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

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Highlights

• •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.

     

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.

     

Proteomic Analysis of Salmonella-modified Membranes Reveals Adaptations to Macrophage Hosts

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• •Affinity-based proteomics of infected macrophage cells.
• •Salmonella-modified membranes exhibit host-specific composition.
• •Proteome differences explain some host-dependent pathophysiological differences.

     

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.

     

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

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Highlights

• •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.

     

A Comprehensive Gender-related Secretome of Plasmodium berghei Sexual Stages

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Highlights

• •Quantitative analysis of Plasmodium sexual stage egress secretome.
• •Activated gametocytes release gender-related proteins.
• •Gametocyte egress process involves different types of vesicles.

     

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.

     

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.

     

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.

     

ProAlanase is an Effective Alternative to Trypsin for Proteomics Applications and Disulfide Bond Mapping

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• •ProAlanase is a powerful protease for efficient low pH disulfide bond mapping.
• •High suitability for analysis of histone family members and their PTMs.
• •Accurate phosphorylation profiling in proline-rich proteins.
• •Sequence coverage increase and full de novo sequencing in combination with trypsin.

     

A Quantitative Tri-fluorescent Yeast Two-hybrid System: From Flow Cytometry to In cellula Affinities

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Highlights

• •Simultaneous quantification of Bait, Prey and Reporter at the single cell level.
• •Two hours of reaction are enough instead of 24–48 h for conventional assays.
• •Potential expression problems of the Bait and Prey can be easily detected.
• •True positive PPIs feature a distinct pattern of Reporter level versus Bait/Prey level.
• •PPIs with unknown affinities can be ranked using an affinity ladder.

     

Data,Reagents, Assays and Merits of Proteomics for SARS-CoV-2 Research and Testing

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• •In-depth proteomes of 4 SARS-CoV-2 cell line models (Vero E6, Calu-3, Caco-2, A549).
• •Proteomic evidence for thousands of Chlorocebus sabaeus proteins.
• •Proteomic response of Vero E6 cells to SARS-CoV-2 infection.
• •Synthetic peptides, spectral libraries, and targeted assays for SARS-CoV-2 proteins.

     

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.

     

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

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Highlights

• •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.

     

N-glycosylation Site Analysis Reveals Sex-related Differences in Protein N-glycosylation in the Rice Brown Planthopper (Nilaparvata lugens)

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• •N-glycosylation site analysis of the hemipteran pest insect Nilaparvata lugens.
• •Differential N-glycosylation of proteins is observed between male and female adults.
• •Sex-specific glycoproteins are involved in insect reproduction.

     

Stoichiometry of Nucleotide Binding to Proteasome AAA+ ATPase Hexamer Established by Native Mass Spectrometry

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• •All six binding sites in PAN^WT are occupied by ADP- or ATP-type nucleotides.
• •PAN^KA Walker A mutant substoichiometrically binds ATP- but not ADP-type nucleotides.
• •PAN hexamer dissociation of the solution origin characteristics was observed in MS.
• •We posit that the PAN hexamer dissociation proceeds within the ESI droplets.

     

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.