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Molecular & Cellular Proteomics 3:625-659, 2004.
© 2004 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

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Research

Depth of Proteome Issues

A Yeast Isotope-Coded Affinity Tag Reagent Study^*,S

Kenneth C. Parker^,, Dale Patterson, Brian Williamson, Jason Marchese, Armin Graber^¶, Feng He^||, Allan Jacobson^||, Peter Juhasz and Stephen Martin

From the Discovery Proteomics and Small Molecule Research Center, Applied Biosystems, Framingham, MA 01701; ^¶ Biocrates Life Sciences, 66 Innrain, Innsbruck, Austria; and ^|| Department of Medical Genetics and Microbiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655-0122

As a test case for optimizing how to perform proteomics experiments, we chose a yeast model system in which the UPF1 gene, a protein involved in nonsense-mediated mRNA decay, was knocked out by homologous recombination. The results from five complete isotope-coded affinity tag (ICAT) experiments were combined, two using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) and three using electrospray MS/MS. We sought to assess the reproducibility of peptide identification and to develop an informatics structure that characterizes the identification process as well as possible, especially with regard to tenuous identifications. The cleavable form of the ICAT reagent system (Gygi et al. (1999) Nat. Biotechnol. 17, 994–999) was used for quantification. Most proteins did not change significantly in expression as a consequence of the upf1 knockout. As expected, the Upf1 protein itself was down-regulated, and there were reproducible increases in expression of proteins involved in arginine biosynthesis. Initially, it seemed that about 10% of the proteins had changed in expression level, but after more thorough examination of the data it turned out that most of these apparent changes could be explained by artifacts of quantification caused by overlapping heavy/light pairs. About 700 proteins altogether were identified with high confidence and quantified. Many peptides with chemical modifications were identified, as well as peptides with noncanonical tryptic termini. Nearly all of these modified peptides corresponded to the most abundant yeast proteins, and some would otherwise have been attributed to "single hit" proteins at low confidence. To improve our confidence in the identifications, in MALDI experiments, the parent masses for the peptides were calibrated against nearby components. In addition, five novel parameters reflecting different aspects of identification were collected for each spectrum in addition to the Mascot score that was originally used. The interrelationship between these scoring parameters and confidence in protein identification is discussed.

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