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Runnebohm AM, Wijeratne HRS, Justice SAP, Wijeratne AB, Roy G, Singh N, Hergenrother P, Boothman DA, Motea EA, Mosley AL. IB-DNQ and Rucaparib dual treatment alters cell cycle regulation and DNA repair in triple negative breast cancer cells. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.05.15.594427. [PMID: 38798459 PMCID: PMC11118307 DOI: 10.1101/2024.05.15.594427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2024]
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Background Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC), characterized by the lack of three canonical receptors, is unresponsive to commonly used hormonal therapies. One potential TNBC-specific therapeutic target is NQO1, as it is highly expressed in many TNBC patients and lowly expressed in non-cancer tissues. DNA damage induced by NQO1 bioactivatable drugs in combination with Rucaparib-mediated inhibition of PARP1-dependent DNA repair synergistically induces cell death. Methods To gain a better understanding of the mechanisms behind this synergistic effect, we used global proteomics, phosphoproteomics, and thermal proteome profiling to analyze changes in protein abundance, phosphorylation and protein thermal stability. Results Very few protein abundance changes resulted from single or dual agent treatment; however, protein phosphorylation and thermal stability were impacted. Histone H2AX was among several proteins identified to have increased phosphorylation when cells were treated with the combination of IB-DNQ and Rucaparib, validating that the drugs induced persistent DNA damage. Thermal proteome profiling revealed destabilization of H2AX following combination treatment, potentially a result of the increase in phosphorylation. Kinase substrate enrichment analysis predicted altered activity for kinases involved in DNA repair and cell cycle following dual agent treatment. Further biophysical analysis of these two processes revealed alterations in SWI/SNF complex association and tubulin / p53 interactions. Conclusions Our findings that the drugs target DNA repair and cell cycle regulation, canonical cancer treatment targets, in a way that is dependent on increased expression of a protein selectively found to be upregulated in cancers without impacting protein abundance illustrate that multi-omics methodologies are important to gain a deeper understanding of the mechanisms behind treatment induced cancer cell death.
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- Avery M Runnebohm
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
- Department of Biology, Marian University, Indianapolis, IN
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
- IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center, Indianapolis, IN
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
- IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center, Indianapolis, IN
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
- IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center, Indianapolis, IN
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
- IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center, Indianapolis, IN
- Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
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George AL, Dueñas ME, Marín-Rubio JL, Trost M. Stability-based approaches in chemoproteomics. Expert Rev Mol Med 2024; 26:e6. [PMID: 38604802 PMCID: PMC11062140 DOI: 10.1017/erm.2024.6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2023] [Revised: 01/17/2024] [Accepted: 02/22/2024] [Indexed: 04/13/2024]
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Target deconvolution can help understand how compounds exert therapeutic effects and can accelerate drug discovery by helping optimise safety and efficacy, revealing mechanisms of action, anticipate off-target effects and identifying opportunities for therapeutic expansion. Chemoproteomics, a combination of chemical biology with mass spectrometry has transformed target deconvolution. This review discusses modification-free chemoproteomic approaches that leverage the change in protein thermodynamics induced by small molecule ligand binding. Unlike modification-based methods relying on enriching specific protein targets, these approaches offer proteome-wide evaluations, driven by advancements in mass spectrometry sensitivity, increasing proteome coverage and quantitation methods. Advances in methods based on denaturation/precipitation by thermal or chemical denaturation, or by protease degradation are evaluated, emphasising the evolving landscape of chemoproteomics and its potential impact on future drug-development strategies.
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- Amy L. George
- Laboratory for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK
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- Laboratory for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK
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- Laboratory for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK
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- Laboratory for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK
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Gerault MA, Granjeaud S, Camoin L, Nordlund P, Dai L. IMPRINTS.CETSA and IMPRINTS.CETSA.app: an R package and a Shiny application for the analysis and interpretation of IMPRINTS-CETSA data. Brief Bioinform 2024; 25:bbae128. [PMID: 38557673 PMCID: PMC10982947 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbae128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2023] [Revised: 02/10/2024] [Accepted: 03/11/2024] [Indexed: 04/04/2024] Open
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IMPRINTS-CETSA (Integrated Modulation of Protein Interaction States-Cellular Thermal Shift Assay) provides a highly resolved means to systematically study the interactions of proteins with other cellular components, including metabolites, nucleic acids and other proteins, at the proteome level, but no freely available and user-friendly data analysis software has been reported. Here, we report IMPRINTS.CETSA, an R package that provides the basic data processing framework for robust analysis of the IMPRINTS-CETSA data format, from preprocessing and normalization to visualization. We also report an accompanying R package, IMPRINTS.CETSA.app, which offers a user-friendly Shiny interface for analysis and interpretation of IMPRINTS-CETSA results, with seamless features such as functional enrichment and mapping to other databases at a single site. For the hit generation part, the diverse behaviors of protein modulations have been typically segregated with a two-measure scoring method, i.e. the abundance and thermal stability changes. We present a new algorithm to classify modulated proteins in IMPRINTS-CETSA experiments by a robust single-measure scoring. In this way, both the numerical changes and the statistical significances of the IMPRINTS information can be visualized on a single plot. The IMPRINTS.CETSA and IMPRINTS.CETSA.app R packages are freely available on GitHub at https://github.com/nkdailingyun/IMPRINTS.CETSA and https://github.com/mgerault/IMPRINTS.CETSA.app, respectively. IMPRINTS.CETSA.app is also available as an executable program at https://zenodo.org/records/10636134.
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- Marc-Antoine Gerault
- Department of Oncology and Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
- Aix-Marseille Univ, INSERM, CNRS, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, CRCM, Marseille Protéomique, F-13009 Marseille, France
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- Aix-Marseille Univ, INSERM, CNRS, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, CRCM, Marseille Protéomique, F-13009 Marseille, France
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- Aix-Marseille Univ, INSERM, CNRS, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, CRCM, Marseille Protéomique, F-13009 Marseille, France
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- Department of Oncology and Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, A*STAR, 138673, Singapore
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- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, A*STAR, 138673, Singapore
- Department of Geriatrics, and Shenzhen Clinical Research Centre for Geriatrics, The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518020, China
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Bai L, Deng Z, Xu M, Zhang Z, Guo G, Xue X, Wang S, Yang J, Xia Z. CETSA-MS-based target profiling of anti-aging natural compound quercetin. Eur J Med Chem 2024; 267:116203. [PMID: 38342014 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2024.116203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2023] [Revised: 01/16/2024] [Accepted: 01/31/2024] [Indexed: 02/13/2024]
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BACKGROUND Quercetin is widely distributed in nature and abundant in the human diet, which exhibits diverse biological activities and potential medical benefits. However, there remains a lack of comprehensive understanding about its cellular targets, impeding its in-depth mechanistic studies and clinical applications. PURPOSE This study aimed to profile protein targets of quercetin at the proteome level. METHODS A label-free CETSA-MS proteomics technique was employed for target enrichment and identification. The R package Inflect was used for melting curve fitting and target selection. D3Pocket and LiBiSco tools were used for binding pocket prediction and binding pocket analysis. Western blotting, molecular docking, site-directed mutagenesis and pull-down assays were used for target verification and validation. RESULTS We curated a library of direct binding targets of quercetin in cells. This library comprises 37 proteins that show increased thermal stability upon quercetin binding and 33 proteins that display decreased thermal stability. Through Western blotting, molecular docking, site-directed mutagenesis and pull-down assays, we validated CBR1 and GSK3A from the stabilized protein group and MAPK1 from the destabilized group as direct binding targets of quercetin. Moreover, we characterized the shared chemical properties of the binding pockets of quercetin with targets. CONCLUSION Our findings deepen our understanding of the proteins pivotal to the bioactivity of quercetin and lay the groundwork for further exploration into its mechanisms of action and potential clinical applications.
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- Lin Bai
- Clinical Systems Biology Laboratories, Translational Medicine Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450052, Henan, China
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- Clinical Systems Biology Laboratories, Translational Medicine Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450052, Henan, China
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- Clinical Systems Biology Laboratories, Translational Medicine Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450052, Henan, China
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Life Science, Faculty of Natural Science, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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- Clinical Systems Biology Laboratories, Translational Medicine Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450052, Henan, China; Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China; Henan Key Laboratory of Cerebrovascular Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- Clinical Systems Biology Laboratories, Translational Medicine Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450052, Henan, China
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- Clinical Systems Biology Laboratories, Translational Medicine Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450052, Henan, China
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- Clinical Systems Biology Laboratories, Translational Medicine Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450052, Henan, China
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- Clinical Systems Biology Laboratories, Translational Medicine Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450052, Henan, China; Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China; Henan Key Laboratory of Cerebrovascular Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
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Figueroa-Navedo AM, Ivanov AR. Experimental and data analysis advances in thermal proteome profiling. CELL REPORTS METHODS 2024; 4:100717. [PMID: 38412830 PMCID: PMC10921035 DOI: 10.1016/j.crmeth.2024.100717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2023] [Revised: 12/17/2023] [Accepted: 02/05/2024] [Indexed: 02/29/2024]
Abstract
Method development for mass spectrometry (MS)-based thermal shift proteomic assays have advanced to probe small molecules with known and unknown protein-ligand interaction mechanisms and specificity, which is predominantly used in characterization of drug-protein interactions. In the discovery of target and off-target protein-ligand interactions, a thorough investigation of method development and their impact on the sensitivity and accuracy of protein-small molecule and protein-protein interactions is warranted. In this review, we discuss areas of improvement at each stage of thermal proteome profiling data analysis that includes processing of MS-based data, method development, and their effect on the overall quality of thermal proteome profiles. We also overview the optimization of experimental strategies and prioritization of an increased number of independent biological replicates over the number of evaluated temperatures.
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- Amanda M Figueroa-Navedo
- Barnett Institute of Chemical and Biological Analysis, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Barnett Institute of Chemical and Biological Analysis, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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Berning L, Lenz T, Bergmann AK, Poschmann G, Brass HUC, Schlütermann D, Friedrich A, Mendiburo MJ, David C, Akgün S, Pietruszka J, Stühler K, Stork B. The Golgi stacking protein GRASP55 is targeted by the natural compound prodigiosin. Cell Commun Signal 2023; 21:275. [PMID: 37798768 PMCID: PMC10552397 DOI: 10.1186/s12964-023-01275-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2023] [Accepted: 08/13/2023] [Indexed: 10/07/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The bacterial secondary metabolite prodigiosin has been shown to exert anticancer, antimalarial, antibacterial and immunomodulatory properties. With regard to cancer, it has been reported to affect cancer cells but not non-malignant cells, rendering prodigiosin a promising lead compound for anticancer drug discovery. However, a direct protein target has not yet been experimentally identified. METHODS We used mass spectrometry-based thermal proteome profiling in order to identify target proteins of prodigiosin. For target validation, we employed a genetic knockout approach and electron microscopy. RESULTS We identified the Golgi stacking protein GRASP55 as target protein of prodigiosin. We show that prodigiosin treatment severely affects Golgi morphology and functionality, and that prodigiosin-dependent cytotoxicity is partially reduced in GRASP55 knockout cells. We also found that prodigiosin treatment results in decreased cathepsin activity and overall blocks autophagic flux, whereas co-localization of the autophagosomal marker LC3 and the lysosomal marker LAMP1 is clearly promoted. Finally, we observed that autophagosomes accumulate at GRASP55-positive structures, pointing towards an involvement of an altered Golgi function in the autophagy-inhibitory effect of this natural compound. CONCLUSION Taken together, we propose that prodigiosin affects autophagy and Golgi apparatus integrity in an interlinked mode of action involving the regulation of organelle alkalization and the Golgi stacking protein GRASP55. Video Abstract.
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- Lena Berning
- Institute of Molecular Medicine I, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, 40225, Germany
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- Molecular Proteomics Laboratory, Biological Medical Research Centre, Heinrich Heine University, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Core Facility for Electron Microscopy, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, 40225, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Medicine I, Proteome Research, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, 40225, Germany
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- Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf at Forschungszentrum Jülich and Bioeconomy Science Center (BioSC), 52426, Jülich, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Medicine I, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, 40225, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Medicine I, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, 40225, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Medicine I, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, 40225, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Medicine I, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, 40225, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Medicine I, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, 40225, Germany
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- Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf at Forschungszentrum Jülich and Bioeconomy Science Center (BioSC), 52426, Jülich, Germany
- Institute of Bio- and Geosciences: Biotechnology (IBG-1), Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52428, Jülich, Germany
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- Molecular Proteomics Laboratory, Biological Medical Research Centre, Heinrich Heine University, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Institute of Molecular Medicine I, Proteome Research, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, 40225, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Medicine I, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, 40225, Germany.
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McCracken NA, Liu H, Runnebohm AM, Wijeratne HRS, Wijeratne AB, Staschke KA, Mosley AL. Obtaining Functional Proteomics Insights From Thermal Proteome Profiling Through Optimized Melt Shift Calculation and Statistical Analysis With InflectSSP. Mol Cell Proteomics 2023; 22:100630. [PMID: 37562535 PMCID: PMC10494267 DOI: 10.1016/j.mcpro.2023.100630] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2022] [Revised: 07/20/2023] [Accepted: 08/03/2023] [Indexed: 08/12/2023] Open
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Thermal proteome profiling (TPP) is an invaluable tool for functional proteomics studies that has been shown to discover changes associated with protein-ligand, protein-protein, and protein-RNA interaction dynamics along with changes in protein stability resulting from cellular signaling. The increasing number of reports employing this assay has not been met concomitantly with new approaches leading to advancements in the quality and sensitivity of the corresponding data analysis. The gap between data acquisition and data analysis tools is important to fill as TPP findings have reported subtle melt shift changes related to signaling events such as protein posttranslational modifications. In this study, we have improved the Inflect data analysis pipeline (now referred to as InflectSSP, available at https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=InflectSSP) to increase the sensitivity of detection for both large and subtle changes in the proteome as measured by TPP. Specifically, InflectSSP now has integrated statistical and bioinformatic functions to improve objective functional proteomics findings from the quantitative results obtained from TPP studies through increasing both the sensitivity and specificity of the data analysis pipeline. InflectSSP incorporates calculation of a "melt coefficient" into the pipeline with production of average melt curves for biological replicate studies to aid in identification of proteins with significant melts. To benchmark InflectSSP, we have reanalyzed two previously reported datasets to demonstrate the performance of our publicly available R-based program for TPP data analysis. We report new findings following temporal treatment of human cells with the small molecule thapsigargin that induces the unfolded protein response as a consequence of inhibition of sarcoplasmic/endoplasmic reticulum calcium ATPase 2A. InflectSSP analysis of our unfolded protein response study revealed highly reproducible and statistically significant target engagement over a time course of treatment while simultaneously providing new insights into the possible mechanisms of action of the small molecule thapsigargin.
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- Neil A McCracken
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
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- Biostatistics and Health Data Science, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States; Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Rutgers School of Public Health, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States; Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
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George AL, Sidgwick FR, Watt JE, Martin MP, Trost M, Marín-Rubio JL, Dueñas ME. Comparison of Quantitative Mass Spectrometric Methods for Drug Target Identification by Thermal Proteome Profiling. J Proteome Res 2023; 22:2629-2640. [PMID: 37439223 PMCID: PMC10407934 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.3c00111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2023] [Indexed: 07/14/2023]
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Thermal proteome profiling (TPP) provides a powerful approach to studying proteome-wide interactions of small therapeutic molecules and their target and off-target proteins, complementing phenotypic-based drug screens. Detecting differences in thermal stability due to target engagement requires high quantitative accuracy and consistent detection. Isobaric tandem mass tags (TMTs) are used to multiplex samples and increase quantification precision in TPP analysis by data-dependent acquisition (DDA). However, advances in data-independent acquisition (DIA) can provide higher sensitivity and protein coverage with reduced costs and sample preparation steps. Herein, we explored the performance of different DIA-based label-free quantification approaches compared to TMT-DDA for thermal shift quantitation. Acute myeloid leukemia cells were treated with losmapimod, a known inhibitor of MAPK14 (p38α). Label-free DIA approaches, and particularly the library-free mode in DIA-NN, were comparable of TMT-DDA in their ability to detect target engagement of losmapimod with MAPK14 and one of its downstream targets, MAPKAPK3. Using DIA for thermal shift quantitation is a cost-effective alternative to labeled quantitation in the TPP pipeline.
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- Amy L. George
- Laboratory
for Biological Mass Spectrometry, Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE2 4HH, U.K.
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- Laboratory
for Biological Mass Spectrometry, Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE2 4HH, U.K.
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- Newcastle
Cancer Centre, Northern Institute for Cancer Research, Medical School, Newcastle University, Paul O’Gorman Building, Framlington Place, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, U.K.
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- Newcastle
Cancer Centre, Northern Institute for Cancer Research, Medical School, Newcastle University, Paul O’Gorman Building, Framlington Place, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, U.K.
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- Laboratory
for Biological Mass Spectrometry, Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE2 4HH, U.K.
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- Laboratory
for Biological Mass Spectrometry, Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE2 4HH, U.K.
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- Laboratory
for Biological Mass Spectrometry, Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE2 4HH, U.K.
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Tu Y, Tan L, Tao H, Li Y, Liu H. CETSA and thermal proteome profiling strategies for target identification and drug discovery of natural products. PHYTOMEDICINE : INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHYTOTHERAPY AND PHYTOPHARMACOLOGY 2023; 116:154862. [PMID: 37216761 DOI: 10.1016/j.phymed.2023.154862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2023] [Revised: 04/21/2023] [Accepted: 05/04/2023] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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BACKGROUND Monitoring target engagement at various stages of drug development is essential for natural product (NP)-based drug discovery and development. The cellular thermal shift assay (CETSA) developed in 2013 is a novel, broadly applicable, label-free biophysical assay based on the principle of ligand-induced thermal stabilization of target proteins, which enables direct assessment of drug-target engagement in physiologically relevant contexts, including intact cells, cell lysates and tissues. This review aims to provide an overview of the work principles of CETSA and its derivative strategies and their recent progress in protein target validation, target identification and drug lead discovery of NPs. METHODS A literature-based survey was conducted using the Web of Science and PubMed databases. The required information was reviewed and discussed to highlight the important role of CETSA-derived strategies in NP studies. RESULTS After nearly ten years of upgrading and evolution, CETSA has been mainly developed into three formats: classic Western blotting (WB)-CETSA for target validation, thermal proteome profiling (TPP, also known as MS-CETSA) for unbiased proteome-wide target identification, and high-throughput (HT)-CETSA for drug hit discovery and lead optimization. Importantly, the application possibilities of a variety of TPP approaches for the target discovery of bioactive NPs are highlighted and discussed, including TPP-temperature range (TPP-TR), TPP-compound concentration range (TPP-CCR), two-dimensional TPP (2D-TPP), cell surface-TPP (CS-TPP), simplified TPP (STPP), thermal stability shift-based fluorescence difference in 2D gel electrophoresis (TS-FITGE) and precipitate supported TPP (PSTPP). In addition, the key advantages, limitations and future outlook of CETSA strategies for NP studies are discussed. CONCLUSION The accumulation of CETSA-based data can significantly accelerate the elucidation of the mechanism of action and drug lead discovery of NPs, and provide strong evidence for NP treatment against certain diseases. The CETSA strategy will certainly bring a great return far beyond the initial investment and open up more possibilities for future NP-based drug research and development.
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- Yanbei Tu
- School of Pharmacy, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu 212013, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau, Taipa, Macao SAR 999078, China
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- School of Food and Biological Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu 212013, China
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- School of Chemical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610065, China.
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- School of Pharmacy, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu 212013, China.
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Hyer CD, Lin HJL, Haderlie CT, Berg M, Price JC. C Half: Folding Stability Made Simple. J Proteome Res 2023; 22:605-614. [PMID: 36707058 PMCID: PMC9904287 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.2c00619] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2022] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
Abstract
The structure of a protein defines its function and integrity and correlates with the protein folding stability (PFS). Quantifying PFS allows researchers to assess differential stability of proteins in different disease or ligand binding states, providing insight into protein efficacy and potentially serving as a metric of protein quality. There are a number of mass spectrometry (MS)-based methods to assess PFS, such as Thermal Protein Profiling (TPP), Stability of Proteins from Rates of Oxidation (SPROX), and Iodination Protein Stability Assay (IPSA). Despite the critical value that PFS studies add to the understanding of mechanisms of disease and treatment development, proteomics research is still primarily dominated by concentration-based studies. We found that a major reason for the lack of PFS studies is the lack of a user-friendly data processing tool. Here we present the first user-friendly software, CHalf, with a graphical user interface for calculating PFS. Besides calculating site-specific PFS of a given protein from chemical denature folding stability assays, CHalf is also compatible with thermal denature folding stability assays. CHalf also includes a set of data visualization tools to help identify changes in PFS across protein sequences and in between different treatment conditions. We expect the introduction of CHalf to lower the barrier of entry for researchers to investigate PFS, promoting the usage of PFS in studies. In the long run, we expect this increase in PFS research to accelerate our understanding of the pathogenesis and pathophysiology of disease.
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- Chad D. Hyer
- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Brigham Young
University, Provo, Utah84602, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Brigham Young
University, Provo, Utah84602, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Brigham Young
University, Provo, Utah84602, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Brigham Young
University, Provo, Utah84602, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Brigham Young
University, Provo, Utah84602, United States
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Small Molecule Arranged Thermal Proximity Co aggregation (smarTPCA)-A Novel Approach to Characterize Protein-Protein Interactions in Living Cells by Similar Isothermal Dose-Responses. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23105605. [PMID: 35628420 PMCID: PMC9147192 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23105605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2022] [Revised: 05/06/2022] [Accepted: 05/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
Abstract
Chemical biology and the application of small molecules has proven to be a potent perturbation strategy, especially for the functional elucidation of proteins, their networks, and regulators. In recent years, the cellular thermal shift assay (CETSA) and its proteome-wide extension, thermal proteome profiling (TPP), have proven to be effective tools for identifying interactions of small molecules with their target proteins, as well as off-targets in living cells. Here, we asked the question whether isothermal dose-response (ITDR) CETSA can be exploited to characterize secondary effects downstream of the primary binding event, such as changes in post-translational modifications or protein-protein interactions (PPI). By applying ITDR-CETSA to MAPK14 kinase inhibitor treatment of living HL-60 cells, we found similar dose-responses for the direct inhibitor target and its known interaction partners MAPKAPK2 and MAPKAPK3. Extension of the dose-response similarity comparison to the proteome wide level using TPP with compound concentration range (TPP-CCR) revealed not only the known MAPK14 interaction partners MAPKAPK2 and MAPKAPK3, but also the potentially new intracellular interaction partner MYLK. We are confident that dose-dependent small molecule treatment in combination with ITDR-CETSA or TPP-CCR similarity assessment will not only allow discrimination between primary and secondary effects, but will also provide a novel method to study PPI in living cells without perturbation by protein modification, which we named "small molecule arranged thermal proximity coaggregation" (smarTPCA).
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Ji H, Lu X, Zheng Z, Sun S, Tan CSH. ProSAP: a GUI software tool for statistical analysis and assessment of thermal stability data. Brief Bioinform 2022; 23:6542221. [PMID: 35246677 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbac057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2021] [Revised: 01/18/2022] [Accepted: 02/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Abstract
The Cellular Thermal Shift Assay (CETSA) plays an important role in drug-target identification, and statistical analysis is a crucial step significantly affecting conclusion. We put forward ProSAP (Protein Stability Analysis Pod), an open-source, cross-platform and user-friendly software tool, which provides multiple methods for thermal proteome profiling (TPP) analysis, nonparametric analysis (NPA), proteome integral solubility alteration and isothermal shift assay (iTSA). For testing the performance of ProSAP, we processed several datasets and compare the performance of different algorithms. Overall, TPP analysis is more accurate with fewer false positive targets, but NPA methods are flexible and free from parameters. For iTSA, edgeR and DESeq2 identify more true targets than t-test and Limma, but when it comes to ranking, the four methods show not much difference. ProSAP software is available at https://github.com/hcji/ProSAP and https://zenodo.org/record/5763315.
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Affiliation(s)
- Hongchao Ji
- Department of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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