title: The Use of Titanium Dioxide for Selective Enrichment of Phosphorylated Peptides.
abstract: Titanium dioxide (TiO2) has very high affinity for phosphopeptides and in recent years it has become one of the most popular methods for phosphopeptide enrichment from complex biological samples. Peptide loading onto TiO2 resin in a highly acidic environment in the presence of 2,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid (DHB), phthalic acid, lactic acid, or glycolic acid has been shown to improve selectivity significantly by reducing unspecific binding of non-phosphorylated peptides. The phosphopeptides bound to the TiO2 are subsequently eluted from the chromatographic material using an alkaline buffer. TiO2 chromatography is extremely tolerant towards most buffers used in biological experiments, highly robust and as such it has become the method of choice in large-scale phosphoproteomics. Here we describe a batch mode protocol for phosphopeptide enrichment using TiO2 chromatographic material followed by desalting and concentration of the sample by reversed phase micro-columns prior to downstream MS and LC-MS/MS analysis.
authors.affiliation: Division of Translational Cancer Research, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.|Lund Stem Cell Center, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
authors.forename: Tine E
authors.initials: TE
authors.lastname: Thingholm
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230, Odense M, Denmark. mrl@bmb.sdu.dk.
authors.forename: Martin R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Larsen
mesh_terms: D000327:Adsorption; D000818:Animals; D002846:Chromatography, Affinity; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D056148:Chromatography, Reverse-Phase; D019295:Computational Biology; D030562:Databases, Protein; D006367:HeLa Cells; D006801:Humans; D010748:Phosphopeptides / Q000819:agonists* / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D010766:Phosphorylation; D011485:Protein Binding; D011499:Protein Processing, Post-Translational; D040901:Proteomics / Q000379:methods*; D019032:Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization; D013499:Surface Properties; D053719:Tandem Mass Spectrometry; D014025:Titanium / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D057188:Workflow
chemical_list: D010748:Phosphopeptides; C009495:titanium dioxide; D014025:Titanium
keywords: Mass spectrometry; Phosphopeptide enrich ment; Protein phosphorylation; Titanium dioxide chromatography