Yi Di, Wenxue Li, Barbora Salovska, Qian Ba, Zhenyi Hu, Shisheng Wang, Yansheng Liu
{"title":"A basic phosphoproteomic-DIA workflow integrating precise quantification of phosphosites in systems biology.","authors":"Yi Di, Wenxue Li, Barbora Salovska, Qian Ba, Zhenyi Hu, Shisheng Wang, Yansheng Liu","doi":"10.52601/bpr.2023.230007","DOIUrl":"10.52601/bpr.2023.230007","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Phosphorylation is one of the most important post-translational modifications (PTMs) of proteins, governing critical protein functions. Most human proteins have been shown to undergo phosphorylation, and phosphoproteomic studies have been widely applied due to recent advancements in high-resolution mass spectrometry technology. Although the experimental workflow for phosphoproteomics has been well-established, it would be useful to optimize and summarize a detailed, feasible protocol that combines phosphoproteomics and data-independent acquisition (DIA), along with follow-up data analysis procedures due to the recent instrumental and bioinformatic advances in measuring and understanding tens of thousands of site-specific phosphorylation events in a single experiment. Here, we describe an optimized Phos-DIA protocol, from sample preparation to bioinformatic analysis, along with practical considerations and experimental configurations for each step. The protocol is designed to be robust and applicable for both small-scale phosphoproteomic analysis and large-scale quantification of hundreds of samples for studies in systems biology and systems medicine.</p>","PeriodicalId":93906,"journal":{"name":"Biophysics reports","volume":"9 2","pages":"82-98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10518521/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41155098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xumiao Li, Yiming Huang, Kuo Zheng, Guanyu Yu, Qinqin Wang, Lei Gu, Jingquan Li, Hui Wang, Wei Zhang, Yidi Sun, Chen Li
{"title":"Integrated proteomic and phosphoproteomic data-independent acquisition data evaluate the personalized drug responses of primary and metastatic tumors in colorectal cancer.","authors":"Xumiao Li, Yiming Huang, Kuo Zheng, Guanyu Yu, Qinqin Wang, Lei Gu, Jingquan Li, Hui Wang, Wei Zhang, Yidi Sun, Chen Li","doi":"10.52601/bpr.2022.210048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52601/bpr.2022.210048","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomics and phosphoproteomics are powerful methods to study the biological mechanisms, diagnostic biomarkers, prognostic analysis, and drug therapy of tumors. Data-independent acquisition (DIA) mode is considered to perform better than data-dependent acquisition (DDA) mode in terms of quantitative reproducibility, specificity, accuracy, and identification of low-abundance proteins. Mini patient derived xenograft (MiniPDX) model is an effective model to assess the response to antineoplastic drugs <i>in vivo</i> and is helpful for the precise treatment of cancer patients. Kinases are favorable spots for tumor-targeted drugs, and their functional completion relies on signaling pathways through phosphorylating downstream substrates. Kinase-phosphorylation networks or edge interactions are considered more credible and permanent for characterizing complex diseases. Here, we provide a workflow for personalized drug response assessment in primary and metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC) tumors using DIA proteomic data, DIA phosphoproteomic data, and MiniPDX models. Three kinase inhibitors, afatinib, gefitinib, and regorafenib, are tested pharmacologically. The process mainly includes the following steps: clinical tissue collection, sample preparation, hybrid spectral libraries establishment, MS data acquisition, kinase-substrate network construction, <i>in vivo</i> drug test, and elastic regression modeling. Our protocol gives a more direct data basis for individual drug responses, and will improve the selection of treatment strategies for patients without the druggable mutation.</p>","PeriodicalId":93906,"journal":{"name":"Biophysics reports","volume":"9 2","pages":"67-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10518519/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41180699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Qian Meng, Yuan-Li Song, Chen Zhou, Han He, Naixia Zhang, Hu Zhou
{"title":"A hydrogen-deuterium exchange mass spectrometry-based protocol for protein-small molecule interaction analysis.","authors":"Qian Meng, Yuan-Li Song, Chen Zhou, Han He, Naixia Zhang, Hu Zhou","doi":"10.52601/bpr.2023.230006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52601/bpr.2023.230006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Protein-small molecule interaction is vital in regulating protein functions and controlling various cellular processes. Hydrogen deuterium exchange mass spectrometry (HDX-MS) is a powerful methodology to study protein-small molecule interactions, however, to accurately probe the conformational dynamics of the protein upon small molecule binding, the HDX-MS experimental conditions should be carefully controlled and optimized. Here, we present the detailed continuous-labeling, bottom-up HDX-MS protocol for studying protein-small molecule interactions. We took a side-by-side HDX kinetics comparison of the Hsp90N protein with or without the treatment of small molecules (<i>i</i>.<i>e</i>., Radicicol, Geldanamycin) for displaying conformational changes induced by molecular interactions between Hsp90N and small molecules. Our sensitive and robust experimental protocol can facilitate the novice to quickly carry out the structural characterization of protein-small molecule interactions.</p>","PeriodicalId":93906,"journal":{"name":"Biophysics reports","volume":"9 2","pages":"99-111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10518522/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41157600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jianshu Dong, Dié Li, Lei Kang, Chenbing Luo, Jiangyun Wang
{"title":"Insights into human eNOS, nNOS and iNOS structures and medicinal indications from statistical analyses of their interactions with bound compounds","authors":"Jianshu Dong, Dié Li, Lei Kang, Chenbing Luo, Jiangyun Wang","doi":"10.52601/bpr.2023.210045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52601/bpr.2023.210045","url":null,"abstract":"83 Structures of human nNOS, 55 structures of human eNOS, 13 structures of iNOS, and about 126 reported NOS-bound compounds are summarized and analyzed. Structural and statistical analysis show that, at least one copy of each analyzed compound binds to the active site (the substrate arginine binding site) of human NOS. And binding features of the three isoforms show differences, but the binding preference of compounds is not in the way helpful for inhibitor design targeting nNOS and iNOS, or for activator design targeting eNOS. This research shows that there is a strong structural and functional similarity between oxygenase domains of human NOS isoforms, especially the architecture, residue composition, size, shape, and distribution profile of hydrophobicity, polarity and charge of the active site. The selectivity and efficacy of inhibitors over the rest of isoforms rely a lot on chance and randomness. Further increase of selectivity via rational improvement is uncertain, unpredictable and unreliable, therefore, to achieve high selectivity through targeting this site is complicated and requires combinative investigation. After analysis on the current two targeting sites in NOS, the highly conserved arginine binding pocket and H4B binding pocket, new potential drug-targeting sites are proposed based on structure and sequence profiling. This comprehensive analysis on the structure and interaction profiles of human NOS and bound compounds provides fresh insights for drug discovery and pharmacological research, and the new discovery here is practically applied to guide protein-structure based drug discovery.","PeriodicalId":93906,"journal":{"name":"Biophysics reports","volume":"293 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135444977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reconstitution of membrane contact by unilamellar vesicles","authors":"Shulin Li, Min Zhang, Liang Ge","doi":"10.52601/bpr.2023.230011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52601/bpr.2023.230011","url":null,"abstract":"Eukaryotic cells compartmentalize diverse biochemical functions within organelles defined by intracellular membranes. Recent focus has intensified on studying the interactions among organelles and the role of membrane contacts in maintaining cellular balance. While analyzing these contacts mainly involves fluorescence and electron microscopy, as well as biochemical cell fractionation, understanding their mechanisms and responses to genetic and environmental changes remains challenging. Here we describe an approach employing <i>in vitro</i> reconstitution of membrane contacts using unilamellar vesicles. This technique offers insights into contact mechanisms when combined with established methods like fluorescence imaging and mass spectrometry, potentially deepening our understanding of membrane contacts and organelle networks.","PeriodicalId":93906,"journal":{"name":"Biophysics reports","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135444972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yuwei Sun, Jian Heng, Feng Liu, Shuyan Zhang, Pingsheng Liu
{"title":"Isolation and proteomic study of fish liver lipid droplets","authors":"Yuwei Sun, Jian Heng, Feng Liu, Shuyan Zhang, Pingsheng Liu","doi":"10.52601/bpr.2023.230004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52601/bpr.2023.230004","url":null,"abstract":"Lipid droplets (LDs) are a neutral lipid storage organelle that is conserved in almost all species. Excessive storage of neutral lipids in LDs is directly associated with many metabolic syndromes. Zebrafish is a better model animal for the study of LD biology due to its transparent embryonic stage compared to other organisms. However, the study of LDs in fish has been difficult due to the lack of specific LD marker proteins and the limitation of purification technology. In this paper, the purification and proteomic analysis of liver LDs of fish including zebrafish and <i>Carassius auratus</i> were performed for the first time. 259 and 267 proteins were identified respectively. Besides most of the identified proteins were reported in previous LD proteomes of mammals, indicating the similarity between mammal and fish LDs. We also identified many unique proteins of liver LDs in fish that are involved in the regulation of LD dynamics. Through morphological and biochemical analysis, we found that the marker protein Plin2 of zebrafish LD was located on LDs in Huh7 cells. These results will facilitate further study of LDs in fish and liver metabolic diseases using fish as a model animal.","PeriodicalId":93906,"journal":{"name":"Biophysics reports","volume":"162 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135444973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}