可溶性耐药相关钙结合蛋白的生物质谱分析与鉴定

可溶性耐药相关钙结合蛋白最初由Meyers等从长春新碱诱导的中国仓鼠多药耐药细胞株中发现,在多种耐药细胞株中均有高表达,它作为一种钙结合蛋白,一旦大量表达,即可改变细胞内钙环境,从而影响信号传导,使其它受钙调节的蛋白质的功能发生改变。     

蛋白质的化学糖基化研究进展

细胞内超过50%的蛋白质为糖蛋白,糖基在很大程度上影响着蛋白质的折叠、稳定性、信号传导、生物活性、免疫原性及药代动力学等.化学糖基化是获得糖基结构和糖基化位置确定的糖蛋白的有效方法.本文以糖蛋白合成技术的发展和应用为导向,围绕糖-肽键的形成,概述了蛋白的化学糖基化研究进展.     

脂蛋白合成新进展

生物体内的信号传导蛋白在膜上的定位与其生物功能的发挥依赖于特定脂肪链的修饰,然而传统的基因表达法合成脂蛋白,得到的纯品产率很低.在近10年中,逐渐发展起来一种新的合成方法,即将化学合成脂修饰的多肽与基因表达培养蛋白相结合,可以合成出具有多条脂肪链修饰的蛋白缀合物,并且整个合成过程在非常温和的环境中进行,产品能保持较高的纯度和活性.采用该方法合成的脂蛋白用于体外的实验中,其结果与生物体内的现象非常接近.脂蛋白合成方法的发展对研究细胞中的信号传导过程具有重要的意义,并在药物合成和提高药效方面都有很多应用,这对于研究恶性肿瘤等疾病的发病机理起到了重要的推动作用.同时该脂蛋白合成的成功是采用化学法合成生物大分子解释生物体内的现象一个重大的突破,是化学生物学发展重要的一步.     

aFGF拮抗剂对3T3细胞蛋白质组影响的研究

六肽P₂(VYMSPF)是我室从噬菌体展示肽库中筛选出来的aFGF拮抗剂,为研究其对aFGF信号传导机制的影响,对处于4种不同生理条件下的NIH3T3细胞(正常的细胞、加P₂刺激的细胞、加aFGF+肝素刺激的细胞、加aFGF+肝素+P₂刺激的细胞)的全细胞裂解液进行双向电泳分离及软件分析.对后2种细胞的蛋白质图谱中表达差异的5个蛋白质点进行质谱分析和数据库检索.鉴定出3种表达下调的蛋白质,其中鸟苷酸结合蛋白α-11亚单位和1C-型核因子分别参与细胞内aFGF信号传导以及转录调控.这些差异点的变化为进一步研究P₂对aFGF信号传导途径的抑制作用提供了实验基础和线索     

超微电极电化学实时动态监测单细胞信号分子分泌

细胞是生命活动的基本单元,细胞之间的信息与信号传导是实现各种生命活动的基础,细胞之间信号传导的物质基础则是各种信号分子.发展在细胞、亚细胞水平上的原位、实时、动态分析方法,实时监测极短时间内发生的含量极低的信号分子分泌动力学过程,具有十分重要的意义.     

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<正>通道蛋白在物质的跨膜输送及信号传导方面发挥着重要的作用.构筑人工的合成体系来模拟通道蛋白的功能,不仅为发展新型的分离纯化材料提供了可能,而且还为通道蛋白相关疾病的治疗提供了新的研究思路.利用便宜、易得的有机小分子组装是形成人工跨膜通道的一种有效手段.侯军利等利用间苯二甲酸在脂双层中构筑了一种新型的人工通道,实现了离子的高效跨膜输送(见本期论文:祝平平,辛鹏洋,侯军利.间苯二甲酸自组装形成的人工跨膜离子通道.P624~628).     

硫化氢信号分子与L-乳酸脱氢酶蛋白相互作用机制的研究

硫化氢(H_2S)作为信号分子与目标蛋白相互作用而实现信号传导机制的研究一直是研究热点。本研究以L-乳酸脱氢酶为目标蛋白,选用3种H_2S供体试剂(NaHS、Na_2S、PS),采用分子荧光实时监测L-乳酸脱氢酶活性变化,研究H_2S与目标蛋白的相互作用。SDS-PAGE电泳结果显示,H_2S不是通过形成二硫键/三硫键的方式与L-乳酸脱氢酶蛋白相互作用;圆二色谱结果表明,L-乳酸脱氢酶的二级结构发生变化,提示H_2S可能存在半胱氨酸巯基衍生能力,以硫烷硫存在的PS具有最强的巯基作用力;MALDI-TOF-MS/MS分析结果表明,L-乳酸脱氢酶蛋白中部分半胱氨酸巯基位点发生了硫烷化,进一步揭示了H_2S是通过与活性半胱氨酸巯基位点硫烷化的方式与L-乳酸脱氢酶发生作用。     

改良的橘皮果胶抑制半乳糖凝集素-3与肿瘤相关功能的研究进展

半乳糖凝集素-3(Gal-3)是半乳糖凝集素家族中唯一一种嵌合体结构蛋白,含有一个特定的糖基识别结构域(CRD),能够特异性识别并结合半乳糖,此结构域可介导细胞与细胞之间的黏附和识别,并且能够促进部分肿瘤细胞的增殖和转移等。改良的橘皮果胶(MCP)可通过特异性结合肿瘤相关蛋白Gal-3糖基识别结构域,抑制Gal-3与其相关肿瘤受体的结合,阻断肿瘤细胞之间相关信号的传导,从而表现出较强的抗肿瘤活性。本文综述了MCP在Gal-3介导肿瘤发生发展过程中相关作用的研究进展。     

3,4,5-三羟基苯甲酸通过线粒体途径诱导人肝癌细胞SMMC-7721的凋亡

采用四甲基偶氮唑盐(MTT)观察3,4,5-三羟基苯甲酸(TBA)对人肝癌SMMC-7721细胞的增殖抑制作用; 通过流式细胞仪检测细胞凋亡、细胞内活性氧(ROS)及线粒体膜电位的变化, 用比色法测定Caspase-9和Caspase-3蛋白活性, 探讨TBA 诱导SMMC-7721细胞凋亡的分子机制. 研究结果表明, TBA对SMMC-7721细胞生长具有显著的抑制作用并诱导其凋亡, 诱导SMMC-7721细胞凋亡作用可能通过线粒体信号传导通路实现.     

荧光纳米颗粒的化学与生物传感

荧光纳米颗粒,比如量子点、染料包被的纳米颗粒、稀土纳米颗粒等,在过去的几十年里得到广泛的研究和应用,这主要因为它们具有特殊的化学与光电子性质,比如较强的发光强度、较高的稳定性、较大的Stocks位移以及灵活的加工制作性能等.将荧光纳米颗粒引入分析化学将为荧光分析检测提供新的平台.我们立足国内的研究,重点介绍荧光纳米颗粒的化学与生物传感应用,包括对pH值、离子、有机化合物、生物小分子、核酸、蛋白、病毒、细菌等的分析检测.另外,也介绍了荧光纳米颗粒的体外、体内的成像应用.对纳米颗粒应用于分析检测的优势以及信号传导模式也进行了讨论.     

Multidimensional nano-HPLC for analysis of protein complexes

The analysis of macromolecular protein complexes is an important factor in understanding most cellular processes, e.g., protein transport into cell organells, signal transduction via biological membranes, apoptosis, energy metabolism, directed motion of cells, and cell division. These complexes are not only built of various numbers of different proteins but also of prosthetic groups and RNA molecules. To understand the role each protein plays in a complex, a complete analysis of all protein compounds is necessary. Therefore, several separation steps have to be coupled to mass spectrometry to identify the proteins. In this work, we describe the application of multidimensional liquid chromatography, SCX-RP-LC as well as SAX-RP-LC, coupled to electrospray ion trap mass spectrometry. Tryptic digested ribosomes were separated by ion exchange chromatography manually collected and prepared for reversed phase chromatography to analyze the peptides via nano-ESI mass spectrometry. The total numbers of identified proteins are compared in consideration of the separation method (SCX-RP versus SAX-RP).     

Determination of post-translational modifications of proteins by high-sensitivity, high-resolution Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry

The response of a cell to its extracellular environment is a multi-step process beginning with signal transduction that is governed by "subtle changes" often resulting in protein expression. Proteomics is the tracking of this protein expression. Post-translational modification (PTM) is a "subtle change" that has a major influence on signal transduction. Phosphorylation and glycosylation propagate signals by sequential, reversible modifications. High-sensitivity, high-resolution and multiple MS capabilities of Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry permit localization of the PTM(s) with electron-capture dissociation, and then structural determination of the PTM with infrared multiphoton dissociation.     

Label-Free Proteomic Identification of Endogenous,Insulin-Stimulated Interaction Partners of Insulin Receptor Substrate-1

Protein–protein interactions are key to most cellular processes. Tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS)-based proteomics combined with co-immunoprecipitation (CO-IP) has emerged as a powerful approach for studying protein complexes. However, a majority of systematic proteomics studies on protein–protein interactions involve the use of protein overexpression and/or epitope-tagged bait proteins, which might affect binding stoichiometry and lead to higher false positives. Here, we report an application of a straightforward, label-free CO-IP-MS/MS method, without the use of protein overexpression or protein tags, to the investigation of changes in the abundance of endogenous proteins associated with a bait protein, which is in this case insulin receptor substrate-1 (IRS-1), under basal and insulin stimulated conditions. IRS-1 plays a central role in the insulin signaling cascade. Defects in the protein–protein interactions involving IRS-1 may lead to the development of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. HPLC-ESI-MS/MS analyses identified eleven novel endogenous insulin-stimulated IRS-1 interaction partners in L6 myotubes reproducibly, including proteins play an important role in protein dephosphorylation [protein phosphatase 1 regulatory subunit 12A, (PPP1R12A)], muscle contraction and actin cytoskeleton rearrangement, endoplasmic reticulum stress, and protein folding, as well as protein synthesis. This novel application of label-free CO-IP-MS/MS quantification to assess endogenous interaction partners of a specific protein will prove useful for understanding how various cell stimuli regulate insulin signal transduction.     

A comprehensive characterization of the T-cell antigen receptor complex composition by microcapillary liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry

It has become apparent that many intracellular signaling processes involve the dynamic reorganization of cellular proteins into complex signaling assemblies that have a specific subunit composition, function, and subcellular location. Since the elements of such assemblies interact physically, multiprotein signaling complexes can be isolated and analyzed. Recent technical advances in highly sensitive protein identification by electrospray-tandem mass spectrometry have dramatically increased the sensitivity with which such analyses can be performed. The T-cell antigen receptor (TCR) is an oligomeric transmembrane protein complex that is essential to T-cell recognition and function. The extracellular protein domains are responsible for ligand binding while intracellular domains generate and transduce signals in response to specific receptor-ligand interactions. We used microbore capillary chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry to investigate the composition of the TCR protein complex isolated from resting and activated cells of the murine T-cell line CD11.3. We identified all the previously known subunits of the TCR/CD3 complex as well as proteins previously not known to associate with the TCR. The catalytic activities of some of these proteins could potentially be used to interfere pharmacologically with TCR signaling.     

PLIMSTEX: a novel mass spectrometric method for the quantification of protein–ligand interactions in solution

Protein–ligand interactions by mass spectrometry, titration, and H/D exchange (PLIMSTEX) is a new mass spectrometric method for determining association constants and binding stoichiometry for interactions of proteins with various ligands, as well as for quantifying the conformational changes associated with ligand binding to proteins. The association constants determined with PLIMSTEX agree with literature values within a factor of six, establishing its validity for protein interactions involving metal ions, small organic molecules, peptides, and proteins. PLIMSTEX provides solution, not gas-phase, properties by taking advantage of ESI and MALDI mass spectrometry to measure accurately the mass of a protein as it undergoes amide H/D exchange. The approach sidesteps the problem of relating gas-phase abundances of the protein or protein–ligand complex ions to their solution concentrations. With on-column concentration and desalting, high picomole quantities of proteins are sufficient for reproducible mass detection, and the concentration of the protein can be as low as 10⁻⁸ M. It is amenable to different protein/ligand systems in physiologically relevant media. No specially labeled protein or ligand is needed. PLIMSTEX offers minimal perturbation of the binding equilibrium because it uses no denaturants, no additional spectroscopy or reaction probes, and no physical separation of ligand and protein during binding.     

A study of Src SH2 domain protein-phosphopeptide binding interactions by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry

The noncovalent binding of various peptide ligands to pp60^src (Src) SH2 (Src homology 2) domain protein (12.9 ku) has been used as a model system for development of electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) as a tool to study noncovalently bound complexes. SH2 motifs in proteins are critical in the signal transduction pathways of the tyrosine kinase growth factor receptors and recognize phosphotyrosine-containing proteins and peptides. ESI-MS with a magnetic sector instrument and array detection has been used to detect the protein-peptide complex with low-picomole sensitivity. The relative abundances of the multiply charged ions for the complex formed between Src SH2 protein and several nonphosphorylated and phosphorylated peptides have been compared. The mass spectrometry data correlate well to the measured binding constants derived from solution-based methods, indicating that the mass spectrometry-based method can be used to assess the affinity of such interactions. Solution-phase equilibrium constants may be determined by measuring the amount of bound and unbound species as a function of concentration for construction of a Scatchard graph. ESI-MS of a solution containing Src SH2 with a mixture of phosphopeptides showed the expected protein-phosphopeptide complex as the dominant species in the mass spectrum, demonstrating the method’s potential for screening mixtures from peptide libraries.     

Protein profile of osteoarthritic human articular cartilage using tandem mass spectrometry

Articular cartilage contains both chondrocyte cells and extracellular matrix (ECM) components. Currently, comprehensive information concerning the protein composition of human articular cartilage tissue is somewhat lacking. In this report we detail the use of tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) for a preliminary global identification of proteins from human articular knee cartilage tissue from patients diagnosed with osteoarthritis. Knee cartilage supernatant was fractionated using one-dimensional sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (1D-SDS-PAGE), in-gel digested and peptide sequences were then determined by performing on-line nano-liquid chromatography (LC)/MS/MS experiments using an ion trap mass spectrometer. Altogether, over 100 different proteins from nearly 700 unique peptide sequences were detected by MS/MS. The majority of the proteins identified are involved in ECM organization (35%), signal transduction and cell communication (14%), immune response (11%) and metabolism and energy pathways (11%). Proteins observed included several well-known cartilage components as well as lower abundant lesser known ECM proteins. Possible degradation products in the cartilage sample, such as from cartilage link protein, could also be detected by our mass spectrometry methods. We show here that mass spectrometry can be utilized as a tool for a fast, accurate and sensitive analysis of a complex mixture of cartilage proteins. It is believed that this type of proteomic analysis will aid future work centered on investigating the pathology of this and other related joint diseases.