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Molecular & Cellular Proteomics 3:1093-1101, 2004.
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| ABSTRACT |
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(4). Historically, the analysis of protein phosphorylation sites has been restricted to studies at the single-protein level. Recently, larger-scale MS-based analyses have emerged. However, such studies have been challenging due to a) the immaturity of methods to enrich for low-abundance phosphoproteins or phosphopeptides and b) the reduction in quality of informative tandem mass spectra obtained from phosphopeptides subjected to CID (5). The latter challenge is due primarily to the propensity for precursor ions containing phosphoserine or phosphothreonine to undergo ß-elimination of phosphoric acid with an accompanied reduction of structurally informative ions from peptide backbone fragmentation. Recent advances in metal ion affinity chromatography have permitted large-scale phosphorylation analysis (200400 sites identified) in yeast (6) and plants (7). Here, using strong cation exchange (SCX) chromatography at low pH to enrich for tryptic phosphopeptides (8), we show the first large-scale proteomic profiling of phosphorylation sites from primary animal tissue. These methods promise to greatly enrich our global view of the dynamic changes of phosphoproteins during brain development and may be applied to a variety of primary tissues or comparative states in cultured cells.
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Gel Electrophoresis and In-gel Digests
Cleared extracts were boiled in bromphenol blue sample buffer (150 mM Tris pH 6.8, 2% SDS, 5% ß-mercaptoethanol, 7.8% glycerol), and 6 mg of extract was loaded onto a hand-poured, 7.520% gradient SDS-polyacrylamide (37.5:1 acrylamide:bis-acrylamide) preparative gel (see Fig. 2A). The Coomassie blue-stained gel was cut into four regions and then diced into 1-mm cubes. The gel pieces were washed with water and further destained with 50% ACN, 50 mM NH4HCO3 pH 8.5. Gel slices were dehydrated with ACN, dried, and subjected to in-gel digestion with sequencing-grade modified trypsin (12.5 ng/µl; Promega, Madison, WI) in 50 mM NH4HCO3 overnight at 37 °C. Peptides were extracted with 50% ACN, 5% formic acid (FA) and dried.
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These properties were applied toward the identification of phosphorylation events occurring during mouse brain development. As the relative abundance of rare mRNA species in mammalian cells represents as much as 95% of unique message expressed per cell (10), we reasoned that milligram amounts of protein were required to successfully identify phosphorylation events achieving as high as 10% stoichiometry (Supplemental Table I). Six milligrams of embryonic brain extract were separated on a preparative polyacrylamide gel. The gel was cut into four large regions, and each region was subjected to in-gel digestion with trypsin (Fig. 2A). Extracted peptides from each region were separated by SCX chromatography at pH 2.7 (Fig. 2, B and C), desalted, and analyzed by reverse-phase LC-MS/MS.
More than 250,000 MS/MS spectra were acquired while analyzing the first 40% of SCX fractions from all four gel regions. Following interrogation of the nonredundant NCBI murine database using the Sequest algorithm, results were conservatively filtered by requiring top-hit phosphopeptides to have XCorr values of more than 2.5 and 3.3 for doubly and triply charged ions, respectively. All spectra passing these criteria were manually examined to explain intense (>15% of the most intense peak) ions left unexplained by conventional b- and y-type ions. We found manual evaluation an essential step for proper identification of phosphorylation sites due to the frequent unassigned loss of phosphoric acid and ambiguity found between top-hit peptides containing multiple serine and threonine residues, represented by low
Corr values (see Supplemental Fig. 1). After validation we identified 460 unique phosphorylation sites and 86 more for which the precise site of phosphorylation was ambiguous. This entire dataset is provided as Supplemental Table II and as well on our laboratory website with interactive Sequest links at gygi.med.harvard.edu/pubs/brain/PhosphoBrain.xls.
To evaluate the relative enrichment of phosphopeptides afforded by SCX chromatography, we plotted the number of phosphopeptides and nonphosphorylated peptides (many of which were carboxyl termini) identified from gel region 1. Intriguingly, we noticed two distinct peaks of phosphopeptides eluting in the early SCX fractions. These peaks represented phosphopeptides to nonphosphorylated peptides ratios of 8:1 and 5:1, respectively, and this ratio tapered quickly to 0:260 in the last SCX fractions analyzed by MS (Fig. 3A). To determine if the two peaks of phosphopeptides were the result of a distinct separation of solution charge states by SCX, we plotted the expected solution charge states for the phosphopeptides from the entire dataset as a function of the SCX fraction from which they were derived. In excellent agreement with theoretical elution patterns, we determined that the two peaks represent phosphopeptides with a predicted net solution charge of 0 and (+)1, respectively. Additionally, a minor peak with a net solution charge of ()1 was observed in the earliest fractions. All phosphopeptides with net solution charges of less than (+)1 were the result of multiple phosphorylation events and/or phosphorylation of carboxyl termini. These peptides had little to no retention on the SCX column, owing to disproportionate charge distribution along the lengths of the peptides.
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) leads to abnormalities in neuronal migration during brain development in mice (4) and is tightly linked to the severity of lissencephalies resulting from genetic loss of Pafah1b1 (the gene encoding Lis1) in humans (4). A query of our dataset for phosphorylation sites creating these two modes of 14-3-3 binding identified 10 phosphopeptides (Fig. 5A). Only one of these was contained in a protein (CrkL) already reported to interact with 14-3-3, although the respective sites of recognition were not reported (14). Interestingly, CrkL was recently implicated in signaling pathways downstream of Reelin (15), a ligand essential for proper brain development (16).
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SCX-based phosphopeptide enrichment strategies hold great promise toward contributing to an eventual global profiling of phosphorylation sites in cells and tissues. Notwithstanding their success, inherent caveats with phosphopeptide enrichment by SCX will make requisite complementary approaches to achieve a truly global profile. Histidine-containing phosphopeptides carry an additional positive solution charge at low pH (Fig. 1A), hampering their enrichment by SCX chromatography. Additionally, SCX-based enrichment is only effective when using tryptic peptides, and a number of tryptic peptides are too short or long for standard MS/MS analysis. SCX enrichment of phosphopeptides may also be confounded by post-translational modifications that impart a charge at low pH or alter trypsin hydrolysis due to the relative position of basic residues to proline or modified residues. Independent of the enrichment strategy, the significant range in phosphoprotein abundance generates additional challenges. Despite the known importance of tyrosine phosphorylation in numerous cellular processes regulating brain development, only one tyrosine phosphorylation site was identified in this study (see Accession SW:MK08 entry 1 in Supplemental Table II). As phosphotyrosyl-peptides are also enriched in early SCX fractions (see Fig. 1A), this suggests that phosphotyrosine-containing phosphopeptides are falling below the limit of detection even when using 68 mg of starting material. These results are consistent with the rarity of phosphotyrosine (17) or its potentially low phosphorylation stoichiometry (18). Future studies may thus require higher amounts of starting material and/or enrichments with anti-phosphotyrosine antibodies.
Given the important role of 14-3-3
in the developing brain (4), we searched our dataset for phosphorylation events creating potential 14-3-3-binding motifs. We identified eight mode 1 (RXXpSXP) and two mode 2 (RXXXpSXP) 14-3-3-binding motifs (13) (Fig. 5A). An alignment of these motifs and their surrounding amino acids across animal kingdom orthologues (Fig 5, B and C, Supplemental Fig. 2) showed variable conservation (indicative to some degree of potential biological relevance). For the motif identified in CrkL, located carboxyl-terminal to the phosphotyrosine-binding SH2 domain (19), strong conservation is seen for all residues aligned from humans to Xenopus species, with the notable divergence of the phosphorylated serine residue mutated to aspargine in rat. The motif identified in Epsin 2, located in the carboxyl-region of the ENTH domain involved in vesicle trafficking (20), was conserved through pufferfish and showed much higher conservation than surrounding residues. The motif found in the ubiquitin isopeptidase UBPY is located near coiled-coiled domains and is amino-terminal to a proline-rich SH3 domain-binding region (21, 22). Like the motif in Epsin 2, it is conserved through pufferfish with surrounding amino acids showing much less conservation. Such analyses (here performed on previously unidentified phosphorylation sites) will be important evolutionary indices when considering phosphorylation site relevance in specific classes of organisms.
The rich and complex regulatory nature of protein phosphorylation offers an exciting and challenging opportunity for future proteomic studies. Here, using emerging technologies for the enrichment of phosphopeptides, we present the first large-scale phosphoproteomic analysis of primary animal tissue. The further refinement of these and complementary technologies, including the use of high mass-accuracy instrumentation and quantification strategies, will provide an increasingly global profiling of the unique sets of phosphorylation sites occurring across mammalian brain development.
| ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
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Published, MCP Papers in Press, September 2, 2004, DOI 10.1074/mcp.M400085-MCP200
S The on-line version of this manuscript (available at http://www.mcponline.org) contains supplemental material. ![]()
1 The abbreviations used are: Cdk5, cyclin-dependent kinase 5; SCX, strong cation exchange; SH2, Src homology 2; SH3, Src homology 3; NCBI, National Center for Biotechnology Information; FA, formic acid. ![]()
* This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grant HG00041 to S. P. G. The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact. ![]()
To whom correspondence should be addressed: Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115. Tel.: 617-432-3155; Fax: 617-432-1144; E-mail: steven_gygi{at}hms.harvard.edu
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