基于蛋白质半胱氨酸的活性蛋白表达谱分析

蛋白质中的半胱氨酸对维持和调控细胞内的氧化还原平衡起着重要作用,同时它们也是多种蛋白质的功能活性位点,参与诸多生理过程。此外,蛋白质中的半胱氨酸上所发生的一系列翻译后修饰也扩展了蛋白质功能的多样性。随着化学蛋白质组学的发展,基于活性的蛋白表达谱(Activity-basedproteinprofiling,ABPP)分析技术在探究蛋白质半胱氨酸及其翻译后修饰方面取得了很多重要的研究成果。本文简要介绍了用于蛋白质半胱氨酸的活性蛋白表达谱分析方法,讨论了针对蛋白质半胱氨酸及其翻译后修饰的蛋白质组学领域的最新研究,并对该领域的未来发展趋势进行了展望。     

定量蛋白质组学新技术新方法研究获新进展

9月3日,中科院大连化学物理研究所邹汉法、叶明亮研究员带领的团队,在定量蛋白质组学新技术新方法方面取得新进展,发展了一种基于胰蛋白酶催化的N端稳定同位素编码的氨基酸标记的相对定量蛋白质组学方法。相关研究成果发表在德国《应用化学》上。蛋白质组学研究的主要内容是蛋白质的表达水平,翻译后修饰,蛋白与蛋白相互作用等,最终的     

色谱技术在蛋白质组学研究中的应用引言

蛋白质组是指一个有机体的基因组所表达的全部蛋白质。蛋白质组学是研究有机体蛋白质的组成及其变化规律的科学。蛋白质组成的高度复杂性和随时间、空间变化的特点,对蛋白质组的研究技术和方法提出了巨大挑战。色谱作为现代分离科学的核心技术之一,在蛋白质组研究中发挥了重要作用。我们可以通过对组织、细胞或体液中成千上万种蛋白质/多肽的色谱预分离,降低样本的复杂程度,提高蛋白质的鉴定率;我们可以通过亲和色谱对翻译后修饰的蛋白质/多肽进行特异性富集分离,去除非修饰的蛋白质/多肽,实现修饰蛋白的成功鉴定;我们还可以通过色谱 质谱联用技术,获得蛋白质/多肽在色谱分离中的保留时间或峰面积,实现蛋白质的规模化定量与鉴定等。 为了集中展示我国科学家在色谱技术及其在蛋白质组学研究中的应用方面所取得的成果,《色谱》杂志特此在2010年第2期编辑出版了“色谱技术在蛋白质组学研究中的应用”专栏。我们邀请了在该领域具有突出成绩或学术造诣的部分专家、学者撰写了相关的学术论文和综述。希望通过这些文章所介绍的工作,为进一步提高色谱技术在蛋白质组学研究中的应用水平,推动我国蛋白质组学的发展和取得创新性的研究成果作出贡献。     

基于质谱的蛋白质组学技术在食品真伪鉴别及品质识别方面的应用

蛋白质组学作为后基因组时代的一个新研究方向,近几年发展迅速,目前已应用于多个领域,在食品品质检测和安全控制方面成为有力的研究工具。蛋白质组学为食品科学的相关研究打开了新思路,不仅可以鉴定蛋白质种类,还可进行蛋白质定量,为分析不同物种、产地、成熟阶段的食品蛋白质组分和含量提供了可能。蛋白质组学研究手段多样,质谱是常用技术之一。该文介绍了蛋白质组学的概念、分类、研究技术以及常见蛋白质数据库,综述了基于质谱的蛋白质组学技术在真伪鉴别和品质检测方面的应用,涉及海鲜、肉制品、奶制品、保健食品及高附加值食品等多种食品,并对蛋白质组学的发展进行了展望。     

蛋白质组学定量的技术与方法研究进展

蛋白质组学是一门在整体水平上研究细胞内蛋白质组成及其活动规律的新兴学科。定量蛋白质组学是指通过某种方法或技术，对生物样品(细胞、组织或体液等)在某些过程中蛋白质的含量进行比较分析。近几年来，定量蛋白质组的技术发展很快，稳定同位素标记技术的提出，为准确定量在细胞或组织体系中发挥重要功能的低丰度蛋白质提供了一个理想的方法。本文综述了蛋白质组定量分析技术及其最新的研究进展。     

差异蛋白质组学在水生动物免疫研究中的应用

差异蛋白质组学是指依据蛋白质样品在不同时期、不同组织、不同状态或不同外界条件下表达不同,来筛选、鉴定蛋白质,可以通过对差异蛋白质的分析鉴定研究编码该差异蛋白的基因,扩展对该基因功能的研究,也可以结合功能蛋白质组学研究,发现新的蛋白质,完善已有的蛋白质组数据库.     

人乳中蛋白质的组成分析

在对人乳样品分离与纯化的基础上,采用“Bottom Up”并结合高效液相色谱（HPLC）和配有纳米喷雾（Nano-spray）技术的高分辨傅里叶变换离子回旋共振质谱（FT-ICR-MS）,将人乳各部分蛋白质样品酶解成多肽片段。 利用碰撞活化解离（CAD）和电子捕获解离（ECD）2种解离方式断裂机理的互补性规律,借助Mascot软件数据库,快速分析了人乳样品中乳脂部分、乳清部分和乳粒部分所含主要蛋白质的组成。人乳样品各部分的共同物性是均含有多种角蛋白、乳白蛋白、乳铁蛋白,但含量和种类各有不同,这既表明了人乳特殊的营养成分,又从另一角度显示出人乳各个部分营养价值的差异。     

化学生物学新前沿——化学蛋白质组学

随着包括人类在内的主要模式生物的基因组计划的完成,生命科学的研究重心转向蛋白质组的研究--在对应基因组的整体蛋白质水平上系统研究调控细胞生命活动的蛋白质.化学蛋白质组学是化学生物学在后基因组时代的最新发展:化学蛋白质组学利用化学小分子为工具和手段,以基于靶蛋白质功能的新战略探测体内蛋白质组,是新一代的功能蛋白质组学.本文综述了化学蛋白质组学的最新进展、有关技术及其在生物医学和药物研发等方面的应用,并对化学蛋白质组学的发展趋势和前景进行了讨论.     

免疫系统蛋白质相互作用的研究方法

对于相互作用蛋白的研究,有助于了解蛋白在细胞内如何发挥其生理功能.在人类基因组计划草图公布以后,基于蛋白质组学的蛋白谱研究逐渐得到重视,在此背景下,蛋白质相互作用的研究也逐步受到关注.对于蛋白质组学研究范围内所有蛋白质的相互作用的研究,被称作"相互作用组"[1].     

分离分析技术在蛋白质组学研究中应用的新进展

蛋白质组学研究的核心技术之一是分离分析方法。该综述重点评述了分离分析技术在蛋白质组学研究,即在蛋白质组表达谱构建、翻译后修饰蛋白质组研究、蛋白质复合体和相互作用研究、蛋白质组定量研究中应用的新进展,介绍了各种分离分析方法的优点、应用范围和有待解决的问题。引用文献89篇。     

结构蛋白质组学研究进展

蛋白质结构与其生物学功能直接相关，蛋白质功能的调控也主要依赖于其构象和相互作用的动态调节。对蛋白质结构和功能的研究一直是生命科学领域的研究热点，也是当前蛋白质组学研究的重要发展方向。该综述重点讨论了近年来基于质谱的结构蛋白质组学主要分析方法的原理、进展和应用，主要包括非变性质谱法、限制性蛋白质酶切法、化学交联法、氢氘交换法、共价化学标记法、热稳定性分析法等；最后对结构蛋白质组学的发展进行了总结与展望。     

Screening for disease-markers and investigating drug effects by proteome profiling: can it meet expectations?

Drugs exert their functions mainly by affecting proteins. Therefore, it seems straightforward to focus on proteins in order to investigate drug effects. Unfortunately, proteins are of very high complexity, rendering it much more difficult to screen for protein alterations as compared to gene regulation. However, the efficiency and applicability of proteome analysis has been dramatically increased recently. We are on the way to be able to comprehensively assess disease-related proteome alterations, which may become an essential source of information for knowledge-based drug design. This review will provide an overview of current techniques in proteome analysis, focusing on screening technologies for biomedical research. An outlook at the future potential of proteomics supported by modern bioinformatics will highlight why proteomics is worth the effort.     

Unveiling the rat urinary proteome with three complementary proteomics approaches

Urine is a suitable biological fluid to look for markers of physiological and pathological processes, including renal and nonrenal diseases. In addition, it is an optimal body sample for diagnosis, because it is easily obtained without invasive procedures and can be sampled in large quantities at almost any time. Rats are frequently used as a model to study human diseases, and rat urine has been analyzed to search for disease biomarkers. The normal human urinary proteome has been studied extensively, but the normal rat urinary proteome has not been studied in such depth. In light of this, we were prompted to analyze the normal rat urinary proteome using three complementary proteomics platforms: SDS‐PAGE separation, followed by LC‐ESI‐MS/MS; 2DE, followed by MALDI‐TOF‐TOF and 2D‐liquid chromatography‐chromatofocusing, followed by LC‐ESI‐Q‐TOF. A total of 366 unique proteins were identified, of which only 5.2% of unique proteins were identified jointly by the three proteomics platforms used. This suggests that simultaneous proteomics techniques provide complementary and nonredundant information. Our analysis affords the most extensive rat urinary protein database currently available and this may be useful in the study of renal physiology and in the search for biomarkers related to renal and nonrenal diseases.     

Proteomics based on high-efficiency capillary separations

Identifying and quantifying in a high throughput manner the proteins expressed by cells, tissues or an organism provides the basis for understanding the functions of its constituents at a "systems" level. As a result, proteome analysis has increasingly become the focus of significant interest and research over the past decade. This is especially true following the recent stunning achievements in genomics analyses. However, unlike the static genome, the complexities and dynamism of the proteome present significant analytical challenges and demand highly efficient separations and detection technologies. A number of recent technological advancements have been in direct response to these challenges. Currently, strategically mated combinations of sophisticated separations techniques and advanced mass spectrometric detection represent the best approach to addressing the intricacies of the proteome. Liquid-phase separations, often within capillaries, are increasingly recognized as the best separations technique for this approach. In combination on-line with mass spectrometry, liquid-phase separations provide the improved analytical sensitivity, sample throughput, and quantitation capabilities necessitated by the multifaceted problems within proteomics analyses. This review focuses primarily on current high-efficiency capillary separations techniques, including both capillary liquid chromatography and capillary electrophoresis, applied to the analysis of complex proteomic samples. We emphasize developments at our laboratory and illustrate technical advances that attempt to review the role of separations within the broader context of a state-of-the-art integrated proteomics effort.     

Microarray: a versatile platform for high-throughput functional proteomics

The advent of microarray technologies has dramatically accelerated the functional study of proteins, including enzymes (catalomics) in a proteome. Herein, we review recent advances and exciting new developments of microarrays in high-throughput functional proteomics.     

Recent advances in capillary separations for proteomics

The sequencing of several organisms' genomes, including the human's one, has opened the way for the so-called postgenomic era, which is now routinely coined as "proteomics". The most basic task in proteomics remains the detection and identification of proteins from a biological sample, and the most traditional way to achieve this goal consists of protein separations performed by two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (2-D PAGE). Still, the 2-D PAGE-mass spectrometry (MS) approach remains lacking in proteome coverage (for proteins having extreme isoelectric points or molecular masses as well as for membrane proteins), dynamic range, sensitivity, and throughput. Consequently, considerable efforts have been devoted to the development of non-gel-based proteome separation technologies in an effort to alleviate the shortcomings in 2-D PAGE while reserving the ability to resolve complex protein and peptide mixtures prior to MS analysis. This review focuses on the most recent advances in capillary-based separation techniques, including capillary liquid chromatography, capillary electrophoresis, and capillary electrokinetic chromatography, and combinations of multiples of these mechanisms, along with the coupling of these techniques to MS. Developments in capillary separations capable of providing extremely high resolving power and selective analyte enrichment are particularly highlighted for their roles within the broader context of a state-of-the-art integrated proteome effort. Miniaturized and integrated multidimensional peptide/protein separations using microfluidics are further summarized for their potential applications in high-throughput protein profiling toward biomarker discovery and clinical diagnosis.     

Mass spectrometry of the human pituitary proteome: identification of selected proteins

The field of proteomics involves the combined application of advanced separation techniques, mass spectrometry, and bioinformatics tools to characterize proteins in complex biological mixtures. Here we report the identification of nine proteins from the human pituitary proteome, using the proteomics approach. The pituitary proteins were separated by two-dimensional electrophoresis, and were visualized by silver staining. The proteins of interest were subjected to in-gel digestion with trypsin, and the masses of the resulting peptides were determined by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry. This tryptic mass map was used to identify the proteins through a search of a protein-sequence database. The identified proteins include important hormones, and enzymes with various catalytic activities. These proteins will be used to construct a two-dimensional reference database of the human pituitary. This database will be employed to study changes in the pituitary proteome that are associated with the formation of pituitary tumors.     

Isolation and identification of O- and N-linked glycoproteins in milk from different mammalian species and their roles in biological pathways which support infant growth

Milk serves as the sole nutrition for newborns, as well as a medium for the transfer of immunological components from the mother to the baby. This study reveals different glycoprotein profiles obtained from human, bovine, and caprine milk and their potential roles in supporting infant growth. Proteins from these three milk samples are separated and analyzed using two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-DE). Glycosylated proteins from all samples are enriched by affinity chromatography using lectins from the seeds of Artocarpus integer before analysis using LC/MS-QTOF. The glycoproteome profiling demonstrates that glycosylated proteins are higher in caprine milk compared to other samples. Analysis using LC/MS-QTOF identified 42 O-glycosylated and 56 N-glycosylated proteins, respectively. Among those identified, human milk has 17 glycoproteins, which are both O- and N-glycosylated, whereas caprine and bovine have 10 and 1, respectively. Only glycoproteins from human milk have shown positive matching to important human biological pathways, such as vesicle-mediated transport, immune system and hemostasis pathways. Human milk remains unique for human babies with the presence of antibodies in the form of immunoglobulins that are lacking in ruminant milk proteomes.     

Proteomic Advances in Milk and Dairy Products

Proteomics is a new area of study that in recent decades has provided great advances in the field of medicine. However, its enormous potential for the study of proteomes makes it also applicable to other areas of science. Milk is a highly heterogeneous and complex fluid, where there are numerous genetic variants and isoforms with post-translational modifications (PTMs). Due to the vast number of proteins and peptides existing in its matrix, proteomics is presented as a powerful tool for the characterization of milk samples and their products. The technology developed to date for the separation and characterization of the milk proteome, such as two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2DE) technology and especially mass spectrometry (MS) have allowed an exhaustive characterization of the proteins and peptides present in milk and dairy products with enormous applications in the industry for the control of fundamental parameters, such as microbiological safety, the guarantee of authenticity, or the control of the transformations carried out, aimed to increase the quality of the final product.