PMID:17650073
| Citation |
Timmer, JC, Enoksson, M, Wildfang, E, Zhu, W, Igarashi, Y, Denault, JB, Ma, Y, Dummitt, B, Chang, YH, Mast, AE, Eroshkin, A, Smith, JW, Tao, WA and Salvesen, GS (2007) Profiling constitutive proteolytic events in vivo. Biochem. J. 407:41-8 |
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| Abstract |
Most known organisms encode proteases that are crucial for constitutive proteolytic events. In the present paper, we describe a method to define these events in proteomes from Escherichia coli to humans. The method takes advantage of specific N-terminal biotinylation of protein samples, followed by affinity enrichment and conventional LC (liquid chromatography)-MS/MS (tandem mass spectrometry) analysis. The method is simple, uses conventional and easily obtainable reagents, and is applicable to most proteomics facilities. As proof of principle, we demonstrate profiles of proteolytic events that reveal exquisite in vivo specificity of methionine aminopeptidase in E. coli and unexpected processing of mitochondrial transit peptides in yeast, mouse and human samples. Taken together, our results demonstrate how to rapidly distinguish real proteolysis that occurs in vivo from the predictions based on in vitro experiments. |
| Links |
PubMed PMC2267409 Online version:10.1042/BJ20070775 |
| Keywords |
Amino Acid Sequence; Aminopeptidases/chemistry; Aminopeptidases/metabolism; Animals; Aprotinin/chemistry; Aprotinin/metabolism; Blood Proteins/chemistry; Blood Proteins/metabolism; Caspases/chemistry; Caspases/metabolism; Cells, Cultured; Chromatography, Liquid/methods; Genome, Fungal; Humans; Methionyl Aminopeptidases; Methylurea Compounds/pharmacology; Mice; Mitochondria/metabolism; Models, Biological; Molecular Sequence Data; Peptide Hydrolases/metabolism; Peptides/analysis; Peptides/chemistry; Peptides/metabolism; Proteome/analysis; Proteome/metabolism; Proteomics/methods; Tandem Mass Spectrometry/methods |
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