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Coorssen JR, Padula MP. Proteomics-The State of the Field: The Definition and Analysis of Proteomes Should Be Based in Reality, Not Convenience. Proteomes 2024; 12:14. [PMID: 38651373 PMCID: PMC11036260 DOI: 10.3390/proteomes12020014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2024] [Revised: 04/17/2024] [Accepted: 04/17/2024] [Indexed: 04/25/2024] Open
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With growing recognition and acknowledgement of the genuine complexity of proteomes, we are finally entering the post-proteogenomic era. Routine assessment of proteomes as inferred correlates of gene sequences (i.e., canonical 'proteins') cannot provide the necessary critical analysis of systems-level biology that is needed to understand underlying molecular mechanisms and pathways or identify the most selective biomarkers and therapeutic targets. These critical requirements demand the analysis of proteomes at the level of proteoforms/protein species, the actual active molecular players. Currently, only highly refined integrated or integrative top-down proteomics (iTDP) enables the analytical depth necessary to provide routine, comprehensive, and quantitative proteome assessments across the widest range of proteoforms inherent to native systems. Here we provide a broad perspective of the field, taking in historical and current realities, to establish a more balanced understanding of where the field has come from (in particular during the ten years since Proteomes was launched), current issues, and how things likely need to proceed if necessary deep proteome analyses are to succeed. We base this in our firm belief that the best proteomic analyses reflect, as closely as possible, the native sample at the moment of sampling. We also seek to emphasise that this and future analytical approaches are likely best based on the broad recognition and exploitation of the complementarity of currently successful approaches. This also emphasises the need to continuously evaluate and further optimize established approaches, to avoid complacency in thinking and expectations but also to promote the critical and careful development and introduction of new approaches, most notably those that address proteoforms. Above all, we wish to emphasise that a rigorous focus on analytical quality must override current thinking that largely values analytical speed; the latter would certainly be nice, if only proteoforms could thus be effectively, routinely, and quantitatively assessed. Alas, proteomes are composed of proteoforms, not molecular species that can be amplified or that directly mirror genes (i.e., 'canonical'). The problem is hard, and we must accept and address it as such, but the payoff in playing this longer game of rigorous deep proteome analyses is the promise of far more selective biomarkers, drug targets, and truly personalised or even individualised medicine.
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- Jens R. Coorssen
- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Science, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1, Canada
- Institute for Globally Distributed Open Research and Education (IGDORE), St. Catharines, ON L2N 4X2, Canada
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- School of Life Sciences and Proteomics, Lipidomics and Metabolomics Core Facility, Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia
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Allen JF. Why we need to know the structure of phosphorylated chloroplast light-harvesting complex II. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2017; 161:28-44. [PMID: 28393369 DOI: 10.1111/ppl.12577] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2016] [Revised: 02/27/2017] [Accepted: 03/07/2017] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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In oxygenic photosynthesis there are two 'light states' - adaptations of the photosynthetic apparatus to spectral composition that otherwise favours either photosystem I or photosystem II. In chloroplasts of green plants the transition to light state 2 depends on phosphorylation of apoproteins of a membrane-intrinsic antenna, the chlorophyll-a/b-binding, light-harvesting complex II (LHC II), and on the resulting redistribution of absorbed excitation energy from photosystem II to photosystem I. The transition to light state 1 reverses these events and requires a phospho-LHC II phosphatase. Current structures of LHC II reveal little about possible steric effects of phosphorylation. The surface-exposed N-terminal domain of an LHC II polypeptide contains its phosphorylation site and is disordered in its unphosphorylated form. A molecular recognition hypothesis proposes that state transitions are a consequence of movement of LHC II between binding sites on photosystems I and II. In state 1, LHC II forms part of the antenna of photosystem II. In state 2, a unique but as yet unidentified 3-D structure of phospho-LHC II may attach it instead to photosystem I. One possibility is that the LHC II N-terminus becomes ordered upon phosphorylation, adopting a local alpha-helical secondary structure that initiates changes in LHC II tertiary and quaternary structure that sever contact with photosystem II while securing contact with photosystem I. In order to understand redistribution of absorbed excitation energy in photosynthesis we need to know the structure of LHC II in its phosphorylated form, and in its complex with photosystem I.
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- John F Allen
- Research Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, Darwin Building, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
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Weisz DA, Gross ML, Pakrasi HB. The Use of Advanced Mass Spectrometry to Dissect the Life-Cycle of Photosystem II. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2016; 7:617. [PMID: 27242823 PMCID: PMC4862242 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.00617] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2016] [Accepted: 04/22/2016] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Photosystem II (PSII) is a photosynthetic membrane-protein complex that undergoes an intricate, tightly regulated cycle of assembly, damage, and repair. The available crystal structures of cyanobacterial PSII are an essential foundation for understanding PSII function, but nonetheless provide a snapshot only of the active complex. To study aspects of the entire PSII life-cycle, mass spectrometry (MS) has emerged as a powerful tool that can be used in conjunction with biochemical techniques. In this article, we present the MS-based approaches that are used to study PSII composition, dynamics, and structure, and review the information about the PSII life-cycle that has been gained by these methods. This information includes the composition of PSII subcomplexes, discovery of accessory PSII proteins, identification of post-translational modifications and quantification of their changes under various conditions, determination of the binding site of proteins not observed in PSII crystal structures, conformational changes that underlie PSII functions, and identification of water and oxygen channels within PSII. We conclude with an outlook for the opportunity of future MS contributions to PSII research.
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- Daniel A. Weisz
- Department of Biology, Washington University in St. LouisSt. Louis, MO, USA
- Department of Chemistry, Washington University in St. LouisSt. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Washington University in St. LouisSt. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Biology, Washington University in St. LouisSt. Louis, MO, USA
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Xiong Q, Chen Z, Ge F. Proteomic analysis of post translational modifications in cyanobacteria. J Proteomics 2016; 134:57-64. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2015.07.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2015] [Revised: 06/28/2015] [Accepted: 07/30/2015] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Yates JR. Pivotal role of computers and software in mass spectrometry - SEQUEST and 20 years of tandem MS database searching. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2015; 26:1804-13. [PMID: 26286455 PMCID: PMC4625908 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-015-1220-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2015] [Revised: 06/17/2015] [Accepted: 06/20/2015] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Advances in computer technology and software have driven developments in mass spectrometry over the last 50 years. Computers and software have been impactful in three areas: the automation of difficult calculations to aid interpretation, the collection of data and control of instruments, and data interpretation. As the power of computers has grown, so too has the utility and impact on mass spectrometers and their capabilities. This has been particularly evident in the use of tandem mass spectrometry data to search protein and nucleotide sequence databases to identify peptide and protein sequences. This capability has driven the development of many new approaches to study biological systems, including the use of "bottom-up shotgun proteomics" to directly analyze protein mixtures. Graphical Abstract ᅟ.
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- John R Yates
- Chemical Physiology and Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, SR302B, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA.
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Bricker TM, Mummadisetti MP, Frankel LK. Recent advances in the use of mass spectrometry to examine structure/function relationships in photosystem II. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY B-BIOLOGY 2015; 152:227-46. [PMID: 26390944 DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2015.08.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2015] [Revised: 08/27/2015] [Accepted: 08/31/2015] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Tandem mass spectrometry often coupled with chemical modification techniques, is developing into increasingly important tool in structural biology. These methods can provide important supplementary information concerning the structural organization and subunit make-up of membrane protein complexes, identification of conformational changes occurring during enzymatic reactions, identification of the location of posttranslational modifications, and elucidation of the structure of assembly and repair complexes. In this review, we will present a brief introduction to Photosystem II, tandem mass spectrometry and protein modification techniques that have been used to examine the photosystem. We will then discuss a number of recent case studies that have used these techniques to address open questions concerning PS II. These include the nature of subunit-subunit interactions within the phycobilisome, the interaction of phycobilisomes with Photosystem I and the Orange Carotenoid Protein, the location of CyanoQ, PsbQ and PsbP within Photosystem II, and the identification of phosphorylation and oxidative modification sites within the photosystem. Finally, we will discuss some of the future prospects for the use of these methods in examining other open questions in PS II structural biochemistry.
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- Terry M Bricker
- Department of Biological Sciences, Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, United States.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, United States
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, United States
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The biological functions of Naa10 - From amino-terminal acetylation to human disease. Gene 2015; 567:103-31. [PMID: 25987439 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2015.04.085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2014] [Revised: 04/20/2015] [Accepted: 04/27/2015] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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N-terminal acetylation (NTA) is one of the most abundant protein modifications known, and the N-terminal acetyltransferase (NAT) machinery is conserved throughout all Eukarya. Over the past 50 years, the function of NTA has begun to be slowly elucidated, and this includes the modulation of protein-protein interaction, protein-stability, protein function, and protein targeting to specific cellular compartments. Many of these functions have been studied in the context of Naa10/NatA; however, we are only starting to really understand the full complexity of this picture. Roughly, about 40% of all human proteins are substrates of Naa10 and the impact of this modification has only been studied for a few of them. Besides acting as a NAT in the NatA complex, recently other functions have been linked to Naa10, including post-translational NTA, lysine acetylation, and NAT/KAT-independent functions. Also, recent publications have linked mutations in Naa10 to various diseases, emphasizing the importance of Naa10 research in humans. The recent design and synthesis of the first bisubstrate inhibitors that potently and selectively inhibit the NatA/Naa10 complex, monomeric Naa10, and hNaa50 further increases the toolset to analyze Naa10 function.
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Lehtimäki N, Koskela MM, Dahlström KM, Pakula E, Lintala M, Scholz M, Hippler M, Hanke GT, Rokka A, Battchikova N, Salminen TA, Mulo P. Posttranslational modifications of FERREDOXIN-NADP+ OXIDOREDUCTASE in Arabidopsis chloroplasts. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2014; 166:1764-76. [PMID: 25301888 PMCID: PMC4256869 DOI: 10.1104/pp.114.249094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Rapid responses of chloroplast metabolism and adjustments to photosynthetic machinery are of utmost importance for plants' survival in a fluctuating environment. These changes may be achieved through posttranslational modifications of proteins, which are known to affect the activity, interactions, and localization of proteins. Recent studies have accumulated evidence about the crucial role of a multitude of modifications, including acetylation, methylation, and glycosylation, in the regulation of chloroplast proteins. Both of the Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) leaf-type FERREDOXIN-NADP(+) OXIDOREDUCTASE (FNR) isoforms, the key enzymes linking the light reactions of photosynthesis to carbon assimilation, exist as two distinct forms with different isoelectric points. We show that both AtFNR isoforms contain multiple alternative amino termini and undergo light-responsive addition of an acetyl group to the α-amino group of the amino-terminal amino acid of proteins, which causes the change in isoelectric point. Both isoforms were also found to contain acetylation of a conserved lysine residue near the active site, while no evidence for in vivo phosphorylation or glycosylation was detected. The dynamic, multilayer regulation of AtFNR exemplifies the complex regulatory network systems controlling chloroplast proteins by a range of posttranslational modifications, which continues to emerge as a novel area within photosynthesis research.
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- Nina Lehtimäki
- Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biochemistry, University of Turku, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (N.L., M.M.K., E.P., M.L., N.B., P.M.);Structural Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Biosciences, Åbo Akademi University, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (K.M.D., T.A.S.);Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, DE-48143 Muenster, Germany (M.S., M.H.);Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, University of Osnabrück, DE-49076 Osnabruck, Germany (G.T.H.); andTurku Centre for Biotechnology, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (A.R.)
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- Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biochemistry, University of Turku, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (N.L., M.M.K., E.P., M.L., N.B., P.M.);Structural Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Biosciences, Åbo Akademi University, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (K.M.D., T.A.S.);Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, DE-48143 Muenster, Germany (M.S., M.H.);Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, University of Osnabrück, DE-49076 Osnabruck, Germany (G.T.H.); andTurku Centre for Biotechnology, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (A.R.)
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- Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biochemistry, University of Turku, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (N.L., M.M.K., E.P., M.L., N.B., P.M.);Structural Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Biosciences, Åbo Akademi University, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (K.M.D., T.A.S.);Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, DE-48143 Muenster, Germany (M.S., M.H.);Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, University of Osnabrück, DE-49076 Osnabruck, Germany (G.T.H.); andTurku Centre for Biotechnology, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (A.R.)
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- Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biochemistry, University of Turku, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (N.L., M.M.K., E.P., M.L., N.B., P.M.);Structural Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Biosciences, Åbo Akademi University, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (K.M.D., T.A.S.);Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, DE-48143 Muenster, Germany (M.S., M.H.);Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, University of Osnabrück, DE-49076 Osnabruck, Germany (G.T.H.); andTurku Centre for Biotechnology, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (A.R.)
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- Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biochemistry, University of Turku, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (N.L., M.M.K., E.P., M.L., N.B., P.M.);Structural Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Biosciences, Åbo Akademi University, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (K.M.D., T.A.S.);Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, DE-48143 Muenster, Germany (M.S., M.H.);Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, University of Osnabrück, DE-49076 Osnabruck, Germany (G.T.H.); andTurku Centre for Biotechnology, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (A.R.)
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- Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biochemistry, University of Turku, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (N.L., M.M.K., E.P., M.L., N.B., P.M.);Structural Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Biosciences, Åbo Akademi University, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (K.M.D., T.A.S.);Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, DE-48143 Muenster, Germany (M.S., M.H.);Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, University of Osnabrück, DE-49076 Osnabruck, Germany (G.T.H.); andTurku Centre for Biotechnology, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (A.R.)
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- Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biochemistry, University of Turku, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (N.L., M.M.K., E.P., M.L., N.B., P.M.);Structural Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Biosciences, Åbo Akademi University, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (K.M.D., T.A.S.);Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, DE-48143 Muenster, Germany (M.S., M.H.);Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, University of Osnabrück, DE-49076 Osnabruck, Germany (G.T.H.); andTurku Centre for Biotechnology, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (A.R.)
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- Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biochemistry, University of Turku, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (N.L., M.M.K., E.P., M.L., N.B., P.M.);Structural Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Biosciences, Åbo Akademi University, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (K.M.D., T.A.S.);Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, DE-48143 Muenster, Germany (M.S., M.H.);Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, University of Osnabrück, DE-49076 Osnabruck, Germany (G.T.H.); andTurku Centre for Biotechnology, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (A.R.)
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- Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biochemistry, University of Turku, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (N.L., M.M.K., E.P., M.L., N.B., P.M.);Structural Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Biosciences, Åbo Akademi University, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (K.M.D., T.A.S.);Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, DE-48143 Muenster, Germany (M.S., M.H.);Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, University of Osnabrück, DE-49076 Osnabruck, Germany (G.T.H.); andTurku Centre for Biotechnology, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (A.R.)
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- Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biochemistry, University of Turku, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (N.L., M.M.K., E.P., M.L., N.B., P.M.);Structural Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Biosciences, Åbo Akademi University, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (K.M.D., T.A.S.);Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, DE-48143 Muenster, Germany (M.S., M.H.);Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, University of Osnabrück, DE-49076 Osnabruck, Germany (G.T.H.); andTurku Centre for Biotechnology, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (A.R.)
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- Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biochemistry, University of Turku, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (N.L., M.M.K., E.P., M.L., N.B., P.M.);Structural Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Biosciences, Åbo Akademi University, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (K.M.D., T.A.S.);Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, DE-48143 Muenster, Germany (M.S., M.H.);Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, University of Osnabrück, DE-49076 Osnabruck, Germany (G.T.H.); andTurku Centre for Biotechnology, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (A.R.)
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- Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biochemistry, University of Turku, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (N.L., M.M.K., E.P., M.L., N.B., P.M.);Structural Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Biosciences, Åbo Akademi University, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (K.M.D., T.A.S.);Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, DE-48143 Muenster, Germany (M.S., M.H.);Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, University of Osnabrück, DE-49076 Osnabruck, Germany (G.T.H.); andTurku Centre for Biotechnology, FI-20520 Turku, Finland (A.R.)
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Kato Y, Sakamoto W. Phosphorylation of photosystem II core proteins prevents undesirable cleavage of D1 and contributes to the fine-tuned repair of photosystem II. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2014; 79:312-21. [PMID: 24862025 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12562] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2013] [Revised: 04/16/2014] [Accepted: 05/13/2014] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Photosystem II (PSII) is a primary target for light-induced damage in photosynthetic protein complexes. To avoid photoinhibition, chloroplasts have evolved a repair cycle with efficient degradation of the PSII reaction center protein, D1, by the proteases FtsH and Deg. Earlier reports have described that phosphorylated D1 is a poor substrate for proteolysis, suggesting a mechanistic role for protein phosphorylation in PSII quality control, but its precise role remains elusive. STN8, a protein kinase, plays a central role in this phosphorylation process. To elucidate the relationship between phosphorylation of D1 and the protease function we assessed in this study the involvement of STN8, using Arabidopsis thaliana mutants lacking FtsH2 [yellow variegated2 (var2)] and Deg5/Deg8 (deg5 deg8). In support of our presumption we found that phosphorylation of D1 increased more in var2. Furthermore, the coexistence of var2 and stn8 was shown to recover the delay in degradation of D1, resulting in mitigation of the high vulnerability to photoinhibition of var2. Partial D1 cleavage fragments that depended on Deg proteases tended to increase, with concomitant accumulation of reactive oxygen species in the mutants lacking STN8. We inferred that the accelerated degradation of D1 in var2 stn8 presents a tradeoff in that it improved the repair of PSII but simultaneously enhanced oxidative stress. Together, these results suggest that PSII core phosphorylation prevents undesirable cleavage of D1 by Deg proteases, which causes cytotoxicity, thereby balancing efficient linear electron flow and photo-oxidative damage. We propose that PSII core phosphorylation contributes to fine-tuned degradation of D1.
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- Yusuke Kato
- Institute of Plant Science and Resources (IPSR), Okayama University, Kurashiki, Okayama, 710-0046, Japan
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Pagliano C, Saracco G, Barber J. Structural, functional and auxiliary proteins of photosystem II. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2013; 116:167-88. [PMID: 23417641 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-013-9803-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2012] [Accepted: 02/07/2013] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Photosystem II (PSII) is the water-splitting enzyme complex of photosynthesis and consists of a large number of protein subunits. Most of these proteins have been structurally and functionally characterized, although there are differences between PSII of plants, algae and cyanobacteria. Here we catalogue all known PSII proteins giving a brief description, where possible of their genetic origin, physical properties, structural relationships and functions. We have also included details of auxiliary proteins known at present to be involved in the in vivo assembly, maintenance and turnover of PSII and which transiently bind to the reaction centre core complex. Finally, we briefly give details of the proteins which form the outer light-harvesting systems of PSII in different types of organisms.
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- Cristina Pagliano
- Applied Science and Technology Department-BioSolar Lab, Politecnico di Torino, Viale T. Michel 5, 15121, Torino, Alessandria, Italy,
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Potential involvement of N-terminal acetylation in the quantitative regulation of the ε subunit of chloroplast ATP synthase under drought stress. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem 2013; 77:998-1007. [PMID: 23649264 DOI: 10.1271/bbb.120945] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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In plants, modulation of photosynthetic energy conversion in varying environments is often accompanied by adjustment of the abundance of photosynthetic components. In wild watermelon (Citrullus lanatus L.), proteome analysis revealed that the ε subunit of chloroplast ATP synthase occurs as two distinct isoforms with largely-different isoelectric points, although encoded by a single gene. Mass spectrometry (MS) analysis of the ε isoforms indicated that the structural difference between the ε isoforms lies in the presence or absence of an acetyl group at the N-terminus. The protein level of the non-acetylated ε isoform preferentially decreased in drought, whereas the abundance of the acetylated ε isoform was unchanged. Moreover, metalloprotease activity that decomposed the ε subunit was detected in a leaf extract from drought-stressed plants. Furthermore, in vitro assay suggested that the non-acetylated ε subunit was more susceptible to degradation by metalloaminopeptidase. We propose a model in which quantitative regulation of the ε subunit involves N-terminal acetylation and stress-induced proteases.
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Zhang Y, Fonslow BR, Shan B, Baek MC, Yates JR. Protein analysis by shotgun/bottom-up proteomics. Chem Rev 2013; 113:2343-94. [PMID: 23438204 PMCID: PMC3751594 DOI: 10.1021/cr3003533] [Citation(s) in RCA: 986] [Impact Index Per Article: 89.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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- Yaoyang Zhang
- Department of Chemical Physiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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- Department of Chemical Physiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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- Department of Chemical Physiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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- Department of Chemical Physiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
- Department of Molecular Medicine, Cell and Matrix Biology Research Institute, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 700-422, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemical Physiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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Liu CC, Zhu HY, Dong XM, Ning DL, Wang HX, Li WH, Yang CP, Wang BC. Identification and analysis of the acetylated status of poplar proteins reveals analogous N-terminal protein processing mechanisms with other eukaryotes. PLoS One 2013; 8:e58681. [PMID: 23536812 PMCID: PMC3594182 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2012] [Accepted: 02/05/2013] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Background The N-terminal protein processing mechanism (NPM) including N-terminal Met excision (NME) and N-terminal acetylation (Nα-acetylation) represents a common protein co-translational process of some eukaryotes. However, this NPM occurred in woody plants yet remains unknown. Methodology/Principal Findings To reveal the NPM in poplar, we investigated the Nα-acetylation status of poplar proteins during dormancy by combining tandem mass spectrometry with TiO2 enrichment of acetylated peptides. We identified 58 N-terminally acetylated (Nα-acetylated) proteins. Most proteins (47, >81%) are subjected to Nα-acetylation following the N-terminal removal of Met, indicating that Nα-acetylation and NME represent a common NPM of poplar proteins. Furthermore, we confirm that poplar shares the analogous NME and Nα-acetylation (NPM) to other eukaryotes according to analysis of N-terminal features of these acetylated proteins combined with genome-wide identification of the involving methionine aminopeptidases (MAPs) and N-terminal acetyltransferase (Nat) enzymes in poplar. The Nα-acetylated reactions and the involving enzymes of these poplar proteins are also identified based on those of yeast and human, as well as the subcellular location information of these poplar proteins. Conclusions/Significance This study represents the first extensive investigation of Nα-acetylation events in woody plants, the results of which will provide useful resources for future unraveling the regulatory mechanisms of Nα-acetylation of proteins in poplar.
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- Chang-Cai Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding (Northeast Forestry University), Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
- Laboratory for Chemical Defense and Microscale Analysis, Hubei Nanxing General Chemical Factory, Zhijiang, Hubei, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding (Northeast Forestry University), Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
- Bureau of Garden and Park, Qitaihe, Heilongjiang, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding (Northeast Forestry University), Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding (Northeast Forestry University), Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
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- Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, National Center for Biomedical Analysis, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, National Center for Biomedical Analysis, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding (Northeast Forestry University), Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
- * E-mail: (C-PY); (B-CW)
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- State Key Laboratory of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding (Northeast Forestry University), Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
- Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- * E-mail: (C-PY); (B-CW)
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Yates JR. The revolution and evolution of shotgun proteomics for large-scale proteome analysis. J Am Chem Soc 2013; 135:1629-40. [PMID: 23294060 PMCID: PMC3751590 DOI: 10.1021/ja3094313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Mass spectrometry has evolved at an exponential rate over the last 100 years. Innovations in the development of mass spectrometers have created powerful instruments capable of analyzing a wide range of targets, from rare atoms and molecules to very large molecules, such as a proteins, protein complexes, and DNA. These performance gains have been driven by sustaining innovations, punctuated by the occasional disruptive innovation. The use of mass spectrometry for proteome analysis was driven by disruptive innovations that created a capability for large-scale analysis of proteins and modifications.
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- John R. Yates
- 10550 North Torrey Pines, SR11, Department of Chemical Physiology, The Scripps Research Institute, LaJolla, CA 92037, TEL: (858) 784-8862
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Agrawal GK, Bourguignon J, Rolland N, Ephritikhine G, Ferro M, Jaquinod M, Alexiou KG, Chardot T, Chakraborty N, Jolivet P, Doonan JH, Rakwal R. Plant organelle proteomics: collaborating for optimal cell function. MASS SPECTROMETRY REVIEWS 2011; 30:772-853. [PMID: 21038434 DOI: 10.1002/mas.20301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2009] [Revised: 02/02/2010] [Accepted: 02/02/2010] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Organelle proteomics describes the study of proteins present in organelle at a particular instance during the whole period of their life cycle in a cell. Organelles are specialized membrane bound structures within a cell that function by interacting with cytosolic and luminal soluble proteins making the protein composition of each organelle dynamic. Depending on organism, the total number of organelles within a cell varies, indicating their evolution with respect to protein number and function. For example, one of the striking differences between plant and animal cells is the plastids in plants. Organelles have their own proteins, and few organelles like mitochondria and chloroplast have their own genome to synthesize proteins for specific function and also require nuclear-encoded proteins. Enormous work has been performed on animal organelle proteomics. However, plant organelle proteomics has seen limited work mainly due to: (i) inter-plant and inter-tissue complexity, (ii) difficulties in isolation of subcellular compartments, and (iii) their enrichment and purity. Despite these concerns, the field of organelle proteomics is growing in plants, such as Arabidopsis, rice and maize. The available data are beginning to help better understand organelles and their distinct and/or overlapping functions in different plant tissues, organs or cell types, and more importantly, how protein components of organelles behave during development and with surrounding environments. Studies on organelles have provided a few good reviews, but none of them are comprehensive. Here, we present a comprehensive review on plant organelle proteomics starting from the significance of organelle in cells, to organelle isolation, to protein identification and to biology and beyond. To put together such a systematic, in-depth review and to translate acquired knowledge in a proper and adequate form, we join minds to provide discussion and viewpoints on the collaborative nature of organelles in cell, their proper function and evolution.
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- Ganesh Kumar Agrawal
- Research Laboratory for Biotechnology and Biochemistry (RLABB), P.O. Box 13265, Sanepa, Kathmandu, Nepal.
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Kan’shin ED, Nifant’ev IE, Pshezhetskii AV. Mass spectrometric analysis of protein phosphorylation. JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY 2010. [DOI: 10.1134/s1061934810130010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Pesaresi P, Pribil M, Wunder T, Leister D. Dynamics of reversible protein phosphorylation in thylakoids of flowering plants: the roles of STN7, STN8 and TAP38. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2010; 1807:887-96. [PMID: 20728426 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2010.08.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2010] [Revised: 08/02/2010] [Accepted: 08/14/2010] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Phosphorylation is the most common post-translational modification found in thylakoid membrane proteins of flowering plants, targeting more than two dozen subunits of all multiprotein complexes, including some light-harvesting proteins. Recent progress in mass spectrometry-based technologies has led to the detection of novel low-abundance thylakoid phosphoproteins and localised their phosphorylation sites. Three of the enzymes involved in phosphorylation/dephosphorylation cycles in thylakoids, the protein kinases STN7 and STN8 and the phosphatase TAP38/PPH1, have been characterised in the model species Arabidopsis thaliana. Differential protein phosphorylation is associated with changes in illumination and various other environmental parameters, and has been implicated in several acclimation responses, the molecular mechanisms of which are only partly understood. The phenomenon of State Transitions, which enables rapid adaptation to short-term changes in illumination, has recently been shown to depend on reversible phosphorylation of LHCII by STN7-TAP38/PPH1. STN7 is also necessary for long-term acclimation responses that counteract imbalances in energy distribution between PSII and PSI by changing the rates of accumulation of their reaction-centre and light-harvesting proteins. Another aspect of photosynthetic acclimation, the modulation of thylakoid ultrastructure, depends on phosphorylation of PSII core proteins, mainly executed by STN8. Here we review recent advances in the characterisation of STN7, STN8 and TAP38/PPH1, and discuss their physiological significance within the overall network of thylakoid protein phosphorylation. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Regulation of Electron Transport in Chloroplasts.
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- Paolo Pesaresi
- Dipartimento di Scienze Biomolecolari e Biotecnologie, Università degli studi di Milano, I-20133 Milano, Italy
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Baniulis D, Yamashita E, Whitelegge JP, Zatsman AI, Hendrich MP, Hasan SS, Ryan CM, Cramer WA. Structure-Function, Stability, and Chemical Modification of the Cyanobacterial Cytochrome b6f Complex from Nostoc sp. PCC 7120. J Biol Chem 2009; 284:9861-9. [PMID: 19189962 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m809196200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The crystal structure of the cyanobacterial cytochrome b(6)f complex has previously been solved to 3.0-A resolution using the thermophilic Mastigocladus laminosus whose genome has not been sequenced. Several unicellular cyanobacteria, whose genomes have been sequenced and are tractable for mutagenesis, do not yield b(6)f complex in an intact dimeric state with significant electron transport activity. The genome of Nostoc sp. PCC 7120 has been sequenced and is closer phylogenetically to M. laminosus than are unicellular cyanobacteria. The amino acid sequences of the large core subunits and four small peripheral subunits of Nostoc are 88 and 80% identical to those in the M. laminosus b(6)f complex. Purified b(6)f complex from Nostoc has a stable dimeric structure, eight subunits with masses similar to those of M. laminosus, and comparable electron transport activity. The crystal structure of the native b(6)f complex, determined to a resolution of 3.0A (PDB id: 2ZT9), is almost identical to that of M. laminosus. Two unique aspects of the Nostoc complex are: (i) a dominant conformation of heme b(p) that is rotated 180 degrees about the alpha- and gamma-meso carbon axis relative to the orientation in the M. laminosus complex and (ii) acetylation of the Rieske iron-sulfur protein (PetC) at the N terminus, a post-translational modification unprecedented in cyanobacterial membrane and electron transport proteins, and in polypeptides of cytochrome bc complexes from any source. The high spin electronic character of the unique heme c(n) is similar to that previously found in the b(6)f complex from other sources.
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- Danas Baniulis
- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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Edelman M, Mattoo AK. D1-protein dynamics in photosystem II: the lingering enigma. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2008; 98:609-20. [PMID: 18709440 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-008-9342-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 123] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2008] [Accepted: 07/23/2008] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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The D1/D2 heterodimer core is the heart of the photosystem II reaction center. A characteristic feature of this heterodimer is the differentially rapid, light-dependent degradation of the D1 protein. The D1 protein is possibly the most researched photosynthetic polypeptide, with aspects of structure-function, gene, messenger and protein regulation, electron transport, reactive oxygen species, photoinhibition, herbicide binding, stromal-granal translocations, reversible phosphorylation, and specific proteases, all under intensive investigation more than three decades after the protein's debut in the literature. This review will touch on some treaded areas of D1 research that have, so far, defied clear resolution, as well as cutting edge research on mechanisms and consequences of D1 protein degradation.
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- Marvin Edelman
- Department of Plant Sciences, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
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Zybailov B, Rutschow H, Friso G, Rudella A, Emanuelsson O, Sun Q, van Wijk KJ. Sorting signals, N-terminal modifications and abundance of the chloroplast proteome. PLoS One 2008; 3:e1994. [PMID: 18431481 PMCID: PMC2291561 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 503] [Impact Index Per Article: 31.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2008] [Accepted: 03/06/2008] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Characterization of the chloroplast proteome is needed to understand the essential contribution of the chloroplast to plant growth and development. Here we present a large scale analysis by nanoLC-Q-TOF and nanoLC-LTQ-Orbitrap mass spectrometry (MS) of ten independent chloroplast preparations from Arabidopsis thaliana which unambiguously identified 1325 proteins. Novel proteins include various kinases and putative nucleotide binding proteins. Based on repeated and independent MS based protein identifications requiring multiple matched peptide sequences, as well as literature, 916 nuclear-encoded proteins were assigned with high confidence to the plastid, of which 86% had a predicted chloroplast transit peptide (cTP). The protein abundance of soluble stromal proteins was calculated from normalized spectral counts from LTQ-Obitrap analysis and was found to cover four orders of magnitude. Comparison to gel-based quantification demonstrates that ‘spectral counting’ can provide large scale protein quantification for Arabidopsis. This quantitative information was used to determine possible biases for protein targeting prediction by TargetP and also to understand the significance of protein contaminants. The abundance data for 550 stromal proteins was used to understand abundance of metabolic pathways and chloroplast processes. We highlight the abundance of 48 stromal proteins involved in post-translational proteome homeostasis (including aminopeptidases, proteases, deformylases, chaperones, protein sorting components) and discuss the biological implications. N-terminal modifications were identified for a subset of nuclear- and chloroplast-encoded proteins and a novel N-terminal acetylation motif was discovered. Analysis of cTPs and their cleavage sites of Arabidopsis chloroplast proteins, as well as their predicted rice homologues, identified new species-dependent features, which will facilitate improved subcellular localization prediction. No evidence was found for suggested targeting via the secretory system. This study provides the most comprehensive chloroplast proteome analysis to date and an expanded Plant Proteome Database (PPDB) in which all MS data are projected on identified gene models.
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- Boris Zybailov
- Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
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- Stockholm Bioinformatics Center, AlbaNova, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Computation Biology Service Unit, Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
- * To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:
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Nühse T, Yu K, Salomon A. Isolation of phosphopeptides by immobilized metal ion affinity chromatography. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008; Chapter 18:Unit 18.13. [PMID: 18265394 DOI: 10.1002/0471142727.mb1813s77] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The identification of protein phosphorylation sites from cell-derived proteins is crucial to the understanding of signal transduction pathways. While determining the modified sites on individual proteins can present a significant challenge, recent progress in the rapid, large-scale identification of phosphopeptides from complex protein mixtures by combinations of affinity chromatography and mass spectrometry provides a powerful tool to decipher the phosphoproteome. A set of protocols is described for sample preparation, fractionation, immobilized metal ion affinity chromatography (IMAC), and mass spectrometric analysis of phosphorylation sites. Parts of the protocols can be combined in different ways to adapt to sample amounts, complexity, and available equipment. Up to thousands of unique phosphopeptides can be sequenced from a single sample in a day, revealing a unique snapshot of global cellular phosphorylation sites on proteins and facilitating in-depth study of the identified phosphoproteins.
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- Thomas Nühse
- University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Photoinhibition and Recovery in Oxygenic Photosynthesis: Mechanism of a Photosystem II Damage and Repair Cycle. PHOTOPROTECTION, PHOTOINHIBITION, GENE REGULATION, AND ENVIRONMENT 2008. [DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3579-9_12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Dormeyer W, Mohammed S, Breukelen BV, Krijgsveld J, Heck AJR. Targeted analysis of protein termini. J Proteome Res 2007; 6:4634-45. [PMID: 17927228 DOI: 10.1021/pr070375k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We describe a targeted analysis of protein isoforms by selective enrichment and identification of in vivo acetylated protein N-termini and protein C-termini. Our method allows the characterization of these protein termini regardless of their annotation in protein databases and requires no chemical derivatization. Using an iterative database search strategy that takes account of the enrichment protocol, 263 IPI annotated and 87 unpredicted acetylated N-termini were identified in the crude membrane fraction of human embryonic carcinoma cells. The N-acetylated peptides conform to the reported criteria for in vivo modification. In addition, 168 IPI annotated and 193 unpredicted C-termini were identified. Additionally, and for the first time, we also report on in vivo N-terminal propionylation. The significant number of unknown protein N- and C-termini suggests a high degree of novel transcription independent of annotated gene boundaries and/or specific protein processing. Biological relevance of several of these unpredicted protein termini could be curated from the literature, adding further weight to the argument to go beyond routine database search strategies. Our method will improve the correct annotation of genes and proteins in databases.
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- Wilma Dormeyer
- Department of Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research and Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, Sorbonnelaan 16, 3584 CA Utrecht, the Netherlands
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Rexroth S, Wong CCL, Park JH, Yates JR, Barry BA. An Activated Glutamate Residue Identified in Photosystem II at the Interface between the Manganese-stabilizing Subunit and the D2 Polypeptide. J Biol Chem 2007; 282:27802-9. [PMID: 17666402 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m704394200] [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: 11/06/2022] Open
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Photosystem II (PSII) catalyzes the oxidation of water during oxygenic photosynthesis. PSII is composed both of intrinsic subunits, such as D1, D2, and CP47, and extrinsic subunits, such as the manganese-stabilizing subunit (MSP). Previous work has shown that amines covalently bind to amino acid residues in the CP47, D1, and D2 subunits of plant and cyanobacterial PSII, and that these covalent reactions are prevented by the addition of chloride in plant preparations depleted of the 18- and 24-kDa extrinsic subunits. It has been proposed that these reactive groups are carbonyl-containing, post-translationally modified amino acid side chains (Ouellette, A. J. A., Anderson, L. B., and Barry, B. A. (1998) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 95, 2204-2209 and Anderson, L. B., Ouellette, A. J. A., and Barry, B. A. (2000) J. Biol. Chem. 275, 4920-4927). To identify the amino acid binding site in the spinach D2 subunit, we have employed a biotin-amine labeling reagent, which can be used in conjunction with avidin affinity chromatography to purify biotinylated peptides from the PSII complex. Multidimensional chromato-graphic separation and multistage mass spectrometry localizes a novel post-translational modification in the D2 subunit to glutamate 303. We propose that this glutamate is activated for amine reaction by post-translational modification. Because the modified glutamate is located at a contact site between the D2 and manganese-stabilizing subunits, we suggest that the modification is important in vivo in stabilizing the interaction between these two PSII subunits. Consistent with this conclusion, mutations at the modified glutamate alter the steady-state rate of photosynthetic oxygen evolution.
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- Sascha Rexroth
- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
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Kuroda H, Suzuki H, Kusumegi T, Hirose T, Yukawa Y, Sugiura M. Translation of psbC mRNAs starts from the downstream GUG, not the upstream AUG, and requires the extended Shine-Dalgarno sequence in tobacco chloroplasts. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2007; 48:1374-8. [PMID: 17664183 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcm097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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The plastid gene psbC encodes the CP43 subunit of PSII. Most psbC mRNAs of many organisms possess two possible initiation codons, AUG and GUG, and their coding regions are generally annotated from the upstream AUG. Using a chloroplast in vitro translation system, we show here that translation of the tobacco plastid psbC mRNA initiates from the GUG. This mRNA possesses a long Shine-Dalgarno (SD)-like sequence, GAGGAGGU, nine nucleotides upstream of the GUG. Point mutations in this sequence abolished translation, suggesting that a strong interaction between this extended SD-like sequence and the 3' end of 16S rRNA facilitates translation initiation from the GUG.
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- Hiroshi Kuroda
- Graduate School of Natural Sciences, Nagoya City University, Yamanohata, Mizuho, Nagoya, Japan
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Vener AV. Environmentally modulated phosphorylation and dynamics of proteins in photosynthetic membranes. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2007; 1767:449-57. [PMID: 17184728 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2006.11.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2006] [Revised: 11/01/2006] [Accepted: 11/07/2006] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Recent advances in vectorial proteomics of protein domains exposed to the surface of photosynthetic thylakoid membranes of plants and the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii allowed mapping of in vivo phosphorylation sites in integral and peripheral membrane proteins. In plants, significant changes of thylakoid protein phosphorylation are observed in response to stress, particularly in photosystem II under high light or high temperature stress. Thylakoid protein phosphorylation in the algae is much more responsive to the ambient redox and light conditions, as well as to CO(2) availability. The light-dependent multiple and differential phosphorylation of CP29 linker protein in the green algae is suggested to control photosynthetic state transitions and uncoupling of light harvesting proteins from photosystem II under high light. The similar role for regulation of the dynamic distribution of light harvesting proteins in plants is proposed for the TSP9 protein, which together with other recently discovered peripheral proteins undergoes specific environment- and redox-dependent phosphorylation at the thylakoid surface. This review focuses on the environmentally modulated reversible phosphorylation of thylakoid proteins related to their membrane dynamics and affinity towards particular photosynthetic protein complexes.
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- Alexander V Vener
- Division of Cell Biology, Linköping University, Linköping SE-58185, Sweden.
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Komayama K, Khatoon M, Takenaka D, Horie J, Yamashita A, Yoshioka M, Nakayama Y, Yoshida M, Ohira S, Morita N, Velitchkova M, Enami I, Yamamoto Y. Quality control of Photosystem II: cleavage and aggregation of heat-damaged D1 protein in spinach thylakoids. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2007; 1767:838-46. [PMID: 17543883 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2007.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2006] [Revised: 04/30/2007] [Accepted: 05/01/2007] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Moderate heat stress (40 degrees C, 30 min) on spinach thylakoids induced cleavage of the D1 protein, producing an N-terminal 23-kDa fragment, a C-terminal 9-kDa fragment, and aggregation of the D1 protein. A homologue of Arabidopsis FtsH2 protease, which is responsible for degradation of the damaged D1 protein, was abundant in the stroma thylakoids. Two processes occurred in the thylakoids in response to heat stress: dephosphorylation of the D1 protein in the stroma thylakoids, and aggregation of the phosphorylated D1 protein in the grana. Heat stress also induced the release of the extrinsic PsbO, P and Q proteins from Photosystem II, which affected D1 degradation and aggregation significantly. The cleavage and aggregation of the D1 protein appear to be two alternative processes influenced by protein phosphorylation/dephosphorylation, distribution of FtsH, and intactness of the thylakoids.
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- Keisuke Komayama
- Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
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Zhu X, Dass C. ANALYSIS OF PHOSPHOENKEPHALINS BY COMBINED HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY AND ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY. J LIQ CHROMATOGR R T 2007. [DOI: 10.1081/jlc-100101757] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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- Xirong Zhu
- a Department of Chemistry , The University of Memphis , Memphis , TN , 38152 , U.S.A
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- b Department of Chemistry , The University of Memphis , Memphis , TN , 38152 , U.S.A
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Song J, Lee MS, Carlberg I, Vener AV, Markley JL. Micelle-induced folding of spinach thylakoid soluble phosphoprotein of 9 kDa and its functional implications. Biochemistry 2006; 45:15633-43. [PMID: 17176085 PMCID: PMC2533273 DOI: 10.1021/bi062148m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Thylakoid soluble phosphoprotein of 9 kDa (TSP9) has been identified as a plant-specific protein in the photosynthetic thylakoid membrane (Carlberg et al. (2003) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 100, 757-762). Nonphosphorylated TSP9 is associated with the membrane, whereas, after light-induced phosphorylation, a fraction of the phosphorylated TSP9 is released into the aqueous stroma. By NMR spectroscopy, we have determined the structural features of nonphosphorylated TSP9 both in aqueous solution and in membrane mimetic micelles. The results show that both wild type nonphosphorylated TSP9 and a triple-mutant (T46E + T53E + T60E) mimic of the triphosphorylated form of TSP9 are disordered under aqueous conditions, but adopt an ordered conformation in the presence of detergent micelles. The micelle-induced structural features, which are similar in micelles either of SDS or dodecylphosphocholine (DPC), consist of an N-terminal alpha-helix, which may represent the primary site of interaction between TSP9 and binding partners, and a less structured helical turn near the C-terminus. These structured elements contain mainly hydrophobic residues. NMR relaxation data for nonphosphorylated TSP9 in SDS micelles indicated that the molecule is highly flexible with the highest order in the N-terminal alpha-helix. Intermolecular NOE signals, as well as spin probe-induced broadening of NMR signals, demonstrated that the SDS micelles contact both the structured and a portion of the unstructured regions of TSP9, in particular, those containing the three phosphorylation sites (T46, T53, and T60). This interaction may explain the selective dissociation of phosphorylated TSP9 from the membrane. Our study presents a structural model for the role played by the structured and unstructured regions of TSP9 in its membrane association and biological function.
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- * To whom correspondence should be addressed: Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706. Telephone: (608) 263-9349. Fax: (608) 262-3759. E-mail:
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- J T Stults
- Protein Chemistry Department, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California
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With the avalanche of genomic information and improvements in analytical technology, proteomics is becoming increasingly important for the study of many different aspects of plant functions. Since proteins serve as important components of major signaling and biochemical pathways, studies at protein levels are essential to reveal molecular mechanisms underlying plant growth, development, and interactions with the environment. The plant proteome is highly complex and dynamic. Although great strides need to be taken towards the ultimate goal of characterizing all the proteins in a proteome, current technologies have provided immense opportunities for high-throughput proteomic studies that have gone beyond simple protein identification to analyzing various functional aspects, such as quantification, PTM, subcellular localization, and protein-protein interactions. In this review of plant proteomics, advances in protein fractionation, separation, and MS will be outlined. Focus will be on recent development in functional analysis of plant proteins, which paves the way towards the comprehensive integration with transcriptomics, metabolomics, and other large scale "-omics" into systems biology.
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- Sixue Chen
- Department of Botany and Genetics Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-8526, USA.
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Turkina MV, Kargul J, Blanco-Rivero A, Villarejo A, Barber J, Vener AV. Environmentally modulated phosphoproteome of photosynthetic membranes in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Mol Cell Proteomics 2006; 5:1412-25. [PMID: 16670252 DOI: 10.1074/mcp.m600066-mcp200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Mapping of in vivo protein phosphorylation sites in photosynthetic membranes of the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii revealed that the major environmentally dependent changes in phosphorylation are clustered at the interface between the photosystem II (PSII) core and its light-harvesting antennae (LHCII). The photosynthetic membranes that were isolated form the algal cells exposed to four distinct environmental conditions affecting photosynthesis: (i) dark aerobic, corresponding to photosynthetic State 1; (ii) dark under nitrogen atmosphere, corresponding to photosynthetic State 2; (iii) moderate light; and (iv) high light. The surface-exposed phosphorylated peptides were cleaved from the membrane by trypsin, methyl-esterified, enriched by immobilized metal affinity chromatography, and sequenced by nanospray-quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry. A total of 19 in vivo phosphorylation sites were mapped in the proteins corresponding to 15 genes in C. reinhardtii. Amino-terminal acetylation of seven proteins was concomitantly determined. Sequenced amino termini of six mature LHCII proteins differed from the predicted ones. The State 1-to-State 2 transition induced phosphorylation of the PSII core components D2 and PsbR and quadruple phosphorylation of a minor LHCII antennae subunit, CP29, as well as phosphorylation of constituents of a major LHCII complex, Lhcbm1 and Lhcbm10. Exposure of the algal cells to either moderate or high light caused additional phosphorylation of the D1 and CP43 proteins of the PSII core. The high light treatment led to specific hyperphosphorylation of CP29 at seven distinct residues, phosphorylation of another minor LHCII constituent, CP26, at a single threonine, and double phosphorylation of additional subunits of a major LHCII complex including Lhcbm4, Lhcbm6, Lhcbm9, and Lhcbm11. Environmentally induced protein phosphorylation at the interface of PSII core and the associated antenna proteins, particularly multiple differential phosphorylations of CP29 linker protein, suggests the mechanisms for control of photosynthetic state transitions and for LHCII uncoupling from PSII under high light stress to allow thermal energy dissipation.
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- Maria V Turkina
- Division of Cell Biology, Linköping University, SE-581 85 Linköping, Sweden
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Turkina MV, Blanco-Rivero A, Vainonen JP, Vener AV, Villarejo A. CO2 limitation induces specific redox-dependent protein phosphorylation inChlamydomonas reinhardtii. Proteomics 2006; 6:2693-704. [PMID: 16572472 DOI: 10.1002/pmic.200500461] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Acclimation of the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii to limiting environmental CO2 induced specific protein phosphorylation at the surface of photosynthetic thylakoid membranes. Four phosphopeptides were identified and sequenced by nanospray quadrupole TOF MS from the cells acclimating to limiting CO2. One phosphopeptide originated from a protein that has not been annotated. We found that this unknown expressed protein (UEP) was encoded in the genome of C. reinhardtii. Three other phosphorylated peptides belonged to Lci5 protein encoded by the low-CO2-inducible gene 5 (lci5). The phosphorylation sites were mapped in the tandem repeats of Lci5 ensuring phosphorylation of four serine and three threonine residues in the protein. Immunoblotting with Lci5-specific antibodies revealed that Lci5 was localized in chloroplast and confined to the stromal side of the thylakoid membranes. Phosphorylation of Lci5 and UEP occurred strictly at limiting CO2; it required reduction of electron carriers in the thylakoid membrane, but was not induced by light. Both proteins were phosphorylated in the low-CO2-exposed algal mutant deficient in the light-activated protein kinase Stt7. Phosphorylation of previously unknown basic proteins UEP and Lci5 by specific redox-dependent protein kinase(s) in the photosynthetic membranes reveals the early response of green algae to limitation in the environmental inorganic carbon.
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- Maria V Turkina
- Division of Cell Biology, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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A surprisingly fewer than expected number of genes in the human genome suggests that sophistication of its biologic system is, in part, due to complex regulation of protein activities. The activities of most cellular proteins are regulated by post-translational modifications. One of the most important post-translational modifications is reversible protein phosphorylation, which decorates more than 30% of the proteome and regulates signal transduction pathways under normal conditions as well as in disorders such as diabetes, neurodegenerative diseases, autoimmune diseases and several forms of cancers. This review examines the recent developments in mass spectrometry-based methods for phosphoproteome analysis and its applications for the study of signal transduction pathways. The basic principles of non-mass spectrometry-based methods, such as chemical genetics and flow cytometry-based approaches, are also discussed as well as their specific advantages to signaling studies. Finally, signaling pathways are discussed in the light of large-scale protein interaction studies. The proteomic methods addressed in this review are emerging as some of the essential components in systems biology, which seeks to describe signaling networks through integration of diverse types of data and, in the future, to allow computational simulations of complex biologic pathways in health and disease.
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- Mridul Mukherji
- The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
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Rinalducci S, Larsen MR, Mohammed S, Zolla L. Novel Protein Phosphorylation Site Identification in Spinach Stroma Membranes by Titanium Dioxide Microcolumns and Tandem Mass Spectrometry. J Proteome Res 2006; 5:973-82. [PMID: 16602705 DOI: 10.1021/pr050476n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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In this work, spinach stroma membrane, instead of thylakoid, has been investigated for the presence of phosphorylated proteins. We identified seven previously unknown phosphorylation sites by taking advantage of TiO(2) phosphopeptides enrichment coupled to mass spectrometric analysis. Upon illumination at 100 micromol m(-2) s(-1), two novel phosphopeptides belonging to the N-terminal region of Lhcb1 light-harvesting protein were detected: NVSSGS(p)PWYGPDR and T(p)VQSSSPWYGPDR. Moreover, three new threonine residues in CP43 (Thr-6, Thr-8, and Thr-346) and, for the first time, two amino acid residues of the N-terminus of Rieske Fe-S protein of the cytochrome b(6)f complex (Thr-2 and Ser-3) were revealed to be phosphorylated. Since Lhcb1 and CP43 have been reported as mobile proteins, it may be suggested that illumination derived phosphorylation, and consequently the addition of negatively charged groups to the protein, is a necessary condition to induce a significant protein structural change.
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- Sara Rinalducci
- Department of Environmental Sciences, Tuscia University, Viterbo, Italy
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Glinski M, Weckwerth W. The role of mass spectrometry in plant systems biology. MASS SPECTROMETRY REVIEWS 2006; 25:173-214. [PMID: 16284938 DOI: 10.1002/mas.20063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Large-scale analyses of proteins and metabolites are intimately bound to advancements in MS technologies. The aim of these non-targeted "omic" technologies is to extend our understanding beyond the analysis of only parts of the system. Here, metabolomics and proteomics emerged in parallel with the development of novel mass analyzers and hyphenated techniques such as gas chromatography coupled to time-of-flight mass spectrometry (GC-TOF-MS) and multidimensional liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (LC-MS). The analysis of (i) proteins (ii) phosphoproteins, and (iii) metabolites is discussed in the context of plant physiology and environment and with a focus on novel method developments. Recently published studies measuring dynamic (quantitative) behavior at these levels are summarized; for these works, the completely sequenced plants Arabidopsis thaliana and Oryza sativa (rice) have been the primary models of choice. Particular emphasis is given to key physiological processes such as metabolism, development, stress, and defense. Moreover, attempts to combine spatial, tissue-specific resolution with systematic profiling are described. Finally, we summarize the initial steps to characterize the molecular plant phenotype as a corollary of environment and genotype.
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- Mirko Glinski
- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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van Wijk KJ. Plastid proteomics. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY : PPB 2004; 42:963-77. [PMID: 15707834 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2004.10.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2004] [Accepted: 10/25/2004] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Plastids are essential organelles present in virtually all cells in plants and in green algae. The proteomes of plastids, and in particular of chloroplasts, have received significant amounts of attention in recent years. Various fractionation and mass spectrometry (MS) techniques have been applied to catalogue the chloroplast proteome and its membrane compartments. Neural network and hidden Markov models, in combination with experimentally derived filters, were used to try to predict the chloroplast subproteomes. Some of the many protein-protein interaction, as well as post-translational modifications have been characterized. Nevertheless, our understanding of the chloroplast proteome and its dynamics is very incomplete. Rapid improvements and wide-scale implementation of MS and new tools for comparative proteomics will undoubtedly accelerate this understanding in the near future. Proteomics studies often generate a large amount of data and these data are only meaningful if they can be easily accessed via the 'world-wide-web' and connected to other types of biological information. The plastid proteome data base (PPDB at http://www.ppdb.tc.cornell.edu/) and other web resources are discussed. This review will briefly summarize recent experimental and theoretical efforts, attempt to translate these data into the functions of the chloroplast and outline expectations and possibilities for (comparative) chloroplast proteomics.
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- Klaas J van Wijk
- Department of Plant Biology, Emerson Hall 332, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
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Whitelegge JP. Mass spectrometry for high throughput quantitative proteomics in plant research: lessons from thylakoid membranes. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY : PPB 2004; 42:919-27. [PMID: 15707830 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2004.11.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/01/2023]
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Proteomics seeks to monitor the flux of protein through cells under variable developmental and environmental influences as programmed by the genome. Consequently, it is necessary to measure changes in protein abundance and turnover rate as faithfully as possible. In the absence of non-invasive technologies, the majority of proteomics approaches involve destructive sampling at various time points to obtain 'snapshots' that periodically report the genomes's product. The work has fallen to separations technologies coupled to mass spectrometry, for high throughput protein identification. Quantitation has become the major challenge facing proteomics as the field matures. Because of the variability of day-to-day measurements of protein quantities by mass spectrometry, a common feature of quantitative proteomics is the use of stable isotope coding to distinguish control and experimental samples in a mixture that can be profiled in a single experiment. To address limitations with separation technologies such as 2D-gel electrophoresis, alternative systems are being introduced including multi-dimensional chromatography. Strategies that accelerate throughput for mass spectrometry are also emerging and the benefits of these 'shotgun' protocols will be considered in the context of the thylakoid membrane and photosynthesis. High resolution Fourier-transform mass spectrometry is bringing increasingly accurate mass measurements to peptides and a variety of gas-phase dissociation mechanisms are permitting 'top-down' sequencing of intact proteins. Finally, a versatile workflow for sub-cellular compartments including membranes is presented that allows for intact protein mass measurements, localization of post-translational modifications and relative quantitation or turnover measurement.
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- Julian P Whitelegge
- The Pasarow Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine and College of Letters and Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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Turkina MV, Villarejo A, Vener AV. The transit peptide of CP29 thylakoid protein in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is not removed but undergoes acetylation and phosphorylation. FEBS Lett 2004; 564:104-8. [PMID: 15094049 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(04)00323-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2004] [Revised: 02/19/2004] [Accepted: 03/05/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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The surface-exposed peptides were cleaved by trypsin from the photosynthetic thylakoid membranes isolated from the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Two phosphorylated peptides, enriched from the peptide mixture and sequenced by nanospray quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry, revealed overlapping sequences corresponding to the N-terminus of a nuclear-encoded chlorophyll a/b-binding protein CP29. In contrast to all known nuclear-encoded thylakoid proteins, the transit peptide in the mature algal CP29 was not removed but processed by methionine excision, N-terminal acetylation and phosphorylation on threonine 6. The importance of this phosphorylation site is proposed as the reason of the unique transit peptide retention.
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- Maria V Turkina
- Division of Cell Biology, University of Linköping, 581 85 Linköping, Sweden
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Whitelegge JP, Gómez SM, Faull KF. Proteomics of membrane proteins. ADVANCES IN PROTEIN CHEMISTRY 2004; 65:271-307. [PMID: 12964373 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-3233(03)01023-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/04/2023]
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- Julian P Whitelegge
- Pasarow Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Neuropsychiatric Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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Ferro M, Salvi D, Brugière S, Miras S, Kowalski S, Louwagie M, Garin J, Joyard J, Rolland N. Proteomics of the chloroplast envelope membranes from Arabidopsis thaliana. Mol Cell Proteomics 2003; 2:325-45. [PMID: 12766230 DOI: 10.1074/mcp.m300030-mcp200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 294] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The development of chloroplasts and the integration of their function within a plant cell rely on the presence of a complex biochemical machinery located within their limiting envelope membranes. To provide the most exhaustive view of the protein repertoire of chloroplast envelope membranes, we analyzed this membrane system using proteomics. To this purpose, we first developed a procedure to prepare highly purified envelope membranes from Arabidopsis chloroplasts. We then extracted envelope proteins using different methods, i.e. chloroform/methanol extraction and alkaline or saline treatments, in order to retrieve as many proteins as possible, from the most to least hydrophobic ones. Liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry analyses were then performed on each envelope membrane subfraction, leading to the identification of more than 100 proteins. About 80% of the identified proteins are known to be, or are very likely, located in the chloroplast envelope. The validation of localization in the envelope of two phosphate transporters exemplifies the need for a combination of strategies to perform the most exhaustive identification of genuine chloroplast envelope proteins. Interestingly, some of the identified proteins are found to be Nalpha-acetylated, which indicates the accurate location of the N terminus of the corresponding mature protein. With regard to function, more than 50% of the identified proteins have functions known or very likely to be associated with the chloroplast envelope. These proteins are a) involved in ion and metabolite transport, b) components of the protein import machinery, and c) involved in chloroplast lipid metabolism. Some soluble proteins, like proteases, proteins involved in carbon metabolism, or proteins involved in responses to oxidative stress, were associated with envelope membranes. Almost one-third of the proteins we identified have no known function. The present work helps understanding chloroplast envelope metabolism at the molecular level and provides a new overview of the biochemical machinery of the chloroplast envelope membranes.
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- Myriam Ferro
- Laboratoire de Chimie des Protéines, ERM-0201 INSERM/CEA, Grenoble, France
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The photosystem II of chloroplast thylakoid membranes contains several proteins phosphorylated by redox-activated protein kinases. The mechanism of the reversible activation of the light-harvesting antenna complex II (LHCII) kinase(s) is one of the best understood and related to the regulation of energy transfer to photosystem II or I, thereby optimizing their relative excitation (state transition). The deactivated LHCII protein kinase(s) is associated with cytochrome b(6)f and dissociates from the complex upon activation. Activation of the LHCII protein kinase occurs via dynamic conformational changes in the cytochrome b(6)f complex taking place during plastoquinol oxidation. Deactivation of the kinase involves its reassociation with an oxidized cytochrome complex. A fine-tuning redox-dependent regulatory loop inhibits the activation of the kinase via reduction of protein disulfide groups, possibly involving the thioredoxin complex. Phosphorylation of LHCII is further modulated by light-induced conformational changes of the LHCII substrate. The reversible phosphorylation of LHCII and other thylakoid phosphoproteins, catalyzed by respective kinases and phosphatases, is under strict regulation in response to environmental changes.
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- Eva-Mari Aro
- Department of Biology, University of Turku, FIN-20014 Turku, Finland.
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Polevoda B, Sherman F. N-terminal acetyltransferases and sequence requirements for N-terminal acetylation of eukaryotic proteins. J Mol Biol 2003; 325:595-622. [PMID: 12507466 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-2836(02)01269-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 346] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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N(alpha)-terminal acetylation occurs in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae by any of three N-terminal acetyltransferases (NAT), NatA, NatB, and NatC, which contain Ard1p, Nat3p and Mak3p catalytic subunits, respectively. The N-terminal sequences required for N-terminal acetylation, i.e. the NatA, NatB, and NatC substrates, were evaluated by considering over 450 yeast proteins previously examined in numerous studies, and were compared to the N-terminal sequences of more than 300 acetylated mammalian proteins. In addition, acetylated sequences of eukaryotic proteins were compared to the N termini of 810 eubacterial and 175 archaeal proteins, which are rarely acetylated. Protein orthologs of Ard1p, Nat3p and Mak3p were identified with the eukaryotic genomes of the sequences of model organisms, including Caenorhabditis elegans, Drosophila melanogaster, Arabidopsis thaliana, Mus musculus and Homo sapiens. Those and other putative acetyltransferases were assigned by phylogenetic analysis to the following six protein families: Ard1p; Nat3p; Mak3p; CAM; BAA; and Nat5p. The first three families correspond to the catalytic subunits of three major yeast NATs; these orthologous proteins were identified in eukaryotes, but not in prokaryotes; the CAM family include mammalian orthologs of the recently described Camello1 and Camello2 proteins whose substrates are unknown; the BAA family comprise bacterial and archaeal putative acetyltransferases whose biochemical activity have not been characterized; and the new Nat5p family assignment was on the basis of putative yeast NAT, Nat5p (YOR253W). Overall patterns of N-terminal acetylated proteins and the orthologous genes possibly encoding NATs suggest that yeast and higher eukaryotes have the same systems for N-terminal acetylation.
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- Bogdan Polevoda
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
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Carlberg I, Hansson M, Kieselbach T, Schröder WP, Andersson B, Vener AV. A novel plant protein undergoing light-induced phosphorylation and release from the photosynthetic thylakoid membranes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2003; 100:757-62. [PMID: 12524456 PMCID: PMC141069 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0235452100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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The characteristics of a phosphoprotein with a relative electrophoretic mobility of 12 kDa have been unknown during two decades of studies on redox-dependent protein phosphorylation in plant photosynthetic membranes. Digestion of this protein from spinach thylakoid membranes with trypsin and subsequent tandem nanospray-quadrupole-time-of-flight mass spectrometry of the peptides revealed a protein sequence that did not correspond to any previously known protein. Sequencing of the corresponding cDNA uncovered a gene for a precursor protein with a transit peptide followed by a strongly basic mature protein with a molecular mass of 8,640 Da. Genes encoding homologous proteins were found on chromosome 3 of Arabidopsis and rice as well as in ESTs from 20 different plant species, but not from any other organisms. The protein can be released from the membrane with high salt and is also partially released in response to light-induced phosphorylation of thylakoids, in contrast to all other known thylakoid phosphoproteins, which are integral to the membrane. On the basis of its properties, this plant-specific protein is named thylakoid soluble phosphoprotein of 9 kDa (TSP9). Mass spectrometric analyses revealed the existence of non-, mono-, di-, and triphosphorylated forms of TSP9 and phosphorylation of three distinct threonine residues in the central part of the protein. The phosphorylation and release of TSP9 from the photosynthetic membrane on illumination favor participation of this basic protein in cell signaling and regulation of plant gene expression in response to changing light conditions.
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- Inger Carlberg
- Division of Cell Biology, Linköping University, SE-58185 Linköping, Sweden
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Booij-James IS, Swegle WM, Edelman M, Mattoo AK. Phosphorylation of the D1 photosystem II reaction center protein is controlled by an endogenous circadian rhythm. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2002; 130:2069-75. [PMID: 12481090 PMCID: PMC166718 DOI: 10.1104/pp.013441] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2002] [Revised: 09/13/2002] [Accepted: 09/19/2002] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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The light dependence of D1 phosphorylation is unique to higher plants, being constitutive in cyanobacteria and algae. In a photoautotrophic higher plant, Spirodela oligorrhiza, grown in greenhouse conditions under natural diurnal cycles of solar irradiation, the ratio of phosphorylated versus total D1 protein (D1-P index: [D1-P]/[D1] + [D1-P]) of photosystem II is shown to undergo reproducible diurnal oscillation. These oscillations were clearly out of phase with the period of maximum in light intensity. The timing of the D1-P index maximum was not affected by changes in temperature, the amount of D1 kinase activity present in the thylakoid membranes, the rate of D1 protein synthesis, or photoinhibition. However, when the dark period in a normal diurnal cycle was cut short artificially by transferring plants to continuous light conditions, the D1-P index timing shifted and reached a maximum within 4 to 5 h of light illumination. The resultant diurnal oscillation persisted for at least two cycles in continuous light, suggesting that the rhythm is endogenous (circadian) and is entrained by an external signal.
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- Isabelle S Booij-James
- Vegetable Laboratory, The Henry A Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Center-West, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, Maryland 20705-2350, USA
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Mass spectrometry plays an essential role in proteomics analysis and research. In recent years, it has been increasingly recognized that a key to proteomics using mass spectrometry relies not only on the instrument itself, but also on the analytical strategies and front-end sample-handling techniques. The advances of separations and mass spectrometry are having an increasing impact on the discovery of disease biomarkers and the understanding of cellular processes.
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- Wenjun Mo
- Barnett Institute and Department of Chemistry, Northeastern University, 341 Mugar Hall, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Dirk LMA, Williams MA, Houtz RL. Specificity of chloroplast-localized peptide deformylases as determined with peptide analogs of chloroplast-translated proteins. Arch Biochem Biophys 2002; 406:135-41. [PMID: 12234499 DOI: 10.1016/s0003-9861(02)00426-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Peptide deformylase (DEF; EC 3.5.1.88) removes the N-formyl group from nascent polypeptides. Two nuclear-encoded DEFs in Arabidopsis thaliana (At) are localized to chloroplasts, and thus, the N-termini of chloroplast-translated proteins may be a consequence of AtDEFs' substrate specificity. Using peptide analogs of select chloroplast-translated proteins, AtDEF1 activity was as much as 100-fold lower than AtDEF2 activity and showed little variance with peptide sequence. However, AtDEF2 activity was significantly influenced by peptide sequence, with the most efficiently processed substrate mimicking the N-terminus of the nascent D1 polypeptide, a core protein of photosystem II. Though AtDEF2's specificity was predictive of N-formyl retention for some chloroplast proteins, exceptions suggests that additional factors in vivo aid in determining the retention of an N-formyl group.
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- Lynnette M A Dirk
- Department of Horticulture, Plant Physiology/Biochemistry/Molecular Biology Program, N-32-D Agricultural Science Center North, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40546-0091, USA
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Claverol S, Burlet-Schiltz O, Girbal-Neuhauser E, Gairin JE, Monsarrat B. Mapping and structural dissection of human 20 S proteasome using proteomic approaches. Mol Cell Proteomics 2002; 1:567-78. [PMID: 12376572 DOI: 10.1074/mcp.m200030-mcp200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
Abstract
The proteasome, a proteolytic complex present in all eukaryotic cells, is part of the ATP-dependent ubiquitin/proteasome pathway. It plays a critical role in the regulation of many physiological processes. The 20 S proteasome, the catalytic core of the 26 S proteasome, is made of four stacked rings of seven subunits each (alpha7beta7beta7alpha7). Here we studied the human 20 S proteasome using proteomics. This led to the establishment of a fine subunit reference map and to the identification of post-translational modifications. We found that the human 20 S proteasome, purified from erythrocytes, exhibited a high degree of structural heterogeneity, characterized by the presence of multiple isoforms for most of the alpha and beta subunits, including the catalytic ones, resulting in a total of at least 32 visible spots after Coomassie Blue staining. The different isoforms of a given subunit displayed shifted pI values, suggesting that they likely resulted from post-translational modifications. We then took advantage of the efficiency of complementary mass spectrometric approaches to investigate further these protein modifications at the structural level. In particular, we focused our efforts on the alpha7 subunit and characterized its N-acetylation and its phosphorylation site localized on Ser(250).
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- Stephane Claverol
- Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, CNRS, 205 Route de Narbonne, 31077 Toulouse, France
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MacCoss MJ, McDonald WH, Saraf A, Sadygov R, Clark JM, Tasto JJ, Gould KL, Wolters D, Washburn M, Weiss A, Clark JI, Yates JR. Shotgun identification of protein modifications from protein complexes and lens tissue. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2002; 99:7900-5. [PMID: 12060738 PMCID: PMC122992 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.122231399] [Citation(s) in RCA: 493] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2002] [Accepted: 04/16/2002] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Large-scale genomics has enabled proteomics by creating sequence infrastructures that can be used with mass spectrometry data to identify proteins. Although protein sequences can be deduced from nucleotide sequences, posttranslational modifications to proteins, in general, cannot. We describe a process for the analysis of posttranslational modifications that is simple, robust, general, and can be applied to complicated protein mixtures. A protein or protein mixture is digested by using three different enzymes: one that cleaves in a site-specific manner and two others that cleave nonspecifically. The mixture of peptides is separated by multidimensional liquid chromatography and analyzed by a tandem mass spectrometer. This approach has been applied to modification analyses of proteins in a simple protein mixture, Cdc2p protein complexes isolated through the use of an affinity tag, and lens tissue from a patient with congenital cataracts. Phosphorylation sites have been detected with known stoichiometry of as low as 10%. Eighteen sites of four different types of modification have been detected on three of the five proteins in a simple mixture, three of which were previously unreported. Three proteins from Cdc2p isolated complexes yielded eight sites containing three different types of modifications. In the lens tissue, 270 proteins were identified, and 11 different crystallins were found to contain a total of 73 sites of modification. Modifications identified in the crystallin proteins included Ser, Thr, and Tyr phosphorylation, Arg and Lys methylation, Lys acetylation, and Met, Tyr, and Trp oxidations. The method presented will be useful in discovering co- and posttranslational modifications of proteins.
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- Michael J MacCoss
- Department of Cell Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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