Advances in Tools to Determine the Glycan-Binding Specificities of Lectins and Antibodies

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• •Lectins and glycan-binding antibodies are valuable as probe of glycans.
• •Advanced bioinformatics tools enable the mining of glycan-array data.
• •New insights into protein-glycan interactions have value in biological research.

     

NIST Interlaboratory Study on Glycosylation Analysis of Monoclonal Antibodies: Comparison of Results from Diverse Analytical Methods

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• •A broad-based interlaboratory study of the glycosylation of a reference antibody: NISTmAb.
• •103 reports were received from 76 diverse laboratories worldwide.
• •Analysis involved two samples, the NISTmAb and an enzymatically modified sample, enabling within-lab separation of random and systematic errors using the “Youden two-sample” method.
• •Consensus values were derived and similar performance across all experimental methods was noted.

     

Measuring Site-specific Glycosylation Similarity between Influenza a Virus Variants with Statistical Certainty

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• •Changes in N-linked glycosylation in influenza A virus affect antigenicity of the virus.
• •Glycosylation similarity can be quantified, even in heterogeneously glycosylated proteins.
• •Glycosylation is measurably and site-specifically distinct in influenza from related strains.

     

Acquiring and Analyzing Data Independent Acquisition Proteomics Experiments without Spectrum Libraries

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• •Rapid DIA-only library building with gas-phase fractionation.
• •Recommended DIA acquisition strategies with staggered windows and forbidden zones.
• •Optimized DIA instrument settings for several Thermo Orbitrap instruments.
• •Data analysis tutorial using open source DIA software.

     

Fast Quantitative Analysis of timsTOF PASEF Data with MSFragger and IonQuant

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• •MSFragger now supports raw timsTOF PASEF data.
• •IonQuant performs fast and accurate feature detection and quantification.
• •MSFragger and IonQuant provide excellent performance for timsTOF PASEF data.
• •Flexibility allows for complex analyses, such as semi-enzymatic and open search.

     

OpenPepXL: An Open-Source Tool for Sensitive Identification of Cross-Linked Peptides in XL-MS

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• •OpenPepXL is a new XL-MS identification tool with a high sensitivity.
• •It is available for all common operating systems and remote computing environments.
• •OpenPepXL is open source and supports open OpenPepXL is available as part of OpenMS data formats like mzML and mzIdentML.
• •at https://www.openms.de/openpepxl.

     

Next-generation Interactomics: Considerations for the Use of Co-elution to Measure Protein Interaction Networks

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• •Co-elution stands out as a global interactome mapping method.
• •Benefits include all-to-all protein analysis and measurement of interactome perturbations.
• •Different separation, quantification and bioinformatic strategies are available.
• •Design considerations depend largely on system under study.

     

Proteaphagy in Mammalian Cells Can Function Independent of ATG5/ATG7

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• •Quantitative proteomics of isolated lysosomes, autophagosomes and proteasomes.
• •Pharmacological inhibition of proteasomes leads to their accumulation within lysosomes.
• •Inhibition of classical autophagy pathways cannot completely block this process.
• •Known autophagy adaptor proteins are not involved.

     

The DNA Sensor cGAS is Decorated by Acetylation and Phosphorylation Modifications in the Context of Immune Signaling

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• •cGAS acetylations and phosphorylations under basal and immune-stimulated states.
• •K384 and K414 acetylations and S305 phosphorylation inhibit cGAS-mediated apoptosis.
• •Acetylation at K198 stimulates cGAS-dependent interferon signaling.
• •K198 acetylation is decreased upon herpesvirus infection.

     

Concentration Determination of >200 Proteins in Dried Blood Spots for Biomarker Discovery and Validation

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• •Repeatable quantification of 200 proteins in dried blood spots.
• •Determined lower limit of quantification, repeatability, parallelism and stability.
• •Protein stability in DBS stored at ambient temperatures for up to 2 months.
• •Concentration ranges for 200 proteins in 20 healthy individuals.

     

Combining Precursor and Fragment Information for Improved Detection of Differential Abundance in Data Independent Acquisition

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Highlights

• •Modern DIA methods contain high quality MS1 and MS2.
• •We developed a statistical procedure incorporating MS1 and MS2.
• •Benchmarking, the combined method outperformed the individual use of MS1 or MS2.

     

An Interaction Network of RNA-Binding Proteins Involved in Drosophila Oogenesis

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• •Label-free and dimethyl labeling MS analysis of 6 RBPs from Drosophila ovaries.
• •Functionally related RBPs show overlapping proteomes.
• •Selective co-purification of splicing factors and translational regulators.
• •Validation of 26 novel interactions by co-immunoprecipitation.

     

Phenotypic Adaption of Pseudomonas aeruginosa by Hacking Siderophores Produced by Other Microorganisms

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• •P. aeruginosa grown with exosiderophores and analyzed by proteomic and RT-qPCR.
• •Catechol-type exosiderophores strongly induce the expression of their transporters.
• •Repression of the endogenous iron uptake pathways.
• •Complex phenotypic plasticity in the expression of the various iron-uptake pathways.

     

Genetic Profile and Functional Proteomics of Anal Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Proposal for a Molecular Classification

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• •Two molecular groups in anal squamous carcinoma according proteomic profile.
• •Differences in possible targeted processes such as metabolism or immune response.
• •Different percentage of tumor lymphocyte infiltration.
• •Difference in the frequency of ATM variants, related to PPAR inhibitors.

     

Chemical Genetics of AGC-kinases Reveals Shared Targets of Ypk1, Protein Kinase A and Sch9

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• •Acute inhibition of growth-regulatory AGC-kinases Sch9, PKA and Ypk1.
• •Phospho-proteomic profiling of 6373 phsopho-sites.
• •Ypk1 regulates phospho-sites in RRxS/T-context and functionally overlaps with PKA.
• •Ypk1 and PKA activate trehalase activity of Nth1.

     

DEqMS: A Method for Accurate Variance Estimation in Differential Protein Expression Analysis

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• •DEqMS is a method for statistical analysis of quantitative MS-data.
• •Variance estimates based on the actual MS-data structure.
• •Improved statistical power and accuracy in protein differential analysis.
• •DEqMS is available as a user-friendly R package in Bioconductor.

     

The Proteome of the Dentate Terminal Zone of the Perforant Path Indicates Presynaptic Impairment in Alzheimer Disease

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• •Laser microdissection of highly vulnerable hippocampal region.
• •Proteomic analysis of postmortem human brain tissue of AD and control cases.
• •Decreased levels of presynaptic proteins, but not postsynaptic proteins, in AD.
• •Immunohistochemistry verifies decreased levels of selected presynaptic proteins.

     

Developments and Applications of Functional Protein Microarrays

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Highlights

• •Summarize the development of functional protein microarray.
• •Application of functional proteome microarray in basic research.
• •Application of functional proteome microarray in translational research.
• •Fabrication of functional membrane protein array using virion display method.

     

MaxQuant Software for Ion Mobility Enhanced Shotgun Proteomics

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Highlights

• •Highly parallelizable 4D feature detection in ion mobility enhanced shotgun proteomics.
• •Multidimensional non-linear mass, retention time and ion mobility recalibration.
• •Collision cross section aware matching between runs.
• •Label-free quantification of ion mobility MS data.

     

Immediate Adaptation Analysis Implicates BCL6 as an EGFR-TKI Combination Therapy Target in NSCLC

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• •EGFR-TKI molecular response profiling covering 10138 proteins and 13486 mRNAs.
• •EGFR-TKI combination therapy screen using a library of 528 compounds.
• •Several new candidate EGFR-TKI escape mechanisms and combination therapy targets.
• •Combined targeting of the oncogene BCL6 and EGFR results in synergy in NSCLC cells.