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Baumann P, Hubbuch J. Downstream process development strategies for effective bioprocesses: Trends, progress, and combinatorial approaches. Eng Life Sci 2016; 17:1142-1158. [PMID: 32624742 DOI: 10.1002/elsc.201600033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2016] [Revised: 03/09/2016] [Accepted: 04/07/2016] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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The biopharmaceutical industry is at a turning point moving toward a more customized and patient-oriented medicine (precision medicine). Straightforward routines such as the antibody platform process are extended to production processes for a new portfolio of molecules. As a consequence, individual and tailored productions require generic approaches for a fast and dedicated purification process development. In this article, different effective strategies in biopharmaceutical purification process development are reviewed that can analogously be used for the new generation of antibodies. Conventional approaches based on heuristics and high-throughput process development are discussed and compared to modern technologies such as multivariate calibration and mechanistic modeling tools. Such approaches constitute a good foundation for fast and effective process development for new products and processes, but their full potential becomes obvious in a correlated combination. Thus, different combinatorial approaches are presented, which might become future directions in the biopharmaceutical industry.
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- Pascal Baumann
- Biomolecular Separation Engineering Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Karlsruhe Germany
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- Biomolecular Separation Engineering Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Karlsruhe Germany
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Baumann P, Baumgartner K, Hubbuch J. Influence of binding pH and protein solubility on the dynamic binding capacity in hydrophobic interaction chromatography. J Chromatogr A 2015; 1396:77-85. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2015.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2015] [Revised: 03/18/2015] [Accepted: 04/01/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Nabu S, Lawung R, Isarankura-Na-Ayudhya P, Isarankura-Na-Ayudhya C, Roytrakul S, Prachayasittikul V. Reference map and comparative proteomic analysis of Neisseria gonorrhoeae displaying high resistance against spectinomycin. J Med Microbiol 2014; 63:371-385. [PMID: 24567501 DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.067595-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022] Open
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A proteome reference map of Neisseria gonorrhoeae was successfully established using two-dimensional gel electrophoresis in conjunction with matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry. This map was further applied to compare protein expression profiles of high-level spectinomycin-resistant (clinical isolate) and -susceptible (reference strain) N. gonorrhoeae following treatment with subminimal inhibitory concentrations (subMICs) of spectinomycin. Approximately 200 protein spots were visualized by Coomassie brilliant blue G-250 staining and 66 spots representing 58 unique proteins were subsequently identified. Most of the identified proteins were analysed as cytoplasmic proteins and belonged to the class of energy metabolism. Comparative proteomic analysis of whole protein expression of susceptible and resistant gonococci showed up to 96% similarity while eight proteins were found to be differentially expressed in the resistant strain. In the presence of subMICs of spectinomycin, it was found that 50S ribosomal protein L7/L12, an essential component for ribosomal translocation, was upregulated in both strains, ranging from 1.5- to 3.5-fold, suggesting compensatory mechanisms of N. gonorrhoeae in response to antibiotic that inhibits protein synthesis. Moreover, the differential expression of proteins involved in energy metabolism, amino acid biosynthesis, and the cell envelope was noticeably detected, indicating significant cellular responses and adaptation against antibiotic stress. Such knowledge provides valuable data, not only fundamental proteomic data, but also knowledge of the mode of action of antibiotic and secondary target proteins implicated in adaptation and compensatory mechanisms.
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- Sunanta Nabu
- Department of Clinical Microbiology and Applied Technology, Faculty of Medical Technology, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10700, Thailand
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- Center of Medical Laboratory Services, Faculty of Medical Technology, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10700, Thailand.,Department of Clinical Microbiology and Applied Technology, Faculty of Medical Technology, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10700, Thailand
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- Genome Institute, National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, National Science and Technology Development Agency, Pathumthani 12120, Thailand
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- Department of Clinical Microbiology and Applied Technology, Faculty of Medical Technology, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10700, Thailand
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Ye B, Gagnon A, Mok SC. Recent technical strategies to identify diagnostic biomarkers for ovarian cancer. Expert Rev Proteomics 2014; 4:121-31. [PMID: 17288520 DOI: 10.1586/14789450.4.1.121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Ovarian cancer is the fifth leading cause of cancer deaths among North American women. Regrettably, there is currently no reliable circulating biomarker that can detect ovarian cancer in its early stages. The CA125 biomarker is very useful for treatment response monitoring, but its sensitivity is very low for early detection. Thus, there is an urgent need for the identification of new circulating biomarkers/panel of biomarkers that could be used to diagnose ovarian cancer before it becomes clinically detectable and advanced. Unfortunately, the strategies used in the past years to identify such biomarkers have not led to any outstanding candidate. This review summarizes the different approaches used in the last decade and suggests which strategies should be adopted in the near future in order to lead to the successful identification of new ovarian cancer diagnostic biomarkers.
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- Bin Ye
- Harvard Medical School, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Dana-Farber Harvard Cancer Center, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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Guerrier L, Fortis F, Boschetti E. Solid-phase fractionation strategies applied to proteomics investigations. Methods Mol Biol 2012; 818:11-33. [PMID: 22083813 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-418-6_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Methods for protein fractionation in the proteomics investigation field are relatively numerous. They apply to the prefractionation of the sample to obtain less complex protein mixtures for an easier analysis; they are also used as a means to evidence specific proteins or protein classes otherwise impossible to detect. They involve depletion of high-abundance proteins suppressing the signal of dilute species; they are also capable to enhance the detectability of low-abundance species while concomitantly decreasing the concentration of abundant proteins such as albumin in serum and hemoglobin in red blood cell lysates. Fractionation of proteomes is also used for the isolation of targeted species that are selected for their different expression under certain pathological conditions and that are detected by mass spectrometry. Two unconventional methods of large interest in proteomics due to the low level of protein redundancy between fractions are also reported.All these methods are reviewed and detailed method given to allow specialists of proteomics investigation to access selected separation methods generally dispersed on different technical reviews or books.
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- Luc Guerrier
- Bio-Rad Laboratories, Marnes la Coquette, France
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Gilmore JM, Washburn MP. Advances in shotgun proteomics and the analysis of membrane proteomes. J Proteomics 2010; 73:2078-91. [PMID: 20797458 DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2010.08.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2010] [Revised: 08/16/2010] [Accepted: 08/18/2010] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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The emergence of shotgun proteomics has facilitated the numerous biological discoveries made by proteomic studies. However, comprehensive proteomic analysis remains challenging and shotgun proteomics is a continually changing field. This review details the recent developments in shotgun proteomics and describes emerging technologies that will influence shotgun proteomics going forward. In addition, proteomic studies of integral membrane proteins remain challenging due to the hydrophobic nature in integral membrane proteins and their general low abundance levels. However, there have been many strategies developed for enriching, isolating and separating membrane proteins for proteomic analysis that have moved this field forward. In summary, while shotgun proteomics is a widely used and mature technology, the continued pace of improvements in mass spectrometry and proteomic technology and methods indicate that future studies will have an even greater impact on biological discovery.
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- Joshua M Gilmore
- Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO 64110, USA
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Huang KY, Filarsky M, Padula MP, Raftery MJ, Herbert BR, Wilkins MR. Micropreparative fractionation of the complexome by blue native continuous elution electrophoresis. Proteomics 2009; 9:2494-502. [PMID: 19343713 DOI: 10.1002/pmic.200800525] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The large-scale analysis of protein complexes is an emerging challenge in the field of proteomics. Currently, there are few methods available for the fractionation of protein complexes that are compatible with downstream proteomic techniques. Here, we describe the technique of blue native continuous elution electrophoresis (BN-CEE). It combines the features of blue native PAGE (BN-PAGE) and continuous elution electrophoresis (CEE), generating liquid-phase fractions of protein complexes of up to 800 kDa. The resulting complexes can be further analysed by BN-PAGE, by SDS-PAGE and/or by MS. This can help define the constituent proteins of many complexes and their stoichiometry. As BN-CEE is also micropreparative, with a capacity to separate milligram quantities of protein complexes, it will assist the study of proteins of lower abundance. In this regard, the acrylamide concentration and elution rate during separation can be controlled to help 'zoom in' on particular high mass regions and thus complexes of interest. We illustrate the utility of the technique in the analysis of Saccharomyces cerevisiae cellular lysate.
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- Kuan Yen Huang
- Systems Biology Initiative, University of New South Wales, NSW, Australia
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Liao L, McClatchy DB, Yates JR. Shotgun proteomics in neuroscience. Neuron 2009; 63:12-26. [PMID: 19607789 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2009.06.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2008] [Revised: 06/10/2009] [Accepted: 06/10/2009] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Mass spectrometry-based proteomics is increasingly used to address basic and clinical questions in biomedical research through studies of differential protein expression, protein-protein interactions, and posttranslational modifications. The complex structural and functional organization of the human brain warrants the application of high-throughput, systematic approaches to understand the functional alterations under normal physiological conditions and the perturbations of neurological diseases. This primer focuses on shotgun-proteomics-based tandem mass spectrometry for the identification of proteins in a complex mixture. It describes the basic concepts of protein differential expression analysis and posttranslational modification analysis and discusses several strategies to improve the coverage of the proteome.
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- Lujian Liao
- Department of Chemical Physiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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Restuccia U, Boschetti E, Fasoli E, Fortis F, Guerrier L, Bachi A, Kravchuk AV, Righetti PG. pI-based fractionation of serum proteomes versus anion exchange after enhancement of low-abundance proteins by means of peptide libraries. J Proteomics 2009; 72:1061-70. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2009.06.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2009] [Accepted: 06/23/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Tao D, Zhu G, Sun L, Ma J, Liang Z, Zhang W, Zhang L, Zhang Y. Serially coupled microcolumn reversed phase liquid chromatography for shotgun proteomic analysis. Proteomics 2009; 9:2029-36. [DOI: 10.1002/pmic.200800649] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Serial displacement chromatofocusing and its applications in multidimensional chromatography and gel electrophoresis: II. Experimental results. J Chromatogr A 2009; 1216:977-84. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2008.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2008] [Revised: 11/26/2008] [Accepted: 12/01/2008] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Starita-Geribaldi M. Selection of pH ranges in 2DE. Methods Mol Biol 2009; 519:31-45. [PMID: 19381575 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-281-6_3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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This chapter describes the technical improvements of the two-dimensional electrophoresis pattern resulting of an optimized pH range in the first dimension. Various types of pH gradients are available. Different strategies can be applied in order to select the pH ranges for the exploration of a proteome. The resulting gels are analysed for their background, resolution, sensitivity in relation with the sample complexity. As the complete dynamic range of protein expression cannot be visualized, the high loading capacity of immobilized narrow pH gradients can be used. The limitations and possible enhancements are discussed.
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- Mireille Starita-Geribaldi
- Departement des Sciences Biologiques, UFR d'Odontologie, Pôle Universitaire Saint-Jean d'Angely, 24 avenue des Diables Bleus, 06357, Nice cedex, 4, France
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The degree of protein diversity and dynamic range within organisms means that even the simplest proteome cannot be captured by any single extraction and separation step. New techniques have focused on major protein classes often under-represented in proteome analysis; low abundance, membrane, and alkaline proteins. The last decade has seen considerable technology development in fractionation tools aimed at complexity reduction in many forms. The key outcome of complexity reduction is that each fraction, or sub-proteome, can be studied in more detail, and proteins which would have remained undetected in a total extract are present in sufficient quantities. However, the tools available are fractionations, not amplifications, and like all mining for rare and difficult items, a large amount of starting material is often required. The key shortcomings of many proteome analysis techniques are now well documented. With this knowledge, the best modern proteomics 'platform' involves combining multiple protein extractions, gel and chromatographic separations, and multiple MS analysis methods.
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- Ben Herbert
- Department of Medical and Molecular Biosciences, University of Technology, Sydney, 15 Broadway, Ultimo, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia
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Assiddiq BF, Snijders APL, Chong PK, Wright PC, Dickman MJ. Identification and Characterization of Sulfolobus solfataricus P2 Proteome Using Multidimensional Liquid Phase Protein Separations. J Proteome Res 2008; 7:2253-61. [DOI: 10.1021/pr7006472] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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- Bobby F. Assiddiq
- Biological and Environmental Systems Group, Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Sheffield, Mappin Street, Sheffield, S1 3JD, United Kingdom
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- Biological and Environmental Systems Group, Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Sheffield, Mappin Street, Sheffield, S1 3JD, United Kingdom
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- Biological and Environmental Systems Group, Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Sheffield, Mappin Street, Sheffield, S1 3JD, United Kingdom
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- Biological and Environmental Systems Group, Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Sheffield, Mappin Street, Sheffield, S1 3JD, United Kingdom
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- Biological and Environmental Systems Group, Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Sheffield, Mappin Street, Sheffield, S1 3JD, United Kingdom
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Fournier ML, Gilmore JM, Martin-Brown SA, Washburn MP. Multidimensional Separations-Based Shotgun Proteomics. Chem Rev 2007; 107:3654-86. [PMID: 17649983 DOI: 10.1021/cr068279a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 171] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Hunter TC, Washburn MP. Integration of Chromatography and Peptide Mass Modification for Quantitative Proteomics. J LIQ CHROMATOGR R T 2007. [DOI: 10.1081/jlc-120023247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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- Thomas C. Hunter
- a Proteomics , Torrey Mesa Research Institute , Diversa Corp., 4955 Directors Place, San Diego , California , 92121 , USA
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- a Proteomics , Torrey Mesa Research Institute , Diversa Corp., 4955 Directors Place, San Diego , California , 92121 , USA
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Shin JH, Krapfenbauer K, Lubec G. Large-scale identification of cytosolic mouse brain proteins by chromatographic prefractionation. Electrophoresis 2006; 27:2799-813. [PMID: 16739224 DOI: 10.1002/elps.200500804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Proteomic studies on mouse brain protein expression are still holding center stage as the generation of a reference database for the brain proteome, a need for designing expressional studies at the protein level. We therefore decided to extend the amount of identified brain proteins by the use of prefractionation. In order to reduce the complexity of mouse brain proteome we applied chromatographic prefractionations, ion-exchange and hydrophobic interaction chromatography, prior to 2-DE, followed by mass spectrometric identification (2-DE MALDI-MS). We analyzed about 17,000 protein spots in cytosolic fractions of mouse brain and identified about 10,000 spots. A total of 1841 proteins showing different pI or M(r), representing probably post-translational modifications or splice variants, were products of 789 different genes. Numerous proteins were clearly identified as metabolic, antioxidant, cytoskeleton, signaling, transcription/translation, nucleic acid-binding, proteolysis-related proteins. We additionally provided evidence for the existence of hypothetical proteins predicted from nucleic acid sequences. Moreover, observed pIs of proteins are listed thus enabling localization of proteins in a gel, information that cannot be obtained from theoretical pI's in databases. The results represent so far the largest database of mouse brain proteins and provide valuable information for the design of proteomic studies in the mouse.
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- Joo-Ho Shin
- Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
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Application of proteomics technologies in the investigation of biological systems creates new possibilities in the elucidation of biopathomechanisms and the discovery of novel drug targets and early disease markers. A proteomic analysis involves protein separation and protein identification as well as characterization of the post-translational modifications. Proteomics has been applied in the investigation of various disorders, like neurological diseases, and the application has resulted in the detection of a large number of differences in the levels and the modifications of proteins between healthy and diseased states. However, the current proteomics technologies are still under development and show certain limitations. In this article, we discuss the major drawbacks and pitfalls of proteomics we have observed in our laboratory and in particular during the application of proteomics technologies in the investigation of the brain.
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- Spyros Garbis
- Academy of Athens, Foundation for Biomedical Research, Division of Biotechnology, Soranou Ephessius 4, 11527 Athens, Greece
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Gevaert K, Van Damme P, Martens L, Vandekerckhove J. Diagonal reverse-phase chromatography applications in peptide-centric proteomics: Ahead of catalogue-omics? Anal Biochem 2005; 345:18-29. [PMID: 16181830 DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2005.01.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2004] [Revised: 11/29/2004] [Accepted: 01/04/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Diagonal electrophoresis/chromatography was described 40 years ago and was used to isolate specific sets of peptides from simple peptide mixtures such as protease digests of purified proteins. Recently, we have adapted the core technology of diagonal chromatography so that the technique can be used in so-called gel-free, peptide-centric proteome studies. Here we review the different procedures we have developed over the past few years, sorting of methionyl, cysteinyl, amino terminal, and phosphorylated peptides. We illustrate the power of the technique, termed COFRADIC (combined fractional diagonal chromatography), in the case of a peptide-centric analysis of a sputum sol phase sample of a patient suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). We were able to identify an unexpectedly high number of intracellular proteins next to known biomarkers.
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- Kris Gevaert
- Department of Medical Protein Research, Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, Department of Biochemistry, Ghent University, A. Baertsoenkaai 3, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium.
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Righetti PG, Castagna A, Antonioli P, Boschetti E. Prefractionation techniques in proteome analysis: the mining tools of the third millennium. Electrophoresis 2005; 26:297-319. [PMID: 15657944 DOI: 10.1002/elps.200406189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 235] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The present review deals with prefractionation protocols used in proteomic investigation in preparation for mass spectrometry (MS) or two-dimensional electrophoresis (2-DE) map analysis. Briefly, reported methods focus on cell organelle differential centrifugation and on chromatographic approaches, to continue in extenso with a panoply of electrophoretic methods. In the case of chromatography, procedures useful as a prefractionation step, including affinity, ion-exchange, and reversed-phase resins, revealed several hundreds of new species, previously undetected in unfractionated samples. Novel chromatographic prefractionation methods are also discussed such as a multistaged fractionation column, consisting in a set of immobilized chemistries, serially connected in a stack format (an assembly of seven blocks), each capable of harvesting a given protein population. Such a method significantly simplifies the complexity of treated samples while concentrating species, all resulting in a larger number of visible proteins by MS or 2-DE. Electrophoretic prefractionation protocols include all those electrokinetic methodologies which are performed in free solution, essentially all relying on isoelectric focusing steps (although some approaches based on gels and granulated media are also discussed). Devices associated with electrophoretic separation are multichamber apparatus, such as the multicompartment electrolyzers equipped with either isoelectric membranes or with isoelectric beads. Multicup device electrophoresis and several others, exploiting the conventional technique of carrier ampholyte focusing, are reviewed. This review also reports approaches for sample treatments in order to detect low-abundance species. Among others, a special emphasis is made on the reduction of concentration difference between proteins constituting a sample. This latter consists in a library of combinatorial ligands coupled to small beads. Such a library comprises hexameric ligands composed of 20 amino acids, resulting in millions of different structures. When these beads are impregnated with complex proteomes (e.g., human sera) of widely differing protein compositions, they are able to significantly reduce the concentration differences, thus greatly enhancing the possibility to evidence low-abundance species. It is felt that this panoply of methods could offer a strong step forward in "mining below the tip of the iceberg" for detecting the "unseen proteome".
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- Pier Giorgio Righetti
- University of Verona, Department of Industrial and Agricultural Biotechnolgies, Verona, Italy.
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Vlahou A, Fountoulakis M. Proteomic approaches in the search for disease biomarkers. J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci 2005; 814:11-9. [PMID: 15607703 DOI: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2004.10.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2004] [Accepted: 10/08/2004] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Significant technological advances in protein chemistry, physics and computer sciences in the last two decades have greatly improved protein separation methodologies, such as electrophoresis and chromatography, and have established mass spectrometry (MS) as an indispensable tool for protein study. The goal of this review is to provide a brief overview of the recent improvements in these methodologies and present examples from their application in proteome analysis and search for disease biomarkers.
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- A Vlahou
- Laboratotory of Biotechnology, Foundation for Biomedical Research of the Academy of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.
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Wang H, Hanash S. Intact-protein based sample preparation strategies for proteome analysis in combination with mass spectrometry. MASS SPECTROMETRY REVIEWS 2005; 24:413-426. [PMID: 15389852 DOI: 10.1002/mas.20018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The complexity of tissue and cell proteomes and the vast dynamic range of protein abundance present a formidable challenge for analysis that no one analytical technique can overcome. As a result, there is a need to integrate technologies to achieve the high-resolution and high-sensitivity analysis of complex biological samples. The combined technologies of separation science and biological mass spectrometry (Bio-MS) are the current workhorse in proteomics, and are continuing to evolve to meet the needs for high sensitivity and high throughput. They are relied upon for protein quantification, identification, and analysis of post-translational modifications (PTMs). The standard technique of two dimensional poly-acrylamide gel electrophoresis (2D PAGE) offers relatively limited resolution and sensitivity for the simultaneous analysis of all cellular proteins, with only the most highly abundant proteins detectable in whole cell or tissue-derived samples. Hence, many alternative strategies are being explored. Numerous sample preparation procedures are currently available to reduce sample complexity and to increase the detectability of low-abundance proteins. Maintaining proteins intact during sample preparation has important advantages compared with strategies that digest proteins at an early step. These strategies include the ability to quantitate and recover proteins, and the assessment of PTMs. A review of current intact protein-based strategies for protein sample preparation prior to mass spectrometry (MS) is presented in the context of biomedically driven applications.
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- Hong Wang
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0656, USA
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HeLa cells are widely used for all kinds of in vitro studies in biochemistry, biology and medicine. Knowledge on protein expression is limited and no comprehensive study on the proteome of this cell type has been reported so far. We applied proteomics technologies to analyze the proteins of the HeLa cell line. The proteins were analyzed by two-dimensional (2D) gel electrophoresis and identified by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry (MS) on the basis of peptide mass fingerprinting, following in-gel digestion with trypsin. Approximately 3000 spots, excised from six two-dimensional gels, were analyzed. The analysis resulted in the identification of about 1200 proteins that were the products of 297 different genes. The HeLa cell database includes proteins with important functions and unknown functions, representing today one of the largest two-dimensional databases for eukaryotic proteomes and forming the basis for future expressional studies at the protein level.
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- Michael Fountoulakis
- F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., Center for Medical Genomics, Building 93-444, Basel CH-4070, Switzerland.
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Fortis F, Girot P, Brieau O, Boschetti E, Castagna A, Righetti PG. Amphoteric, buffering chromatographic beads for proteome prefractionation. I: Theoretical model. Proteomics 2005; 5:620-8. [PMID: 15693062 DOI: 10.1002/pmic.200401113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The possibility is reported here of fractionating proteins on amphoteric, buffering resins via ion-exchange chromatography. A given protein's adsorption to a particular amphoteric buffering resin is characterized by a bell-shaped curve in which the maximum protein binding capacity is observed at an optimum pH value lying approximately midway between the isoelectric point values (pI) of the resin and the protein. On either side of this maximum the protein binding capacity declines steadily, reaching zero at the pI of either the protein or exchanger. For instance, on beads of pI equal to 8, four proteins, two acidic (bovine albumin and ovalbumin) and two basic (cytochrome c and lysozyme), exhibit binding curves reaching zero values for the whole set when the exchanger is conditioned at pH 8.0. Away from the pI, and on both sides of the pH scale, the bell-shaped adsorption curves reach a maximum, for each protein, at a pH located at the midpoint between the pI values of each protein and that of the exchanger, and decline steadily to reach zero at the pI value of each protein species. Separation of model proteins using different amphoteric buffering resins of various pI was possible at different pH values according to both the pI of the proteins and of the exchangers. It was also demonstrated, using surface enhanced laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry and two dimensional electrophoretic mapping, that separation of an Escherichia coli cell lysate on columns packed with amphoteric buffering resins of different pI and titrated to a particular pH value, delivered two distinctly different fractions, i.e. characteristically composed of, on the one hand, proteins having a pI below the buffer pH (the 'adsorbed' fraction), and on the other, of alkaline proteins possessing a pI above the pH of the buffer (the 'unadsorbed' fraction). This approach represents an attractive addition and/or alternative to the armory of protein pre-fractionation techniques currently employed in proteomics.
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Rodríguez-Piñeiro AM, Ayude D, Rodríguez-Berrocal FJ, Páez de la Cadena M. Concanavalin A chromatography coupled to two-dimensional gel electrophoresis improves protein expression studies of the serum proteome. J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci 2004; 803:337-43. [PMID: 15063345 DOI: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2004.01.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2003] [Revised: 12/23/2003] [Accepted: 01/12/2004] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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In the present study, we show a simple method to analyse human serum proteins using Concanavalin A (Con A) chromatography coupled to two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. Serum samples were separated into two fractions, one mainly containing non-glycosylated and O-glycosylated proteins and the other enriched in N-glycosylated proteins. Both fractions were subjected to two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, and the obtained maps were analysed. The method presented here improves the resolution of the serum proteome, increasing the number of visualized spots over two times and allowing the detection of proteins with lower abundance in serum. We have proved the feasibility of the method comparing the N-glycoprotein fraction of serum from donors and colorectal cancer (CRC) patients.
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- Ana María Rodríguez-Piñeiro
- Departamento de Bioquímica, Genética e Inmunología, Facultad de Ciencias, As Lagoas Marcosende, s/n 36200 Vigo, Spain
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Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-DE) with immobilized pH gradients (IPGs) combined with protein identification by mass spectrometry (MS) is currently the workhorse for proteomics. In spite of promising alternative or complementary technologies (e.g. multidimensional protein identification technology, stable isotope labelling, protein or antibody arrays) that have emerged recently, 2-DE is currently the only technique that can be routinely applied for parallel quantitative expression profiling of large sets of complex protein mixtures such as whole cell lysates. 2-DE enables the separation of complex mixtures of proteins according to isoelectric point (pI), molecular mass (Mr), solubility, and relative abundance. Furthermore, it delivers a map of intact proteins, which reflects changes in protein expression level, isoforms or post-translational modifications. This is in contrast to liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry based methods, which perform analysis on peptides, where Mr and pI information is lost, and where stable isotope labelling is required for quantitative analysis. Today's 2-DE technology with IPGs (Görg et al., Electrophoresis 2000, 21, 1037-1053), has overcome the former limitations of carrier ampholyte based 2-DE (O'Farrell, J. Biol. Chem. 1975, 250, 4007-4021) with respect to reproducibility, handling, resolution, and separation of very acidic and/or basic proteins. The development of IPGs between pH 2.5-12 has enabled the analysis of very alkaline proteins and the construction of the corresponding databases. Narrow-overlapping IPGs provide increased resolution (delta pI = 0.001) and, in combination with prefractionation methods, the detection of low abundance proteins. Depending on the gel size and pH gradient used, 2-DE can resolve more than 5000 proteins simultaneously (approximately 2000 proteins routinely), and detect and quantify < 1 ng of protein per spot. In this article we describe the current 2-DE/MS workflow including the following topics: sample preparation, protein solubilization, and prefractionation; protein separation by 2-DE with IPGs; protein detection and quantitation; computer assisted analysis of 2-DE patterns; protein identification and characterization by MS; two-dimensional protein databases.
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- Angelika Görg
- Department of Proteomics, Technische Universität München, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany.
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Fountoulakis M. Application of proteomics technologies in the investigation of the brain. MASS SPECTROMETRY REVIEWS 2004; 23:231-258. [PMID: 15133836 DOI: 10.1002/mas.10075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Approximately 30-50% of the genes in mammals are expressed in the nervous system. A differential expression of genes in distinct patterns is necessary for the generation of the large variety of neuronal phenotypes. Proteomic analysis of brain compartments may be useful to understand the complexity, to investigate disorders of the central nervous system, and to search for corresponding early markers. Up to now, proteomics has mainly studied the identity and levels of the abundant human, rat, and mouse brain proteins as well as changes of their levels and the modifications that result from various neurological disorders, like Alzheimer's disease and Down's syndrome in humans and in animal models of those diseases. The proteins, for which altered levels in these disorders have been observed, exert mainly neurotransmission, guidance, and signal-transduction functions, or are involved in detoxification, metabolism, and conformational changes. Some of those proteins may be potential drug targets. Further improvement of proteomics technologies to increase sensitivity and efficiency of detection of certain protein classes is necessary for a more detailed analysis of the brain proteome. In this review, a description of the proteomics technologies applied in the investigation of the brain, the major findings that resulted from their application, and the potential and limitations of the current technologies are discussed.
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- Michael Fountoulakis
- F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., Center for Medical Genomics, Building 93-444, 4070 Basel, Switzerland.
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Zolg JW, Langen H. How Industry Is Approaching the Search for New Diagnostic Markers and Biomarkers. Mol Cell Proteomics 2004; 3:345-54. [PMID: 14749446 DOI: 10.1074/mcp.m400007-mcp200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 136] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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In the diagnostic and the pharmaceutical industry there is a constant need for new diagnostic markers and biomarkers with improved sensitivity and specificity. During the last 5 years, only a few novel diagnostic markers have been introduced into the market. Proteomics technologies are now offering unique chances to identify new candidate markers. Before a marker can be introduced into the market, three successive developmental phases have to be completed: the discovery phase, in which a variety of proteomics technologies are applied to identify marker candidates; the prototype developmental phase, in which immunological assays are established and validated in defined sample collectives; and finally the product development phase, with assay formats suitable for automated platforms. The hurdles that a potential candidate marker has to pass in each developmental phase before reaching the market are considerable. The costs are increasing from phase to phase, and in industry a number of questions concerning the medical need and the potential return on investment have to be answered before a proteomics discovery project is started. In this review, we will cover aspects of all three developmental phases including the repertoire of discovery tools for protein separation as well as giving an outline of modern principles of mass spectrometry for the identification of proteins.
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- J Werner Zolg
- Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Centralized Diagnostics, Nonnenwald 2, D-82377 Penzberg, Germany.
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Pedersen SK, Harry JL, Sebastian L, Baker J, Traini MD, McCarthy JT, Manoharan A, Wilkins MR, Gooley AA, Righetti PG, Packer NH, Williams KL, Herbert BR. Unseen proteome: mining below the tip of the iceberg to find low abundance and membrane proteins. J Proteome Res 2003; 2:303-11. [PMID: 12814269 DOI: 10.1021/pr025588i] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Abundant and hydrophilic nonmembrane proteins with isoelectric points below pH 8 are the predominant proteins identified in most proteomics projects. In yeast, however, low-abundance proteins make up 80% of the predicted proteome, approximately 50% have pl's above pH 8 and 30% of the yeast ORFs are predicted to encode membrane proteins with at least 1 trans-membrane span. By applying highly solubilizing reagents and isoelectric fractionation to a membrane fraction of yeast we have a purified and identified 780 protein isoforms, representing 323 gene products, including 28% low abundance proteins and 49% membrane or membrane associated proteins. More importantly, considering the frequency and importance of co- and post-translational modifications, the separation of protein isoforms is essential and two-dimensional electrophoresis remains the only technique which offers sufficient resolution to address this at a proteomic level.
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- Susanne K Pedersen
- Proteome Systems, 35 Waterloo Rd, North Ryde, Sydney, NSW 2113, Australia
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Righetti PG, Castagna A, Antonucci F, Piubelli C, Cecconi D, Campostrini N, Zanusso G, Monaco S. The proteome: anno Domini 2002. Clin Chem Lab Med 2003; 41:425-38. [PMID: 12747583 DOI: 10.1515/cclm.2003.065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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We present some current definitions related to functional and structural proteomics and the human proteome, and we review the following aspects of proteome analysis: Classical 2-D map analysis (isoelectric focusing (IEF) followed by SDS-PAGE); Quantitative proteomics (isotope-coded affinity tag (ICAT), fluorescent stains) and their use in e.g., tumor analysis and identification of new target proteins for drug development; Electrophoretic pre-fractionation (how to see the hidden proteome!); Multidimensional separations, such as: (a) coupled size-exclusion and reverse-phase (RP)-HPLC; (b) coupled ion-exchange and RP-HPLC; (c) coupled RP-HPLC and RP-HPLC at 25/60 degrees C; (d) coupled RP-HPLC and capillary electrophoresis (CE); (e) metal affinity chromatography coupled with CE; Protein chips. Some general conclusions are drawn on proteome analysis and we end this review by trying to decode the glass ball of the aruspex and answer the question: "Quo vadis, proteome"?
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- Pier Giorgio Righetti
- Department of Agricultural and Industrial Biotechnologies, Faculty of Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
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Shefcheck K, Yao X, Fenselau C. Fractionation of cytosolic proteins on an immobilized heparin column. Anal Chem 2003; 75:1691-8. [PMID: 12705604 DOI: 10.1021/ac026153h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Currently there is great interest in the development of methods to simplify complex protein mixtures for analysis by proteomic strategies. The objective of this study was to develop and evaluate immobilized heparin chromatography to simplify such mixtures and to enrich minor proteins. The method is evaluated with cytosol from human breast cancer MCF-7 cells. This protein mixture was fractionated into three portions and eluted with a stepwise salt gradient. These were characterized by protein analysis, two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, and mass spectrometry, with attention to reproducibility, overlap between fractions, simplification of protein mixtures, and enrichment of low-abundance proteins. It was possible to identify proteins enriched in the fractionated mixtures that were not even detectable in gel arrays of the total cytosol. The method was shown to be suitable for integration with other proteomics strategies.
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- Kevin Shefcheck
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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The advent of proteomics techniques has been enthusiastically accepted in most areas of biology and medicine. In neuroscience, a host of applications was proposed ranging from neurotoxicology, neurometabolism, determination of the proteome of the individual brain areas in health and disease, to name a few. Only recently, the limitations of the method have been shown, hampering the rapid spreading of the technology, which in principle consists of two-dimensional gel electrophoresis with in-gel protein digestion of protein spots and identification by mass-spectrometrical approaches or microsequencing. The identification, including quantification using specific software, of brain protein classes, like enzymes, cytoskeleton proteins, heat shock proteins/chaperones, proteins of the transcription and translation machinery, synaptosomal proteins, antioxidant proteins, is a clear domain of proteomics. Furthermore, the concomitant detection of several hundred proteins on a gel allows the demonstration of an expressional pattern, rather generated by a reliable, protein-chemical method than by immunoreactivity, proposed by protein-arrays. An additional advantage is that hitherto unknown proteins, so far only proposed from their nucleic acid structure, designated as hypothetical proteins, can be identified as brain proteins. As to shortcomings and disadvantages of the method we would point to the major problem, the failure to separate hydrophobic proteins. There is so far no way to analyse the vast majority of these proteins in gels. Several other analytical problems need to be overcome, but once the latter problem can be solved, there is nothing to stop the method for a large scale analysis of membrane proteins in neuroscience.
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- Gert Lubec
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18, A 1090, Vienna, Austria.
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Fountoulakis M, Takács B. Enrichment and proteomic analysis of low-abundance bacterial proteins. Methods Enzymol 2003; 358:288-306. [PMID: 12474394 DOI: 10.1016/s0076-6879(02)58096-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/28/2023]
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- Michael Fountoulakis
- Center for Medical Genomics, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., CH-4070 Basel, Switzerland
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Zuo X, Hembach P, Echan L, Speicher DW. Enhanced analysis of human breast cancer proteomes using micro-scale solution isoelectrofocusing combined with high resolution 1-D and 2-D gels. J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci 2002; 782:253-65. [PMID: 12458011 DOI: 10.1016/s1570-0232(02)00567-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Current methods for quantitatively comparing proteomes (protein profiling) have inadequate resolution and dynamic range for complex proteomes such as those from mammalian cells or tissues. More extensive profiling of complex proteomes would be obtained if the proteomes could be reproducibly divided into a moderate number of well-separated pools. But the utility of any prefractionation is dependent upon the resolution obtained because extensive cross contamination of many proteins among different pools would make quantitative comparisons impractical. The current study used a recently developed microscale solution isoelectrofocusing (musol-IEF) method to separate human breast cancer cell extracts into seven well-resolved pools. High resolution fractionation could be achieved in a series of small volume tandem chambers separated by thin acrylamide partitions containing covalently bound immobilines that establish discrete pH zones to separate proteins based upon their pIs. In contrast to analytical 2-D gels, this prefractionation method was capable of separating very large proteins (up to about 500 kDa) that could be subsequently profiled and quantitated using large-pore 1-D SDS gels. The pH 4.5-6.5 region was divided into four 0.5 pH unit ranges because this region had the greatest number of proteins. By using very narrow pH range fractions, sample amounts applied to narrow pH range 2-D gels could be increased to detect lower abundance proteins. Although 1.0 pH range 2-D gels were used in these experiments, further protein resolution should be feasible by using 2-D gels with pH ranges that are only slightly wider than the pH ranges of the musol-IEF fractions. By combining musol-IEF prefractionation with subsequent large pore 1-D SDS-PAGE (>100 kDa) and narrow range 2-D gels (<100 kDa), large proteins can be reliably quantitated, many more proteins can be resolved, and lower abundance proteins can be detected.
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- Xun Zuo
- The Wistar Institute, 3601 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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Jenkins LW, Peters GW, Dixon CE, Zhang X, Clark RSB, Skinner JC, Marion DW, Adelson PD, Kochanek PM. Conventional and functional proteomics using large format two-dimensional gel electrophoresis 24 hours after controlled cortical impact in postnatal day 17 rats. J Neurotrauma 2002; 19:715-40. [PMID: 12165133 DOI: 10.1089/08977150260139101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Conventional and functional proteomics have significant potential to expand our understanding of traumatic brain injury (TBI) but have not yet been used. The purpose of the present study was to examine global hippocampal protein changes in postnatal day (PND) 17 immature rats 24 h after moderate controlled cortical impact (CCI). Silver nitrate stains or protein kinase B (PKB) phosphoprotein substrate antibodies were used to evaluate high abundance or PKB pathway signal transduction proteins representing conventional and functional proteomic approaches, respectively. Isoelectric focusing was performed over a nonlinear pH range of 3-10 with immobilized pH gradients (IPG strips) using supernatant from the most soluble cellular protein fraction of hippocampal tissue protein lysates from six paired sham and injured PND 17 rats. Approximately 1,500 proteins were found in each silver stained gel with 40% matching of proteins. Of these 600 proteins, 52% showed a twofold, 20% a fivefold, and 10% a 10-fold decrease or increase. Spot matching with existing protein databases revealed changes in important cytoskeletal and cell signalling proteins. PKB substrate protein phosphorylation was best seen in large format two-dimensional blots and known substrates of PKB such as glucose transporter proteins 3 and 4 and forkhead transcription factors, identified based upon molecular mass and charge, showed altered phosphorylation 24 h after injury. These results suggest that combined conventional and functional proteomic approaches are powerful, complementary and synergistic tools revealing multiple protein changes and posttranslational protein modifications that allow for more specific and comprehensive functional assessments after pediatric TBI.
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- L W Jenkins
- Department of Neurosurgery, Safar Center for Resuscitation Research and University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. ljenkins+@pitt.edu
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Candiano G, Musante L, Bruschi M, Ghiggeri GM, Herbert B, Antonucci F, Righetti PG. Two-dimensional maps in soft immobilized pH gradient gels: a new approach to the proteome of the Third Millennium. Electrophoresis 2002; 23:292-7. [PMID: 11840538 DOI: 10.1002/1522-2683(200202)23:2<292::aid-elps292>3.0.co;2-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Same major improvements in proteome analysis of cytosolic and membrane proteins by two-dimensional mapping are here reported. A much improved transfer of proteins from the first to the second dimensional sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS)-gel is obtained by simply diluting the gel matrix, normally composed of 4%T polyacrylamide in all commercially available Immobiline strips down to as low as 3%T. In the analysis of total lysates of platelets, this augmented transfer has been evaluated as being 2-3 times higher than in standard 4%T gels. A second major improvement, in the case of analysis of membrane protein preparations, has been demonstrated to consist in a delipidation step in a tertiary solvent mixture composed of tri-n-butyl phosphate:acetone:methanol in a 1:12:1 ratio. By adopting this protocol, large amounts of spectrins (240-220 kDa, filamentous proteins of the red blood cell membranes) could be transferred vs. essentially none when delipidation was omitted. The present report also confirms the importance of a reduction and alkylation step of the protein sample prior to all electrophoretic steps, including focusing in the Immobiline gel, as recently reported by Herbert et al.
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Herbert BR, Harry JL, Packer NH, Gooley AA, Pedersen SK, Williams KL. What place for polyacrylamide in proteomics? Trends Biotechnol 2001; 19:S3-9. [PMID: 11780968 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7799(01)01796-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (2D-PAGE) continues to deliver high quality protein resolution and dynamic range for the proteomics researcher. To remain as the preferred method for protein separation and characterization, several key steps need to be implemented to ensure quality sample preparation and speed of analysis. Here, we describe the progress made towards establishing 2D-PAGE as the optimal separation tool for proteomics research.
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Herbert BR, Harry JL, Packer NH, Gooley AA, Pedersen SK, Williams KL. What place for polyacrylamide in proteomics? Trends Biotechnol 2001. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7799(01)00002-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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In the last few years there has been an increased effort into the separation, quantification and identification of all proteins in a cell or tissue. This is a review of the role gel electrophoresis, high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), and capillary electrophoresis (CE) play in proteomics research. The capabilities and limitations of each separation technique have been pointed out. Instrumental strategies for the resolution of cell proteins which are based on efficient separation employing either a single high-resolution procedure or a multidimensional approach on-line or off-line, and a mass spectrometer for protein identification have been reviewed. A comparison of the advantages of multi-dimensional separations such as two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, HPLC-HPLC, and HPLC-CE to the separation of cell and tissue proteins are discussed. Also, a discussion of novel approaches to protein concentration, separation, detection, and quantification is given.
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- H J Issaq
- Separation Technology Group, SAIC-Frederick/NCI-Frederick, MD 21702, USA.
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The solubilization of a particular protein is mandatory for its subsequent resolution and detection in two-dimensional gels. However, the extraction solutions, that are compatible with the first-dimensional separation step, such as urea and 3-[(3-cholamidopropyl)dimethylammonio]-1-propanesulfonate (CHAPS), do not solubilize all proteins in a sample. We studied the effect of various common, strong detergents and chaotropes, widely used as solubilizing agents, such as sodium dodecyl sulfate, lithium dodecyl sulfate and guanidine hydrochloride, on the solubilization of the total and membrane proteins of the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae. The proteins solubilized with each system were analyzed by two-dimensional electrophoresis and these of interest were identified by matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization-mass spectrometry (MALDI-MS). Use of sodium dodecyl sulfate, lithium dodecyl sulfate or guanidine hydrochloride for the solubilization of total proteins of the microorganism resulted in the detection of several additional spots, representing mainly outer membrane proteins, in comparison with those detected in the soluble protein fraction. Solubilization of the proteins of the cell envelope fraction with sodium dodecyl sulfate did not result in a more efficient protein detection when compared to the extraction with the urea/CHAPS system. When the dry immobilized pH gradient strips were rehydrated in a solution containing the proteins of the membrane fraction solubilized with sodium dodecyl sulfate or lithium dodecyl sulfate, a larger number of protein spots were detected in comparison with strips that were rehydrated in the urea/CHAPS solution. However, no improvement was observed in comparison with protein application in sample cups. The additional proteins detected with the use of strong detergents and chaotropes are in the majority difficult to solubilize and less hydrophobic proteins.
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- M Fountoulakis
- Genomics Technologies, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Pharmaceutical Research, Basel, Switzerland.
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Washburn MP, Wolters D, Yates JR. Large-scale analysis of the yeast proteome by multidimensional protein identification technology. Nat Biotechnol 2001; 19:242-7. [PMID: 11231557 DOI: 10.1038/85686] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3484] [Impact Index Per Article: 151.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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We describe a largely unbiased method for rapid and large-scale proteome analysis by multidimensional liquid chromatography, tandem mass spectrometry, and database searching by the SEQUEST algorithm, named multidimensional protein identification technology (MudPIT). MudPIT was applied to the proteome of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain BJ5460 grown to mid-log phase and yielded the largest proteome analysis to date. A total of 1,484 proteins were detected and identified. Categorization of these hits demonstrated the ability of this technology to detect and identify proteins rarely seen in proteome analysis, including low-abundance proteins like transcription factors and protein kinases. Furthermore, we identified 131 proteins with three or more predicted transmembrane domains, which allowed us to map the soluble domains of many of the integral membrane proteins. MudPIT is useful for proteome analysis and may be specifically applied to integral membrane proteins to obtain detailed biochemical information on this unwieldy class of proteins.
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- M P Washburn
- Syngenta Agricultural Discovery Institute, 3115 Merryfield Row, Suite 100, San Diego, CA 92121, USA
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Chapter 14 Two-dimensional maps. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2001. [DOI: 10.1016/s0301-4770(01)80046-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Proteomics offers a new set of tools for investigating parasites and parasite-associated disease. In this article, John Barrett, Jim Jefferies and Peter Brophy describe the key technologies involved, including two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, image analysis, biological mass spectroscopy and database searching. The potential applications of proteomics in drug and vaccine discovery are reviewed, as are possible future developments.
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- J Barrett
- Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK SY23 3DA.
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Mass spectrometry (MS) has become the technique of choice to identify proteins. This has been largely accomplished by the combination of high-resolution two-dimensional (2-D) gel separation with robotic sample preparation, automated MS measurement, data analysis, and database query. Developments during the last five years in MS associated with protein gel separation are reviewed.
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- H W Lahm
- F. Hoffmann-LaRoche Ltd., Pharmaceutical Research, Roche Genetics, Basel, Switzerland.
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Proteomics has begun to provide insight into the biology of microorganisms. The combination of proteomics with genetics, molecular biology, protein biochemistry and biophysics is particularly powerful, resulting in novel methods to analyse complex protein mixtures. Emerging proteomic technologies promise to increase the throughput of protein identifications from complex mixtures and allow for the quantification of protein expression levels.
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- M P Washburn
- Department of Molecular Biotechnology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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Cordwell SJ, Nouwens AS, Verrills NM, Basseal DJ, Walsh BJ. Subproteomics based upon protein cellular location and relative solubilities in conjunction with composite two-dimensional electrophoresis gels. Electrophoresis 2000; 21:1094-103. [PMID: 10786883 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1522-2683(20000401)21:6<1094::aid-elps1094>3.0.co;2-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Progress in the field of proteomics is dependent upon an ability to visualise close to an entire protein complement via a given array technology. These efforts have previously centred upon two-dimensional gel electrophoresis in association with immobilised pH gradients in the first dimension. However, limitations in this technology, including the inability to separate hydrophobic, basic, and low copy number proteins have hindered the analysis of complete proteomes. The challenge is now to overcome these limitations through access to new technology and improvements in existing methodologies. Proteomics can no longer be equated with a single two-dimensional electrophoresis gel. Greater information can be obtained using targeted biological approaches based upon sample prefractionation into specific cellular compartments to determine protein location, while novel immobilised pH gradients spanning single pH units can be used to display poorly abundant proteins due to their increased resolving power and loading capacity. In this study, we show the effectiveness of a combined use of two differential subproteomes (as defined by relative solubilities, cellular location and narrow-range immobilised pH gradients) to increase the resolution of proteins contained on two-dimensional gels. We also present new results confirming that this method is capable of displaying up to a further 45% of a given microbial proteome. Subproteomics, utilising up to 40 two-dimensional gels per sample will become a powerful tool for near-to-total proteome analysis in the postgenome era. Furthermore, this new approach can direct biological focus towards molecules of specific interest within complex cells and thus simplify efforts in discovery-based proteome research.
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- S J Cordwell
- Australian Proteome Analysis Facility, Macquarie University.
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Proteomic research, for its part, is benefiting enormously from the last decade of genomic research as we now have archived, annotated and audited sequence databases to correlate and query experimental data. While the two-dimensional electrophoresis (2-DE) gels are still a central part of proteomics, we reflect on the possibilities and realities of the current 2-DE technology with regard to displaying and analysing proteomes. Limitations of analysing whole cell/tissue lysates by 2-DE alone are discussed, and we investigate whether extremely narrow p/ranges (1 pH unit/25 cm) provide a solution to display comprehensive protein expression profiles. We are confronted with a challenging task: the dynamic range of protein expression. We believe that most of the existing technology is capable of displaying many more proteins than is currently achievable by integrating existing and new techniques to prefractionate samples prior to 2-DE display or analysis. The availability of a "proteomics toolbox", consisting of defined reagents, methods, and equipment, would assist a comprehensive analysis of defined biological systems.
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- G L Corthals
- The Garvan Institute of Medical Research, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney NSW, Australia.
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Langen H, Takács B, Evers S, Berndt P, Lahm HW, Wipf B, Gray C, Fountoulakis M. Two-dimensional map of the proteome of Haemophilus influenzae. Electrophoresis 2000; 21:411-29. [PMID: 10675023 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1522-2683(20000101)21:2<411::aid-elps411>3.0.co;2-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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We have constructed a two-dimensional database of the proteome of Haemophilus influenzae, a bacterium of medical interest of which the complete genome, comprising about 1742 open reading frames, has been sequenced. The soluble protein fraction of the microorganism was analyzed by two-dimensional electrophoresis, using immobilized pH gradient strips of various pH regions, gels with different acrylamide concentrations and buffers with different trailing ions. In order to visualize low-copy-number gene products, we employed a series of protein extraction and sample application approaches and several chromatographic steps, including heparin chromatography, chromatofocusing and hydrophobic interaction chromatography. We have also analyzed the cell envelope-bound protein fraction using either immobilized pH gradient strips or a two-detergent system with a cationic detergent in the first and an anionic detergent in the second-dimensional separation. Different proteins (502) were identified by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry and amino acid composition analysis. This is at present one of the largest two-dimensional proteome databases.
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- H Langen
- Genomics Technologies, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., Pharmaceutical Research, Basel, Switzerland
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Fountoulakis M, Schuller E, Hardmeier R, Berndt P, Lubec G. Rat brain proteins: two-dimensional protein database and variations in the expression level. Electrophoresis 1999; 20:3572-9. [PMID: 10612283 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1522-2683(19991201)20:18<3572::aid-elps3572>3.0.co;2-t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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A two-dimensional database of rat brain proteins was constructed. Brain samples from newborn animals were analyzed by two-dimensional electrophoresis and the proteins were identified by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry. The database comprises 210 different proteins, the majority of which are structural components, heat shock proteins and enzymes with various catalytic activities. Several minor differences in the expression level were detected, mainly of quantitative nature, which most likely represent allelic differences. The map may be useful in studies of neurological disorders in animal models of human diseases.
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- M Fountoulakis
- F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Pharmaceutical Research, Genomics Technologies, Basel, Switzerland.
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Detection of low-abundance proteins is essential for the identification of novel drug targets by differential protein expression studies. We studied the enrichment of human fetal brain proteins by heparin chromatography. Total soluble brain proteins were fractionated on Heparin-Actigel and the fractions collected were analyzed by two-dimensional electrophoresis. The proteins were identified by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry. Approximately 300 protein spots were analyzed, representing 70 different polypeptides, 50 of which were bound to the heparin matrix. Eighteen brain proteins were identified for the first time. The proteins enriched by heparin chromatography include both minor and major components of the brain protein extract. The enriched proteins belong to several classes, including proteasome components, dihydropirimidinase-related proteins, T-complex protein 1 components and enzymes with various catalytic activities. The results include a two-dimensional map of the soluble brain proteins and a list of the proteins enriched by heparin chromatography. These may be useful in the design of protein purification protocols and in studies of neurological disorders.
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- K Karlsson
- F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Genomics Technologies, Basel, Switzerland
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