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Tobola F, Wiltschi B. One, two, many: Strategies to alter the number of carbohydrate binding sites of lectins. Biotechnol Adv 2022; 60:108020. [PMID: 35868512 DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2022.108020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2022] [Revised: 06/23/2022] [Accepted: 07/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Carbohydrates are more than an energy-storage. They are ubiquitously found on cells and most proteins, where they encode biological information. Lectins bind these carbohydrates and are essential for translating the encoded information into biological functions and processes. Hundreds of lectins are known, and they are found in all domains of life. For half a century, researchers have been preparing variants of lectins in which the binding sites are varied. In this way, the traits of the lectins such as the affinity, avidity and specificity towards their ligands as well as their biological efficacy were changed. These efforts helped to unravel the biological importance of lectins and resulted in improved variants for biotechnological exploitation and potential medical applications. This review gives an overview on the methods for the preparation of artificial lectins and complexes thereof and how reducing or increasing the number of binding sites affects their function.
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- Felix Tobola
- acib - Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology, Petersgasse 14, 8010 Graz, Austria; Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology, Petersgasse 14, 8010 Graz, Austria.
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- acib - Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology, Petersgasse 14, 8010 Graz, Austria; Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology, Petersgasse 14, 8010 Graz, Austria; Institute of Bioprocess Science and Engineering, Department of Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria.
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Hashim OH, Jayapalan JJ, Lee CS. Lectins: an effective tool for screening of potential cancer biomarkers. PeerJ 2017; 5:e3784. [PMID: 28894650 PMCID: PMC5592079 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.3784] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2017] [Accepted: 08/18/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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In recent years, the use of lectins for screening of potential biomarkers has gained increased importance in cancer research, given the development in glycobiology that highlights altered structural changes of glycans in cancer associated processes. Lectins, having the properties of recognizing specific carbohydrate moieties of glycoconjugates, have become an effective tool for detection of new cancer biomarkers in complex bodily fluids and tissues. The specificity of lectins provides an added advantage of selecting peptides that are differently glycosylated and aberrantly expressed in cancer patients, many of which are not possibly detected using conventional methods because of their low abundance in bodily fluids. When coupled with mass spectrometry, research utilizing lectins, which are mainly from plants and fungi, has led to identification of numerous potential cancer biomarkers that may be used in the future. This article reviews lectin-based methods that are commonly adopted in cancer biomarker discovery research.
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- Onn Haji Hashim
- Department of Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.,University of Malaya Centre for Proteomics Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- University of Malaya Centre for Proteomics Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Ma H, Chen G, Guo M. Mass spectrometry based translational proteomics for biomarker discovery and application in colorectal cancer. Proteomics Clin Appl 2016; 10:503-15. [PMID: 26616366 DOI: 10.1002/prca.201500082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2015] [Revised: 11/17/2015] [Accepted: 11/25/2015] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a leading cause of cancer-related death in the world. Clinically, early detection of the disease is the most effective approach to tackle this tough challenge. Discovery and development of reliable and effective diagnostic tools for the assessment of prognosis and prediction of response to drug therapy are urgently needed for personalized therapies and better treatment outcomes. Among many ongoing efforts in search for potential CRC biomarkers, MS-based translational proteomics provides a unique opportunity for the discovery and application of protein biomarkers toward better CRC early detection and treatment. This review updates most recent studies that use preclinical models and clinical materials for the identification of CRC-related protein markers. Some new advances in the development of CRC protein markers such as CRC stem cell related protein markers, SRM/MRM-MS and MS cytometry approaches are also discussed in order to address future directions and challenges from bench translational research to bedside clinical application of CRC biomarkers.
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- Hong Ma
- Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Sino-Africa Joint Research Center, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, P. R. China.,Haematology and Oncology Division, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Sino-Africa Joint Research Center, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, P. R. China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Sino-Africa Joint Research Center, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, P. R. China
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Silva MLS. Cancer serum biomarkers based on aberrant post-translational modifications of glycoproteins: Clinical value and discovery strategies. Biochim Biophys Acta Rev Cancer 2015; 1856:165-77. [PMID: 26232626 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbcan.2015.07.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2015] [Accepted: 07/28/2015] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Due to the increase in life expectancy in the last decades, as well as changes in lifestyle, cancer has become one of the most common diseases both in developed and developing countries. Early detection remains the most promising approach to improve long-term survival of cancer patients and this may be achieved by efficient screening of biomarkers in biological fluids. Great efforts have been made to identify specific alterations during oncogenesis. Changes at the cellular glycosylation profiles are among such alterations. The "glycosylation machinery" of cells is affected by malignant transformation due to the altered expression of glycogens, leading to changes in glycan biosynthesis and diversity. Alterations in the post-translational modifications of proteins that occur in cancer result in the expression of antigenically distinct glycoproteins. Therefore, these aberrant and cancer-specific glycoproteins and the autoantibodies that are produced in response to their presence constitute targets for cancer biomarkers' search. Different strategies have been implemented for the discovery of cancer glycobiomarkers and are herein reviewed, along with their potentialities and limitations. Practical issues related with serum analysis are also addressed, as well as the challenges that this area faces in the near future.
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- M Luísa S Silva
- Centre of Chemical Research, Autonomous University of Hidalgo State, Carr. Pachuca-Tulancingo km 4.5, 42184 Mineral de la Reforma, Hidalgo, México.
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Álvarez-Chaver P, Otero-Estévez O, Páez de la Cadena M, Rodríguez-Berrocal FJ, Martínez-Zorzano VS. Proteomics for discovery of candidate colorectal cancer biomarkers. World J Gastroenterol 2014; 20:3804-3824. [PMID: 24744574 PMCID: PMC3983438 DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v20.i14.3804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2013] [Revised: 01/24/2014] [Accepted: 03/10/2014] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second most common cause of cancer-related deaths in Europe and other Western countries, mainly due to the lack of well-validated clinically useful biomarkers with enough sensitivity and specificity to detect this disease at early stages. Although it is well known that the pathogenesis of CRC is a progressive accumulation of mutations in multiple genes, much less is known at the proteome level. Therefore, in the last years many proteomic studies have been conducted to find new candidate protein biomarkers for diagnosis, prognosis and as therapeutic targets for this malignancy, as well as to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of colorectal carcinogenesis. An important advantage of the proteomic approaches is the capacity to look for multiple differentially expressed proteins in a single study. This review provides an overview of the recent reports describing the different proteomic tools used for the discovery of new protein markers for CRC such as two-dimensional electrophoresis methods, quantitative mass spectrometry-based techniques or protein microarrays. Additionally, we will also focus on the diverse biological samples used for CRC biomarker discovery such as tissue, serum and faeces, besides cell lines and murine models, discussing their advantages and disadvantages, and summarize the most frequently identified candidate CRC markers.
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Valentine SJ, Liu X, Plasencia MD, Hilderbrand AE, Kurulugama RT, Koeniger SL, Clemmer DE. Developing liquid chromatography ion mobility mass spectometry techniques. Expert Rev Proteomics 2014; 2:553-65. [PMID: 16097888 DOI: 10.1586/14789450.2.4.553] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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When a packet of ions in a buffer gas is exposed to a weak electric field, the ions will separate according to differences in their mobilities through the gas. This separation forms the basis of the analytical method known as ion mobility spectroscopy and is highly efficient, in that it can be carried out in a very short time frame (micro- to milliseconds). Recently, efforts have been made to couple the approach with liquid-phase separations and mass spectrometry in order to create a high-throughput and high-coverage approach for analyzing complex mixtures. This article reviews recent work to develop this approach for proteomics analyses. The instrumentation is described briefly. Several multidimensional data sets obtained upon analyzing complex mixtures are shown in order to illustrate the approach as well as provide a view of the limitations and required future work.
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- Stephen J Valentine
- Predictive Physiology & Medicine, 1424 W. Adams Hill, Bloomington, IN 47403, USA.
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Derijks-Engwegen JY, Cats A, Smits ME, Schellens JH, Beijnen JH. Improving colorectal cancer management: the potential of proteomics. Biomark Med 2012; 2:253-89. [PMID: 20477414 DOI: 10.2217/17520363.2.3.253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer worldwide. Successful treatment is heavily dependent on tumor stage at the time of detection, but unfortunately CRC is often only detected in advanced stages. New biomarkers in the form of genes or proteins that can be used for diagnosis, prognostication, follow-up, and treatment selection and monitoring could be of great benefit for the management of CRC. Furthermore, proteins could prove valuable new targets for therapy. Therefore, clinical proteomics has gained a lot of scientific interest in this regard. To get an overall insight into the extent to which this research has contributed to a better management of CRC, we give a comprehensive overview of the results of proteomics research on CRC, focusing on expression proteomics, in other words, protein profiling studies. Furthermore, we evaluate the potential of the discriminating proteins identified in this research for clinical use as biomarkers for (early) diagnosis, prognosis and follow-up of CRC or as targets for new therapeutic regimens.
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Rodríguez-Piñeiro AM, García-Lorenzo A, Blanco-Prieto S, Alvarez-Chaver P, Rodríguez-Berrocal FJ, Cadena MPDL, Martínez-Zorzano VS. Secreted clusterin in colon tumor cell models and its potential as diagnostic marker for colorectal cancer. Cancer Invest 2012; 30:72-8. [PMID: 22236192 DOI: 10.3109/07357907.2011.630051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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We studied the specific changes of the secreted protein clusterin and its cytoplasmic precursor regarding colorectal tumorigenesis, using in vitro differentiation of Caco-2 cells. In tumor-like stage, we observed an overexpression of both precursor and secreted clusterin, corroborated in the cell line SW-480. Noticeably, SW-620 cells (from a tumoral node, thus with metastatic capacity) did not show overexpression of either precursor or secreted clusterin, suggesting a downregulation related to local metastasis. We further investigated clusterin in serum, finding a significant increase in colorectal cancer patients, with 81% sensitivity, 79% specificity, and an area under the ROC curve of 0.85.
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- A M Rodríguez-Piñeiro
- Departamento de Bioquímica, Genética e Inmunología, Universidad de Vigo, Vigo, Spain.
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Ang CS, Rothacker J, Patsiouras H, Gibbs P, Burgess AW, Nice EC. Use of multiple reaction monitoring for multiplex analysis of colorectal cancer-associated proteins in human feces. Electrophoresis 2011; 32:1926-38. [PMID: 21538981 DOI: 10.1002/elps.201000502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2010] [Revised: 11/25/2010] [Accepted: 12/17/2010] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second most common cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide with an annual incidence of almost a million cases and an annual mortality around 500,000. The fecal occult blood test is currently the first line method for CRC screening, but has unacceptably low sensitivity and specificity. Improved screening tests are therefore urgently required for early-stage CRC screening when therapy is most likely to be effective. We describe a discovery-based proteomics hypothesis using orthogonal multi-dimensional fractionation (1-D SDS-PAGE, RP-HPLC, size exclusion chromatography) to mine deep into the fecal proteome for the initial discovery process, which generated a library containing 108 human fecal proteins with the associated peptide and MS/MS data. These data were then used to develop and optimize a multiplex multiple reaction monitoring assay for 40 non-redundant human proteins present in the feces. To show proof of principal for clinical analysis, multiplex screening of these 40 proteins was carried out on fecal samples from eight CRC patient and seven normal volunteers. We identified 24 proteins consistently found in all samples and nine proteins found only in the CRC patients, showing the potential of this approach for the analysis of potential CRC biomarkers. Absolute quantitation using C-terminal isotopically labeled synthetic peptides corresponding to hemoglobin and carcinoembryonic antigen 5 was also performed.
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- Ching-Seng Ang
- Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Melbourne Tumour Biology Branch, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Selection of putative colorectal cancer markers by applying PCA on the soluble proteome of tumors: NDK A as a promising candidate. J Proteomics 2011; 74:874-86. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2011.02.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2010] [Revised: 02/22/2011] [Accepted: 02/28/2011] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Tang J, Liu Y, Yin P, Yao G, Yan G, Deng C, Zhang X. Concanavalin A-immobilized magnetic nanoparticles for selective enrichment of glycoproteins and application to glycoproteomics in hepatocelluar carcinoma cell line. Proteomics 2010; 10:2000-14. [PMID: 20217867 DOI: 10.1002/pmic.200900377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Protein glycosylation is one of the most important PTMs in biological organism. Lectins such as concanavalin A (Con A) have been widely applied to N-glycosylated protein investigation. In this study, we developed Con A-immobilized magnetic nanoparticles for selective separation of glycoproteins. At first, a facile immobilization of Con A on aminophenylboronic acid-functionalized magnetic nanoparticles was performed by forming boronic acid-sugar-Con A bond in sandwich structure using methyl alpha-D-mannopyranoside as an intermedium. The selective capture ability of Con A-modified magnetic nanoparticles for glycoproteins was tested using standard glycoproteins and cell lysate of human hepatocelluar carcinoma cell line 7703. In total 184 glycosylated sites were detected within 172 different glycopeptides corresponding to 101 glycoproteins. Also, the regeneration of the protein-immobilized nanoparticles can easily be performed taking advantage of the reversible binding mechanism between boronic acid and sugar chain. The experiment results demonstrated that Con A-modified magnetic nanoparticles by the facile and low-cost synthesis provided a convenient and efficient enrichment approach for glycoproteins, and are promising candidates for large-scale glycoproteomic research in complicated biological samples.
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- Jia Tang
- Department of Chemistry and Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, PR China
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Martino AT, Mueller C, Braag S, Cruz PE, Campbell-Thompson M, Jin S, Flotte TR. N-glycosylation augmentation of the cystic fibrosis epithelium improves Pseudomonas aeruginosa clearance. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 2010; 44:824-30. [PMID: 20693405 DOI: 10.1165/rcmb.2009-0285oc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Chronic lung colonization with Pseudomonas aeruginosa is anticipated in cystic fibrosis (CF). Abnormal terminal glycosylation has been implicated as a candidate for this condition. We previously reported a down-regulation of mannose-6-phosphate isomerase (MPI) for core N-glycan production in the CFTR-defective human cell line (IB3). We found a 40% decrease in N-glycosylation of IB3 cells compared with CFTR-corrected human cell line (S9), along with a threefold-lower surface attachment of P. aeruginosa strain, PAO1. There was a twofold increase in intracellular bacteria in S9 cells compared with IB3 cells. After a 4-hour clearance period, intracellular bacteria in IB3 cells increased twofold. Comparatively, a twofold decrease in intracellular bacteria occurred in S9 cells. Gene augmentation in IB3 cells with hMPI or hCFTR reversed these IB3 deficiencies. Mannose-6-phosphate can be produced from external mannose independent of MPI, and correction in the IB3 clearance deficiencies was observed when cultured in mannose-rich medium. An in vivo model for P. aeruginosa colonization in the upper airways revealed an increased bacterial burden in the trachea and oropharynx of nontherapeutic CF mice compared with mice treated either with an intratracheal delivery adeno-associated viral vector 5 expressing murine MPI, or a hypermannose water diet. Finally, a modest lung inflammatory response was observed in CF mice, and was partially corrected by both treatments. Augmenting N-glycosylation to attenuate colonization of P. aeruginosa in CF airways reveals a new therapeutic avenue for a hallmark disease condition in CF.
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- Ashley T Martino
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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Ang CS, Rothacker J, Patsiouras H, Burgess AW, Nice EC. Murine fecal proteomics: a model system for the detection of potential biomarkers for colorectal cancer. J Chromatogr A 2009; 1217:3330-40. [PMID: 19875126 DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2009.10.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2009] [Revised: 09/30/2009] [Accepted: 10/02/2009] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Tumor related products shed into the feces offer a potential source of biomarkers for the detection of colorectal cancer (CRC). Using SDS-PAGE followed by nanoflow reversed-phased LC-MS/MS to analyse fecal samples from Apc(Min/+) mice (that develop spontaneous multiple intestinal neoplasia with age) we have identified 336 proteins (115 proteins of murine origin, 201 from fecal bacteria, 18 associated with food intake and 2 of apparent parasitic origin). 75% of the murine proteins identified in this study are predicted to be extracellular or associated with the cell plasma membrane. Of these proteins, a number of the murine homologues of colorectal cancer associated proteins (CCAP) such as hemoglobin, haptoglobin, hemopexin, alpha-2-macroglobulin and cadherin-17 have been identified, demonstrating the potential of fecal proteomics for detecting potential biomarkers and paving the way for subsequent MS/MS based biomarker studies on similar human samples.
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- Ching-Seng Ang
- Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Melbourne Tumour Biology Branch, PO Box 2008, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia
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Martínez-Fernández M, Rodríguez-Piñeiro AM, Oliveira E, Páez de la Cadena M, Rolán-Alvarez E. Proteomic Comparison between Two Marine Snail Ecotypes Reveals Details about the Biochemistry of Adaptation. J Proteome Res 2008; 7:4926-34. [DOI: 10.1021/pr700863e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Mónica Martínez-Fernández
- Departamento de Bioquímica, Genética e Inmunología. Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Vigo, Campus Universitario, 36310 Vigo, Spain, and Plataforma de Proteòmica, Parc Científic de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, C/ Josep Samitier, 1-5, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Departamento de Bioquímica, Genética e Inmunología. Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Vigo, Campus Universitario, 36310 Vigo, Spain, and Plataforma de Proteòmica, Parc Científic de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, C/ Josep Samitier, 1-5, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Departamento de Bioquímica, Genética e Inmunología. Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Vigo, Campus Universitario, 36310 Vigo, Spain, and Plataforma de Proteòmica, Parc Científic de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, C/ Josep Samitier, 1-5, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Departamento de Bioquímica, Genética e Inmunología. Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Vigo, Campus Universitario, 36310 Vigo, Spain, and Plataforma de Proteòmica, Parc Científic de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, C/ Josep Samitier, 1-5, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Departamento de Bioquímica, Genética e Inmunología. Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Vigo, Campus Universitario, 36310 Vigo, Spain, and Plataforma de Proteòmica, Parc Científic de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, C/ Josep Samitier, 1-5, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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Vercoutter-Edouart AS, Slomianny MC, Dekeyzer-Beseme O, Haeuw JF, Michalski JC. Glycoproteomics and glycomics investigation of membrane N-glycosylproteins from human colon carcinoma cells. Proteomics 2008; 8:3236-56. [DOI: 10.1002/pmic.200800151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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The measurement of serum ceruloplasmin is useful for diagnostic differentiation of immune thrombocytopenic purpura. Clin Chim Acta 2007; 389:132-8. [PMID: 18187043 DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2007.12.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2007] [Revised: 12/04/2007] [Accepted: 12/04/2007] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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BACKGROUND To expand the criteria of immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), which is a diagnosis of exclusion, we analyzed proteins separated by 1-dimensional gel electrophoresis of the retained fraction in a Con A-Sepharose column from ITP patients' sera. METHODS Serum samples were from 19 adult patients with chronic ITP, 9 patients with thrombocytopenia of decreased production, and 20 healthy controls. Samples were applied to a Con A-Sepharose column, and the retained fraction was subjected to 10% SDS-PAGE. The % area of each densitometric protein peak was compared between the two groups and proteins in each band were identified using LC-MS/MS. RESULTS Eleven protein bands were distinctly separated by 1-dimensional electrophoresis. The percent area of bands #2 and #3 were significantly higher in ITP patients than in controls. The percent area of band #2 (p<0.01) was significantly higher in ITP patients than in non-ITP patients. We identified alpha(2)-macroglobulin, ceruloplasmin (Cp), and C3 in band #2 and complement factor B in #3 band. Serum concentrations of alpha(2)-macroglobulin and Cp were significantly higher in ITP patients than in controls. Serum concentrations of Cp were significantly higher in ITP patients than in non-ITP patients (p=0.0005). Serum complement factor B concentrations were significantly higher in ITP patients and non-ITP patients than in controls. ROC analysis showed that the total percent area of bands #2 and #3, and Cp had higher diagnosis availability for ITP patients when compared with controls and non-ITP patients, respectively. CONCLUSIONS Measurement of Cp separated by the present method could be useful for the diagnosis of ITP in the presence of thrombocytopenia and a non- or low-inflammatory state.
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Sun Q, Liu Y, Lu W, Cheng G, Zhou H, Zhou X, Wei L, Dai Z, Guo K, Lu H. Con A affinity glycoproteomics of normal human liver tissue. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 50:403-11. [PMID: 17609898 DOI: 10.1007/s11427-007-0027-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2006] [Accepted: 09/23/2006] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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In order to establish the novel high throughput, high efficiency and low cost technological platform for the research of N-glycoproteomics, to resolve the significance of characteristic expression profile of glycoprotein and to find the proteins with biological functional importance, the glycoproteins with high-mannose core and the two antennary types were purified and enriched by the Con A affinity chromatography. Con A affinity protein expression profiles of normal human liver tissue were generated by using SDS-PAGE, two-dimensional electrophoresis (2-DE) followed by fast fluorescence staining based on multiplexed proteomics (MP) technology. 301 visible protein spots on the gel were detected and 85 of glycoproteins were further successfully identified via peptide mass fingerprinting (PMF) by a matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF-MS/MS) and annotated to IPI databases. Identified glycoproteins definitely take part in the regulation of cell cycle and metabolic processes. The glycosylation sites were predicted with NetNGlyc 1.0 and NetOGlyc 3.1 software, meanwhile they were classified according to the geneontology methods. The construction of Con A affinity glycoprotein database of normal human liver tissue would contribute to the subsequent research.
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- QiangLing Sun
- Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, China
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Rodríguez-Piñeiro AM, Rodríguez-Berrocal FJ, Páez de la Cadena M. Improvements in the search for potential biomarkers by proteomics: Application of principal component and discriminant analyses for two-dimensional maps evaluation. J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci 2007; 849:251-60. [PMID: 17071145 DOI: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2006.09.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2006] [Revised: 09/06/2006] [Accepted: 09/08/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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In this study, we evaluated if the application of multivariate analysis on the data obtained from two-dimensional protein maps could mean an improvement in the search for protein markers. First, we performed a classical proteomic study of the differential expression of serum N-glycoproteins in colorectal cancer patients. Then, applying principal component analysis (PCA) we assessed the utility of the 2-D protein pattern and certain subsets of spots as a tool to distinguish control and case samples, and tested the accuracy of the classification model by linear discriminant analysis (LDA). On the other hand we looked for altered spots by univariate statistics and then analysed them as a cluster by PCA and LDA. We found that those proteins combined presented a theoretical sensitivity and specificity of 100%. Finally, the spots with known protein identity were analysed by multivariate methods, finding a subgroup that behaved as the most obvious candidates for further validation trials.
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Valentine SJ, Plasencia MD, Liu X, Krishnan M, Naylor S, Udseth HR, Smith RD, Clemmer DE. Toward plasma proteome profiling with ion mobility-mass spectrometry. J Proteome Res 2007; 5:2977-84. [PMID: 17081049 DOI: 10.1021/pr060232i] [Citation(s) in RCA: 115] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Differential, functional, and mapping proteomic analyses of complex biological mixtures suffer from a lack of component resolution. Here we describe the application of ion mobility-mass spectrometry (IMS-MS) to this problem. With this approach, components that are separated by liquid chromatography are dispersed based on differences in their mobilities through a buffer gas prior to being analyzed by MS. The inclusion of the gas-phase dispersion provides more than an order of magnitude enhancement in component resolution at no cost to data acquisition time. Additionally, the mobility separation often removes high-abundance species from spectral regions containing low-abundance species, effectively increasing measurement sensitivity and dynamic range. Finally, collision-induced dissociation of all ions can be recorded in a single experimental sequence while conventional MS methods sequentially select precursors. The approach is demonstrated in a single, rapid (3.3 h) analysis of a plasma digest sample where abundant proteins have not been removed. Protein database searches have yielded 731 high confidence peptide assignments corresponding to 438 unique proteins. Results have been compiled into an initial analytical map to be used -after further augmentation and refinement- for comparative plasma profiling studies.
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- Stephen J Valentine
- Predictive Physiology and Medicine, 1424 W. Adams Hill Circle, Bloomington, Indiana 47403, USA
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The focus of this article is to review the recent advances in proteome analysis of human body fluids, including plasma/serum, urine, cerebrospinal fluid, saliva, bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, synovial fluid, nipple aspirate fluid, tear fluid, and amniotic fluid, as well as its applications to human disease biomarker discovery. We aim to summarize the proteomics technologies currently used for global identification and quantification of body fluid proteins, and elaborate the putative biomarkers discovered for a variety of human diseases through human body fluid proteome (HBFP) analysis. Some critical concerns and perspectives in this emerging field are also discussed. With the advances made in proteomics technologies, the impact of HBFP analysis in the search for clinically relevant disease biomarkers would be realized in the future.
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- Shen Hu
- School of Dentistry, Division of Oral Biology and Medicine, Dental Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
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Rodríguez-Piñeiro AM, de la Cadena MP, López-Saco A, Rodríguez-Berrocal FJ. Differential Expression of Serum Clusterin Isoforms in Colorectal Cancer. Mol Cell Proteomics 2006; 5:1647-57. [PMID: 16854844 DOI: 10.1074/mcp.m600143-mcp200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Clusterin is an enigmatic protein altered in tumors of colorectal cancer patients. Because there is no information available about serum clusterin regarding this pathology, we applied proteomic techniques to analyze its isoforms in donors and patients. First we separated serum proteins through concanavalin A, obtaining a fraction with non- and O-glycosylated proteins (FI) and a second fraction enriched in N-glycoproteins (FII) wherein clusterin was supposed to elute on the basis of its glycosylation. Surprisingly analysis of the FI fraction revealed the existence of an unexpected and aberrantly N-glycosylated clusterin that was overexpressed in patients and comprised at least five isoforms with different isoelectric points. On the other hand, two-dimensional electrophoretic analysis of the clusterin eluted in FII detected one isoform that was increased and 15 isoforms that were decreased or absent in serum of patients. Finally immunoquantification by slot blot showed that in total serum and in FI the clusterin levels were significantly increased in patients, whereas in FII there was no significant variation. Therefore, serum clusterin and some of its isoforms could have a potential value as colorectal tumor markers and are interesting subjects for biomarker studies.
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- Ana M Rodríguez-Piñeiro
- Departamento de Bioquímica, Genética e Inmunología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Vigo, Campus Universitario, 36310 Vigo, Spain
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Proteome analysis promises to be valuable for the identification of tissue and serum biomarkers associated with human malignancies. In addition, proteome technologies offer the opportunity to analyze protein expression profiles and to analyze the activity of signaling pathways. Many published proteomic studies of human tumor tissue are associated with weaknesses in tumor representativity, sample contamination by nontumor cells and serum proteins. Studies often include a moderate number of tumors which may not be representative of clinical materials. It is therefore very important that biomarkers identified by proteomics are validated in representative tumor materials by other techniques, such as immunohistochemistry. Proteome technologies can be used to identify disease markers in human serum. Tumor derived proteins are present at nanomolar to picomolar concentrations in cancer patient sera, 10(6)-10(9)-fold lower than albumin, and will give rise to correspondingly smaller spots/peaks in protein separations. This leads to the need to prefractionate serum samples before analysis. Despite various pitfalls, proteomic analysis is a promising approach to the identification of biomarkers, and for generation of protein expression profiles that can be analyzed by artificial learning methods for improved diagnosis of human malignancy. Recent advances in the field of proteomic analysis of human tumors are summarized in the present review.
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- Ayodele Alaiya
- Department of Biological and Medical Research, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, P.O. Box 3354 Riyadh 11211 (MBC#03), Saudi Arabia.
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Huang HL, Stasyk T, Morandell S, Mogg M, Schreiber M, Feuerstein I, Huck CW, Stecher G, Bonn GK, Huber LA. Enrichment of low-abundant serum proteins by albumin/immunoglobulin G immunoaffinity depletion under partly denaturing conditions. Electrophoresis 2005; 26:2843-9. [PMID: 15971195 DOI: 10.1002/elps.200500167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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We present a simple protocol for affinity depletion to remove the two most abundant serum proteins, albumin and immunoglobulin G (IgG). Under native conditions, albumin/IgG were efficiently removed and several proteins were enriched as shown by two-dimensional electrophoresis (2-DE). Besides that, partly denaturing conditions were established by adding 5 or 20% acetonitrile (ACN) in order to disrupt the binding of low-molecular-weight (LMW) proteins to the carrier proteins albumin/IgG. 2-DE results showed that the total number of detected LMW proteins increased under denaturing conditions when compared to native conditions. Interestingly, the presence of 5% ACN in serum revealed better enrichment of LMW proteins when compared to 20% ACN condition. Seven randomly distributed spots in albumin/IgG depleted serum samples under 5% ACN condition were picked from the 2-DE gels and identified by mass spectrometry (MS). The intensity of five LMW protein spots increased under denaturing conditions when compared to native conditions. Three of the seven identified spots (serum amyloid P, vitamin D-binding protein, and transthyretin) belong to a group of relatively low-abundant proteins, which make up only 1% of all serum proteins. The method presented here improves the resolution of the serum proteome by increasing the number of visualized spots on 2-D gels and allowing the detection and MS identification of LMW proteins and proteins of lower abundance.
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- Hong-Lei Huang
- Biocenter, Division of Cell Biology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
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Fu Q, Garnham CP, Elliott ST, Bovenkamp DE, Van Eyk JE. A robust, streamlined, and reproducible method for proteomic analysis of serum by delipidation, albumin and IgG depletion, and two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. Proteomics 2005; 5:2656-64. [PMID: 15924293 DOI: 10.1002/pmic.200402048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Serum is a readily available source for diagnostic assays, but the identification of disease-specific serum biomarkers has been impeded by the dominance of human serum albumin and immunoglobulins (Igs) in the serum proteome. There is a need to reduce the technical variation in serum processing and analysis to allow for a reproducible analysis of large cohorts. To this end, we have developed a rapid and reproducible procedure for sample preparation and high-resolution two-dimensional gel electrophoresis to analyze human serum. Serum is centrifuged at high speed to remove lipids and aggregated proteins, incubated with protein G resin to remove IgG, precipitated with NaCl/ethanol to deplete albumin, and slowly resolubilized in a sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS)/N-(2-hydroxyethyl)piperazine-2'-(2-ethanesulfonic acid) (HEPES) buffer. The delipidated and IgG/albumin depleted serum proteins are focused on pH 4-7 linear large immobilized pH gradient strips, and then resolved by Bis-Tris SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The robustness and reproducibility of the optimized procedure was determined for three individual serum samples on three consecutive days. An image analysis of the nine silver-stained gels demonstrated that the intensity and localization of protein spots are highly reproducible. Our IgG and albumin depletion procedure will aid in screening the patient sera for normal biological variation and disease-specific biomarkers.
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- Qin Fu
- Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Rodríguez-Piñeiro AM, Carvajal-Rodríguez A, Rolán-Alvarez E, Rodríguez-Berrocal FJ, Martínez-Fernández M, Páez de la Cadena M. Application of Relative Warp Analysis to the Evaluation of Two-Dimensional Gels in Proteomics: Studying Isoelectric Point and Relative Molecular Mass Variation. J Proteome Res 2005; 4:1318-23. [PMID: 16083282 DOI: 10.1021/pr0500307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We propose a geometric-morphometrics method (relative warp analysis) to be used in proteomic comparisons. This approach was applied to a dataset from a comparison between 5 controls and 5 patients with colorectal cancer disease published elsewhere. The spots in the 2-D maps were used as landmarks in a morphometric study, and the differences in shape (spot distribution) among them were obtained. The shape variables were used to compare controls and patients. These components mostly ignore random or experimental effects affecting all the proteins in any of the two dimensions studied. Furthermore, the method allows the researcher to find those proteins which contributed the most to the local shape component detected. Applying this approach, we detected variations in the position (isoelectric point and/or relative molecular mass) of some spots that may reflect differences in the amino acidic sequence or post-translational modifications.
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- Ana M Rodríguez-Piñeiro
- Departamento de Bioquímica, Genética e Inmunología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Vigo, Campus Universitario, 36310 Vigo, Spain
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Palomares L, Préstamo G. Detection of peroxidase activity in two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. Eur Food Res Technol 2005. [DOI: 10.1007/s00217-005-1132-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Current Awareness on Comparative and Functional Genomics. Comp Funct Genomics 2004. [PMCID: PMC2447433 DOI: 10.1002/cfg.356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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