微柱高效液相色谱-质谱/质谱快速鉴定混合蛋白质新方法

发展了一种混合蛋白质快速鉴定的新方法.将几种蛋白质的混合物于热变性后直接在溶液中酶解,利用微柱高效液相色谱-离子阱串级质谱进行肽谱/氨基酸序列分析,并结合Mascot数据库搜索处理功能,实现了混合蛋白质快速准确的鉴定.     

应用非同质荷比规则提高蛋白质组学检索结果的可信度和灵敏度

如何筛选合理的数据库匹配结果对于基于质谱的蛋白质组学研究至关重要。但是目前,基于打分体系和反转数据库的筛选方法都无法有效的避免假阳性和假阴性匹配的存在。因此,本文提出了一种系统的搜索策略: 非同质荷比检索规则 (INMZS)。在该策略中,所有匹配结果都需要检查相关匹配质荷比的分享程度,只有那些相关质荷比均为专有匹配时,蛋白质才会被作为可信结果保留,策略还采用迭代搜索方法以提高鉴定低丰度组分的灵敏度。最终,所有的匹配结果由诱饵数据库方法进行评估以得到最终结果列表。INMZS策略在标准蛋白质混合物和大规模人肝蛋白质组数据上进行了模拟及应用,结果显示,INMZS规则和诱饵数据库评估方法的结和可以有效的保证蛋白质组学数据匹配的可信度及灵敏度,可以广泛适用于基于二维凝胶电泳及非shotgun技术的蛋白组学研究中。     

多批次肝衰竭患者呼出气体的电喷雾萃取电离质谱检测及代谢组学数据分析

采用高分辨电喷雾萃取电离质谱(EESI-MS)技术对肝衰竭患者和健康志愿者呼出气体样本进行快速检测, 结合多块偏最小二乘分析(MB-PLS)方法, 对多批次获取的呼出气体代谢数据进行统计建模分析, 并与传统的PLS方法进行比较. 结果表明, MB-PLS方法能有效消除批次差异对统计建模的影响. 此外, 利用MB-PLS模型变量VIP值对变量进行筛选, 可降低数据的冗余, 消除无关变量对模型的影响, 从而有效提高了模型的性能.     

胰酶的小肽类抑制剂的研究

利用噬菌体表面展示15肽库技术对胰酶抑制剂进行了3轮特异性的筛选.从中得到18个不同的肽序列,与胰酶天然抑制剂活性部位比较,对抑制剂的活性序列进行了分析.根据分析结果合成了1个9肽,其抑制常数为89±10μmol/L.     

毛细管电泳法评价细胞色素c与单链脱氧核糖核酸库的相互作用

以细胞色素c(Cyt c)为碱性蛋白质模型,建立了毛细管电泳评价Cyt c与3种不同链长的单链脱氧核糖核酸(ssDNA)库相互作用的评价方法,研究了离子强度对Cyt c与ssDNA库相互作用的影响。比较了Cyt c与含有20、40和60个随机碱基序列的3种不同链长的ssDNA库的作用及基于未涂层毛细管和涂层毛细管的毛细管区带电泳方法。因碱性蛋白质在未涂层毛细管管壁上存在吸附,因此利用未涂层毛细管区带电泳不能区别3种ssDNA库与其作用的差异。利用涂层毛细管电泳法,在压力辅助的反向电压下,根据游离ssDNA库的峰面积变化可比较3种ssDNA库与细胞色素c的相互作用差异。结果表明,含有20个随机寡核苷酸链长的ssDNA库与Cty c的作用最强。此外,NaCl浓度显著影响Cyt c与ssDNA60库的作用。在优化的实验条件下,0.02 mol/L NaCl有利于两者的相互作用。调节盐浓度可抑制非特异性静电作用,能提高碱性蛋白质适配体的单轮筛选效率。利用未涂层毛细管电泳分析复合物及游离ssDNA库的峰面积变化,可优化有利复合物形成的盐浓度。     

近红外光谱与化学计量学方法用于镉污染稻米的定性鉴别

采用近红外光谱漫反射模式结合化学计量学方法对稻米镉含量是否超标进行可行性鉴别分析.本研究收集了120个样本,测定其镉含量值(合格49个,不合格71个).对光谱数据预处理方法优化,确定了平滑,一阶导数以及自归一化后的数据作为输入变量.采用竞争性自适应重加权算法筛选了45个关键变量,并对上述变量的光谱吸收带进行归属.比较了主成分分析-判别分析法、偏最小二乘识别分析、线性判别分析、K-最近邻法与簇类独立软模式法5种模式识别方法.确定采用偏最小二乘识别分析建模效果最好,模型训练集与预测集鉴别准确率分别达到98.8％与91.7％.结果表明,近红外光谱作为初筛方法可用于鉴别稻米中镉含量是否超标.     

串联飞行时间质谱中亚胺离子的断裂特征及其在肽段鉴定中的作用

基质辅助激光解吸电离-串联飞行时间质谱(MALDI-TOF/TOF)产生的亚胺离子可以提供丰富的肽段组成信息,该方法通常用于基于数据库搜索的蛋白质鉴定,或者结合化学衍生法用于从头测序,因而在一定程度上限制了对亚胺离子的认识及应用。本研究利用239个串联质谱探索MALDI-TOF/TOF中亚胺离子的断裂特征以及它们在肽段鉴定中的应用,发现在高能碰撞诱导解离条件下组氨酸等14种氨基酸可产生较强的亚胺离子信号(>50%阳性率),氨基酸的化学结构、位置效应和氨基酸残基个数是影响碎片离子强度的主要因素。此外,探讨了亚胺离子应用过程中的假阳性问题,提出亚胺离子相对强度的比较可以降低假阳性和提高肽段鉴定确定度,有助于完善目前的数据库搜索算法和辅助从头测序分析。     

多种污染物的离子阱质谱库的建立

建立常见有机磷和有机氯农药的质谱库,通过检索与NIST库进行比较,结果较满意。该质谱库可应用于离子阱检测系统的谱库检索,提高了对未知污染物鉴定的可靠性。     

漂白对冰毒滥用者毛发分析的影响评估

通过对比经过不同漂白程度处理的毛发样品中甲基苯丙胺的含量,评估不同美发漂白程度处理的毛发可能造成假阳性或假阴性结果的影响。研究结果表明,经过漂白处理的阴性毛发样品更容易受到外部污染从而导致假阳性结果,且影响程度与漂白程度呈正相关。经过漂白处理的阳性毛发样品中甲基苯丙胺的浓度下降最多可达90%左右,且下降趋势与漂白程度呈正相关。因此,在对经过美发漂白的毛发进行分析时,应该考虑其美发处理可能造成的假阳性或假阴性结果。     

高效液相色谱-串联质谱法同时检测血液中3种季铵盐类肌松剂

维库溴铵、罗库溴铵和泮库溴铵是一类广泛使用的非去极化肌松剂,使用过程中引起过敏反应甚至死亡的情况时有发生,快速检测血液中该类肌松剂的浓度,可为临床早期诊断提供有价值的信息.该类肌松剂为强极性的季铵盐类化合物,在反相色谱柱上难以保留,主要采用离子对色谱法进行分离.采用离子对色谱法时,加入的离子对试剂有离子抑制作用,可降低...     

Identification of platelet proteins separated by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and analyzed by matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization-time of flight-mass spectrometry and detection of tyrosine-phosphorylated proteins

Different search programs were compared to judge their particular efficiency in protein identification. We established a human blood platelet protein map and identified tyrosine-phosphorylated proteins. The cytosolic fraction of human blood platelets was separated by two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (2-D PAGE) and phosphorylated proteins were detected by Western blotting using anti-phosphotyrosine antibodies. Visualized protein spots were excised, digested with trypsin and analyzed by matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization-time of flight-mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF-MS). The obtained mass fingerprint data sets have been analyzed using ProFound, MS-Fit and Mascot. For those protein spots with no significant search results MALDI post source decay (PSD) spectra have been acquired on the same sample. For automatic interpretation of these fragment ion spectra, the SEQUEST and Mascot algorithm were applied. Another approach for the identification of phosphorylated proteins is immunoprecipitation using an anti-phosphotyrosine antibody. A method for immunoprecipitation of tyrosine-phosphorylated peptides was optimized.     

Speeding up tandem mass spectrometry based database searching by peptide and spectrum indexing

Database searching is the technique of choice for shotgun proteomics, and to date much research effort has been spent on improving its effectiveness. However, database searching faces a serious challenge of efficiency, considering the large numbers of mass spectra and the ever fast increase in peptide databases resulting from genome translations, enzymatic digestions, and post‐translational modifications. In this study, we conducted systematic research on speeding up database search engines for protein identification and illustrate the key points with the specific design of the pFind 2.1 search engine as a running example. Firstly, by constructing peptide indexes, pFind achieves a speedup of two to three compared with that without peptide indexes. Secondly, by constructing indexes for observed precursor and fragment ions, pFind achieves another speedup of two. As a result, pFind compares very favorably with predominant search engines such as Mascot, SEQUEST and X!Tandem. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Altered Mascot search results by changing the <Emphasis Type="Italic">m</Emphasis>/<Emphasis Type="Italic">z</Emphasis> range of MS/MS spectra: analysis and potential applications

The Mascot search algorithm is one of the most commonly used tools for protein identification. Tandem mass spectrometry data searched against a protein sequence database is utilized for identifying peptides and proteins, each reported with a score. Higher Mascot scores are associated with lower chances of random hits. The process of peak selection performed by the search engine prior to the search is a critical aspect of the process. Here, we show that Mascot divides the MS/MS spectrum into fixed m/z regions for peak selection, starting at the lowest m/z value of the peak list. Therefore, modifying the m/z range of the peak lists by insertion of a dummy peak with low m/z value changes the ensemble of peaks used for searching. As a consequence, Mascot peptide scores and search results are altered significantly and a different subset of the peptides present in the sample is identified after processing. We further show that the effect can be exploited and additional proteins and peptides can be identified by repeating the search with a combined set of differently processed files, even when applying identical false-positive rates.     

Searching the Porphyromonas gingivalis genome with peptide fragmentation mass spectra

An approach is described for genomic database searching based on experimentally observed proteolytic fragments, e.g., isolated from 1D or 2D gels or analyzed directly, that can be applied to unfinished prokaryotic genomic data in the absence of annotations or previously assigned open reading frames (ORFs). This variation on the database search is in contrast to the more familiar use of peptide mass spectral fragmentation data to search fully annotated inferred protein databases, e.g., OWL or SWISS-PROT. We compared the SEQUEST search results from a six reading frame translation of the Porphyromonas gingivalis genome DNA sequence with those from computationally derived ORFs created using publicly available genomics software tools. The ORF approach eliminated many of the artifacts present in output from the six reading frame search. The method was applied to uninterpreted tandem mass spectrometric data derived from proteins secreted by the periodontal pathogen Porphyromonas gingivalis in response to the gingival epithelial cell environment, a model system for the study of host-pathogen interactions relevant to human periodontal disease.     

Alternative methods for verifying the results of the mass spectrometric identification of peptides in shotgun proteomics

Database search is the most popular approach used for the identification of peptides in contemporary shotgun proteomics; it utilizes only mass spectrometric data. In this work, we introduce three criteria for the verification of peptide identification; these are based on the analysis of data orthogonal to tandem mass spectra. The first one utilizes chromatographic retention times of peptides. The development of such approaches has been hindered by the relatively low accuracy of retention time prediction algorithms. In this work, we suggest the use of two independent models of the liquid chromatography of peptides, which increase the reliability of the results. The second criterion utilizes the mean number of missed tryptic cleavages per peptide. The third one results from the analysis of the difference between theoretical and experimentally measured peptide masses. The proposed criteria were applied to the tandem mass spectra of tryptic peptides from rat kidney tissue, which were processed by the Mascot search engine. All the criteria showed that Mascot significantly overestimated the reliability of an identification. This conclusion was supported by the PeptideProphet algorithm.     

一种位点注释的蛋白质数据库用于磷酸化肽段的鉴定

磷酸化修饰的分析一直是蛋白质组学研究的热点之一.在鸟枪法的蛋白质组学研究中,通过在数据库检索中设定磷酸化为可变修饰可以直接鉴定磷酸化修饰的位点.但是翻译后修饰的引入会增加数据检索空间,造成鉴定灵敏度的降低.为了解决这一问题,我们构建了一种位点注释的数据库,这种数据库包含蛋白质的磷酸化位点信息,并开发了一种新的数据库检索策略用于磷酸化肽段的可靠鉴定.用不同类型的数据作为分析对象,通过Mascot检索软件对这种新的数据库检索策略进行了考察,证明了这种方法在保证鉴定结果可靠性的前提下提高了磷酸化肽段鉴定的灵敏度.     

Identifying bacterial species using CE-MS and SEQUEST with an empirical scoring function

CE-MS/MS analysis of proteolytic digests of bacterial cell extracts was combined with SEQUEST searching and a new scoring system to identify bacteria species in bacterial mixtures. Searches of MS/MS spectra against protein databases enabled the identification of bacterial species by the matching of the proteins associated with the corresponding species. An empirical scoring function was obtained by evaluating the SEQUEST search results of 38 samples that contained single bacterial species. The scoring by the empirical function helped move up the positive identification results from their original positions in the ranking based on Xcorr values alone. Therefore, the identification of bacteria in the samples that contained bacterial mixtures was improved. Bacterial species in 20 bacterial mixtures, including one real sample, were correctly identified by database searches and the new scoring function.     

pFind 2.0: a software package for peptide and protein identification via tandem mass spectrometry

This paper describes the pFind 2.0 software package for peptide and protein identification via tandem mass spectrometry. Firstly, the most important feature of pFind 2.0 is that it offers a modularized and customized platform for third parties to test and compare their algorithms. The developers can create their own modules following the open application programming interface (API) standards and then add it into workflows in place of the default modules. In addition, to accommodate different requirements, the package provides four automated workflows adopting different algorithm modules, executing processes and result reports. Based on this design, pFind 2.0 provides an automated target-decoy database search strategy: The user can just specify a certain false positive rate (FPR) and start searching. Then the system will return the protein identification results automatically filtered by such an estimated FPR. Secondly, pFind 2.0 is also of high accuracy and high speed. Many pragmatic preprocessing, peptide-scoring, validation, and protein inference algorithms have been incorporated. To speed up the searching process, a toolbox for indexing protein databases is developed for high-throughput applications and all modules are implemented under a new architecture designed for large-scale parallel and distributed searching. An experiment on a public dataset shows that pFind 2.0 can identify more peptides than SEQUEST and Mascot at the 1% FPR. It is also demonstrated that this version of pFind 2.0 has better usability and higher speed than its previous versions. The software and more detailed supplementary information can both be accessed at http://pfind.ict.ac.cn/.     

质谱匹配概率方法及结果可靠性评价

质谱匹配概率方法不仅能提供纯样品的分析结果,而且也能区分混合物中的成分。因而为大大提高对质谱数据的分析能力提供了可能性,并扩大了它在有机物鉴定方面的应用。本文介绍该方法作环境空气中有机物质谱分析及与综合控制系统资料的比较,并以美国标准局的标准参考数据库作比较。同时讨论了该方法的优点和不足