Four stage liquid chromatographic selection of methionyl peptides for peptide-centric proteome analysis: the proteome of human multipotent adult progenitor cells

J Proteome Res. 2006 Jun;5(6):1415-28. doi: 10.1021/pr060026a.

Abstract

Serial application of strong cation-exchange and diagonal reversed-phase chromatography selecting methionyl peptides by stepwise shifting them from their reduced to their sulfoxide and sulfone forms generates a four-stage fractionation system, allowing high coverage analysis of complex proteome digests by LC-MALDI-MS/MS. Application to the proteome of a human multipotent adult progenitor cell line (MAPC) identified 2151 proteins with high confidence as on average four MS/MS-spectra were linked to each protein. Our dataset contains several novel, potential marker proteins that may be evaluated as affinity-anchors for isolating different adult stem cells in further studies. Furthermore, at least 2 tyrosine kinases that were previously linked to the self-renewal potential of stem cells were identified, validating the stemness of the analyzed cells. We also present data hinting at possible involvement of the ubiquitin/proteasome machinery in steering proliferation and/or differentiation of MAPC. Finally, following comparison of the MAPC proteome with proteomes of four human differentiated cell lines reveals differential usage of chromosomal information: compared to differentiated cells, MAPC do not appear to hold any preference for expressing genes located on specific chromosomes.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Cell Differentiation
  • Cell Line
  • Chromatography, Liquid
  • Chromosomes, Human
  • Humans
  • Methionine / metabolism*
  • Multipotent Stem Cells / cytology
  • Multipotent Stem Cells / metabolism*
  • Peptides / metabolism*
  • Protein-Tyrosine Kinases / metabolism
  • Proteome / analysis*
  • Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization
  • Ubiquitin / metabolism

Substances

  • Peptides
  • Proteome
  • Ubiquitin
  • Methionine
  • Protein-Tyrosine Kinases