Global Proteome and Phosphoproteome Characterization of Sepsis-induced Kidney Injury

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• •Cecal Ligation Puncture (CLP) mouse model to study sepsis-induced kidney disease.
• •Quantitative global proteome and phosphoproteome profiling of mouse kidneys.
• •Highly significant candidate markers for onset and progression of AKI to CKD.
• •Mechanistic insights into sepsis-associated kidney injuries.

     

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.

     

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.

     

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.

     

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.

     

Organellar Maps Through Proteomic Profiling – A Conceptual Guide

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• •Organelle profiling maps capture localizations of 1000s of proteins in one experiment.
• •Comparing maps +/− perturbation reveals disease mechanisms & cellular responses.
• •A conceptual guide to planning and interpreting organellar profiling experiments.
• •A cross-study consensus set of human organellar marker proteins.

     

Profiling Cell Signaling Networks at Single-cell Resolution

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• •Signaling networks can be highly heterogeneous across cells in a tissue.
• •Various technologies allow analyzing signaling networks at single-cell resolution.
• •The advantages and limitations of each single-cell approach are summarized.
• •Confounding factors in single-cell signaling network analysis are discussed.

     

Integrative Metabolic Pathway Analysis Reveals Novel Therapeutic Targets in Osteoarthritis

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• •SILAC-based protein quantification of OA hBMSCs undergoing chondrogenesis.
• •Spatially-resolved metabolomics by MSI of hBMSCs in chondrogenic differentiation.
• •Differential metabolic pathways involved in OA compared to control hBMSCs.
• •UDP-glucuronic acid/UDP-GlcNAc synthesis is decreased in chondrogenic OA hBMSCs.

     

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.

     

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.

     

A Cross-linking Mass Spectrometry Approach Defines Protein Interactions in Yeast Mitochondria

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• •XL-MS reveals new PPIs in yeast mitochondria under glycerol and glucose condition.
• •Significant but limited results from quantitative XL-MS experiments.
• •Ndi1 participates in a CIII₂CIV₂ respiratory supercomplex.
• •Min8 promotes assembly of Cox12 into an intermediate complex IV.

     

The Mouse Heart Mitochondria N Terminome Provides Insights into ClpXP-Mediated Proteolysis

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• •Mitochondrial heart N terminome shows aminopeptidase processing after MTS cleavage.
• •CLPP-deficiency alters protein processing patterns in mouse heart mitochondria.
• •Candidate substrates identified by N termini accumulation and interaction with inactive ClpXP.
• •UQCRC1, HSPA9 and OAT validated biochemically as high confidence ClpXP substrates.

     

Sialylation of Asparagine 612 Inhibits Aconitase Activity during Mouse Sperm Capacitation; a Possible Mechanism for the Switch from Oxidative Phosphorylation to Glycolysis

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• •During sperm capacitation, 6 proteins become de-silyated, whilst one becomes silyated.
• •Loss of sialylated from Endothelial lipase results in reduction of activity.
• •Silyation of N612 on Aconitase causes loss of activity.
• •Silyation of Aconitase may explain the switch from oxidative phosphorylation to glycolysis during capacitation.

     

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.

     

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.

     

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.

     

Improving Identification of In-organello Protein-Protein Interactions Using an Affinity-enrichable,Isotopically Coded,and Mass Spectrometry-cleavable Chemical Crosslinker

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• •Used affinity-enrichable, isotopically coded, and MS-cleavable crosslinker.
• •Targeted acquisition strategy based on isotopic-coding described and evaluated.
• •Novel data analysis pipeline developed provides improved crosslink identification.
• •Large dataset reveals hundreds of mitochondrial protein-protein interactions.

     

Phosphotyrosine-based Phosphoproteomics for Target Identification and Drug Response Prediction in AML Cell Lines

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• •pY phosphoproteomes and dedicated ranking analyses for 16 AML cell lines.
• •RTK drivers, 6 mutant cell lines confirmed, identification for 4 more cell lines.
• •MAPK1/3 phosphorylation for cell lines without TK driver, indicating RAS mutation.
• •Drug target space phosphorylation correlates with drug IC50s in specific cell lines.