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Molecular & Cellular Proteomics 8:1599-1611, 2009.
© 2009 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

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Identification and Quantitation of Newly Synthesized Proteins in Escherichia coli by Enrichment of Azidohomoalanine-labeled Peptides with Diagonal Chromatography

Gertjan Kramer, Richard R. Sprenger, JaapWillem Back^,¶, Henk L. Dekker, Merel A. Nessen^,||, Jan H. van Maarseveen^||, Leo J. de Koning, Klaas J. Hellingwerf^**, Luitzen de Jong and Chris G. de Koster^,

From Mass Spectrometry of Biomacromolecules and
**Molecular Microbial Physiology, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, Nieuwe Achtergracht 166, 1018WV Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
Proteomics Group, Department of Medical Biochemistry, Academic Medical Centre, Meibergdreef 15, 1105AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and
||Biomolecular Synthesis, Van't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, Nieuwe Achtergracht 129, 1018WS Amsterdam, The Netherlands

A method is presented to identify and quantify several hundreds of newly synthesized proteins in Escherichia coli upon pulse labeling cells with the methionine analogue azidohomoalanine (azhal). For the first 30 min after inoculation, a methionine-auxotrophic strain grows equally well on azhal as on methionine. Upon a pulse of 15 min and digestion of total protein, azhal-labeled peptides are isolated by a retention time shift between two reversed phase chromatographic runs. The retention time shift is induced by a reaction selective for the azido group in labeled peptides using tris(2-carboxyethyl)phosphine. Selectively modified peptides are identified by reversed phase liquid chromatography and on-line tandem mass spectrometry. We identified 527 proteins representative of all major Gene Ontology categories. Comparing the relative amounts of 344 proteins synthesized in 15 min upon a switch of growth temperature from 37 to 44 °C showed that nearly 20% increased or decreased more than 2-fold. Among the most up-regulated proteins many were chaperones and proteases in accordance with the cells response to unfolded proteins due to heat stress. Comparison of our data with results from previous microarray experiments revealed the importance of regulation of gene expression at the level of transcription of the most elevated proteins under heat shock conditions and enabled identification of several candidate genes whose expression may predominantly be regulated at the level of translation. This work demonstrates for the first time the use of a bioorthogonal amino acid for proteome-wide detection of changes in the amounts of proteins synthesized during a brief period upon variations in cellular growth conditions. Comparison of such data with relative mRNA levels enables assessment of the separate contributions of transcription and translation to the regulation of gene expression.

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