Correspondence regarding Schwend and Gustafsson, "False positives in MALDI-TOF detection of ERbeta in mitochondria" |
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Authors: | Yang Shao-Hua Prokai Laszlo Simpkins James W |
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Affiliation: | Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA. syang@hsc.unt.edu |
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Abstract: | Recently, Schwend and Gustafsson tried to use the MALDI-TOF methods to confirm one of the results reported by Yang et al., which provided definitive evidences to demonstrate the localization of estrogen receptor beta (ERbeta) in the mitochondria of multiple cell types, using immunocytochemistry, immunoblot, and proteomic approaches. Analysis of the data with the MASCOT database algorithm provided no evidence for the presence of ERbeta in the mouse live mitochondria, in which very low ERbeta expression has been detected in their own report. On the other hand, our MALDI-TOF analysis using human heart mitochondrial protein has identified 7 and 8 sequences that could be potentially from ERbeta and ERbeta3, respectively, but not from ATP synthases. Further, none of the sequences identified by us as those of ERbeta and ERbeta3 shares m/z targeted by Schwend and Gustafsson in their measurements. Therefore, the claim by Gustafsson's laboratory about false positives in MALDI-TOF detection of ERbeta in mitochondria has no relevance to our report. |
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Keywords: | Estrogen receptor β Mitochondria MALDI-TOF False positive |
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