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.

     

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.

     

Molecular Dynamics Simulation-assisted Ionic Liquid Screening for Deep Coverage Proteome Analysis

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• •Mechanistic insights into ionic liquids and proteins at molecular level.
• •Extractants prescreen for proteome analysis with MD simulation system.
• •A loss-less sample preparation method developed for in-depth proteome profiling.
• •Over 3,300 proteins were confidently identified from 1,000 HeLa cells in a 1 h run.
• •Label-free quantitative proteome analysis of human liver cancer tissues.

     

Integration of IgA and IgG Autoantigens Improves Performance of Biomarker Panels for Early Diagnosis of Lung Cancer

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• •HuProt array-based identification of autoantigens in serum of early lung cancer.
• •Independent validation of early lung cancer biomarker candidates with ELISA.
• •Bioinformatics-aided identification of a biomarker panel.
• •Independent verification of the panel with ELISA and immunohistochemistry.

     

Molecular Basis of the Mechanisms Controlling MASTL

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• •NCMR is crucial for substrate recognition and activity regulation.
• •MASTL conserves a cryptic C-Lobe in the non-conserved middle region.
• •MASTL₄₅₀ containing the cryptic C-lobe is observed in cancer cell lines.
• •Key phosphorylation sites for MASTL provide an activation model.

     

Benefits of Collisional Cross Section Assisted Precursor Selection (caps-PASEF) for Cross-linking Mass Spectrometry

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• •Cross-linked peptides are physically separated from mono-linked peptides in the gas-phase by TIMS ion mobility.
• •Development of a novel data acquisition routine that a-priori distinguishes cross-linked from mono-linked peptides called caps-PASEF.
• •First application of PhoX-driven cross-linking mass spectrometry on the timsTOF Pro.
• •Application of cross-linking mass spectrometry to medium to high complexity samples.

     

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.

     

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.

     

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.

     

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

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Highlights

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

     

Upregulation of CD73 Confers Acquired Radioresistance and is Required for Maintaining Irradiation-selected Pancreatic Cancer Cells in a Mesenchymal State

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• •CD73 is one of the most upregulated proteins in the radioresistant cells.
• •CD73 upregulation confers radioresistance and irradiation-induced apoptosis.
• •CD73 confers radioresistance potentially through inactivating protein BAD.
• •Elevated CD73 is required for maintaining the resistant cells in a mesenchymal state.

     

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.

     

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.

     

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.

     

Novel Proteome Extraction Method Illustrates a Conserved Immunological Signature of MSI-H Colorectal Tumors

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• •TOP: robust, bio-friendly FFPE proteome extraction method with less fixation bias.
• •Proteome of MSI-H colorectal cancer identifies immunobiology key elements.
• •MSI-H tumor displays an “INFg-STAT1 centric signature”.
• •Long-term IFNg induction In-vitro mimicks MSI-H signature.

     

Depolarization-dependent Induction of Site-specific Changes in Sialylation on N-linked Glycoproteins in Rat Nerve Terminals

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Highlights

• •Comprehensive sialiomics of isolated rat synaptosomes.
• •Site-specific modulation of sialic acids on surface glycoproteins after brief depolarization.
• •Sialylation as dynamic modification important for synaptic depolarization-dependent processes.

     

Profiling the Surfaceome Identifies Therapeutic Targets for Cells with Hyperactive mTORC1 Signaling

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• •Quantitative proteomes of the cellular surface changes induced by mTORC1 signaling.
• •Hit validation in human cancer cell lines and biopsies.
• •Functional studies showing new drug targets to which cancer cells with hyperactive mTORC1 may be addicted.
• •A new paradigm for drug development, namely targeting cell surface proteins regulated by mTORC1.

     

Investigation of Inter- and Intratumoral Heterogeneity of Glioblastoma Using TOF-SIMS

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• •TOF-SIMS allows to visualize normal brain and tumor border.
• •Glioma samples can be subdivided into clinically relevant groups by TOF-SIMS data.
• •TOF-SIMS allows to simultaneously detect proteins and metabolites in clinical samples.