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Molecular & Cellular Proteomics 3:596-607, 2004.
© 2004 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

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Proteomic Study for the Cellular Responses to Cd²⁺ in Schizosaccharomyces pombe Through Amino Acid-coded Mass Tagging and Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry^*,S

Weon Bae and Xian Chen^,

From the B-2, MS M888, Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545

Cadmium (Cd²⁺) is one of well-known toxic heavy metal ions. To gain a global understanding how Cd²⁺ affects cells at the molecular level, we systematically studied the cellular response of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe to Cd²⁺ using our integrated proteomic strategy of amino acid-coded mass tagging (AACT) and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. Our proteome-wide investigation unequivocally identified 1133 S. pombe proteins. Of which, the AACT-based quantitative analysis revealed 106 up-regulated and 55 down-regulated proteins on the Cd²⁺ exposure. The most prevalent functional class in the up-regulated proteins, 28% of our profile, was the proteins involved in protein biosynthesis, showing a time-dependent biphasic expression pattern characteristic with rapid initial induction and later repression. Most significantly, 27 proteins functionally classified as cell rescue and defense were up-regulated for oxygen and radical detoxification, heat shock response, and other stress response. Furthermore, the large precursor sequence coverage of our AACT approach allowed us to unequivocally identify and quantitate different isozymes for glutathione S-transferase, which have close similarity in their amino acid sequence. Our quantitative dataset also showed that 80% of the up-regulated proteins found in the S. pombe response were different from those in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae response. The function of some of the key identifications was validated through biochemical assays. It is very interesting that the induction of cysteine synthase expression was not observed in our study, although it has been proven as a critical enzyme to supply free cysteines for the enhancing synthesis of Cd²⁺-sequestering molecules such as glutathione and phytochelatins in plants and some yeasts. Our quantitative proteomic result instead suggested that, as an alternative mechanism for the detoxification of Cd²⁺, S. pombe produced significantly higher level of inorganic sulfide to immobilize cellular Cd²⁺ as a form of CdS nanocrystallites capped with glutathione and/or phytochelatins.

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