Seonggyu Bang, Ahmad Yar Qamar, Sang-Yeop Lee, Ayeong Han, Heejae Kang, Bereket Molla Tanga, Sung Ho Yun, Hye Sun Park, Seung Il Kim, Won Gi Yoo, Islam M Saadeldin, Sanghoon Lee, Jongki Cho
{"title":"Proteomics Analysis of Porcine Endometrial Cell-Derived Extracellular Vesicles Involved in Embryo Attachment.","authors":"Seonggyu Bang, Ahmad Yar Qamar, Sang-Yeop Lee, Ayeong Han, Heejae Kang, Bereket Molla Tanga, Sung Ho Yun, Hye Sun Park, Seung Il Kim, Won Gi Yoo, Islam M Saadeldin, Sanghoon Lee, Jongki Cho","doi":"10.1016/j.mcpro.2025.100942","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mcpro.2025.100942","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Maternal-embryo interactions play a critical role in early mammalian development, with extracellular vesicles (EVs) playing a key role in intercellular communication. Recent studies have focused on the mechanisms by which maternal-derived factors, such as RNA, proteins, and metabolites influence gap junctions, EVs, and direct cell-to-cell interactions, contributing to embryonic development. In this study, using a proteomics approach, we investigated the impact of EVs secreted from porcine endometrial cells (pEECs) and their protein cargoes on embryonic development. We characterized EVs isolated from pEECs (pEEC-EVs) during the diestrus stage using a nanoparticle tracking analysis and cryo-transmission electron microscopy. Furthermore, the effects of pEEC-EVs with or without hormone treatment on the in vitro attachment of hatched blastocysts were evaluated. The attachment rate of porcine embryos was significantly higher for pEEC-EVs in the hormone treatment group than the control group (23.0 ± 1.7% versus 36.9 ± 1.9% for control and pEEC-EVs, respectively). Furthermore, hormone treatment altered the expression of proteins involved in cellular organization, protein transport, and immunity. Proteomic analysis revealed distinct biological processes between groups: control EVs supported cytoskeletal organization and adhesion, while hormone-treated EVs were enriched in protein transport, immune regulation, and stress response pathways. Key signaling pathways, including VEGFA-VEGFR2, focal adhesion, and TGF-β, were modulated, influencing implantation and embryogenesis. EVs play a crucial role in maternal-embryo interactions, optimizing implantation conditions and supporting embryo-derived stem cell establishment. These findings enhance our understanding of EV-mediated communication and suggest potential applications for improving reproductive health and assisted reproductive technologies.</p>","PeriodicalId":18712,"journal":{"name":"Molecular & Cellular Proteomics","volume":" ","pages":"100942"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143625465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L Nagel, J Grossbach, V Cappelletti, C Dörig, P Picotti, A Beyer
{"title":"Analysis of limited proteolysis-coupled mass spectrometry data.","authors":"L Nagel, J Grossbach, V Cappelletti, C Dörig, P Picotti, A Beyer","doi":"10.1016/j.mcpro.2025.100934","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mcpro.2025.100934","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Limited proteolysis combined with mass spectrometry (LiP-MS) facilitates probing structural changes on a proteome-wide scale. This method leverages differences in the proteinase K accessibility of native protein structures to concurrently assess structural alterations for thousands of proteins in situ. Distinguishing different contributions to the LiP-MS signal, such as changes in protein abundance or chemical modifications, from structural protein alterations remains challenging. Here, we present the first comprehensive computational pipeline to infer structural alterations for LiP-MS data using a two-step approach. (1) We remove unwanted variations from the LiP signal that are not caused by protein structural effects and (2) infer the effects of variables of interest on the remaining signal. Using LiP-MS data from three species we demonstrate that this approach outperforms previously employed approaches. Our framework provides a uniquely powerful approach for deconvolving LiP-MS signals and separating protein structural changes from changes in protein abundance, post-translational modifications and alternative splicing. Our approach may also be applied to analyze other types of peptide-centric structural proteomics data, such as FPOP or molecular painting data.</p>","PeriodicalId":18712,"journal":{"name":"Molecular & Cellular Proteomics","volume":" ","pages":"100934"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143586240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Upregulation of Protein O-GlcNAcylation Levels Promotes Zebrafish Fin Regeneration.","authors":"Liyuan Jia, Hanxue Zheng, Juantao Feng, Yi Ding, Xiaotian Sun, Yuan Yu, Xue Hao, Junxiang Wang, Xinyu Zhang, Yuanfeng Tian, Fulin Chen, Jihong Cui","doi":"10.1016/j.mcpro.2025.100936","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mcpro.2025.100936","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As one of the most important posttranslational modifications, glycosylation participates in various cellular activities in organisms and is closely associated with many pathogeneses. It has been reported that glycosylation affects the liver, spinal cord, and heart tissue regeneration. The zebrafish fin has become a valuable model due to its high regenerative capacity. The molecular mechanism of regeneration has been a hot research topic in the field for a long time. However, studies on the influence of glycosylation during limb regeneration in zebrafish are relatively scarce. We discovered that N-acetylglucosamine (O-GlcNAc) expression, identified by WGA, was elevated during the regeneration of the injured fin in zebrafish using lectin microarray. This phenomenon is due to the upregulation of the expression of OGT enzymes and elevated O-GlcNAcylation levels. To investigate the effects on the fin regeneration when O-GlcNAcylation changes, we used OSMI-1 or alloxan unilateral microinjection to decrease O-GlcNAcylation and observed that it prevented the fin regeneration. Conversely, the O-GlcNAcylation was impressed by a unilateral microinjection of thiamet-G or glucose into the fin, leading to a stimulation of the fin regeneration. To further understand the role of O-GlcNAcylation in fin regeneration, liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry technology was performed to identify O-GlcNAc-glycoproteins. The results demonstrated that the O-GlcNAc glycoproteins, such as thrombospondin 4 and heparan sulfate proteoglycans, were involved in the regulation of zebrafish fin regeneration process and were closely associated with certain biological processes, such as stem cell differentiation, extracellular matrix-receptor interaction pathway, tissue remodeling, and so on. We demonstrated that O-GlcNAc glycoproteins are crucial for zebrafish fin regeneration, during which OGT promotes the process by upregulating the O-GlcNAcylation levels in the zebrafish fin.</p>","PeriodicalId":18712,"journal":{"name":"Molecular & Cellular Proteomics","volume":" ","pages":"100936"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143567612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
John A Cormican, Lobna Medfai, Magdalena Wawrzyniuk, Martin Pašen, Hassnae Afrache, Constance Fourny, Sahil Khan, Pascal Gneiße, Wai Tuck Soh, Arianna Timelli, Emanuele Nolfi, Yvonne Pannekoek, Andrew Cope, Henning Urlaub, Alice J A M Sijts, Michele Mishto, Juliane Liepe
{"title":"PEPSeek-Mediated Identification of Novel Epitopes From Viral and Bacterial Pathogens and the Impact on Host Cell Immunopeptidomes.","authors":"John A Cormican, Lobna Medfai, Magdalena Wawrzyniuk, Martin Pašen, Hassnae Afrache, Constance Fourny, Sahil Khan, Pascal Gneiße, Wai Tuck Soh, Arianna Timelli, Emanuele Nolfi, Yvonne Pannekoek, Andrew Cope, Henning Urlaub, Alice J A M Sijts, Michele Mishto, Juliane Liepe","doi":"10.1016/j.mcpro.2025.100937","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mcpro.2025.100937","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Here, we develop PEPSeek, a web-server-based software to allow higher performance in the identification of pathogen-derived epitope candidates detected via mass spectrometry in MHC class I immunopeptidomes. We apply it to human and mouse cell lines infected with SARS-CoV-2, Listeria monocytogenes, or Chlamydia trachomatis, thereby identifying a large number of novel antigens and epitopes that we prove to be recognized by CD8<sup>+</sup> T cells. In infected cells, we identified antigenic peptide features that suggested how the processing and presentation of pathogenic antigens differ between pathogens. The quantitative tools of PEPSeek also helped to define how C. trachomatis infection cycle could impact the antigenic landscape of the host human cell system, likely reflecting metabolic changes that occurred in the infected cells.</p>","PeriodicalId":18712,"journal":{"name":"Molecular & Cellular Proteomics","volume":" ","pages":"100937"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143567530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Denys Oliinyk, Hem R Gurung, Zhenru Zhou, Kristin Leskoske, Christopher M Rose, Susan Klaeger
{"title":"diaPASEF Analysis for HLA-I Peptides Enables Quantification of Common Cancer Neoantigens.","authors":"Denys Oliinyk, Hem R Gurung, Zhenru Zhou, Kristin Leskoske, Christopher M Rose, Susan Klaeger","doi":"10.1016/j.mcpro.2025.100938","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mcpro.2025.100938","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Human leukocyte antigen class I (HLA-I) molecules present short peptide sequences from endogenous or foreign proteins to cytotoxic T cells. The low abundance of HLA-I peptides poses significant technical challenges for their identification and accurate quantification. While mass spectrometry is currently a method of choice for direct system-wide identification of cellular immunopeptidomes, there is still a need for enhanced sensitivity in detecting and quantifying tumor-specific epitopes. As gas phase separation in data-dependent MS data acquisition increased HLA-I peptide detection by up to 50%, here, we aimed to evaluate the performance of data-independent acquisition (DIA) in combination with parallel accumulation serial fragmentation ion mobility (diaPASEF) for high-sensitivity identification of HLA presented peptides. Our streamlined diaPASEF workflow enabled identification of 11,412 unique peptides from 12.5 million A375 cells and 3426 8-11mers from as low as 500,000 cells with high reproducibility. By taking advantage of HLA binder-specific in silico predicted spectral libraries, we were able to further increase the number of identified HLA-I peptides. We applied SILAC-DIA to a mixture of labeled HLA-I peptides, calculated heavy-to-light ratios for 7742 peptides across five conditions and demonstrated that diaPASEF achieves high quantitative accuracy up to 5-fold dilution. Finally, we identified and quantified shared neoantigens in a monoallelic C1R cell line model. By spiking in heavy synthetic peptides, we verified the identification of the peptide sequences and calculated relative abundances for 13 neoantigens. Taken together, diaPASEF analysis workflows for HLA-I peptides can increase the peptidome coverage for lower sample amounts. The sensitivity and quantitative precision provided by DIA can enable the detection and quantification of less abundant peptide species such as neoantigens across samples from the same background.</p>","PeriodicalId":18712,"journal":{"name":"Molecular & Cellular Proteomics","volume":" ","pages":"100938"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143567529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
James C Kostas, Colter S Brainard, Ileana M Cristea
{"title":"A Primer on Proteomic Characterization of Intercellular Communication in a Virus Microenvironment.","authors":"James C Kostas, Colter S Brainard, Ileana M Cristea","doi":"10.1016/j.mcpro.2025.100913","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mcpro.2025.100913","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Intercellular communication is fundamental to multicellular life and a core determinant of outcomes during viral infection, where the common goals of virus and host for persistence and replication are generally at odds. Hosts rely on encoded innate and adaptive immune responses to detect and clear viral pathogens, while viruses can exploit or disrupt these pathways and other intercellular communication processes to enhance their spread and promote pathogenesis. While virus-induced signaling can result in systemic changes to the host, striking alterations are observed within the cellular microenvironment directly surrounding a site of infection, termed the virus microenvironment (VME). Mechanisms employed by viruses to condition their VMEs are emerging and are critical for understanding the biology and pathologies of viral infections. Recent advances in experimental approaches, including proteomic methods, have enabled study of the VME in unprecedented detail. In this review article, we provide a primer on proteomic approaches used to study how viral infections alter intercellular communication, highlighting the ways in which these approaches have been implemented and the exciting biology they have uncovered. First, we consider the different molecules secreted by an infected cell, including proteins, either soluble or contained within extracellular vesicles, and metabolites. We further discuss the modalities of interactions facilitated by alteration at the cell surface of infected cells, including immunopeptide presentation and interactions with the extracellular matrix. Finally, we review spatial profiling approaches that have allowed distinguishing how specific subpopulations of cells within a VME respond to infection and alter their protein composition, discussing valuable insights these methods have offered.</p>","PeriodicalId":18712,"journal":{"name":"Molecular & Cellular Proteomics","volume":" ","pages":"100913"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11889360/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143040241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wassim Gabriel, Rebecca Meelker González, Sophia Laposchan, Erik Riedel, Gönül Dündar, Brigitte Poppenberger, Mathias Wilhelm, Chien-Yun Lee
{"title":"Deep Learning Enhances Precision of Citrullination Identification in Human and Plant Tissue Proteomes.","authors":"Wassim Gabriel, Rebecca Meelker González, Sophia Laposchan, Erik Riedel, Gönül Dündar, Brigitte Poppenberger, Mathias Wilhelm, Chien-Yun Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.mcpro.2025.100924","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mcpro.2025.100924","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Citrullination is a critical yet understudied post-translational modification (PTM) implicated in various biological processes. Exploring its role in health and disease requires a comprehensive understanding of the prevalence of this PTM at a proteome-wide scale. Although mass spectrometry has enabled the identification of citrullination sites in complex biological samples, it faces significant challenges, including limited enrichment tools and a high rate of false positives due to the identical mass with deamidation (+0.9840 Da) and errors in monoisotopic ion selection. These issues often necessitate manual spectrum inspection, reducing throughput in large-scale studies. In this work, we present a novel data analysis pipeline that incorporates the deep learning model Prosit-Cit into the MS database search workflow to improve both the sensitivity and the precision of citrullination site identification. Prosit-Cit, an extension of the existing Prosit model, has been trained on ∼53,000 spectra from ∼2500 synthetic citrullinated peptides and provides precise predictions for chromatographic retention time and fragment ion intensities of both citrullinated and deamidated peptides. This enhances the accuracy of identification and reduces false positives. Our pipeline demonstrated high precision on the evaluation dataset, recovering the majority of known citrullination sites in human tissue proteomes and improving sensitivity by identifying up to 14 times more citrullinated sites. Sequence motif analysis revealed consistency with previously reported findings, validating the reliability of our approach. Furthermore, extending the pipeline to a tissue proteome dataset of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana enabled the identification of ∼200 citrullination sites across 169 proteins from 30 tissues, representing the first large-scale citrullination mapping in plants. This pipeline can be seamlessly applied to existing proteomics datasets, offering a robust tool for advancing biological discoveries and deepening our understanding of protein citrullination across species.</p>","PeriodicalId":18712,"journal":{"name":"Molecular & Cellular Proteomics","volume":" ","pages":"100924"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11925583/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143374019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Huiyu Wang, Azmal Ali Syed, Jeroen Krijgsveld, Gianluca Sigismondo
{"title":"Isolation of Proteins on Chromatin Reveals Signaling Pathway-Dependent Alterations in the DNA-Bound Proteome.","authors":"Huiyu Wang, Azmal Ali Syed, Jeroen Krijgsveld, Gianluca Sigismondo","doi":"10.1016/j.mcpro.2025.100908","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mcpro.2025.100908","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Signaling pathways often convergence on transcription factors and other DNA-binding proteins that regulate chromatin structure and gene expression, thereby governing a broad range of essential cellular functions. However, the repertoire of DNA-binding proteins is incompletely understood even for the best-characterized pathways. Here, we optimized a strategy for the isolation of Proteins on Chromatin (iPOC) exploiting tagged nucleoside analogs to label the DNA and capture associated proteins, thus enabling the comprehensive, sensitive, and unbiased characterization of the DNA-bound proteome. We then applied iPOC to investigate chromatome changes upon perturbation of the cancer-relevant PI3K-AKT-mTOR pathway. Our results show distinct dynamics of the DNA-bound proteome upon selective inhibition of PI3K, AKT, or mTOR, and we provide evidence how this signaling cascade regulates the DNA-bound status of SUZ12, thereby modulating H3K27me3 levels. Collectively, iPOC is a powerful approach to study the composition of the DNA-bound proteome operating downstream of signaling cascades, thereby both expanding our knowledge of the mechanism of action of the pathway and unveiling novel chromatin modulators that can potentially be targeted pharmacologically.</p>","PeriodicalId":18712,"journal":{"name":"Molecular & Cellular Proteomics","volume":" ","pages":"100908"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11889358/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143023049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eda Ates, Hien Thi My Ong, Seung-Min Yu, Ji-Hoon Kim, Min-Jung Kang
{"title":"Comparative Analysis of the Total Proteome in Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis: Identification of Potential Biomarkers.","authors":"Eda Ates, Hien Thi My Ong, Seung-Min Yu, Ji-Hoon Kim, Min-Jung Kang","doi":"10.1016/j.mcpro.2025.100921","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mcpro.2025.100921","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is a hepatic condition characterized by excessive fat accumulation in the liver with advanced stage nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), potentially leading to liver fibrosis, cirrhosis, and cancer. Currently, the identification and classification of NASH require invasive liver biopsy, which has certain limitations. Mass spectrometry-based proteomics can detect crucial proteins and pathways implicated in NASH development and progression. We collected the liver and serum samples from choline-deficient, L-amino acid-defined high-fat diet fed NASH C57BL/6J mice and human serum samples to examine proteomic alterations and identify early biomarkers for NASH diagnosis. In-depth targeted multiple reaction monitoring scanning and immunoblotting assays were used to verify the biomarker candidates from mouse liver and serum samples, and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was employed to analyze human serum samples. The multiple reaction monitoring analysis of NASH liver revealed 50 proteins with altered expression (21 upregulated and 29 downregulated) that are involved in biological processes such as detoxification, fibrosis, inflammation, and fatty acid metabolism. Ingenuity pathway analysis identified impaired protein synthesis, cellular stress and defense, cellular processes and communication, and metabolism in NASH mouse liver. Immunoblotting analysis confirmed that the expression of proteins associated with fatty acid metabolism (Aldo B and Fasn) and urea cycle (Arg1, Cps1, and Otc) was altered in the mouse liver and serum. Further analysis on human serum samples using ELISA confirmed the increased expression of multiple proteins, including Aldo B, Asl, and Lgals3, demonstrating values of 0.917, 0.979, and 0.965 of area under the curve in NASH diagnosis. These findings offer valuable insights into the molecular mechanisms of NASH and possible diagnostic biomarkers for early detection.</p>","PeriodicalId":18712,"journal":{"name":"Molecular & Cellular Proteomics","volume":" ","pages":"100921"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11910689/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143080366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tibo Vande Moortele, Pieter Verschaffelt, Qingyao Huang, Nadezhda T Doncheva, Tanja Holstein, Caroline Jachmann, Peter Dawyndt, Lennart Martens, Bart Mesuere, Tim Van Den Bossche
{"title":"PathwayPilot: A User-Friendly Tool for Visualizing and Navigating Metabolic Pathways.","authors":"Tibo Vande Moortele, Pieter Verschaffelt, Qingyao Huang, Nadezhda T Doncheva, Tanja Holstein, Caroline Jachmann, Peter Dawyndt, Lennart Martens, Bart Mesuere, Tim Van Den Bossche","doi":"10.1016/j.mcpro.2025.100918","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mcpro.2025.100918","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Metaproteomics, the study of collective proteomes in environmental communities, plays a crucial role in understanding microbial functionalities affecting ecosystems and human health. Pathway analysis offers structured insights into the biochemical processes within these communities. However, no existing tool effectively combines pathway analysis with peptide- or protein-level data. We here introduce PathwayPilot, a web-based application designed to improve metaproteomic data analysis by integrating pathway analysis with peptide- and protein-level data, filling a critical gap in current metaproteomics bioinformatics tools. By allowing users to compare functional annotations across different samples or multiple organisms within a sample, PathwayPilot provides valuable insights into microbial functions. In the re-analysis of a study examining the effects of caloric restriction on gut microbiota, the tool successfully identified shifts in enzyme expressions linked to short-chain fatty acid biosynthesis, aligning with its original findings. PathwayPilot's user-friendly interface and robust capabilities make it a significant advancement in metaproteomics, with the potential for widespread application in microbial ecology and health sciences. All code is open source under the Apache2 license and is available at https://pathwaypilot.ugent.be.</p>","PeriodicalId":18712,"journal":{"name":"Molecular & Cellular Proteomics","volume":" ","pages":"100918"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11903815/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143066265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}