34 research outputs found
Quantitative Profiling Identifies Potential Regulatory Proteins Involved in Development from Dauer Stage to L4 Stage in <i>Caenorhabditis elegans</i>
When <i>Caenorhabditis elegans</i> encounters unfavorable
growth conditions, it enters the dauer stage, an alternative L3 developmental
period. A dauer larva resumes larval development to the normal L4
stage by uncharacterized postdauer reprogramming (PDR) when growth
conditions become more favorable. During this transition period, certain
heterochronic genes involved in controlling the proper sequence of
developmental events are known to act, with their mutations suppressing
the Muv (multivulva) phenotype in <i>C. elegans.</i> To
identify the specific proteins in which the Muv phenotype is highly
suppressed, quantitative proteomic analysis with iTRAQ labeling of
samples obtained from worms at L1 + 30 h (for continuous development
[CD]) and dauer recovery +3 h (for postdauer development [PD]) was
carried out to detect changes in protein abundance in the CD and PD
states of both N2 and <i>lin-28Â(n719)</i>. Of the 1661 unique
proteins identified with <i>a</i> < 1% false discovery
rate at the peptide level, we selected 58 proteins exhibiting ≥2-fold
up-regulation or ≥2-fold down-regulation in the PD state and
analyzed the Gene Ontology terms. RNAi assays against 15 selected
up-regulated genes showed that seven genes were predicted to be involved
in higher Muv phenotype (<i>p</i> < 0.05) in <i>lin-28Â(n791)</i>, which is not seen in N2. Specifically, two
genes, K08H10.1 and W05H9.1, displayed not only the highest rate (%)
of Muv phenotype in the RNAi assay but also the dauer-specific mRNA
expression, indicating that these genes may be required for PDR, leading
to the very early onset of dauer recovery. Thus, our proteomic approach
identifies and quantitates the regulatory proteins potentially involved
in PDR in <i>C. elegans</i>, which safeguards the overall
lifecycle in response to environmental changes
Quantitative Profiling Identifies Potential Regulatory Proteins Involved in Development from Dauer Stage to L4 Stage in <i>Caenorhabditis elegans</i>
When <i>Caenorhabditis elegans</i> encounters unfavorable
growth conditions, it enters the dauer stage, an alternative L3 developmental
period. A dauer larva resumes larval development to the normal L4
stage by uncharacterized postdauer reprogramming (PDR) when growth
conditions become more favorable. During this transition period, certain
heterochronic genes involved in controlling the proper sequence of
developmental events are known to act, with their mutations suppressing
the Muv (multivulva) phenotype in <i>C. elegans.</i> To
identify the specific proteins in which the Muv phenotype is highly
suppressed, quantitative proteomic analysis with iTRAQ labeling of
samples obtained from worms at L1 + 30 h (for continuous development
[CD]) and dauer recovery +3 h (for postdauer development [PD]) was
carried out to detect changes in protein abundance in the CD and PD
states of both N2 and <i>lin-28Â(n719)</i>. Of the 1661 unique
proteins identified with <i>a</i> < 1% false discovery
rate at the peptide level, we selected 58 proteins exhibiting ≥2-fold
up-regulation or ≥2-fold down-regulation in the PD state and
analyzed the Gene Ontology terms. RNAi assays against 15 selected
up-regulated genes showed that seven genes were predicted to be involved
in higher Muv phenotype (<i>p</i> < 0.05) in <i>lin-28Â(n791)</i>, which is not seen in N2. Specifically, two
genes, K08H10.1 and W05H9.1, displayed not only the highest rate (%)
of Muv phenotype in the RNAi assay but also the dauer-specific mRNA
expression, indicating that these genes may be required for PDR, leading
to the very early onset of dauer recovery. Thus, our proteomic approach
identifies and quantitates the regulatory proteins potentially involved
in PDR in <i>C. elegans</i>, which safeguards the overall
lifecycle in response to environmental changes
Data_Sheet_1_Cerebral artery signal intensity gradient from Time-of-Flight Magnetic Resonance Angiography and clinical outcome in lenticulostriate infarction: a retrospective cohort study.PDF
PurposeLenticulostriate infarction requires further research of arterial hemodynamic factors, as the disease is diagnosed in the absence of major arterial stenosis or cardioembolism.MethodsIn this multicenter retrospective cohort study, we included patients who were hospitalized for lenticulostriate infarction from January 2015 to March 2021 at three stroke centers in South Korea. We obtained hemodynamic information on cerebral arteries using signal intensity gradient (SIG), an in-vivo approximated wall shear stress (WSS) derived from Time-of-Flight Magnetic Resonance Angiography (TOF-MRA). A favorable outcome was defined as a modified Rankin Scale of 0 to 2 at hospital discharge.ResultsA total of 294 patients were included, of whom 146 (49.7%) had an unfavorable outcome. The unfavorable outcome group showed significantly lower SIG in both middle cerebral arteries (MCAs) than the favorable group (5.2 ± 1.2 SI/mm vs. 5.9 ± 1.2, p ConclusionCerebral artery SIG from TOF-MRA was significantly associated with short-term functional outcomes in patients with lenticulostriate infarction. Further studies are needed to investigate the temporal relationships of SIG in patients with cerebral infarction.</p
gFinder: A Web-Based Bioinformatics Tool for the Analysis of <i>N</i>‑Glycopeptides
Glycoproteins influence
numerous indispensable biological functions,
and changes in protein glycosylation have been observed in various
diseases. The identification and characterization of glycoprotein
and glycosylation sites by mass spectrometry (MS) remain challenging
tasks, and great efforts have been devoted to the development of proteome
informatics tools that facilitate the MS analysis of glycans and glycopeptides.
Here we report on the development of gFinder, a web-based bioinformatics
tool that analyzes mixtures of native <i>N</i>-glycopeptides
that have been profiled by tandem MS. gFinder not only enables the
simultaneous integration of collision-induced dissociation (CID) and
high-energy collisional dissociation (HCD) fragmentation but also
merges the spectra for high-throughput analysis. These merged spectra
expedite the identification of both glycans and <i>N</i>-glycopeptide backbones in tandem MS data using the glycan database
and a proteomic search tool (e.g., Mascot). These data can be used
to simultaneously characterize peptide backbone sequences and possible <i>N</i>-glycan structures using assigned scores. gFinder also
provides many convenient functions that make it easy to perform manual
calculations while viewing the spectrum on-screen. We used gFinder
to detect an additional protein (Q8N9B8) that was missed from the
previously published data set containing N-linked glycosylation. For <i>N</i>-glycan analysis, we used the GlycomeDB glycan structure
database, which integrates the structural and taxonomic data from
all of the major carbohydrate databases available in the public domain.
Thus, gFinder is a convenient, high-throughput analytical tool for
interpreting the tandem mass spectra of <i>N</i>-glycopeptides,
which can then be used for identification of potential missing proteins
having glycans. gFinder is available publicly at http://gFinder.proteomix.org/
The functional analysis of 6 k-mean clusters.
<p>This list of proteins was employed to identify significantly activated pathways by comparing their functional annotations according to the PANTHER classification systems. Proteins involved in nucleic acid binding, protein synthesis, and signaling (particularly, proteins involved in integrin signaling) were enriched in the downregulated protein clusters (clusters 1, 2, and 3), whereas the upregulated proteins in clusters 4, 5, and 6 were enriched in proteins involved in cytoskeleton structure.</p
Experimental design of proteome analysis of hESCs using iTRAQ labeling.
<p>Samples from undifferentiated hESCs and EBs at days 6, 12, and 20 were collected in three biological replicates. Similar amounts of proteins were digested into peptides using trypsin. Peptides were subsequently desalted and labeled with 8-plex iTRAQ reagents 113–121. Labeled peptides were pooled, fractionated into 20 SCX fractions, and then analyzed by reverse-phase LC-MS/MS.</p
Correlation between the expression patterns of differentially expressed proteins identified in this study and their corresponding mRNA at three different stages.
<p>Correlation between the expression patterns of differentially expressed proteins identified in this study and their corresponding mRNA at three different stages.</p
Proteogenomic Analysis of Human Chromosome 9‑Encoded Genes from Human Samples and Lung Cancer Tissues
The Chromosome-centric Human Proteome
Project (C-HPP) was recently
initiated as an international collaborative effort. Our team adopted
chromosome 9 (Chr 9) and performed a bioinformatics and proteogenomic
analysis to catalog Chr 9-encoded proteins from normal tissues, lung
cancer cell lines, and lung cancer tissues. Approximately 74.7% of
the Chr 9 genes of the human genome were identified, which included
approximately 28% of missing proteins (46 of 162) on Chr 9 compared
with the list of missing proteins from the neXtProt Master Table (2013-09).
In addition, we performed a comparative proteomics analysis between
normal lung and lung cancer tissues. On the basis of the data analysis,
15 proteins from Chr 9 were detected only in lung cancer tissues.
Finally, we conducted a proteogenomic analysis to discover Chr 9-residing
single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) and mutations described in the
COSMIC cancer mutation database. We identified 21 SNPs and four mutations
containing peptides on Chr 9 from normal human cells/tissues and lung
cancer cell lines, respectively. In summary, this study provides valuable
information of the human proteome for the scientific community as
part of C-HPP. The mass spectrometry proteomics data have been deposited
to the ProteomeXchange Consortium with the data set identifier PXD000603
Proteogenomic Analysis of Human Chromosome 9‑Encoded Genes from Human Samples and Lung Cancer Tissues
The Chromosome-centric Human Proteome
Project (C-HPP) was recently
initiated as an international collaborative effort. Our team adopted
chromosome 9 (Chr 9) and performed a bioinformatics and proteogenomic
analysis to catalog Chr 9-encoded proteins from normal tissues, lung
cancer cell lines, and lung cancer tissues. Approximately 74.7% of
the Chr 9 genes of the human genome were identified, which included
approximately 28% of missing proteins (46 of 162) on Chr 9 compared
with the list of missing proteins from the neXtProt Master Table (2013-09).
In addition, we performed a comparative proteomics analysis between
normal lung and lung cancer tissues. On the basis of the data analysis,
15 proteins from Chr 9 were detected only in lung cancer tissues.
Finally, we conducted a proteogenomic analysis to discover Chr 9-residing
single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) and mutations described in the
COSMIC cancer mutation database. We identified 21 SNPs and four mutations
containing peptides on Chr 9 from normal human cells/tissues and lung
cancer cell lines, respectively. In summary, this study provides valuable
information of the human proteome for the scientific community as
part of C-HPP. The mass spectrometry proteomics data have been deposited
to the ProteomeXchange Consortium with the data set identifier PXD000603
Proteogenomic Analysis of Human Chromosome 9‑Encoded Genes from Human Samples and Lung Cancer Tissues
The Chromosome-centric Human Proteome
Project (C-HPP) was recently
initiated as an international collaborative effort. Our team adopted
chromosome 9 (Chr 9) and performed a bioinformatics and proteogenomic
analysis to catalog Chr 9-encoded proteins from normal tissues, lung
cancer cell lines, and lung cancer tissues. Approximately 74.7% of
the Chr 9 genes of the human genome were identified, which included
approximately 28% of missing proteins (46 of 162) on Chr 9 compared
with the list of missing proteins from the neXtProt Master Table (2013-09).
In addition, we performed a comparative proteomics analysis between
normal lung and lung cancer tissues. On the basis of the data analysis,
15 proteins from Chr 9 were detected only in lung cancer tissues.
Finally, we conducted a proteogenomic analysis to discover Chr 9-residing
single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) and mutations described in the
COSMIC cancer mutation database. We identified 21 SNPs and four mutations
containing peptides on Chr 9 from normal human cells/tissues and lung
cancer cell lines, respectively. In summary, this study provides valuable
information of the human proteome for the scientific community as
part of C-HPP. The mass spectrometry proteomics data have been deposited
to the ProteomeXchange Consortium with the data set identifier PXD000603