Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: Shotgun proteomics is a powerful technology for protein identification in complex samples with remarkable applications in elucidating cellular and subcellular proteomes [ 1 , 2 ], and discovering disease biomarkers [ 3 , 4 ]. Shotgun proteomics data analysis usually relies on database search. Commonly used protein sequence databases in shotgun proteomics data analysis do not contain mutation information. This becomes a problem in cancer studies in which the detection of disease-related mutated peptides/proteins is crucial for understanding cancer biology [ 5 ]. Including protein mutation information into sequence databases can help alleviate this problem. Based on the human Cancer Proteome Variation Database developed by us recently [ 6 ], which comprises 41,541 nonsynonymous SNPs in 30,322 proteins from the dbSNP database and around 9000 cancer-related variations in 2,921 proteins, we created a variation-containing protein sequence database and a data analysis workflow for mutant protein identification in shotgun proteomics (Figure 1 ). Applying this workflow on colorectal cancer cell lines identified many peptides that contain either non-cancer-specific or very important cancer-related variations, such as a known somatic mutation in K-Ras in HCT116 cell line. Our workflow for mutant peptide identification has been tested for compatibility with various popular database search engines including Sequest, Mascot, X!Tandom as well as MyriMatch. Architecture for identifying mutant peptides from cancer shotgun proteome data Owing to its protein-centric nature, the approach we proposed can serve as a bridge between genomic variation data and proteomics studies in human cancer.
Source: BMC Bioinformatics
Institutions: Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
Language: English
Subfield: Spectroscopy
Field: Chemistry
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $2,990
OpenAlex ID: W2119502235