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Molecular & Cellular Proteomics 5:2019-2030, 2006.
© 2006 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

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A Quantitative Results-driven Approach to Analyzing Multisite Protein Phosphorylation

The Phosphate-dependent Phosphorylation Profile of the Transcription Factor Pho4^*,S

Francesca Zappacosta, Therese S. Collingwood, Michael J. Huddleston and Roland S. Annan

From the Proteomics and Biological Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Department of Computational, Analytical and Structural Sciences, GlaxoSmithKline, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania 19406

Multisite protein phosphorylation appears to be quite common. Nevertheless our understanding of how multiple phosphorylation events regulate the function of a protein is limited in many cases. The ability to measure temporal changes in the site-specific phosphorylation profile of a protein in response to a given stimulus or cellular activity would provide an immediate indication of the functional significance of any phosphorylation site to a given process. Here we describe a mass spectrometry-based method to identify functionally relevant phosphorylation sites on a protein. It combines stable isotope labeling with a highly selective mass spectrometry analysis to detect and quantitate phosphorylation sites in response to a cellular signal. This approach requires no a priori knowledge of the phosphorylation state of the protein, does not require purification of phosphopeptides, and reliably detects substoichiometric levels of phosphorylation. Following a review of the quantitative results, only those phosphorylation sites that show a change in relative abundance are selected for identification and further study. We used this results-driven approach to study phosphorylation of the budding yeast transcription factor Pho4 in response to phosphate starvation. Phosphorylation of Pho4 on five cyclin-dependent kinase (Cdk) consensus sites has been shown to regulate the transcriptional activity of Pho4 in response to changes in environmental phosphate levels. Here we show that in phosphate-rich medium Pho4 is phosphorylated on at least 15 distinct sites including the five Cdk sites described previously. In excellent agreement with the known mechanism for regulation of Pho4 we found that phosphorylation at all five of the Cdk sites was repressed in phosphate-depleted medium. In addition to these five sites, we identified four novel phosphorylation sites that were also responsive to changes in phosphate availability. Selecting a limited number of Pho4 phosphorylation sites, we performed a more detailed kinetic analysis using an isotope-free strategy. We used LC-MS with selected reaction monitoring to greatly improve the accuracy, sensitivity, and dynamic range of the subsequent experiments. A detailed analysis of the cell-based phosphorylation at the selected Pho4 sites confirmed an apparent site preference for the Pho80-Pho85 cyclin-cyclin-dependent kinase complex.

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