteoform candidates by intact-mass analysis of MS1 spectra. The implementation of these capabilities in the freely available software program Proteoform Suite enables users to integrate large-scale top-down and bottom-up data sets and to utilize the synergies between them to improve and extend the proteomic analysis.
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- Leah V Schaffer
- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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Locard-Paulet M, Parra J, Albigot R, Mouton-Barbosa E, Bardi L, Burlet-Schiltz O, Marcoux J. VisioProt-MS: interactive 2D maps from intact protein mass spectrometry. Bioinformatics 2019; 35:679-681. [PMID: 30084957 PMCID: PMC6378940 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bty680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2017] [Revised: 07/13/2018] [Accepted: 08/06/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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SUMMARY VisioProt-MS is designed to summarize and analyze intact protein and top-down proteomics data. It plots the molecular weights of eluting proteins as a function of their retention time, thereby allowing inspection of runs from liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (LC-MS). It also overlays MS/MS identification results. VisioProt-MS is compatible with outputs from many different top-down dedicated software. To our knowledge, this is the only open source standalone application that allows the dynamic comparison of several MS files, a prerequisite for comparative analysis of different biological conditions. With its dynamic rendering, this user-friendly web application facilitates inspection, comparison and export of publication quality 2 D maps from deconvoluted LC-MS run(s) and top-down proteomics data. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION The Shiny-based web application VisioProt-MS is suitable for non-R users. It can be found at https://masstools.ipbs.fr/mstools/visioprot-ms/ and the corresponding scripts are downloadable at https://github.com/mlocardpaulet/VisioProt-MS. It is governed by the CeCILL license (http://www.cecill.info).
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- Marie Locard-Paulet
- Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
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Chen J, Shiyanov P, Green KB. Top-down mass spectrometry of intact phosphorylated β-casein: Correlation between the precursor charge state and internal fragments. JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY : JMS 2019; 54:527-539. [PMID: 30997701 PMCID: PMC6779312 DOI: 10.1002/jms.4364] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2019] [Revised: 03/25/2019] [Accepted: 04/11/2019] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Phosphorylated proteins play essential roles in many cellular processes, and identification and characterization of the relevant phosphoproteins can help to understand underlying mechanisms. Herein, we report a collision-induced dissociation top-down approach for characterizing phosphoproteins on a quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometer. β-casein, a protein with two major isoforms and five phosphorylatable serine residues, was used as a model. Peaks corresponding to intact β-casein ions with charged states up to 36+ were detected. Tandem mass spectrometry was performed on β-casein ions of different charge states (12+ , and 15+ to 28+ ) in order to determine the effects of charge state on dissociation of this protein. Most of the abundant fragments corresponded to y, b ions, and internal fragments caused by cleavage of the N-terminal amide bond adjacent to proline residues (Xxx-Pro). The abundance of internal fragments increased with the charge state of the protein precursor ion; these internal fragments predominantly arose from one or two Xxx-Pro cleavage events and were difficult to accurately assign. The presence of abundant sodium adducts of β-casein further complicated the spectra. Our results suggest that when interpreting top-down mass spectra of phosphoproteins and other proteins, researchers should consider the potential formation of internal fragments and sodium adducts for reliable characterization.
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- Jianzhong Chen
- Department of Optometry and Vision Science; University of Alabama at Birmingham; Birmingham, AL, 35294
- Applied Biotechnology Branch; Air Force Research Laboratory; Dayton, OH 45433, USA
- Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Facility; The Ohio State University; Columbus, OH 43210, USA
- Corresponding author: Jianzhong Chen, Ph.D., Department of Optometry and Vision Science, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA; ; Phone: 205.934.8230
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- Applied Biotechnology Branch; Air Force Research Laboratory; Dayton, OH 45433, USA
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- Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Facility; The Ohio State University; Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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Wang Z, Liu X, Muther J, James JA, Smith K, Wu S. Top-down Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Human Serum Autoantibody Antigen-Binding Fragments. Sci Rep 2019; 9:2345. [PMID: 30787393 PMCID: PMC6382847 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-38380-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2018] [Accepted: 12/18/2018] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Detecting autoimmune diseases at an early stage is crucial for effective treatment and disease management to slow disease progression and prevent irreversible organ damage. In many autoimmune diseases, disease-specific autoantibodies are produced by B cells in response to soluble autoantigens due to defects in B cell tolerance mechanisms. Autoantibodies accrue early in disease development, and several are so disease-specific they serve as classification criteria. In this study, we established a high-throughput, sensitive, intact serum autoantibody analysis platform based on the optimization of a one dimensional ultra-high-pressure liquid chromatography top-down mass spectrometry platform (1D UPLC-TDMS). This approach has been successfully applied to a 12 standard monoclonal antibody antigen-binding fragment (Fab) mixture, demonstrating the feasibility to separate and sequence intact antibodies with high sequence coverage and high sensitivity. We then applied the optimized platform to characterize total serum antibody Fabs in a systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patient sample and compared it to healthy control samples. From this analysis, we show that the SLE sample has many dominant antibody Fab-related mass features unlike the healthy controls. To our knowledge, this is the first top-down demonstration of serum autoantibody pool analysis. Our proposed approach holds great promise for discovering novel serum autoantibody biomarkers that are of interest for diagnosis, prognosis, and tolerance induction, as well as improving our understanding of pathogenic autoimmune processes.
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- Zhe Wang
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, 73019, USA
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- Department of BioHealth Informatics, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA
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- Department of Arthritis and Clinical Immunology, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, 73104, USA
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- Department of Arthritis and Clinical Immunology, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, 73104, USA
- Departments of Medicine and Pathology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, 73104, USA
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- Department of Arthritis and Clinical Immunology, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, 73104, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, 73019, USA.
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- Albert B. Arul
- Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, United States
- Vanderbilt Memory & Alzheimer’s Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee 37212, United States
- Vanderbilt Brain Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee 37232, United States
- Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, United States
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Woods AG, Sokolowska I, Ngounou Wetie AG, Channaveerappa D, Dupree EJ, Jayathirtha M, Aslebagh R, Wormwood KL, Darie CC. Mass Spectrometry for Proteomics-Based Investigation. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2019; 1140:1-26. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-15950-4_1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Srzentić K, Nagornov KO, Fornelli L, Lobas AA, Ayoub D, Kozhinov AN, Gasilova N, Menin L, Beck A, Gorshkov MV, Aizikov K, Tsybin YO. Multiplexed Middle-Down Mass Spectrometry as a Method for Revealing Light and Heavy Chain Connectivity in a Monoclonal Antibody. Anal Chem 2018; 90:12527-12535. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.8b02398] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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- Kristina Srzentić
- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institute for Energy Problems of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119334 Moscow, Russia
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- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Centre d’Immunologie Pierre Fabre, 74160 St. Julien-en-Genevois, France
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- Institute for Energy Problems of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119334 Moscow, Russia
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology State University, 141707 Dolgoprudny, Moscow Region, Russia
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- Spectroswiss, EPFL Innovation Park, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Wang Z, Ma H, Smith K, Wu S. Two-Dimensional Separation Using High-pH and Low-pH Reversed Phase Liquid Chromatography for Top-down Proteomics. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY 2018; 427:43-51. [PMID: 31097918 PMCID: PMC6516780 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijms.2017.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Advancements in chromatographic separation are critical to in-depth top-down proteomics of complex intact protein samples. Reversed-phase liquid chromatography is the most prevalent technique for top-down proteomics. However, in cases of high complexities and large dynamic ranges, 1D-RPLC may not provide sufficient coverage of the proteome. To address these challenges, orthogonal separation techniques are often combined to improve the coverage and the dynamic range of detection. In this study, a "salt-free" high-pH RPLC was evaluated as an orthogonal dimension of separation to conventional low-pH RPLC with top-down MS. The RPLC separations with low-pH conditions (pH=2) and high-pH conditions (pH=10) were compared to confirm the good orthogonality between high-pH and low-pH RPLC's. The offline 2D RPLC-RPLC-MS/MS analyses of intact E. coli samples were evaluated for the improvement of intact protein identifications as well as intact proteoform characterizations. Compared to the 163 proteins and 328 proteoforms identified using a 1D RPLC-MS approach, 365 proteins and 886 proteoforms were identified using the 2D RPLC-RPLC top-down MS approach. Our results demonstrate that the 2D RPLC-RPLC top-down approach holds great potential for in-depth top-down proteomics studies by utilizing the high resolving power of RPLC separations and by using mass spectrometry compatible buffers for easy sample handling for online MS analysis.
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- Zhe Wang
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma,
101 Stephenson Parkway, Norman, OK 73019
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma,
101 Stephenson Parkway, Norman, OK 73019
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- Arthritis & Clinical Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma
Medical Research Foundation, 825 N.E. 13th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73104
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma,
101 Stephenson Parkway, Norman, OK 73019
- To whom correspondence should be addressed: Si
Wu, Ph.D., Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 101 Stephenson
Parkway, Room 2210, Norman, Oklahoma 73019-5251, United States, Phone: (405)
325-6931, , Fax: (405) 325-6111
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Lubeckyj RA, McCool EN, Shen X, Kou Q, Liu X, Sun L. Single-Shot Top-Down Proteomics with Capillary Zone Electrophoresis-Electrospray Ionization-Tandem Mass Spectrometry for Identification of Nearly 600 Escherichia coli Proteoforms. Anal Chem 2017; 89:12059-12067. [PMID: 29064224 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.7b02532] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Capillary zone electrophoresis-electrospray ionization-tandem mass spectrometry (CZE-ESI-MS/MS) has been recognized as an invaluable platform for top-down proteomics. However, the scale of top-down proteomics using CZE-MS/MS is still limited due to the low loading capacity and narrow separation window of CZE. In this work, for the first time we systematically evaluated the dynamic pH junction method for focusing of intact proteins during CZE-MS. The optimized dynamic pH junction-based CZE-MS/MS approached a 1 μL loading capacity, 90 min separation window, and high peak capacity (∼280) for characterization of an Escherichia coli proteome. The results represent the largest loading capacity and the highest peak capacity of CZE for top-down characterization of complex proteomes. Single-shot CZE-MS/MS identified about 2800 proteoform-spectrum matches, nearly 600 proteoforms, and 200 proteins from the Escherichia coli proteome with spectrum-level false discovery rate (FDR) less than 1%. The number of identified proteoforms in this work is over three times higher than that in previous single-shot CZE-MS/MS studies. Truncations, N-terminal methionine excision, signal peptide removal, and some post-translational modifications including oxidation and acetylation were detected.
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- Rachele A Lubeckyj
- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University , 578 S Shaw Lane, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University , 578 S Shaw Lane, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University , 578 S Shaw Lane, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States
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- Department of BioHealth Informatics, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis , 719 Indiana Avenue, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, United States
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- Department of BioHealth Informatics, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis , 719 Indiana Avenue, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, United States.,Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Indiana University School of Medicine , 410 W. 10th Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University , 578 S Shaw Lane, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States
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Tholey A, Becker A. Top-down proteomics for the analysis of proteolytic events - Methods, applications and perspectives. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH 2017; 1864:2191-2199. [PMID: 28711385 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2017.07.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2017] [Revised: 07/07/2017] [Accepted: 07/09/2017] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Mass spectrometry based proteomics is an indispensable tool for almost all research areas relevant for the understanding of proteolytic processing, ranging from the identification of substrates, products and cleavage sites up to the analysis of structural features influencing protease activity. The majority of methods for these studies are based on bottom-up proteomics performing analysis at peptide level. As this approach is characterized by a number of pitfalls, e.g. loss of molecular information, there is an ongoing effort to establish top-down proteomics, performing separation and MS analysis both at intact protein level. We briefly introduce major approaches of bottom-up proteomics used in the field of protease research and highlight the shortcomings of these methods. We then discuss the present state-of-the-art of top-down proteomics. Together with the discussion of known challenges we show the potential of this approach and present a number of successful applications of top-down proteomics in protease research. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Proteolysis as a Regulatory Event in Pathophysiology edited by Stefan Rose-John.
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- Andreas Tholey
- Systematic Proteome Research & Bioanalytics, Institute for Experimental Medicine, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany.
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- Systematic Proteome Research & Bioanalytics, Institute for Experimental Medicine, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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Zhou M, Wu S, Stenoien DL, Zhang Z, Connolly L, Freitag M, Paša-Tolić L. Profiling Changes in Histone Post-translational Modifications by Top-Down Mass Spectrometry. Methods Mol Biol 2017; 1507:153-168. [PMID: 27832539 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-6518-2_12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Top-down mass spectrometry is a valuable tool for understanding gene expression through characterization of combinatorial histone post-translational modifications (i.e., histone code). In this protocol, we describe a top-down workflow that employs liquid chromatography (LC) coupled to mass spectrometry (MS), for fast global profiling of changes in histone proteoforms, and apply LCMS top-down approach for comparative analysis of a wild-type and a mutant fungal species. The proteoforms exhibiting differential abundances can be subjected to further targeted studies by other MS or orthogonal (e.g., biochemical) assays. This method can be generally adapted for screening of changes in histone modifications between samples such as wild type vs. mutant or healthy vs. diseased.
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- Mowei Zhou
- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA.
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Mallu MR, Vemula S, Ronda SR. Production, purification and characterization of recombinant human antithrombin III by Saccharomyces cerevisiae. ELECTRON J BIOTECHN 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejbt.2016.06.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Kou Q, Zhu B, Wu S, Ansong C, Tolić N, Paša-Tolić L, Liu X. Characterization of Proteoforms with Unknown Post-translational Modifications Using the MIScore. J Proteome Res 2016; 15:2422-32. [PMID: 27291504 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.5b01098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Various proteoforms may be generated from a single gene due to primary structure alterations (PSAs) such as genetic variations, alternative splicing, and post-translational modifications (PTMs). Top-down mass spectrometry is capable of analyzing intact proteins and identifying patterns of multiple PSAs, making it the method of choice for studying complex proteoforms. In top-down proteomics, proteoform identification is often performed by searching tandem mass spectra against a protein sequence database that contains only one reference protein sequence for each gene or transcript variant in a proteome. Because of the incompleteness of the protein database, an identified proteoform may contain unknown PSAs compared with the reference sequence. Proteoform characterization is to identify and localize PSAs in a proteoform. Although many software tools have been proposed for proteoform identification by top-down mass spectrometry, the characterization of proteoforms in identified proteoform-spectrum matches still relies mainly on manual annotation. We propose to use the Modification Identification Score (MIScore), which is based on Bayesian models, to automatically identify and localize PTMs in proteoforms. Experiments showed that the MIScore is accurate in identifying and localizing one or two modifications.
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- Qiang Kou
- Department of BioHealth Informatics, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis , Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, United States
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- Department of Computer Science, Montana State University , Bozeman, Montana 59717, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Univeristy of Oklahoma , Norman, Oklahoma 73019-5251, United States
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- Department of BioHealth Informatics, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis , Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, United States.,Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Indiana University School of Medicine , Indianapolis, Indiana 46202-5122, United States
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Wessels HJCT, de Almeida NM, Kartal B, Keltjens JT. Bacterial Electron Transfer Chains Primed by Proteomics. Adv Microb Physiol 2016; 68:219-352. [PMID: 27134025 DOI: 10.1016/bs.ampbs.2016.02.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Electron transport phosphorylation is the central mechanism for most prokaryotic species to harvest energy released in the respiration of their substrates as ATP. Microorganisms have evolved incredible variations on this principle, most of these we perhaps do not know, considering that only a fraction of the microbial richness is known. Besides these variations, microbial species may show substantial versatility in using respiratory systems. In connection herewith, regulatory mechanisms control the expression of these respiratory enzyme systems and their assembly at the translational and posttranslational levels, to optimally accommodate changes in the supply of their energy substrates. Here, we present an overview of methods and techniques from the field of proteomics to explore bacterial electron transfer chains and their regulation at levels ranging from the whole organism down to the Ångstrom scales of protein structures. From the survey of the literature on this subject, it is concluded that proteomics, indeed, has substantially contributed to our comprehending of bacterial respiratory mechanisms, often in elegant combinations with genetic and biochemical approaches. However, we also note that advanced proteomics offers a wealth of opportunities, which have not been exploited at all, or at best underexploited in hypothesis-driving and hypothesis-driven research on bacterial bioenergetics. Examples obtained from the related area of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation research, where the application of advanced proteomics is more common, may illustrate these opportunities.
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- H J C T Wessels
- Nijmegen Center for Mitochondrial Disorders, Radboud Proteomics Centre, Translational Metabolic Laboratory, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Laboratory of Microbiology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Institute of Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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Simone P, Pierri G, Foglia P, Gasparrini F, Mazzoccanti G, Capriotti AL, Ursini O, Ciogli A, Laganà A. Separation of intact proteins on γ-ray-induced polymethacrylate monolithic columns: A highly permeable stationary phase with high peak capacity for capillary high-performance liquid chromatography with high-resolution mass spectrometry. J Sep Sci 2015; 39:264-71. [PMID: 26530449 DOI: 10.1002/jssc.201500844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2015] [Revised: 10/19/2015] [Accepted: 10/19/2015] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Polymethacrylate-based monolithic capillary columns, prepared by γ-radiation-induced polymerization, were used to optimize the experimental conditions (nature of the organic modifiers, the content of trifluoroacetic acid and the column temperature) in the separation of nine standard proteins with different hydrophobicities and a wide range of molecular weights. Because of the excellent permeability of the monolithic columns, an ion-pair reversed-phase capillary liquid chromatography with high-resolution mass spectrometry method has been developed by coupling the column directly to the mass spectrometer without a flow-split and using a standard electrospray interface. Additionally, the high working flow and concomitant high efficiency of these columns allowed us to employ a longer column (up to 50 cm) and achieve a peak capacity value superior to 1000. This work is motivated by the need to develop new materials for high-resolution chromatographic separation that combine chemical stability at elevated temperatures (up to 75°C) and a broad pH range, with a high peak capacity value. The advantage of the γ-ray-induced monolithic column lies in the batch-to-batch reproducibility and long-term high-temperature stability. Their proven high loading capacity, recovery, good selectivity and high permeability, moreover, compared well with that of a commercially available poly(styrene-divinylbenzene) monolithic column, which confirms that such monolithic supports might facilitate analysis in proteomics.
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- Patrizia Simone
- Dipartimento di Chimica e Tecnologie del Farmaco, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Tecnologie del Farmaco, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Tecnologie del Farmaco, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma, Italy
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- Istituto di Metodologie Chimiche, Area della Ricerca di Roma del CNR, Monterotondo Stazione, Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Tecnologie del Farmaco, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma, Italy
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El-Ashram S, Yin Q, Barta JR, Khan J, Liu X, Suo X. Immunoproteomic technology offers an extraordinary diagnostic approach for Toxoplasma gondii infection. J Microbiol Methods 2015; 119:18-30. [PMID: 26415530 DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2015.09.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2015] [Revised: 09/16/2015] [Accepted: 09/20/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Immunoproteomic technology offers an exceptional tool to fill the blanks that still exist in diagnosis of Toxoplasma gondii infection despite its annotated sequence. The pitfalls of serological assays and current immunoproteomic approaches are accentuated, and new approaches are presented to improve the signal and to eliminate the noise produced by blocking-specific background. This review also highlights examples where immunoproteomic studies have contributed to broaden our understanding of toxoplasmosis diagnosis. Further promising solutions, which immunoproteomic technology can grant for toxoplasmosis diagnosis are part of an intense discussion.
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- Saeed El-Ashram
- National Animal Protozoa Laboratory & College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China; State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China; Faculty of Science, Kafr El-Sheikh University, Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt.
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- National Animal Protozoa Laboratory & College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China; State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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- National Animal Protozoa Laboratory & College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China; State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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- National Animal Protozoa Laboratory & College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China; State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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- National Animal Protozoa Laboratory & College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China; State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China; Key Laboratory of Animal Epidemiology and Zoonosis of Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100193, China.
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Artemenko K, Mi J, Bergquist J. Mass-spectrometry-based characterization of oxidations in proteins. Free Radic Res 2015; 49:477-93. [DOI: 10.3109/10715762.2015.1023795] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Guo CG, Shang Z, Yan J, Li S, Li GQ, Liu RZ, Qing Y, Fan LY, Xiao H, Cao CX. A tunable isoelectric focusing via moving reaction boundary for two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and proteomics. Talanta 2015; 137:197-203. [PMID: 25770625 DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2015.01.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2014] [Revised: 01/22/2015] [Accepted: 01/25/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Routine native immobilized pH gradient isoelectric focusing (IPG-IEF) and two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2DE) are still suffering from unfortunate reproducibility, poor resolution (caused by protein precipitation) and instability in characterization of intact protein isoforms and posttranslational modifications. Based on the concept of moving reaction boundary (MRB), we firstly proposed a tunable non-IPG-IEF system to address these issues. By choosing proper pairs of catholyte and anolyte, we could achieve desired cathodic and anodic migrating pH gradients in non-IPG-IEF system, effectively eliminating protein precipitation and uncertainty of quantitation existing in routine IEF and 2DE, and enhancing the resolution and sensitivity of IEF. Then, an adjustable 2DE system was developed by combining non-IPG-IEF with polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE). The improved 2DE was evaluated by testing model proteins and colon cancer cell lysates. The experiments revealed that (i) a tunable pH gradient could be designed via MRB; (ii) up to 1.65 fold improvement of resolution was achieved via non-IPG-IEF; (iii) the sensitivity of developed techniques was increased up to 2.7 folds; and (iv) up to about 16.4% more protein spots could be observed via the adjustable 2DE as compared with routine one. The developed techniques might contribute to complex proteome research, especially for screening of biological marker and analysis of extreme acidic/alkaline proteins.
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- Chen-Gang Guo
- Laboratory of Bioseparation and Analytical Biochemistry, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Laboratory of Bioseparation and Analytical Biochemistry, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Laboratory of Bioseparation and Analytical Biochemistry, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Laboratory of Bioseparation and Analytical Biochemistry, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Laboratory of Bioseparation and Analytical Biochemistry, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oncogenes and Related Genes, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Bio-X Institutes, Key Laboratory for the Genetics of Developmental and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Ministry of Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Laboratory of Bioseparation and Analytical Biochemistry, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Laboratory of Bioseparation and Analytical Biochemistry, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.
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- Laboratory of Bioseparation and Analytical Biochemistry, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.
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Li W, Kerwin JL, Schiel J, Formolo T, Davis D, Mahan A, Benchaar SA. Structural Elucidation of Post-Translational Modifications in Monoclonal Antibodies. ACS SYMPOSIUM SERIES 2015. [DOI: 10.1021/bk-2015-1201.ch003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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- Wenzhou Li
- Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, California 91320, United States
- Sanovas Inc., Sausalito, California 94965, United States
- Analytical Chemistry Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
- Janssen Research and Development, LLC, Spring House, Pennsylvania 19477, United States
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- Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, California 91320, United States
- Sanovas Inc., Sausalito, California 94965, United States
- Analytical Chemistry Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
- Janssen Research and Development, LLC, Spring House, Pennsylvania 19477, United States
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- Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, California 91320, United States
- Sanovas Inc., Sausalito, California 94965, United States
- Analytical Chemistry Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
- Janssen Research and Development, LLC, Spring House, Pennsylvania 19477, United States
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- Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, California 91320, United States
- Sanovas Inc., Sausalito, California 94965, United States
- Analytical Chemistry Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
- Janssen Research and Development, LLC, Spring House, Pennsylvania 19477, United States
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- Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, California 91320, United States
- Sanovas Inc., Sausalito, California 94965, United States
- Analytical Chemistry Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
- Janssen Research and Development, LLC, Spring House, Pennsylvania 19477, United States
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- Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, California 91320, United States
- Sanovas Inc., Sausalito, California 94965, United States
- Analytical Chemistry Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
- Janssen Research and Development, LLC, Spring House, Pennsylvania 19477, United States
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- Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, California 91320, United States
- Sanovas Inc., Sausalito, California 94965, United States
- Analytical Chemistry Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
- Janssen Research and Development, LLC, Spring House, Pennsylvania 19477, United States
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Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis approach for CTL phosphoproteome analysis. Methods Mol Biol 2014; 1186:243-51. [PMID: 25149311 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-1158-5_13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/16/2023]
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Phosphorylation of proteins plays a pivotal role in signal transduction processes, and it is a key regulator of many biological cell functions. Various strategies have been proposed for the study of phosphoproteome; most of them require a multi-step analysis and sophisticated equipment. Here we describe the two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (2D-PAGE) analysis of PBMC phosphoproteome using as preliminary enrichment step a simple phosphoprotein isolation by lanthanum chloride. This strategy can be most certainly applied to study the phosphoproteome of CTLs isolated from PBMCs. The phosphoproteome analysis of PBMCs, as well as of CTLs, may help to reveal the signaling pathways essential to their biological role in health and disease.
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Dekker L, Wu S, Vanduijn M, Tolić N, Stingl C, Zhao R, Luider T, Paša-Tolić L. An integrated top-down and bottom-up proteomic approach to characterize the antigen-binding fragment of antibodies. Proteomics 2014; 14:1239-48. [DOI: 10.1002/pmic.201300366] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2013] [Revised: 02/14/2014] [Accepted: 03/07/2014] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Lennard Dekker
- Department of Neurology; Erasmus MC; Rotterdam The Netherlands
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory; Pacific Northwest National Laboratories; Richland WA USA
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory; Pacific Northwest National Laboratories; Richland WA USA
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory; Pacific Northwest National Laboratories; Richland WA USA
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- Department of Neurology; Erasmus MC; Rotterdam The Netherlands
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory; Pacific Northwest National Laboratories; Richland WA USA
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Wu S, Brown JN, Tolić N, Meng D, Liu X, Zhang H, Zhao R, Moore RJ, Pevzner P, Smith RD, Paša-Tolić L. Quantitative analysis of human salivary gland-derived intact proteome using top-down mass spectrometry. Proteomics 2014; 14:1211-22. [DOI: 10.1002/pmic.201300378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2013] [Revised: 01/10/2014] [Accepted: 02/25/2014] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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- Si Wu
- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory; Pacific Northwest National Laboratories; Richland WA USA
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- Biological Sciences Division; Pacific Northwest National Laboratories; Richland WA USA
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory; Pacific Northwest National Laboratories; Richland WA USA
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- Computational Mathematics Division; Pacific Northwest National Laboratories; Richland WA USA
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- Department of BioHealth Informatics; Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; Indianapolis IN USA
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory; Pacific Northwest National Laboratories; Richland WA USA
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory; Pacific Northwest National Laboratories; Richland WA USA
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- Biological Sciences Division; Pacific Northwest National Laboratories; Richland WA USA
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering; University of California, San Diego; La Jolla CA USA
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- Biological Sciences Division; Pacific Northwest National Laboratories; Richland WA USA
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory; Pacific Northwest National Laboratories; Richland WA USA
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Zhang J, Corbett JR, Plymire DA, Greenberg BM, Patrie SM. Proteoform analysis of lipocalin-type prostaglandinD-synthase from human cerebrospinal fluid by isoelectric focusing and superficially porous liquid chromatography with Fourier transform mass spectrometry. Proteomics 2014; 14:1223-31. [DOI: 10.1002/pmic.201300368] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2013] [Revised: 12/31/2013] [Accepted: 02/11/2014] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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- Junmei Zhang
- Department of Pathology; University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; TX USA
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- Department of Bioengineering; University of Texas at Dallas; TX USA
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- Department of Pathology; University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; TX USA
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- Department of Pathology; University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; TX USA
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Zhang Z, Wu S, Stenoien DL, Paša-Tolić L. High-throughput proteomics. ANNUAL REVIEW OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY (PALO ALTO, CALIF.) 2014; 7:427-454. [PMID: 25014346 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-anchem-071213-020216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 168] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Mass spectrometry (MS)-based high-throughput proteomics is the core technique for large-scale protein characterization. Due to the extreme complexity of proteomes, sophisticated separation techniques and advanced MS instrumentation have been developed to extend coverage and enhance dynamic range and sensitivity. In this review, we discuss the separation and prefractionation techniques applied for large-scale analysis in both bottom-up (i.e., peptide-level) and top-down (i.e., protein-level) proteomics. Different approaches for quantifying peptides or intact proteins, including label-free and stable-isotope-labeling strategies, are also discussed. In addition, we present a brief overview of different types of mass analyzers and fragmentation techniques as well as selected emerging techniques.
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Woods AG, Sokolowska I, Ngounou Wetie AG, Wormwood K, Aslebagh R, Patel S, Darie CC. Mass spectrometry for proteomics-based investigation. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2014; 806:1-32. [PMID: 24952176 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-06068-2_1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Within the past years, we have witnessed a great improvement in mass spectrometry (MS) and proteomics approaches in terms of instrumentation, protein fractionation, and bioinformatics. With the current technology, protein identification alone is no longer sufficient. Both scientists and clinicians want not only to identify proteins but also to identify the protein's posttranslational modifications (PTMs), protein isoforms, protein truncation, protein-protein interaction (PPI), and protein quantitation. Here, we describe the principle of MS and proteomics and strategies to identify proteins, protein's PTMs, protein isoforms, protein truncation, PPIs, and protein quantitation. We also discuss the strengths and weaknesses within this field. Finally, in our concluding remarks we assess the role of mass spectrometry and proteomics in scientific and clinical settings in the near future. This chapter provides an introduction and overview for subsequent chapters that will discuss specific MS proteomic methodologies and their application to specific medical conditions. Other chapters will also touch upon areas that expand beyond proteomics, such as lipidomics and metabolomics.
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- Alisa G Woods
- Biochemistry & Proteomics Group, Department of Chemistry & Biomolecular Science, Clarkson University, 8 Clarkson Avenue, Potsdam, NY, 13699-5810, USA
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Separation of intact proteins by using polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane based hybrid monolithic capillary columns. J Chromatogr A 2013; 1317:138-47. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2013.09.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2013] [Revised: 09/02/2013] [Accepted: 09/02/2013] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Zhang J, Roth MJ, Chang AN, Plymire DA, Corbett JR, Greenberg BM, Patrie SM. Top-Down Mass Spectrometry on Tissue Extracts and Biofluids with Isoelectric Focusing and Superficially Porous Silica Liquid Chromatography. Anal Chem 2013; 85:10377-84. [DOI: 10.1021/ac402394w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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- Junmei Zhang
- UT Southwestern Medical Center, 5323
Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, Texas 75390-9072
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- UT Southwestern Medical Center, 5323
Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, Texas 75390-9072
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- UT Southwestern Medical Center, 5323
Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, Texas 75390-9072
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- UT Southwestern Medical Center, 5323
Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, Texas 75390-9072
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- UT Southwestern Medical Center, 5323
Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, Texas 75390-9072
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- UT Southwestern Medical Center, 5323
Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, Texas 75390-9072
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Analysis of bovine milk caseins on organic monolithic columns: An integrated capillary liquid chromatography–high resolution mass spectrometry approach for the study of time-dependent casein degradation. J Chromatogr A 2013; 1313:259-69. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2013.08.083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2013] [Revised: 08/21/2013] [Accepted: 08/21/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Lange S, Rosenkrands I, Stein R, Andersen P, Kaufmann SHE, Jungblut PR. Analysis of protein species differentiation among mycobacterial low-Mr-secreted proteins by narrow pH range Immobiline gel 2-DE-MALDI-MS. J Proteomics 2013; 97:235-44. [PMID: 23856608 DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2013.06.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2013] [Revised: 06/11/2013] [Accepted: 06/29/2013] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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UNLABELLED Secreted proteins of bacteria are preferentially capable of interacting with host cells and are therefore of special biological and medical interest. Narrow pH range 2-DE and MALDI-TOFTOF-MS combine high-resolution protein separation with highly sensitive identification of proteins. Secreted proteins of Mycobacterium tuberculosis were separated at the protein species level, distinguishing different protein species of one protein. We focused on the pI range 4.0-4.7 and the Mr range 6-20kDa of the 2-DE pattern. Out of 128 analyzed spots, 121 were identified resulting in 33 different proteins with 277 different protein species, accumulating in a mean of 8.4 protein species per protein. Overrepresentation was found for the protein classes "virulence, detoxification, adaption", "information pathways", "cell wall and cell processes" and "intermediary metabolism and respiration". Thus far, 15 protein species of the ESX-1 family are characterized with 100% sequence coverage. More automated 2-DE procedures and more sensitive identification techniques are required for complete characterization of all of the protein species even in highly enriched samples, such as culture filtrates. Only then the functional level of proteomics will be achieved and potential biomarkers can be postulated at the molecular level. BIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE Proteomics is dominated by bottom-up approaches largely ignoring protein speciation. A prerequisite to reach the protein species level is to obtain 100% sequence coverage, which is a major challenge in proteomics. Here we show complete sequence information with a 2-DE-MS approach for 15 protein species. Acetylation of the N-terminus of ESAT-6 inhibits interaction with CFP-10, with direct consequences for pathogen-host interaction. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Trends in Microbial Proteomics.
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- Sabine Lange
- Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Core Facility Protein Analysis, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Infectious Disease Immunology, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Infectious Disease Immunology, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Department of Immunology, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Core Facility Protein Analysis, Berlin, Germany.
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Sun X, Tang K, Smith RD, Kelly RT. Controlled dispensing and mixing of pico- to nanoliter volumes using on-demand droplet-based microfluidics. MICROFLUIDICS AND NANOFLUIDICS 2013; 15:117-126. [PMID: 23935562 PMCID: PMC3736999 DOI: 10.1007/s10404-012-1133-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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We present an integrated droplet-on-demand microfluidic platform for dispensing, mixing, incubating, extracting and analyzing by mass spectrometry pico- to nanoliter-sized droplets. All of the functional components are successfully integrated for the first time into a monolithic microdevice. Droplet generation is accomplished using computer-controlled pneumatic valves. Controlled actuation of valves for different aqueous streams enables accurate dosing and rapid mixing of reagents within droplets in either the droplet generation area or in a region of widening channel cross-section. Following incubation, which takes place as droplets travel in the oil stream, the droplet contents are extracted to an aqueous channel for subsequent ionization at an integrated nanoelectrospray emitter. Using the integrated platform, rapid enzymatic digestions of a model protein were carried out in droplets and detected on-line by nanoelectrospray ionization mass spectrometry.
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- Biological Sciences Division
- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, P.O. Box 999, Richland, Washington 99352
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, P.O. Box 999, Richland, Washington 99352
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Sun L, Knierman MD, Zhu G, Dovichi NJ. Fast top-down intact protein characterization with capillary zone electrophoresis-electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry. Anal Chem 2013; 85:5989-95. [PMID: 23692435 DOI: 10.1021/ac4008122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE)-electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry (ESI-MS/MS) was applied for rapid top-down intact protein characterization. A mixture containing four model proteins (cytochrome c, myoglobin, bovine serum albumin (BSA), and β-casein) was used as the sample. The CZE-ESI-MS system was first evaluated with the mixture. The four model proteins and five impurities were baseline-separated within 12 min. The limits of detection [signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) = 3] of the four model proteins ranged from 20 (cytochrome c) to 800 amol (BSA). The relative standard deviations of migration time and intensity for the four model proteins were less than 3% and 30%, respectively, in quintuplicate runs. CZE-ESI-MS/MS was then applied for top-down characterization of the mixture. Three of the model proteins (all except BSA) and an impurity (bovine transthyretin) were confidently identified by database searching of the acquired tandem spectra from protein fragmentation. Modifications including phosphorylation, N-terminal acetylation, and heme group binding were identified.
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- Liangliang Sun
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA
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Qiao L, Tobolkina E, Liu B, Girault HH. Coupling Isoelectric Focusing Gel Electrophoresis to Mass Spectrometry by Electrostatic Spray Ionization. Anal Chem 2013; 85:4745-52. [DOI: 10.1021/ac400472q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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- Liang Qiao
- Laboratoire d’Electrochimie
Physique et Analytique, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Station 6, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratoire d’Electrochimie
Physique et Analytique, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Station 6, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and
Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, P.R. China
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- Laboratoire d’Electrochimie
Physique et Analytique, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Station 6, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Integral membrane proteins reside within the bilayer membranes that surround cells and organelles, playing critical roles in movement of molecules across them and the transduction of energy and signals. While their extreme amphipathicity presents technical challenges, biological mass spectrometry has been applied to all aspects of membrane protein chemistry and biology, including analysis of primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary structures as well as the dynamics that accompany functional cycles and catalysis.
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- Julian P Whitelegge
- The Pasarow Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, The NPI-Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, The David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, 760 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States.
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Bouchal P, Dvorakova M, Scherl A, Garbis SD, Nenutil R, Vojtesek B. Intact protein profiling in breast cancer biomarker discovery: protein identification issue and the solutions based on 3D protein separation, bottom-up and top-down mass spectrometry. Proteomics 2013; 13:1053-8. [PMID: 23303686 DOI: 10.1002/pmic.201200121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2012] [Revised: 10/31/2012] [Accepted: 12/17/2012] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Proteomics profiling of intact proteins based on MALDI-TOF MS and derived platforms has been used in cancer biomarker discovery studies. This approach suffers from a number of limitations such as low resolution, low sensitivity, and that no knowledge is available on the identity of the respective proteins in the discovery mode. Nevertheless, it remains the most high-throughput, untargeted mode of clinical proteomics studies to date. Here we compare key protein separation and MS techniques available for protein biomarker identification in this type of studies and define reasons of uncertainty in protein peak identity. As a result of critical data analysis, we consider 3D protein separation and identification workflows as optimal procedures. Subsequently, we present a new protocol based on 3D LC-MS/MS with top-down at high resolution that enabled the identification of HNRNP A2/B1 intact peptide as correlating with the estrogen receptor expression in breast cancer tissues. Additional development of this general concept toward next generation, top-down based protein profiling at high resolution is discussed.
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- Pavel Bouchal
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
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Sokolowska I, Wetie AGN, Woods AG, Darie CC. Applications of Mass Spectrometry in Proteomics. Aust J Chem 2013. [DOI: 10.1071/ch13137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Characterisation of proteins and whole proteomes can provide a foundation to our understanding of physiological and pathological states and biological diseases or disorders. Constant development of more reliable and accurate mass spectrometry (MS) instruments and techniques has allowed for better identification and quantification of the thousands of proteins involved in basic physiological processes. Therefore, MS-based proteomics has been widely applied to the analysis of biological samples and has greatly contributed to our understanding of protein functions, interactions, and dynamics, advancing our knowledge of cellular processes as well as the physiology and pathology of the human body. This review will discuss current proteomic approaches for protein identification and characterisation, including post-translational modification (PTM) analysis and quantitative proteomics as well as investigation of protein–protein interactions (PPIs).
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Xu X, Vugmeyster Y. Challenges and opportunities in absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion studies of therapeutic biologics. AAPS JOURNAL 2012; 14:781-91. [PMID: 22864668 DOI: 10.1208/s12248-012-9388-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2012] [Accepted: 06/26/2012] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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With the advancement of biotechnology in the last two decades, optimized and novel modalities and platforms of biologic moieties have emerged rapidly in drug discovery pipelines. In addition, new technologies for delivering therapeutic biologics (e.g., needle-free devices, nanoparticle complexes), as well as novel approaches for disease treatments (e.g., stem cell therapy, individualized medicine), continue to be developed. While pharmacokinetic studies are routinely carried out for therapeutic biologics, experiments that elucidate underlying mechanisms for clearance and biodistribution or identify key factors that govern absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion (ADME) of biologics often are not thoroughly conducted. Realizing the importance of biologics as therapeutic agents, pharmaceutical industry has recently begun to move the research focus from small molecules only to a blended portfolio consisting of both small molecules and biologics. This trend brings many opportunities for scientists working in the drug disposition research field. In anticipation of these opportunities and associated challenges, this review highlights impact of ADME studies on clinical and commercial success of biologics, with a particular focus on emerging applications and technologies and linkage with mechanistic pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic modeling and biomarker research.
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- Xin Xu
- National Center for Translational Therapeutics, National Institutes of Health, 9800 Medical Center Dr, Rockville, Maryland 20850, USA.
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Angel TE, Aryal UK, Hengel SM, Baker ES, Kelly RT, Robinson EW, Smith RD. Mass spectrometry-based proteomics: existing capabilities and future directions. Chem Soc Rev 2012. [PMID: 22498958 DOI: 10.1039/c2cs15331a.mass] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/17/2023]
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Mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomics is emerging as a broadly effective means for identification, characterization, and quantification of proteins that are integral components of the processes essential for life. Characterization of proteins at the proteome and sub-proteome (e.g., the phosphoproteome, proteoglycome, or degradome/peptidome) levels provides a foundation for understanding fundamental aspects of biology. Emerging technologies such as ion mobility separations coupled with MS and microchip-based-proteome measurements combined with MS instrumentation and chromatographic separation techniques, such as nanoscale reversed phase liquid chromatography and capillary electrophoresis, show great promise for both broad undirected and targeted highly sensitive measurements. MS-based proteomics increasingly contribute to our understanding of the dynamics, interactions, and roles that proteins and peptides play, advancing our understanding of biology on a systems wide level for a wide range of applications including investigations of microbial communities, bioremediation, and human health.
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- Thomas E Angel
- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA
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Hilton GR, Benesch JLP. Two decades of studying non-covalent biomolecular assemblies by means of electrospray ionization mass spectrometry. J R Soc Interface 2012; 9:801-16. [PMID: 22319100 PMCID: PMC3306659 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2011.0823] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2011] [Accepted: 01/16/2012] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Mass spectrometry (MS) is a recognized approach for characterizing proteins and the complexes they assemble into. This application of a long-established physico-chemical tool to the frontiers of structural biology has stemmed from experiments performed in the early 1990s. While initial studies focused on the elucidation of stoichiometry by means of simple mass determination, developments in MS technology and methodology now allow researchers to address questions of shape, inter-subunit connectivity and protein dynamics. Here, we chart the remarkable rise of MS and its application to biomolecular complexes over the last two decades.
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- Department of Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX3 1QZ, UK
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Halgand F, Zabrouskov V, Bassilian S, Souda P, Loo JA, Faull KF, Wong DT, Whitelegge JP. Defining intact protein primary structures from saliva: a step toward the human proteome project. Anal Chem 2012; 84:4383-95. [PMID: 22509742 DOI: 10.1021/ac203337s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Top-down mass spectrometry has been used to investigate structural diversity within some abundant salivary protein families. In this study, we report the identification of two isoforms of protein II-2 which differed in mass by less than 1 Da, the determination of a sequence for protein IB8a that was best satisfied by including a mutation and a covalent modification in the C-terminal part, and the assignment of a sequence of a previously unreported protein of mass 10433 Da. The final characterization of Peptide P-J was achieved, and the discovery of a truncated form of this peptide was reported. The first sequence assignment was done at low resolution using a hybrid quadrupole time-of-flight instrument to quickly identify and characterize proteins, and data acquisition was switched to Fourier-transform ion cyclotron resonance (FTICR) for proteins that required additional sequence coverage and certainty of assignment. High-resolution and high mass accuracy mass spectrometry on a FTICR-mass spectrometry (MS) instrument combined with electron-capture dissociation (ECD) provided the most informative data sets, with the more frequent presence of "unique" ions that unambiguously define the primary structure. A mixture of predictable and unusual post-translational modifications in the protein sequence precluded the use of shotgun-annotated databases at this stage, requiring manual iterations of sequence refinement in many cases. This led us to propose guidelines for an iterative processing workflow of MS and MSMS data sets that allow researchers to completely assign the identity and the structure of a protein.
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- F Halgand
- NPI-Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90024, United States.
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Zhang H, Ge Y. Comprehensive analysis of protein modifications by top-down mass spectrometry. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012; 4:711. [PMID: 22187450 DOI: 10.1161/circgenetics.110.957829] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomics is playing an increasingly important role in cardiovascular research. Proteomics includes identification and quantification of proteins and the characterization of protein modifications, such as posttranslational modifications and sequence variants. The conventional bottom-up approach, involving proteolytic digestion of proteins into small peptides before MS analysis, is routinely used for protein identification and quantification with high throughput and automation. Nevertheless, it has limitations in the analysis of protein modifications, mainly because of the partial sequence coverage and loss of connections among modifications on disparate portions of a protein. An alternative approach, top-down MS, has emerged as a powerful tool for the analysis of protein modifications. The top-down approach analyzes whole proteins directly, providing a "bird's-eye" view of all existing modifications. Subsequently, each modified protein form can be isolated and fragmented in the mass spectrometer to locate the modification site. The incorporation of the nonergodic dissociation methods, such as electron-capture dissociation (ECD), greatly enhances the top-down capabilities. ECD is especially useful for mapping labile posttranslational modifications that are well preserved during the ECD fragmentation process. Top-down MS with ECD has been successfully applied to cardiovascular research, with the unique advantages in unraveling the molecular complexity, quantifying modified protein forms, complete mapping of modifications with full-sequence coverage, discovering unexpected modifications, identifying and quantifying positional isomers, and determining the order of multiple modifications. Nevertheless, top-down MS still needs to overcome some technical challenges to realize its full potential. Herein, we reviewed the advantages and challenges of the top-down method, with a focus on its application in cardiovascular research.
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- Han Zhang
- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
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Angel TE, Aryal UK, Hengel SM, Baker ES, Kelly RT, Robinson EW, Smith RD. Mass spectrometry-based proteomics: existing capabilities and future directions. Chem Soc Rev 2012; 41:3912-28. [PMID: 22498958 DOI: 10.1039/c2cs15331a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 256] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomics is emerging as a broadly effective means for identification, characterization, and quantification of proteins that are integral components of the processes essential for life. Characterization of proteins at the proteome and sub-proteome (e.g., the phosphoproteome, proteoglycome, or degradome/peptidome) levels provides a foundation for understanding fundamental aspects of biology. Emerging technologies such as ion mobility separations coupled with MS and microchip-based-proteome measurements combined with MS instrumentation and chromatographic separation techniques, such as nanoscale reversed phase liquid chromatography and capillary electrophoresis, show great promise for both broad undirected and targeted highly sensitive measurements. MS-based proteomics increasingly contribute to our understanding of the dynamics, interactions, and roles that proteins and peptides play, advancing our understanding of biology on a systems wide level for a wide range of applications including investigations of microbial communities, bioremediation, and human health.
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- Thomas E Angel
- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA
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