Phosphoproteomic Approaches to Discover Novel Substrates of Mycobacterial Ser/Thr Protein Kinases

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• •Mapping kinase-substrate relationships is vital in discovering new tuberculosis drug targets.
• •LC-MS/MS-based phosphoproteomics expand mycobacterial STPK substrate catalogues.
• •We review and integrate MS-generated datasets on novel candidate substrates.
• •Validation studies are necessary to confirm true physiological substrates of STPKs.

     

Proteome-wide Analysis Reveals Substrates of E3 Ligase RNF146 Targeted for Degradation

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• •Proteome analyses reveal RNF146 and TNKS1/2 substrates targeted for degradation.
• •RNF146 KO and TNKS1/2 DKO cells display significantly different proteomes.
• •RNF146 has both TNKS-dependent and -independent substrates.

     

The Capture of a Disabled Proteasome Identifies Erg25 as a Substrate for Endoplasmic Reticulum Associated Degradation

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• •Epitope-tagging of a proteasome subunit allows for facile immuno-isolation.
• •An engineered yeast strain permits capture of proteasome-associated substrates.
• •MS/MS identified all 33 resident proteasome subunits in the 20S and 19S particles.
• •Analysis of associated proteins and characterization of newly identified ERAD substrate.

     

Peptidomic Analysis of Urine from Youths with Early Type 1 Diabetes Reveals Novel Bioactivity of Uromodulin Peptides In Vitro

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• •Urinary peptide profiling of youths with type 1 diabetes before clinical injury.
• •Internal validation of uromodulin peptides by parallel reaction monitoring.
• •Discovery of novel bioactivity of uromodulin peptides in vitro.
• •In silico prediction of proteases involved in uromodulin processing.

     

Single-cell Proteomics: Progress and Prospects

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• •Label-free and isobaric labeling approaches for in-depth profiling of single cells.
• •Miniaturization and simplification of sample processing reduce surface losses.
• •Nanoflow separations enhance ionization efficiency and reduced chemical noise.
• •Ultrasensitive mass spectrometry and gas-phase separation add selectivity.

     

Characterization of Prenylated C-terminal Peptides Using a Thiopropyl-based Capture Technique and LC-MS/MS

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• •Brain membrane protein extraction.
• •Protein prenylation.
• •Prenyl peptide capture and characterization by LC-MS/MS.
• •HCD and EThcD peptide fragmentation.

     

Radiosensitization by Kinase Inhibition Revealed by Phosphoproteomic Analysis of Pancreatic Cancer Cells

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• •Proteomes and phosphoproteomes of radiosensitive and radioresistant PDAC cell lines.
• •Common activation of DDR is proven by ATM activity on known and novel substrates.
• •Resistant cells bear raised NQO1 expression, actin dynamics including FAK activity.
• •Inhibitors of CHEK Rabusertib and FAK Defactinib radiosensitize PDAC cells.

     

MSstatsTMT: Statistical Detection of Differentially Abundant Proteins in Experiments with Isobaric Labeling and Multiple Mixtures

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• •Statistical approach for differential abundance analysis for proteomic experiments with TMT labeling.
• •Applicable to large-scale experiments with complex or unbalanced design.
• •An open-source R/Bioconductor package compatible with popular data processing tools.

     

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.

     

Glutathionylation Decreases Methyltransferase Activity of PRMT5 and Inhibits Cell Proliferation

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• •PRMT5 glutathionylation is increased in aged mice or under oxidative stress.
• •Deglutathionylation of PRMT5 is catalyzed by glutaredoxin-1.
• •PRMT5 glutathionylation decreases its methyltransferase activity.
• •PRMT5 glutathionylation results in G2/M arrest and inhibits cell proliferation.

     

Flow-induced Reorganization of Laminin-integrin Networks Within the Endothelial Basement Membrane Uncovered by Proteomics

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• •Proteomics uncovers the flow-induced remodeling of the endothelial basement membrane.
• •Flow alters the composition and localization of the laminin-integrin network.
• •Flow induces proteolytic processing of LAMA4, resulting in shedding of LG4–5 region.
• •TNFα- and flow-exposure induce a distinct proteomic signature with limited interplay.

     

An Improved Boosting to Amplify Signal with Isobaric Labeling (iBASIL) Strategy for Precise Quantitative Single-cell Proteomics

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• •Higher AGC significantly improves quantitation quality in single-cell analysis.
• •The boosting-to-sample ratio should be carefully evaluated and optimized.
• •iBASIL allows for precise quantitation of 1,500 proteins from 104 AML single cells.
• •iBASIL recapitulates major biological differences in different AML single cells.

     

Characterizing Patients with Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections in Vesicoureteral Reflux: A Pilot Study of the Urinary Proteome

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• •Urinary proteomes of patients with recurrent UTI, renal scarring, and VUR.
• •80 proteins differentially expressed, compared to healthy controls.
• •62 proteins may be indicative of susceptibility for UTI.
• •Altered acute phase response, extracellular matrix and carbohydrate metabolism.

     

An in-depth Comparison of the Pediatric and Adult Urinary N-glycomes

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• •N-glycan patterns are distinct in pediatric and adult urine.
• •Sex differences of N-glycans are much larger in adults.
• •Pediatric urine has almost no sex differences in N-glycan levels.
• •In adults, the majority of N-glycans were more abundant in males.

     

Proteomic Analysis Reveals that Topoisomerase 2A is Associated with Defective Sperm Head Morphology

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• •Human spermatozoa possess cells of poor morphology that lack nuclear integrity.
• •These cells can be isolated by density separation.
• •Mass spectrometry reveals their nuclei contain excess protein.
• •TOP2A is a promising marker of this poor nuclear development.

     

Identification of Tumor Antigens in the HLA Peptidome of Patient-derived Xenograft Tumors in Mouse

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• •Sufficient tumor tissues are often unavailable large HLA peptidome discovery.
• •Using patient derived xenograft (PDX) tumors can overcome this limitation.
• •The large PDX HLA peptidomes expand significantly those of the original biopsies.
• •The HLA peptidomes of the PDX tumors included many tumor antigens.

     

The Insulin Receptor Adaptor IRS2 is an APC/C Substrate That Promotes Cell Cycle Protein Expression and a Robust Spindle Assembly Checkpoint

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• •Chemical proteomics in G₁ cells treated with small molecule APC/C inhibitors reveals novel putative APC/C substrates.
• •The insulin receptor adaptor IRS2 is an APC/C substrate that is targeted for degradation by APC/C^Cdh1.
• •Quantitative proteomics in IRS2 knockout cells reveals a deficiency in cell cycle related protein expression.
• •IRS2 promotes a robust spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC) during M-phase.

     

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.

     

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.

     

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.