植物蛋白质组学研究若干重要进展

植物蛋白质组学近年来正从定性向精确定量蛋白质组学的方向发展。国际上近两年发表的约160篇研究论文报道了利用不断改进的双向电泳结合生物质谱技术、多维蛋白质鉴定技术,以及包括双向荧光差异凝胶电泳、幅N体内代谢标记、同位素标记的亲和标签、同位素标记相对和绝对定量等在内的第2代蛋白质组学技术,对植物组织（器官）与细胞器、植物发育过程和植物响应环境胁迫的蛋白质组特征,以及植物蛋白质翻译后修饰和蛋白质相互作用等方面的研究成果。该文对上述报道进行总结,综述了2007年以来植物蛋白质组学若干重要问题研究的新进展。     

花粉蛋白质组学研究进展

花粉是高度退化的生物体（雄配子体）,在植物有性生殖过程中具有重要作用。解析花粉发育、花粉-柱头识别、萌发和花粉管生长等细胞学过程的分子机制是当前研究的热点问题之一。近年来,应用高通量的蛋白质组学技术平台,对水稻、拟南芥和裸子植物花粉的蛋白质组学研究揭示了花粉中表达蛋白质的功能类群特征。花粉中参与细胞壁代谢、蛋白质代谢、细胞骨架动态和信号转导的蛋白质被高度代表,并且近1／4蛋白质有多个同工型。本文综述了花粉蛋白质组学的研究进展。     

植物蛋白质组学研究若干重要进展

植物蛋白质组学近年来正从定性向精确定量蛋白质组学的方向发展。国际上近两年发表的约160篇研究论文报道了利用不断改进的双向电泳结合生物质谱技术、多维蛋白质鉴定技术, 以及包括双向荧光差异凝胶电泳、15N体内代谢标记、同位素标记的亲和标签、同位素标记相对和绝对定量等在内的第2代蛋白质组学技术, 对植物组织(器官)与细胞器、植物发育过程和植物响应环境胁迫的蛋白质组特征, 以及植物蛋白质翻译后修饰和蛋白质相互作用等方面的研究成果。该文对上述报道进行总结, 综述了2007年以来植物蛋白质组学若干重要问题研究的新进展。     

蛋白质组学研究技术及其在植物抗渗透胁迫研究中的应用

蛋白质组学是功能基因组学研究的热点领域之一。该文介绍了蛋白质组学的基本的和新兴的研究技术方法如蛋白质组样品的制备、双向凝胶电泳、生物质谱技术、蛋白质芯片技术、酵母双杂交系统和生物信息学等,以及蛋白质组学技术在植物抗干旱、盐渍等渗透胁迫研究中的应用。     

乳腺癌蛋白质组学研究

乳腺癌是妇女中最常见的一种癌症,鉴定出与乳腺癌癌变相关的蛋白质以及病情发展过程中蛋白质的变化对揭示乳腺癌变机理及早期诊断是非常重要的。早在蛋白质组学这一概念提出以前,人们已应用2－维凝胶电泳技术（2DE）研究乳腺癌的癌变机理,且随着人类基因序列测序的完成,质谱的应用,以及生物信息学的引入,蛋白质组的研究获得了飞速发展,高通量的蛋白质组研究以及新的技术如激光捕获显微切割（LCM）,表面加强激光解吸／电离飞行时间质谱（SELDI－TOF）,蛋白质阵列,组织阵列等蛋白质组学技术已被用于乳腺癌研究并获得了很快速的发展。乳腺癌蛋白质组学研究已经鉴定了一些具有诊断潜能的生物分子靶标和信号传导因子。介绍了乳腺癌蛋白质组学研究中所使用的最新研究方法和研究进展。     

叶绿体的蛋白质组学研究进展

蛋白质组学是以基因组编码的所有蛋白为研究对象,高通量地从细胞及整体水平上研究蛋白质的组成及其功能的新兴学科。在后基因组时代的今天,蛋白质组学的研究正逐渐深入到生命科学的各个领域,21世纪蛋白质组学将成为生命科学中最热门的学科。蛋白质组分析已成为鉴定植物功能的有力工具之一,叶绿体作为比较重要的细胞器,在植物蛋白质组学中已有较多的研究,,随着双向电泳技术的改进和质谱法的出现,并与不断增多的拟南芥、水稻、玉米等植物的序列数据相结合,叶绿体蛋白质组可以被快速鉴定。本文主要介绍了植物蛋白质组学、叶绿体及其蛋白质组学研究技术和研究进展,并对蛋白质组学的研究趋势进行了展望。     

蛋白质组学在植物水分胁迫应答中的应用研究进展

水分胁迫是影响植物生长发育的主要生长因子。通过蛋白质组学技术可对水分胁迫下植物差异变化的蛋白和基因进行挖掘,在研究植物抗旱生理机制方面意义重大。总结了植物蛋白质组学的基本方法与关键技术,同时从光合与碳代谢相关蛋白、抗氧化系统、渗透调节蛋白、热激蛋白、胚胎发育晚期丰富蛋白、转录因子等方面综述了近几年国际上在植物水分胁迫蛋白质组研究方面的进展,并展望了今后蛋白质组学技术发展的方向。     

花粉蛋白质组学研究进展

花粉是高度退化的生物体(雄配子体), 在植物有性生殖过程中具有重要作用。解析花粉发育、花粉-柱头识别、萌发和花粉管生长等细胞学过程的分子机制是当前研究的热点问题之一。近年来, 应用高通量的蛋白质组学技术平台, 对水稻、拟南芥和裸子植物花粉的蛋白质组学研究揭示了花粉中表达蛋白质的功能类群特征。花粉中参与细胞壁代谢、蛋白质代谢、细胞骨架动态和信号转导的蛋白质被高度代表, 并且近1/4蛋白质有多个同工型。本文综述了花粉蛋白质组学的研究进展。     

蛋白质组学在植物逆境胁迫研究中的进展

蛋白质组学是后基因组时代研究的热点领域之一,自从蛋白质组这个概念被提出以来,其研究一直受到广泛关注,其研究技术也有了极大地进步。植物时刻都面临各种非生物胁迫,包括干旱、冷、盐、金属等,在长期进化过程中,植物形成独特的机制来响应逆境,然而目前对于植物如何适应逆境的分子机制尚未完全阐明。因此蛋白质组学作为一种强有力的研究技术手段,将为研究植物响应胁迫的分子机制提供理论支撑。介绍了蛋白质组学的产生背景、研究技术手段及植物在各种胁迫条件下的蛋白质组学研究、植物亚细胞器的蛋白质组学研究状况,同时对植物蛋白质组学的发展前景进行了展望。     

沙冬青属植物响应非生物胁迫的蛋白质组学研究进展

沙冬青属植物具有抗寒、抗旱、抗盐碱等特性,是研究植物逆境胁迫和筛选天然抗逆基因库的理想材料。非生物胁迫是限制沙冬青属植物生长发育及地理分布的重要因素,研究沙冬青属植物响应非生物胁迫的蛋白质组学为发掘其相关抗逆蛋白质及探索抗逆机理奠定基础。通过对近年来国内外利用蛋白质组学技术研究沙冬青属植物应答逆境胁迫的相关成果进行总结归纳,综述沙冬青属植物对低温、干旱、高盐等非生物胁迫响应的蛋白质组学最新研究进展,探讨在非生物胁迫下沙冬青属植物蛋白质水平的动态变化,揭示特定的蛋白质网络以及相关逆境应答机制,并对蛋白质组学技术应用前景进行展望,以期为沙冬青属植物抗逆分子机制更深入、全面的研究提供参考依据。     

Proteomics and a future generation of plant molecular biologists

Proteomic methods are required for the study of many different aspects of plant function. Important issues in proteomics include the molecular complexity of proteins, given that there are hundreds of thousands of chemically and physically distinct proteins in plants, and the context of protein functions with respect to both genomes and the environment. Available genomic and gene sequences greatly simplify the identification of proteins using improved techniques of mass spectrometry. This improved capability has led to much discussion on proteomes, and some experimentation using proteomic methodologies aimed at modest numbers of proteins. The scale of proteomics is open, for the number of proteins and genes considered at any one time is as dependent on the nature of the scientific question posed as on technical resources and capabilities. We know just enough about plant proteomes to imagine the breathtaking scope of our ignorance. There are tremendous opportunities for new molecular biologists to define the nature of the protein machines that transduce genetic and environmental information, and transform simple energy and matter, to give plants.     

蛋白质组学在病毒致病机理研究中的应用

近年来,蛋白质组学技术成为医学研究的热点。蛋白质组学是高通量的分析正常及病理条件下机体、组织、细胞或亚细胞成分中的全部蛋白质。对不同空间、不同时间上动态变化的蛋白质组的整体进行比较,分析不同蛋白质组之间在表达数量、表达水平和修饰状态上的差异。蛋白质组学分析作为对生物代谢调控分析的技术手段,以病毒为研究的对象和工具,该技术的研究主要集中在新蛋白的发现、致病机理、疫苗的研制及耐药机制等方面。本文主要概述了蛋白质组学在一些动物传染病病毒致病方面研究和应用,分析了蛋白质组学技术对蛋白功能研究存在的问题和未来发展趋势,以便使研究者了解该技术使用的现状,提供理论参考。     

Proteomic dissection of plant responses to various pathogens

During their growth and development, plants are vulnerable to the effects of a variety of pathogens. Proteomics technology plays an important role in research studies of plant defense mechanisms by mining the expression changes of proteins in response to various biotic stresses. This review article provides a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in international proteomic research on plant biotic stress. It summarizes the methods commonly used in plant proteomic research to investigate biotic stress, analyze the protein responses of plants in adverse conditions, and reviews the applications of proteomics combined with transgenic technology in plant protection.     

Structural proteomics by NMR spectroscopy

Structural proteomics is one of the powerful research areas in the postgenomic era, elucidating structure-function relationships of uncharacterized gene products based on the 3D protein structure. It proposes biochemical and cellular functions of unannotated proteins and thereby identifies potential drug design and protein engineering targets. Recently, a number of pioneering groups in structural proteomics research have achieved proof of structural proteomic theory by predicting the 3D structures of hypothetical proteins that successfully identified the biological functions of those proteins. The pioneering groups made use of a number of techniques, including NMR spectroscopy, which has been applied successfully to structural proteomics studies over the past 10 years. In addition, advances in hardware design, data acquisition methods, sample preparation and automation of data analysis have been developed and successfully applied to high-throughput structure determination techniques. These efforts ensure that NMR spectroscopy will become an important methodology for performing structural proteomics research on a genomic scale. NMR-based structural proteomics together with x-ray crystallography will provide a comprehensive structural database to predict the basic biological functions of hypothetical proteins identified by the genome projects.     

Proteomics of human seminal plasma: Identification of biomarker candidates for fertility and infertility and the evolution of technology

Proteomics is a research area that has developed rapidly in the last decade. It studies the large‐scale characterization of the full protein components of a cell, a tissue, or a biological fluid. In the last decade, clinical proteomics has developed new technology and bioinformatics useful in identifying molecular markers of pathology; the next decade might be the era of proteomics. Seminal plasma (SP) represents a good sample for proteomic analysis in the evaluation of male fertility/infertility. SP is an acellular fluid conglomerate, comprised of contributions from the epididymis and accessory sexual glands. Human SP contains many proteins that are important to the successful fertilization of the oocyte by the spermatozoa. Proteomic studies have identified numerous seminal‐specific proteins, and recent reports have provided a further understanding of their function with respect to male fertility. Upon further validation, these proteins may be useful in the clinical distinction between fertility and infertility. This article reviews the proteomic methods, such as one dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (1D–PAGE), two‐dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (2D–PAGE), and mass spectrometry (MS), employed to detect human SP markers involved in fertility and infertility. As such, proteomic studies will help the development of new techniques to identify novel biomarkers for a better clinical diagnosis and treatment of male infertility. Mol. Reprod. Dev. 80: 350–357, 2013. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

Evaluation of chloroform/methanol extraction to facilitate the study of membrane proteins of non-model plants

Membrane proteins are of great interest to plant physiologists because of their important function in many physiological processes. However, their study is hampered by their low abundance and poor solubility in aqueous buffers. Proteomics studies of non-model plants are generally restricted to gel-based methods. Unfortunately, all gel-based techniques for membrane proteomics lack resolving power. Therefore, a very stringent enrichment method is needed before protein separation. In this study, protein extraction in a mixture of chloroform and methanol in combination with gel electrophoresis is evaluated as a method to study membrane proteins in non-model plants. Benefits as well as disadvantages of the method are discussed. To demonstrate the pitfalls of working with non-model plants and to give a proof of principle, the method was first applied to whole leaves of the model plant Arabidopsis. Subsequently, a comparison with proteins extracted from leaves of the non-model plant, banana, was made. To estimate the tissue and organelle specificity of the method, it was also applied on banana meristems. Abundant membrane or lipid-associated proteins could be identified in both tissues, with the leaf extract yielding a higher number of membrane proteins.     

Proteomic studies in plants

Proteomics is a leading technology for the high-throughput analysis of proteins on a genome-wide scale. With the completion of genome sequencing projects and the development of analytical methods for protein characterization, proteomics has become a major field of functional genomics. The initial objective of proteomics was the large-scale identification of all protein species in a cell or tissue. The applications are currently being extended to analyze various functional aspects of proteins such as post-translational modifications, protein-protein interactions, activities and structures. Whereas the proteomics research is quite advanced in animals and yeast as well as Escherichia coli, plant proteomics is only at the initial phase. Major studies of plant proteomics have been reported on subcellular proteomes and protein complexes (e.g. proteins in the plasma membranes, chloroplasts, mitochondria and nuclei). Here several plant proteomics studies will be presented, followed by a recent work using multidimensional protein identification technology (MudPIT).     

Proteomics of filamentous fungi

Proteomic analysis, defined here as the global assessment of cellular proteins expressed in a particular biological state, is a powerful tool that can provide a systematic understanding of events at the molecular level. Proteomic studies of filamentous fungi have only recently begun to appear in the literature, despite the prevalence of these organisms in the biotechnology industry, and their importance as both human and plant pathogens. Here, we review recent publications that have used a proteomic approach to develop a better understanding of filamentous fungi, highlighting sample preparation methods and whole-cell cytoplasmic proteomics, as well as subproteomics of cell envelope, mitochondrial and secreted proteins.     

Update and challenges on proteomics in rice

Rice is not only an important agricultural resource but also a model plant for biological research. Our previous review highlighted different aspects of the construction of rice proteome database, cataloguing rice proteins of different tissues and organelle, differential proteomics using 2-DE and functional characterization of some of the proteins identified (Komatsu, S., Tanaka, N., Proteomics 2005, 5, 938-949). In this review, the powerfulness and weaknesses of proteomic technologies as a whole and limitations of the currently used techniques in rice proteomics are discussed. The information obtained from these techniques regarding proteins modification, protein-protein interaction and the development of new methods for differential proteomics will aid in deciphering more precisely the functions of known and/or unknown proteins in rice.     

Quantitative plant proteomics

Quantitation is an inherent requirement in comparative proteomics and there is no exception to this for plant proteomics. Quantitative proteomics has high demands on the experimental workflow, requiring a thorough design and often a complex multi-step structure. It has to include sufficient numbers of biological and technical replicates and methods that are able to facilitate a quantitative signal read-out. Quantitative plant proteomics in particular poses many additional challenges but because of the nature of plants it also offers some potential advantages. In general, analysis of plants has been less prominent in proteomics. Low protein concentration, difficulties in protein extraction, genome multiploidy, high Rubisco abundance in green tissue, and an absence of well-annotated and completed genome sequences are some of the main challenges in plant proteomics. However, the latter is now changing with several genomes emerging for model plants and crops such as potato, tomato, soybean, rice, maize and barley. This review discusses the current status in quantitative plant proteomics (MS-based and non-MS-based) and its challenges and potentials. Both relative and absolute quantitation methods in plant proteomics from DIGE to MS-based analysis after isotope labeling and label-free quantitation are described and illustrated by published studies. In particular, we describe plant-specific quantitative methods such as metabolic labeling methods that can take full advantage of plant metabolism and culture practices, and discuss other potential advantages and challenges that may arise from the unique properties of plants.