Improved proteome coverage by using high efficiency cysteinyl peptide enrichment: the human mammary epithelial cell proteome.
Automated multidimensional capillary liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) has been increasingly applied in various large scale proteome profiling efforts. However, comprehensive global proteome analysis remains technically challenging due to issues associated with sample complexity and dynamic range of protein abundances, which is particularly apparent in mammalian biological systems. We report here the application of a high efficiency cysteinyl peptide enrichment (CPE) approach to the global proteome analysis of human mammary epithelial cells (HMECs) which significantly improved both sequence coverage of protein identifications and the overall proteome coverage. The cysteinyl peptides were specifically enriched by using a thiol-specific covalent resin, fractionated by strong cation exchange chromatography, and subsequently analyzed by reversed-phase capillary LC-MS/MS. An HMEC tryptic digest without CPE was also fractionated and analyzed under the same conditions for comparison. The combined analyses of HMEC tryptic digests with and without CPE resulted in a total of 14 416 confidently identified peptides covering 4294 different proteins with an estimated 10% gene coverage of the human genome. By using the high efficiency CPE, an additional 1096 relatively low abundance proteins were identified, resulting in 34.3% increase in proteome coverage; 1390 proteins were observed with increased sequence coverage. Comparative protein distribution analyses revealed that the CPE method is not biased with regard to protein M(r) , pI, cellular location, or biological functions. These results demonstrate that the use of the CPE approach provides improved efficiency in comprehensive proteome-wide analyses of highly complex mammalian biological systems.
Liu
Tao
T
Biological Sciences Division and Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA.
Qian
Wei-Jun
WJ
Chen
Wan-Nan U
WN
Jacobs
Jon M
JM
Moore
Ronald J
RJ
Anderson
David J
DJ
Gritsenko
Marina A
MA
Monroe
Matthew E
ME
Thrall
Brian D
BD
Camp
David G
DG
Smith
Richard D
RD
D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D002853:Chromatography, Liquid / Q000379:methods*; D003545:Cysteine / Q000378:metabolism*; D004847:Epithelial Cells / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D042361:Mammary Glands, Human / Q000166:cytology*; D013058:Mass Spectrometry / Q000379:methods*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D015394:Molecular Structure; D010455:Peptides / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D020543:Proteome / Q000032:analysis*
D010455:Peptides; D020543:Proteome; D003545:Cysteine
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