Cited by 43Advanced Proteomics Techniques and ApplicationsGut microbiota and healthBacterial Genetics and Biotechnology

Enrichment and identification of small proteins in a simplified human gut microbiome

Petruschke, Hannes, Anders, John, Stadler, Peter F., Jehmlich, Nico, von Bergen, Martin·2020·Journal of Proteomics

Abstract

Small proteins (sProteins) with a size of 100 amino acids and less are involved in major biological processes and play an important role in different bacteria. Despite the increasing interest in them, the data on sProteins in bacterial communities, like the human gut microbiome is sparse. In this study, we are using the extended simplified human intestinal microbiota (SIHUMIx) as model system of the human gut microbiome to detect sProteins and to compare different sProtein enrichment methods. We observed that with our tested methods, the C8-cartridge enrichment resulted in the highest number of detected sProteins (n = 295) with high reproducibility among replication analysis. However, in order to further increase the total number of sProteins, the combination of C8 cartridge enrichment with GelFree enrichment is favored because the latter complemented n = 48 more sProteins compared to the C8 cartridge approach resulting in n = 343 sProteins. Among all detected sProteins we were able to identify 79 so far uncharacterized sProteins, with no described protein evidence in the current released database. In total, 34 of those uncharacterized sProteins are localized in gene clusters conserved between different bacteria species allowing functional predictions. This study improves the assessment of sProtein detection and enables their functional characterization in future experiments. SIGNIFICANCE: Small proteins have great potential and are therefore obtaining high interest. Especially in human microbiota, many undiscovered and uncharacterized small proteins promote the understanding of complex host-microbiome and bacteria-bacteria interactions. However, a major challenge lies in the detection of small proteins using bottom-up proteomics. Our study leads to an improved identification of small proteins in bacterial communities. It further describes properties and potential functions of identified, previously uncharacterized small proteins. Altogether it improves the assessment of sProtein detection and enables their functional characterization in future experiments.

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Authors
Petruschke, H., Anders, J., Stadler, P. F., Jehmlich, N., & von Bergen, M.
Affiliations
  • Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (DE)
  • Leipzig University (DE)
Corresponding author
Petruschke, Hannes
Venue
Journal of Proteomics
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2020-02
Volume
213
Pages
103604
ISSN
1874-3919 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2994614035
Cited by
43
References
57
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 15 · 2020: 5
FWCI
2.50
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Journal of Proteomics (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SPP 2002)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Spectroscopy › Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gut microbiota and health
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
Keywords
small proteins, human gut microbiome, shotgun proteomics, hypothetical protein, gene clusters, functional prediction, bacterial communities, host-microbiome interactions
MeSH terms
Gastrointestinal Microbiome, Bacteria, Humans, Proteins, Reproducibility of Results, Proteomics, Microbiota

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