title: [Detection of serum proteins in the patients of lung adenocarcinoma by the method of magnetic bead based sample fractionation and MALDI-TOF-MS].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To screen the serum proteins related to human lung adenocarcinoma using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF-MS) technology.
  
  
  METHODS
  The blood samples were collected from 10 patients of lung adenocarcinoma before and one week after the surgery, while 10 healthy subjects were used as control. The differential protein expression between the two groups and the change of those proteins after surgery were studied by ClinProt magnetic bead enrichment and MALDI-TOF-MS.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Six protein peaks were identified, 2 of them were highly expressed protein biomarkers with relative molecular weights of 2661, 2991, and increased after the surgery, 4 of them were lowly expressed protein biomarkers with relative molecular weights of 4091, 4210, 4644, 5336, which continuously decreased after the surgery.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  ClinProt magnetic bead enrichment and MALDI-TOF-MS is a quick, easy and sensitive method of proteomics. The differential expressed proteins may be the latent tumor marker of lung adenocarcinoma. The alteration of those proteins after surgery might be helpful to assess the therapeutic effect and prognosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Respiratory Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Lun-Xu
authors.initials: LX
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Quan
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Yuan
authors.forename: Xiao-Liang
authors.initials: XL
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Na
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Xiao-Dong
authors.initials: XD
authors.lastname: Yang
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000097:blood* / Q000601:surgery; D000368:Aged; D001798:Blood Proteins / Q000032:analysis*; D005591:Chemical Fractionation / Q000379:methods; D019411:Clinical Laboratory Techniques / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000097:blood* / Q000601:surgery; D008280:Magnetics; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D020543:Proteome / Q000032:analysis*; D040901:Proteomics / Q000379:methods; D019032:Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D001798:Blood Proteins; D020543:Proteome