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Thongboonkerd V, Chaiyarit S. Gel-Based and Gel-Free Phosphoproteomics to Measure and Characterize Mitochondrial Phosphoproteins. Curr Protoc 2022; 2:e390. [PMID: 35275445 DOI: 10.1002/cpz1.390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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The mitochondrion is a key intracellular organelle regulating metabolic processes, oxidative stress, energy production, calcium homeostasis, and cell survival. Protein phosphorylation plays an important role in regulating mitochondrial functions and cellular signaling pathways. Dysregulation of protein phosphorylation status can cause protein malfunction and abnormal signal transduction, leading to organ dysfunction and disease. Investigating the mitochondrial phosphoproteins is therefore crucial to better understand the molecular and pathogenic mechanisms of many metabolic disorders. Conventional analyses of phosphoproteins, for instance, via western blotting, can be done only for proteins for which specific antibodies to their phosphorylated forms are available. Moreover, such an approach is not suitable for large-scale study of phosphoproteins. Currently, proteomics represents an important tool for large-scale analysis of proteins and their post-translational modifications, including phosphorylation. Here, we provide step-by-step protocols for the proteomics analysis of mitochondrial phosphoproteins (the phosphoproteome), using renal tubular cells as an example. These protocols include methods to effectively isolate mitochondria and to validate the efficacy of mitochondrial enrichment as well as its purity. We also provide detailed protocols for performing both gel-based and gel-free phosphoproteome analyses. The gel-based analysis involves two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and phosphoprotein-specific staining, followed by protein identification via mass spectrometry, whereas the gel-free approach is based on in-solution mass spectrometric identification of specific phosphorylation sites and residues. In all, these approaches allow large-scale analyses of mitochondrial phosphoproteins that can be applied to other cells and tissues of interest. © 2022 Wiley Periodicals LLC. Basic Protocol 1: Mitochondrial isolation/purification from renal tubular cells Support Protocol: Validation of enrichment efficacy and purity of mitochondrial isolation Basic Protocol 2: Gel-based phosphoproteome analysis Basic Protocol 3: Gel-free phosphoproteome analysis.
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- Visith Thongboonkerd
- Medical Proteomics Unit, Office for Research and Development, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Medical Proteomics Unit, Office for Research and Development, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
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Smolikova G, Gorbach D, Lukasheva E, Mavropolo-Stolyarenko G, Bilova T, Soboleva A, Tsarev A, Romanovskaya E, Podolskaya E, Zhukov V, Tikhonovich I, Medvedev S, Hoehenwarter W, Frolov A. Bringing New Methods to the Seed Proteomics Platform: Challenges and Perspectives. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:E9162. [PMID: 33271881 PMCID: PMC7729594 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21239162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2020] [Revised: 11/26/2020] [Accepted: 11/27/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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For centuries, crop plants have represented the basis of the daily human diet. Among them, cereals and legumes, accumulating oils, proteins, and carbohydrates in their seeds, distinctly dominate modern agriculture, thus play an essential role in food industry and fuel production. Therefore, seeds of crop plants are intensively studied by food chemists, biologists, biochemists, and nutritional physiologists. Accordingly, seed development and germination as well as age- and stress-related alterations in seed vigor, longevity, nutritional value, and safety can be addressed by a broad panel of analytical, biochemical, and physiological methods. Currently, functional genomics is one of the most powerful tools, giving direct access to characteristic metabolic changes accompanying plant development, senescence, and response to biotic or abiotic stress. Among individual post-genomic methodological platforms, proteomics represents one of the most effective ones, giving access to cellular metabolism at the level of proteins. During the recent decades, multiple methodological advances were introduced in different branches of life science, although only some of them were established in seed proteomics so far. Therefore, here we discuss main methodological approaches already employed in seed proteomics, as well as those still waiting for implementation in this field of plant research, with a special emphasis on sample preparation, data acquisition, processing, and post-processing. Thereby, the overall goal of this review is to bring new methodologies emerging in different areas of proteomics research (clinical, food, ecological, microbial, and plant proteomics) to the broad society of seed biologists.
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- Galina Smolikova
- Department of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, St. Petersburg State University; 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia; (G.S.); (T.B.); (S.M.)
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- Department of Biochemistry, St. Petersburg State University; 199178 St. Petersburg, Russia; (D.G.); (E.L.); (G.M.-S.); (A.S.); (A.T.); (E.R.)
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- Department of Biochemistry, St. Petersburg State University; 199178 St. Petersburg, Russia; (D.G.); (E.L.); (G.M.-S.); (A.S.); (A.T.); (E.R.)
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- Department of Biochemistry, St. Petersburg State University; 199178 St. Petersburg, Russia; (D.G.); (E.L.); (G.M.-S.); (A.S.); (A.T.); (E.R.)
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- Department of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, St. Petersburg State University; 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia; (G.S.); (T.B.); (S.M.)
- Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry; 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry, St. Petersburg State University; 199178 St. Petersburg, Russia; (D.G.); (E.L.); (G.M.-S.); (A.S.); (A.T.); (E.R.)
- Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry; 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry, St. Petersburg State University; 199178 St. Petersburg, Russia; (D.G.); (E.L.); (G.M.-S.); (A.S.); (A.T.); (E.R.)
- Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry; 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry, St. Petersburg State University; 199178 St. Petersburg, Russia; (D.G.); (E.L.); (G.M.-S.); (A.S.); (A.T.); (E.R.)
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- Institute of Analytical Instrumentation, Russian Academy of Science; 190103 St. Petersburg, Russia;
- Institute of Toxicology, Russian Federal Medical Agency; 192019 St. Petersburg, Russia
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- All-Russia Research Institute for Agricultural Microbiology; 196608 St. Petersburg, Russia; (V.Z.); (I.T.)
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- All-Russia Research Institute for Agricultural Microbiology; 196608 St. Petersburg, Russia; (V.Z.); (I.T.)
- Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, St. Petersburg State University; 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Department of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, St. Petersburg State University; 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia; (G.S.); (T.B.); (S.M.)
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- Proteome Analytics Research Group, Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany;
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- Department of Biochemistry, St. Petersburg State University; 199178 St. Petersburg, Russia; (D.G.); (E.L.); (G.M.-S.); (A.S.); (A.T.); (E.R.)
- Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry; 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany
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Gel electrophoresis-based plant proteomics: Past, present, and future. Happy 10th anniversary Journal of Proteomics! J Proteomics 2019; 198:1-10. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2018.08.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2018] [Revised: 08/21/2018] [Accepted: 08/26/2018] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Mouzo D, Bernal J, López-Pedrouso M, Franco D, Zapata C. Advances in the Biology of Seed and Vegetative Storage Proteins Based on Two-Dimensional Electrophoresis Coupled to Mass Spectrometry. Molecules 2018; 23:E2462. [PMID: 30261600 PMCID: PMC6222612 DOI: 10.3390/molecules23102462] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2018] [Revised: 09/18/2018] [Accepted: 09/21/2018] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Seed storage proteins play a fundamental role in plant reproduction and human nutrition. They accumulate during seed development as reserve material for germination and seedling growth and are a major source of dietary protein for human consumption. Storage proteins encompass multiple isoforms encoded by multi-gene families that undergo abundant glycosylations and phosphorylations. Two-dimensional electrophoresis (2-DE) is a proteomic tool especially suitable for the characterization of storage proteins because of their peculiar characteristics. In particular, storage proteins are soluble multimeric proteins highly represented in the seed proteome that contain polypeptides of molecular mass between 10 and 130 kDa. In addition, high-resolution profiles can be achieved by applying targeted 2-DE protocols. 2-DE coupled with mass spectrometry (MS) has traditionally been the methodology of choice in numerous studies on the biology of storage proteins in a wide diversity of plants. 2-DE-based reference maps have decisively contributed to the current state of our knowledge about storage proteins in multiple key aspects, including identification of isoforms and quantification of their relative abundance, identification of phosphorylated isoforms and assessment of their phosphorylation status, and dynamic changes of isoforms during seed development and germination both qualitatively and quantitatively. These advances have translated into relevant information about meaningful traits in seed breeding such as protein quality, longevity, gluten and allergen content, stress response and antifungal, antibacterial, and insect susceptibility. This review addresses progress on the biology of storage proteins and application areas in seed breeding using 2-DE-based maps.
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- Daniel Mouzo
- Department of Zoology, Genetics and Physical Anthropology, University of Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
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- Department of Zoology, Genetics and Physical Anthropology, University of Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
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- Department of Zoology, Genetics and Physical Anthropology, University of Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
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- Meat Technology Center of Galicia, 32900 San Cibrao das Viñas, Ourense, Spain.
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- Department of Zoology, Genetics and Physical Anthropology, University of Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
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Wu H, Sun N, Song W, Zhu L, Chen H, Cai Z. Identification of different hemagglutinin isoforms of influenza A virus H1N1. RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY : RCM 2018; 32:1372-1378. [PMID: 29857349 DOI: 10.1002/rcm.8182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2018] [Revised: 05/26/2018] [Accepted: 05/27/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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RATIONALE Influenza A viruses (IAVs) are still a threat to human health and life. The process of virus infection involves a series of biological regulations, such as signal transduction, that may be closely linked with the function of glycoproteins. However, the number and level of glycoproteins is low compared with other proteins in the whole protein pool. METHODS Viruses obtained from chicken embryos were purified by sucrose gradient centrifugation. PNGase F enzyme was then used to remove the glycan modification, followed by two-dimensional electrophoresis (2DE) to separate the hemagglutinin1 (HA1) glycoprotein. In-gel digestion was used to obtain peptides that were detected by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS). RESULTS Remarkably, we found five isoforms of HA1 with the same molecular weight but different isoelectric points. Furthermore, HA1 treatment with PNGase F enzyme changed all but one protein spot from 2DE, indicating that the different HA1 isoforms in 2DE were a result of different glycosylation modifications. CONCLUSIONS The difference in isoelectric points of these HA1 isoforms was caused by glycan modification. This method provides a new approach for the study of glycosylation of the proteome for viruses or any other organisms.
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- Hanzhi Wu
- Hong Kong Baptist University, State Key Laboratory of Environmental and Biological Analysis, Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong, SAR, China
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- Hong Kong Baptist University, State Key Laboratory of Environmental and Biological Analysis, Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong, SAR, China
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- The University of Hong Kong, State Key Laboratory for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Department of Microbiology and the Research Center of Infection and Immunology, Hong Kong, SAR, China
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- Hong Kong Baptist University, State Key Laboratory of Environmental and Biological Analysis, Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong, SAR, China
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- The University of Hong Kong, State Key Laboratory for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Department of Microbiology and the Research Center of Infection and Immunology, Hong Kong, SAR, China
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- Hong Kong Baptist University, State Key Laboratory of Environmental and Biological Analysis, Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong, SAR, China
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Luís IM, Alexandre BM, Oliveira MM, Abreu IA. Selection of an Appropriate Protein Extraction Method to Study the Phosphoproteome of Maize Photosynthetic Tissue. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0164387. [PMID: 27727304 PMCID: PMC5058499 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0164387] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2016] [Accepted: 09/23/2016] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Often plant tissues are recalcitrant and, due to that, methods relying on protein precipitation, such as TCA/acetone precipitation and phenol extraction, are usually the methods of choice for protein extraction in plant proteomic studies. However, the addition of precipitation steps to protein extraction methods may negatively impact protein recovery, due to problems associated with protein re-solubilization. Moreover, we show that when working with non-recalcitrant plant tissues, such as young maize leaves, protein extraction methods with precipitation steps compromise the maintenance of some labile post-translational modifications (PTMs), such as phosphorylation. Therefore, a critical issue when studying PTMs in plant proteins is to ensure that the protein extraction method is the most appropriate, both at qualitative and quantitative levels. In this work, we compared five methods for protein extraction of the C4-photosynthesis related proteins, in the tip of fully expanded third-leaves. These included: TCA/Acetone Precipitation; Phenol Extraction; TCA/Acetone Precipitation followed by Phenol Extraction; direct extraction in Lysis Buffer (a urea-based buffer); and direct extraction in Lysis Buffer followed by Cleanup with a commercial kit. Protein extraction in Lysis Buffer performed better in comparison to the other methods. It gave one of the highest protein yields, good coverage of the extracted proteome and phosphoproteome, high reproducibility, and little protein degradation. This was also the easiest and fastest method, warranting minimal sample handling. We also show that this method is adequate for the successful extraction of key enzymes of the C4-photosynthetic metabolism, such as PEPC, PPDK, PEPCK, and NADP-ME. This was confirmed by MALDI-TOF/TOF MS analysis of excised spots of 2DE analyses of the extracted protein pools. Staining for phosphorylated proteins in 2DE revealed the presence of several phosphorylated isoforms of PEPC, PPDK, and PEPCK.
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- Inês M. Luís
- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (ITQB-UNL), Oeiras, Portugal
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (ITQB-UNL), Oeiras, Portugal
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (ITQB-UNL), Oeiras, Portugal
- Instituto Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica (iBET), Oeiras, Portugal
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