title: Interest of major serum protein removal for Surface-Enhanced Laser Desorption/Ionization - Time Of Flight (SELDI-TOF) proteomic blood profiling.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Surface-Enhanced Laser Desorption/Ionization - Time Of Flight (SELDI-TOF) has been proposed as new approach for blood biomarker discovery. However, results obtained so far have been often disappointing as this technique still has difficulties to detect low-abundant plasma and serum proteins.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We used a serum depletion scheme using chicken antibodies against various abundant proteins to realized a pre-fractionation of serum prior to SELDI-TOF profiling. Depletion of major serum proteins by immunocapture was confirmed by 1D and 2D gel electrophoresis. SELDI-TOF analysis of bound and unbound (depleted) serum fractions revealed that this approach allows the detection of new low abundant protein peaks with satisfactory reproducibility.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The combination of immunocapture and SELDI-TOF analysis opens new avenues into proteomic profiling for the discovery of blood biomarkers.
authors.affiliation: Institut de Génétique Humaine du CNRS, 141 rue de la Cardonille, 34396 Montpellier, France. stephane.roche@igh.cnrs.fr
authors.forename: Stéphane
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Roche
authors.forename: Laurent
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tiers
authors.forename: Monique
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Provansal
authors.forename: Marie-Thérèse
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Piva
authors.forename: Sylvain
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lehmann