title: A label-free mass spectrometry method for the quantification of protein isotypes.
abstract: Successful quantitative mass spectrometry (MS) requires strategies to link the mass spectrometer response to the analyte abundance, with the response being dependent on more factors than just analyte abundance. Label-dependent strategies rely on the incorporation of an isotopically labeled internal standard into the sample. Current label-free strategies (performed without internal standards) are useful for analyzing samples that are unsuitable for isotopic labeling but are less accurate. Here we describe a label-free technique applicable to analysis of products from related genes (isotypes). This approach enables the invariant tryptic peptide sequences within the family to serve as "built-in" internal standards and the isotype-specific peptide sequences to report the amount of the various isotypes. A process of elimination segregates reliably trypsin-released standard and reporter peptides from unreliably released peptides. The specific MS response factors for these reporter and standard peptides can be determined using synthetic peptides. Analysis of HeLa tubulin digests revealed peptides from betaI-, betaII-, betaIII-, betaIVb-, and betaV-tubulin, eight of which were suitable; along with five standard peptides for quantification of the beta-tubulin isotypes. To show the utility of this method, we determined that betaI-tubulin represented 77% and betaIII-tubulin represented 3.2% of the total HeLa beta-tubulin.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA.
authors.forename: Robert D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Winefield
authors.forename: Todd D
authors.initials: TD
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.forename: Richard H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Himes
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid / Q000379:methods*; D006367:HeLa Cells; D006801:Humans; D013058:Mass Spectrometry / Q000379:methods*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010455:Peptides / Q000032:analysis*; D020033:Protein Isoforms / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D014357:Trypsin / Q000378:metabolism; D014404:Tubulin / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D010455:Peptides; D020033:Protein Isoforms; D014404:Tubulin; D014357:Trypsin
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