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Identification and Quantification of Proteoforms by Mass Spectrometry

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Schaffer, Leah V., Millikin, Robert J., Miller, Rachel M., Anderson, Lissa C., Fellers, Ryan T., Ge, Ying, Kelleher, Neil L., LeDuc, Richard D. +11 more·2019·PROTEOMICS

Abstract

A proteoform is a defined form of a protein derived from a given gene with a specific amino acid sequence and localized post‐translational modifications. In top‐down proteomic analyses, proteoforms are identified and quantified through mass spectrometric analysis of intact proteins. Recent technological developments have enabled comprehensive proteoform analyses in complex samples, and an increasing number of laboratories are adopting top‐down proteomic workflows. In this review, some recent advances are outlined and current challenges and future directions for the field are discussed.

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  • Peptide-to-protein inference in bottom-up proteomics causes loss of proteoform information due to shared homologous regions and low sequence coverage.

    “However, the ‘peptide-to-protein inference’ problem in bottom-up proteomics leads to a loss in proteoform information because of many homologous sequence regions are shared between different protein forms and the generally low protein sequence coverage is observed [13,14].”
  • A major technical gap in top-down proteomics is that it cannot analyze low amounts of biological material, which restricts its use for rare cells, fine needle aspiration biopsies, and tissue substructures.

    “However, many challenges remain especially when dealing with scant biological samples, such as isolated rare cells, fine needle aspiration biopsies, and tissue substructures.5,17”
  • The custom filtering step reduced redundancy in proteoform counts that is typically caused by deisotoping errors, but it also merged proteoforms differing only slightly in mass, such as disulfide or deamidation variants, and positional isoforms likely to co-elute within 15 minutes.

    “This filtering step of the TopPIC result reduced the redundancy in proteoform counts, which is typically related to deisotoping errors (i.e., masses can differ by a few Da due to mis-assigned monoisotopic peaks).5 However, this also resulted in merging the proteoforms that differ in mass only slightly (e.g., disulfide, deamidation), as well as positional isoforms, which are likely to co-elute with”
  • Bottom-up protein analysis loses information regarding protein isoforms, PTM stoichiometry, and combinatorial PTMs.

    “Information regarding protein isoforms, PTM stoichiometry, and combinatorial PTMs is, however, lost when using peptides as protein surrogates.”

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Schaffer, L. V., Millikin, R. J., Miller, R. M., Anderson, L. C., Fellers, R. T., Ge, Y., Kelleher, N. L., LeDuc, R. D., Liu, X., Payne, S. H., Sun, L., Thomas, P. M., Tucholski, T., Wang, Z., Wu, S., Wu, Z., Yu, D., Shortreed, M. R., & Smith, L. M.
Affiliations
  • University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
  • National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (US)
  • Northwestern University (US)
  • Indiana University Indianapolis (US)
  • Brigham Young University (US)
  • Michigan State University (US)
  • University of Oklahoma (US)
Corresponding author
Smith, Lloyd M.
Venue
PROTEOMICS
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2019-05
Volume
19
Issue
10
Pages
e1800361-e1800361
ISSN
  • 1615-9853 (ISSN-L)
  • 1615-9861
OpenAlex
W2943223113
Cited by
209
References
158
Citations by year
2026: 15 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 22 · 2023: 42 · 2022: 38 · 2021: 27 · 2020: 32 · 2019: 16 · 2018: 1
FWCI
2.93
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • PROTEOMICS (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • IUScholarWorks (Indiana University) (submittedVersion)
  • Purdue University Indianapolis (Indiana University) (submittedVersion)
  • PMC
Funders
  • NIH Office of the Director
  • National Human Genome Research Institute (5T32HG002760)
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (P41GM108569, R01GM114292, R35GM126914, T32GM008349, T32GM008505)
  • Division of Materials Research (1644779)
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
  • National Institutes of Health (R01GM125991, R01GM118470, R01HL109810, R01HL096971, R01GM117058, R01GM125085, S10OD018475)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Spectroscopy › Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Spectroscopy › Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
Keywords
proteoforms, top-down proteomics, post-translational modification, proteoform identification, mass spectrometry
MeSH terms
Amino Acids, Animals, Humans, Programming Languages, Protein Processing, Post-Translational, Software, Mass Spectrometry, Reproducibility of Results, Electrophoresis, Capillary, Computational Biology, Proteome, Proteomics

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