蛋白质磷酸化修饰的研究进展

蛋白质磷酸化是最常见、最重要的一种蛋白质翻译后修饰方式,它参与和调控生物体内的许多生命活动。通过蛋白质的磷酸化与去磷酸化,调控信号转导、基因表达、细胞周期等诸多细胞过程。随着蛋白质组学技术的发展和应用,蛋白质磷酸化的研究越来越受到广泛的重视。我们介绍了蛋白质磷酸化修饰的主要类型与功能、磷酸化蛋白质分析样品的富集及制备、磷酸化蛋白的鉴定及磷酸化位点的预测、蛋白分离后磷酸化蛋白的检测,及蛋白质磷酸化的分子机制,并综述了近年来国内外的主要相关研究进展。     

磷酸化组氨酸研究进展

蛋白质磷酸化是生物体内一种广泛存在的蛋白质翻译后修饰形式,这种氨基酸与磷酸基团共价连接的修饰模式对蛋白质结构和功能起到了重要调节作用.目前天然蛋白质中发现的可磷酸化位点主要有9种氨基酸残基,其中包括以磷酰胺连接的磷酸化组氨酸.虽然该磷酸化形式在原核生物与真核生物中都起到了重要的调节作用,但对于其生物学功能的研究长期存在技术困难.由于磷酸化组氨酸本身不同于其他磷酸化氨基酸的化学性质,如存在异构体、化学不稳定等,其在传统的研究方法中容易发生水解去磷酸化.随着现代生物化学与分子生物学技术的不断进步,人们针对含有磷酸化组氨酸的蛋白质构建了新的制备、分离与表征策略,本领域也因此开始迅速发展.本文从磷酸化组氨酸的化学结构入手,分析其两种异构体的主要理化性质与化学反应特性,并概述了基于此发展的新型化学生物学研究手段以及对于磷酸化组氨酸生物功能的研究进展.     

磷酸化蛋白质组学的新进展及其在肝脏生理和病理机制中的应用

蛋白质磷酸化是最常见的蛋白质翻译后修饰形式。由于蛋白质的磷酸化形式可以被磷酸酶和磷酸激酶进行可逆的调控,所以在众多的生命活动过程中蛋白质的磷酸化修饰起着重要的调控作用,因此对生物体内蛋白质磷酸化修饰的系统研究对于揭示生命科学的奥秘显得十分重要。近年来,随着质谱技术和生物信息学软件以及磷酸化肽段富集方法的发展,利用质谱对生物体内蛋白质磷酸化修饰研究的技术逐渐成熟。肝脏作为人体最重要的代谢和免疫器官,深入研究肝脏细胞内蛋白质磷酸化修饰形式对于理解其功能具有重要指导意义。目前,迅速发展的磷酸化蛋白质组学技术已经被广泛应用到肝脏功能的生物学研究中。这些研究加深了人们对肝脏的生理及病理状态的分子生物学机制的了解。本文综述了当前磷酸化蛋白质组学的研究进展和磷酸化蛋白质组学在肝脏中的研究。     

质谱技术解析磷酸化蛋白质组

蛋白质磷酸化是生物体内存在的一种普遍的调节方式,在细胞信号传递中占有极重要的地位.质谱已逐渐被人们认为是挑战这一领域的有利工具.综述了目前利用质谱技术分析磷酸化蛋白质的方法,包括利用固定化的金属亲和层析柱、抗体和化学标签技术富集目的分子,肽片段质量图和前体离子扫描（precusor ion scans）等技术检测磷酸化肽段,串联质谱对磷酸化肽段测序鉴定磷酸化位点,以及引入质量标签对蛋白质的磷酸化水平进行定量等.虽然现在已经有很多可行的方法用于分析磷酸化蛋白质,但要达到从少量生物样品中解析其全部磷酸化蛋白质仍需要有很多技术上的突破.     

泛素化和磷酸化协同作用调控蛋白质降解

在真核细胞中,泛素化和磷酸化是2种常见的蛋白质修饰方式。泛素在蛋白酶体降解途径中发挥重要的靶向作用,细胞外信号严格调控着目的蛋白的泛素化。在很多情况下,这种调控依赖于蛋白质的磷酸化。由磷酸化影响的调控步骤可能与E3泛素连接酶对底物的识别有关,也可能与实际的交联反应有关。这种调控是通过对底物或E3连接酶本身的磷酸化实现的。     

哺乳动物精子磷酸化蛋白质组学研究进展

蛋白质的表达、修饰及相互作用的研究已成为后基因组学时代蛋白质组学中的重要内容。蛋白质磷酸化和去磷酸化作为最普遍的翻译后修饰之一,是精子细胞信号转导和酶调控、表达的主要分子机制,亦是精子、卵细胞信号识别及完成受精作用的关键环节。对精子磷酸化蛋白功能的研究有助于深入理解精子的获能、超激活运动的维持、发生顶体反应及精卵结合等受精过程的分子调控机理。对哺乳动物精子磷酸化蛋白质组学的研究进展,包括动物精子磷酸化蛋白质组学研究的技术方法、磷酸化蛋白质种类的鉴定、定量及其功能分析进行了综述,为进一步发掘与受精相关的重要生物标志物,揭示精子发育、繁殖潜能变化及受精分子机理奠定基础。     

用蛋白质组学方法解析磷酸化蛋白质

蛋白质磷酸化和去磷酸化这一可逆过程参与了高等真核生物细胞信号转导、细胞分化和细胞生长等重要过程,并与许多疾病、肿瘤的发生密切相关。蛋白质组学技术的不断发展和完善,可以更好、更多地识别和鉴定磷酸化蛋白质,为解析磷酸化蛋白质提供了可能。章综述了用于分离和鉴定磷酸化蛋白质的蛋白质组学方法。     

磷酸化蛋白质组研究中的富集策略

蛋白质的磷酸化与去磷酸化过程,调控着包括信号转换、基因表达、细胞周期等诸多细胞过程。因此,对蛋白质磷酸化修饰的分析是蛋白质组研究中的重要内容。但由于磷酸化蛋白的丰度较低,难以用质谱直接检测。为了解决这个问题,改善质谱对磷酸肽的信号响应,需要对磷酸化蛋白质或磷酸肽进行富集。目前主要的富集方法包括免疫沉淀、固相金属离子亲和色谱、金属氧化物/氢氧化物亲和色谱等。     

玉米早期花药蛋白质组和磷酸化蛋白质组分析

蛋白质磷酸化修饰是调控其功能的一种重要方式。植物有性生殖过程在农作物产量形成和物种繁衍过程中起着重要作用。作为植物雄性生殖器官的花药,其正常生长发育对于保证形成功能性配子(花粉)以及完成双受精过程至关重要。本研究以重要农作物玉米(B73)为材料,利用Nano UHPLC-MS/MS质谱技术对玉米早期发育的花药在蛋白质组和磷酸化蛋白质组水平进行全面分析,以探究玉米花药发育过程中的蛋白调控网络和磷酸化修饰调控网络。在蛋白质组学分析中,共鉴定到了3 016个多肽,匹配到1 032个蛋白质上。通过Map Man分析,预测到了一些和花药发育相关的蛋白质,例如受体激酶(GRMZM2G082823_P01、GRMZM5G805485_P01等)。另外,在磷酸化蛋白质组学研究中,通过对Ti O2亲和层析富集到的磷酸化多肽进行质谱分析,检测到了257个磷酸化多肽,匹配到210个蛋白质上。我们的数据揭示了玉米花药发育过程中的223个磷酸化位点。与已发现的玉米中的86个磷酸化蛋白质(植物蛋白磷酸化数据库(P3DB):http://www.p3db.org/organism.php)相比,其中203个磷酸化蛋白和218个磷酸化位点为首次揭示。进一步生物信息学分析表明:磷酸化在14-3-3蛋白质、激酶、磷酸酶、转录因子、细胞周期和染色质结构相关的蛋白质介导的玉米早期花药发育过程中起着重要的调控作用。总之,本研究首次在蛋白质组学和磷酸化蛋白质组学水平研究了玉米早期花药发育的蛋白质调控网络,不仅丰富了玉米蛋白质和磷酸化修饰蛋白质数据库,并为利用遗传学和生物化学手段深入研究玉米花药发育的分子调控机理提供了基础。     

磷酸化蛋白质组学分析和定量技术的研究进展

蛋白质的磷酸化是一种可逆性的蛋白质翻译后修饰,在生物体内起着极为重要的作用.近年来蛋白质翻译后修饰日益成为蛋白质组研究的热点之一.定量磷酸化蛋白质组学方法和技术的快速发展为研究蛋白质磷酸化时空动态变化,更好地了解生物学功能调节网络奠定了坚实的基础.作为蛋白质组学研究的一个重要组成部分,定量磷酸化蛋白质组学因其磷酸化蛋白质所具有的独特特征,在技术和方法研究方面将面临更为严峻的挑战.综述了磷酸化蛋白质组学定量的一些分析技术和方法的发展现状、优缺点以及未来的发展趋势.     

磷蛋白组的研究技术及其进展

真核细胞中蛋白质磷酸化是一个重要事件。真核细胞利用可逆的蛋白磷酸化来控制许多细胞过程包括信号转换、基因表达、细胞周期等。磷蛋白组的研究涉及磷蛋白的分离和鉴定 ,磷酸化残基定位和定量分析。由于蛋白质磷酸化是一个动态过程 ,在细胞中磷蛋白含量低 ,磷酸化位点可变 ,且磷酸肽的质谱信号常常会受到抑制 ,所以磷蛋白的分析存在更多的困难。本文介绍了国内外在磷酸蛋白的分离鉴定及定量分析方面的研究技术以及进展情况。目前 ,质谱仍然是核心的鉴定技术 ,寻找更好富集方法是最大的挑战。定量蛋白组学是对蛋白质的差异表达进行精确的定量分析。目前还不存在一种独立的方法可以完成磷蛋白的分离、鉴定 ,以及磷酸位点的定位和定量分析。随着样品分离技术和相关仪器的发展 ,磷酸蛋白快速、准确、全面分析鉴定将能够实现。     

Clinical and Technical Phosphoproteomic Research

An encouraging approach for the diagnosis and effective therapy of immunological pathologies, which would include cancer, is the identification of proteins and phosphorylated proteins. Disease proteomics, in particular, is a potentially useful method for this purpose. A key role is played by protein phosphorylation in the regulation of normal immunology disorders and targets for several new cancer drugs and drug candidates are cancer cells and protein kinases. Protein phosphorylation is a highly dynamic process. The functioning of new drugs is of major importance as is the selection of those patients who would respond best to a specific treatment regime. In all major aspects of cellular life signalling networks are key elements which play a major role in inter- and intracellular communications. They are involved in diverse processes such as cell-cycle progression, cellular metabolism, cell-cell communication and appropriate response to the cellular environment. A whole range of networks that are involved in the regulation of cell development, differentiation, proliferation, apoptosis, and immunologic responses is contained in the latter. It is so necessary to understand and monitor kinase signalling pathways in order to understand many immunology pathologies. Enrichment of phosphorylated proteins or peptides from tissue or bodily fluid samples is required. The application of technologies such as immunoproteomic techniques, phosphoenrichments and mass spectrometry (MS) is crucial for the identification and quantification of protein phosphorylation sites in order to advance in clinical research. Pharmacodynamic readouts of disease states and cellular drug responses in tumour samples will be provided as the field develops. We aim to detail the current and most useful techniques with research examples to isolate and carry out clinical phosphoproteomic studies which may be helpful for immunology and cancer research. Different phosphopeptide enrichment and quantitative techniques need to be combined to achieve good phosphopeptide recovery and good up- and-down phospho-regulation protein studies.     

Identification of new tyrosine phosphorylated proteins in rat brain mitochondria

Reversible protein-phosphorylation is emerging as a key player in the regulation of mitochondrial functions. In particular tyrosine phosphorylation represents a promising field to highlight new mechanisms of bioenergetic regulation. Utilizing immunoaffinity enrichment of phosphotyrosine-containing peptides coupled to mass spectrometric analysis we detected new tyrosine phosphorylated proteins in rat brain mitochondria after peroxovanadate treatment. By bioinformatic predictions we provide suggestions about the potential role of tyrosine phosphorylation in mitochondrial physiology. Our results indicate a primary role of tyrosine phosphorylation in regulating energy production at the mitochondrial level. Moreover, tyrosine phosphorylation might regulate the mitochondrial membrane permeability targeting protein complexes containing ADP/ATP translocase, VDAC, creatine kinase and hexokinase.     

Hydroxyapatite affinity chromatography for the highly selective enrichment of mono‐ and multi‐phosphorylated peptides in phosphoproteome analysis

The most challenging analytical task facing phosphoproteome determination requires the isolation of phosphorylated peptides from the myriad of unphosphorylated species. In the past, several strategies for phosphopeptide isolation have been proposed in combination with subsequent mass spectrometric investigations. Among these techniques, immobilized metal affinity chromatography and titanium dioxide have been recognized as the most effective. Here, we present an alternative method for the enrichment of phosphopeptides based on hydroxyapatite (HAP) chromatography. By taking advantage of the strong interaction of HAP with phosphate and calcium ions, we developed an efficient method for the selective separation and fractionation of phosphorylated peptides. The effectiveness and efficiency of recovery for this procedure was assayed using tryptic digests of standard phosphorylated protein mixtures. Based on the higher affinity of multi‐phosphorylated peptides for HAP surfaces, the introduction of a phosphate buffer gradient for stepwise peptide elution resulted in the separation of mono‐, di‐, tri‐, and multi‐phosphorylated peptides. Thus, we demonstrated that this technique is highly selective and independent of the degree of peptide phosphorylation.     

Highly robust, automated, and sensitive online TiO2-based phosphoproteomics applied to study endogenous phosphorylation in Drosophila melanogaster

Reversible protein phosphorylation ranks among the most important post-translational modifications, and elucidation of phosphorylation sites is essential to understand the regulation of key cellular processes such as signal transduction. Enrichment of phosphorylated peptides is a prerequisite for successful analysis due to their low stoichiometry, heterogeneity, and low abundance. Enrichment is often performed manually, which is inherently labor-intensive and a major hindrance in large-scale analyses. Automation of the enrichment method would vastly improve reproducibility and thereby facilitate 'high-throughput' phosphoproteomics research. Here, we describe a robust and automated online TiO 2-based two-dimensional chromatographic approach to selectively enrich phosphorylated peptides from digests of complete cellular lysates. We demonstrate method enhancement for both adsorption and desorption of phosphorylated peptides resulting in lower limits of detection. Phosphorylated peptides from a mere 500 attomole tryptic digest of a protein mixture were easily detected. With the combination of strong cation exchange chromatography with the online TiO 2 enrichment, 2152 phosphopeptides were enriched from 250 microg of protein originating for the cell lysate of Drosophila melanogaster S2 cells. This is a 4-fold improvement when compared to an enrichment strategy based solely on strong cation exchange/LC-MS. Phosphopeptide enrichment methods are intrinsically biased against relatively basic phosphopeptides. Analysis of the p I distributions of the enriched/detected phosphopeptides showed that the p I profile resembles that of a total Drosophila protein digest, revealing that the current described online procedure does not discriminate against either more acidic or basic phosphopeptides. However, careful comparison of our new and existing phosphopeptide enrichment techniques also reveal that, like many enrichment techniques, we are still far from comprehensive phosphoproteomics analyses, and we describe several factors that still require to be addressed. Still, as the online approach allows the complementary measurements of phosphopeptides and their nonphosphorylated counterparts in subsequent analyses, this method is well-suited for automated quantitative phosphoproteomics.     

Identification of phosphoproteins and their phosphorylation sites in the WEHI-231 B lymphoma cell line

A major goal of the Alliance for Cellular Signaling is to elaborate the components of signal transduction networks in model cell systems, including murine B lymphocytes. Due to the importance of protein phosphorylation in many aspects of cell signaling, the initial efforts have focused on the identification of phosphorylated proteins. In order to identify serine- and threonine-phosphorylated proteins on a proteome-wide basis, WEHI-231 cells were treated with calyculin A, a serine/threonine phosphatase inhibitor, to induce high levels of protein phosphorylation. Proteins were extracted from whole-cell lysates and digested with trypsin. Phosphorylated peptides were then enriched using immobilized metal affinity chromatography and identified by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. A total of 107 proteins and 193 phosphorylation sites were identified using these methods. Forty-two of these proteins have been reported to be phosphorylated, but only some of them have been detected in B cells. Fifty-four of the identified proteins were not previously known to be phosphorylated. The remaining 11 phosphoproteins have previously only been characterized as novel cDNA or genomic sequences. Many of the identified proteins were phosphorylated at multiple sites. The proteins identified in this study significantly expand the repertoire of proteins known to be phosphorylated in B cells. The number of newly identified phosphoproteins indicates that B cell signaling pathways utilizing protein phosphorylation are likely to be more complex than previously appreciated.     

Lessons from nature: On the molecular recognition elements of the phosphoprotein binding-domains

The reversible phosphorylation of proteins regulates many biological processes. Despite the technological advances in the enrichment and detection of phosphorylated proteins, the currently available techniques still struggle with the complexity of the human proteome. The aim of this review is to highlight the molecular recognition elements of the interaction between phosphorylated proteins and peptides and pTyr or pSer/Thr-binding domains. The identification of the recognition features of the naturally occurring pTyr- and pSer/Thr-binding domains can contribute to an understanding of the molecular aspects of the affinity and specificity for phosphorylated residues. This might inspire the design of small "biomimetic" molecules with potential applications in assessing the extent of the phosphoproteome using affinity-based strategies.     

Protein inference: a review

Assembling peptides identified from tandem mass spectra into a list of proteins, referred to as protein inference, is a critical step in proteomics research. Due to the existence of degenerate peptides and 'one-hit wonders', it is very difficult to determine which proteins are present in the sample. In this paper, we review existing protein inference methods and classify them according to the source of peptide identifications and the principle of algorithms. It is hoped that the readers will gain a good understanding of the current development in this field after reading this review and come up with new protein inference algorithms.     

Phosphoproteomics strategies for the functional analysis of signal transduction

Protein phosphorylation is a key regulatory mechanism of cellular signalling processes. The analysis of phosphorylated proteins and the characterisation of phosphorylation sites under different biological conditions are some of the most challenging tasks in current proteomics research. Reduction of the sample complexity is one major step for the analysis of low-abundance kinase substrates, which can be achieved by various subcellular fractionation techniques. One strategy is the enrichment of phosphorylated proteins or peptides by immunoprecipitation or chromatography, e.g. immobilised metal affinity chromatography, prior to analysis. 2-DE gels are powerful tools for the analysis of phosphoproteins when combined with new multiplexing techniques like DIGE, phosphospecific stains, autoradiography or immunoblotting. In addition, several gel-free methods combining chromatography with highly sensitive MS have been successfully applied for the analysis of complex phosphoproteomes. Recently developed approaches like KESTREL or 'chemical genetics' and also protein microarrays offer new possibilities for the identification of specific kinase targets. This review summarises various strategies for the analyses of phosphoproteins with a special focus on the identification of novel kinase substrates.