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Accurate Proteome-wide Label-free Quantification by Delayed Normalization and Maximal Peptide Ratio Extraction, Termed MaxLFQ
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Protein quantification without isotopic labels has been a long-standing interest in the proteomics field. However, accurate and robust proteome-wide quantification with label-free approaches remains a challenge. We developed a new intensity determination and normalization procedure called MaxLFQ that is fully compatible with any peptide or protein separation prior to LC-MS analysis. Protein abundance profiles are assembled using the maximum possible information from MS signals, given that the presence of quantifiable peptides varies from sample to sample. For a benchmark dataset with two proteomes mixed at known ratios, we accurately detected the mixing ratio over the entire protein expression range, with greater precision for abundant proteins. The significance of individual label-free quantifications was obtained via a t test approach. For a second benchmark dataset, we accurately quantify fold changes over several orders of magnitude, a task that is challenging with label-based methods. MaxLFQ is a generic label-free quantification technology that is readily applicable to many biological questions; it is compatible with standard statistical analysis workflows, and it has been validated in many and diverse biological projects. Our algorithms can handle very large experiments of 500+ samples in a manageable computing time. It is implemented in the freely available MaxQuant computational proteomics platform and works completely seamlessly at the click of a button.
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MaxLFQ is a label-free LC-MS quantification method combining delayed normalization with maximal extraction of peptide ratio information across samples. In benchmark datasets it accurately recovered known protein mixing ratios, including 3:1 proteome mixes and UPS dynamic-range ratios over several orders of magnitude.
Key findings
- In a HeLa/E. coli proteome benchmark, MaxLFQ produced narrower ratio distributions and less overlap between human and E. coli proteins than spectral counting or summed peptide intensities, and most accurately recapitulated the expected 3-fold change; 3453 human and 1556 E. coli proteins were quantified.
- Statistical testing by t test outperformed fold-change ranking: at precision 0.98, 72% of E. coli proteins were recalled, and at precision 95%, 88% were retrieved with the Welch modified t test.
- For simulated smaller ratios, at 10% FDR almost all truly changing proteins were recovered at ratio 3, about half at ratio 1.6, with a strong drop below 1.6; the Q = 0.25 half-coverage point was around ratio 1.4.
- In the UPS dynamic-range benchmark, MaxLFQ was close to expected values within 2 orders of magnitude and showed increased scatter but no systematic error above 100-fold ratios; summed intensities slightly underestimated very large ratios, and spectral counts covered 2 orders of magnitude less and systematically underestimated ratios.
Methods
- Two benchmark datasets were used: (1) trypsin-digested HeLa and E. coli lysates mixed at 1:1 and 3:1 E. coli ratios, separated by isoelectric focusing into 24 fractions and analyzed in three replicates on an LTQ Orbitrap; (2) UPS1 and UPS2 standards spiked into E. coli peptides and analyzed in four replicates on a Q Exactive.
- Raw data were processed with MaxQuant/Andromeda at 1% peptide and protein FDR; match-between-runs transferred identifications across LC-MS runs, increasing quantifiable isotope patterns more than 2-fold in the proteome benchmark and by 38% in the UPS benchmark.
- MaxLFQ delayed normalization by optimizing run-specific normalization coefficients via Levenberg–Marquardt minimization of squared log fold changes, then reconstructed protein abundance profiles from pair-wise peptide ratios using median peptide ratios and least-squares fitting.
Limitations
- Stated: MaxLFQ requires a dominant population of proteins that change minimally between conditions; in the benchmark the changing E. coli population was 31% of measured proteins, which still worked but shifted the non-changing population slightly negative.
- Stated: sample-handling variability across months, machines, or laboratories remains a challenge; studies needing ultimate ratio accuracy or individual peptide quantification, such as post-translational modifications, will still rely on isotope labels, and clinical applications may benefit from spike-in references.
- Stated: computational effort grows quadratically with sample number, though a fast normalization heuristic using a graph with minimum three and average six nearest neighbors gives linear scaling; large ratios show increased scatter above 100-fold. Evident from the text: validation rests on two benchmark datasets plus an in silico downscaling experiment, not broad clinical or diverse biological validation.
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“Spectral count ratio clouds were clearly separated only for the most abundant proteins (Figs. 3A and 3D).”
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“In all cases, human and E. coli proteins formed distinct clouds, but with different degrees of overlap.”
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“Furthermore, a systematic distortion was observable that resulted in a general overestimation of the ratios of low-intensity proteins.”
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“It has delivered excellent performance in benchmark comparisons with other software solutions (31).”
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- Not checked yetcites [31] Weisser, 2013, An automated pipeline for high-throughput label-free quantitative proteomics, J. Proteome Res source
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“Transferring identifications to other LC-MS runs by matching them to unidentified features based on their masses and recalibrated retention times increased the number of quantifiable isotope patterns more than 2-fold”
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“For a second benchmark dataset, we accurately quantify fold changes over several orders of magnitude, a task that is challenging with label-based methods.”
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“Ratios of summed peptide intensities already allowed almost complete separation of human and E. coli proteins across the entire abundance range, with some overlap occurring only in the lower half (Figs. 3B and 3E).”
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“In particular, for low stringency there is a very rapid drop of coverage around a well-defined ratio.”
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“At a precision of 0.98, 72% of the E. coli proteins were recalled.”
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“This revealed that retrieving proteins by ratio (corresponding to a fixed fold change cut-off) was the worst strategy.”
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“In the low-intensity region, spectral counts became discrete values, and their log ratios adopted a very wide distribution with pronounced overlap of human and E. coli proteins.”
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“MaxQuant identified a total of 789,978 isotope clusters through MS/MS sequencing.”
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“The computational effort for this procedure grows quadratically with the number of samples to be compared”
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“The computational effort grows quadratically with the number of samples in which a protein is present; however, it is readily parallelizable at the protein level.”
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“Our algorithms can handle very large experiments of 500+ samples in a manageable computing time.”
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“In addition, protein groups had to be unambiguously assignable to one species; this was the case for 3453 human and 1556 E. coli proteins (supplemental Table S1).”
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“For a benchmark dataset with two proteomes mixed at known ratios, we accurately detected the mixing ratio over the entire protein expression range, with greater precision for abundant proteins.”
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“Both versions of the t test performed significantly better, and the Welch modified t test was slightly better than the standard t test.”
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“which demonstrated that MaxLFQ performed best not only by generating the narrowest distributions, but also by most accurately recapitulating the expected fold change of three between the population averages.”
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“Illustrating this, in our dynamic-range benchmark dataset we recorded one of the largest published E. coli proteomes so far, resulting in a high sequence coverage and hence a very narrow cloud of E. coli protein quantifications.”
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“In the sample of E. coli plus UPS2, 15 of the lower abundant human UPS proteins were never sequenced by MS/MS, but 10 of them could be identified and quantified in at least some of the replicates through matching to the UPS1-containing samples.”
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“We found that this stabilized the general ratio trend and reduced the outlier sensitivity.”
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“Spectral counts covered 2 orders of magnitude less than intensity-based methods, because there were no MS/MS events for all proteins of the lowest two abundance groups in all UPS2-plus-E. coli samples (Fig. 6D).”
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“For ratios of more than 100-fold, we detected increased scatter, but no systematic error that would lead to an over- or underestimation of the ratio (Fig. 6F).”
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“The center of the 1:1 population is shifted to slightly negative values.”
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“UPS proteins are clearly separated from the narrow cloud of E. coli proteins and cluster in groups according to their relative abundances.”
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“When we used our MaxLFQ algorithm, the overlap of the populations was further reduced relative to the summed intensity approach, and the number of extreme outliers was markedly reduced (Figs. 3C and 3F).”
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“Summed intensities yielded very similar results within 2 orders of magnitude (Fig. 6C) but a small systematic underestimation of very large ratios (Fig. 6G).”
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“The Wilcoxon–Mann–Whitney test performed better but also had problems at low recall.”
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“Then we rescale the whole profile to the cumulative intensity across samples, thereby preserving the total summed intensity for a protein over all samples”
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“Although high mass accuracy aids in the identification of peptides (42), it is the high mass resolution that is crucial to accurate quantification. This is because the accurate determination of extracted ion currents (XICs) of peptides is critical for comparison between samples (43).”
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- Not checked yetcites [42] Cox, 2008, MaxQuant enables high peptide identification rates, individualized p.p.b.-range mass accuracies and proteome-wide protein quantification, Nat. Biotechnol source
- Not checked yetcites [43] Andersen, 2003, Proteomic characterization of the human centrosome by protein correlation profiling, Nature source
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“We want to use only common peptides for pair-wise ratio determination without losing scalability for large numbers of samples.”
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“Conversely, any up-front separation of proteins or peptides potentially poses serious problems in a label-free approach, because the partitioning into fractions is prone to change slightly in the analysis of different samples.”
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“Both were also extracted by MaxQuant, so we do not introduce biases due to the search engine and the set of identified peptides, and only benchmark conceptually different metrics of quantification.”
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“Most methods require measurement of samples under uniform conditions with strict adherence to standard sample-handling procedures, with minimal fractionation and in tight temporal sequence.”
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“In addition, there is no limit on the number of samples that can be compared, in contrast to the finite number of “plexes” available for label-based methods (7).”
§ Accurate Proteome-wide Label-free Quantification by Delayed Normalization and Maximal Peptide Ratio Extraction, Termed MaxLFQ * > Abstract
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- Not checked yetcites [7] Dephoure, 2012, Hyperplexing: a method for higher-order multiplexed quantitative proteomics provides a map of the dynamic response to rapamycin in yeast, Sci. Signal source
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“Due to stochastic MS/MS sequencing and differences in protein abundances across samples, peptide identifications are often missing in specific samples.”
§ Accurate Proteome-wide Label-free Quantification by Delayed Normalization and Maximal Peptide Ratio Extraction, Termed MaxLFQ * > RESULTS
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“When isotope labels are introduced early in the workflow, samples can be mixed, and any sample-handling issues equally affect all proteins or peptides. This allows complex biochemical workflows without loss of quantitative accuracy.”
§ Accurate Proteome-wide Label-free Quantification by Delayed Normalization and Maximal Peptide Ratio Extraction, Termed MaxLFQ * > Abstract
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“Finally, the modest accuracy of their quantitative readouts relative to those obtained with stable-isotope-based methods often prohibits their use for biological questions that require the detection of small changes, such as proteome changes upon stimulus.”
§ Accurate Proteome-wide Label-free Quantification by Delayed Normalization and Maximal Peptide Ratio Extraction, Termed MaxLFQ * > Abstract
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“The normalization is done purely from the data obtained and without the addition of external quantification standards or reliance on a fixed set of “housekeeping” proteins.”
§ Accurate Proteome-wide Label-free Quantification by Delayed Normalization and Maximal Peptide Ratio Extraction, Termed MaxLFQ * > RESULTS
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“Label-free quantification is in principle applicable to any kind of sample, including materials that cannot be directly metabolically labeled (for instance, many clinical samples).”
§ Accurate Proteome-wide Label-free Quantification by Delayed Normalization and Maximal Peptide Ratio Extraction, Termed MaxLFQ * > Abstract
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“In the resulting six samples all human proteins therefore should have had one-to-one ratios and all E. coli proteins should have had a ratio of three to one between replicate groups.”
§ Accurate Proteome-wide Label-free Quantification by Delayed Normalization and Maximal Peptide Ratio Extraction, Termed MaxLFQ * > RESULTS
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“it is compatible with standard statistical analysis workflows”
§ Accurate Proteome-wide Label-free Quantification by Delayed Normalization and Maximal Peptide Ratio Extraction, Termed MaxLFQ * > Abstract
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“We developed a new intensity determination and normalization procedure called MaxLFQ that is fully compatible with any peptide or protein separation prior to LC-MS analysis.”
§ Accurate Proteome-wide Label-free Quantification by Delayed Normalization and Maximal Peptide Ratio Extraction, Termed MaxLFQ * > Abstract
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“At this point we have constructed a triangular matrix containing all pair-wise protein ratios between any two samples, which is the maximal possible quantification information.”
§ Accurate Proteome-wide Label-free Quantification by Delayed Normalization and Maximal Peptide Ratio Extraction, Termed MaxLFQ * > RESULTS
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“High mass resolution and accuracy and high peptide identification rates have been key ingredients in the success of isotope-label-based methods. These factors contribute similarly to the quality of label-free quantification.”
§ Accurate Proteome-wide Label-free Quantification by Delayed Normalization and Maximal Peptide Ratio Extraction, Termed MaxLFQ * > Abstract
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“The pair-wise protein ratio rCB (Fig. 2D) is then defined as the median of the peptide ratios, to protect against outliers.”
§ Accurate Proteome-wide Label-free Quantification by Delayed Normalization and Maximal Peptide Ratio Extraction, Termed MaxLFQ * > RESULTS
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“Instead, ratios derived from individual peptide signals should be taken into account, rather than a sum of intensities, because the XIC ratios for each peptide are already a measurement of the protein ratio.”
§ Accurate Proteome-wide Label-free Quantification by Delayed Normalization and Maximal Peptide Ratio Extraction, Termed MaxLFQ * > RESULTS
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“Chemical labeling (39–41) is in principle universally applicable, but because the labels are introduced later in the sample processing, some of the advantages in robustness are lost.”
§ Accurate Proteome-wide Label-free Quantification by Delayed Normalization and Maximal Peptide Ratio Extraction, Termed MaxLFQ * > Abstract
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- Not checked yetcites [39] Gygi, 1999, Quantitative analysis of complex protein mixtures using isotope-coded affinity tags, Nat. Biotechnol source
- Not checked yetcites [40] Ross, 2004, Multiplexed protein quantitation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae using amine-reactive isobaric tagging reagents, Mol. Cell. Proteomics source
- Not checked yetcites [41] Boersema, 2008, Triplex protein quantification based on stable isotope labeling by peptide dimethylation applied to cell and tissue lysates, Proteomics source
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“Such ratios typically occur in the context of interaction proteomics experiments (56), where early mixing of isotope-labeled samples is usually not possible and some of the principal advantages of metabolic labeling are therefore lost.”
§ Accurate Proteome-wide Label-free Quantification by Delayed Normalization and Maximal Peptide Ratio Extraction, Termed MaxLFQ * > RESULTS
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- Not checked yetcites [56] Hubner, 2010, Quantitative proteomics combined with BAC TransgeneOmics reveals in vivo protein interactions, J. Cell Biol source
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“This is presumably because in the benchmark dataset all true ratios were either 1:1 or 1:3, whereas in real applications the true ratio distribution has a dense spectrum of small changes.”
§ Accurate Proteome-wide Label-free Quantification by Delayed Normalization and Maximal Peptide Ratio Extraction, Termed MaxLFQ * > RESULTS
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“In large pulldown datasets, the background population does not have to be the same over all samples and can be a different one in each pair-wise sample comparison in MaxLFQ.”
§ Accurate Proteome-wide Label-free Quantification by Delayed Normalization and Maximal Peptide Ratio Extraction, Termed MaxLFQ * > RESULTS
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“This demonstrates a clear advantage of intensity-based approaches.”
§ Accurate Proteome-wide Label-free Quantification by Delayed Normalization and Maximal Peptide Ratio Extraction, Termed MaxLFQ * > RESULTS
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“The ease of use of MaxLFQ as part of the MaxQuant software suite should enable our technology to be widely adopted by nonspecialized labs as well.”
§ Accurate Proteome-wide Label-free Quantification by Delayed Normalization and Maximal Peptide Ratio Extraction, Termed MaxLFQ * > DISCUSSION
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“The advantage of permutation-based methods is that no assumptions need to be made regarding the parametric distributions of intensities or ratios.”
§ Accurate Proteome-wide Label-free Quantification by Delayed Normalization and Maximal Peptide Ratio Extraction, Termed MaxLFQ * > RESULTS
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“However, this had no effect on subsequent tests for finding differentially expressed proteins, as they are all insensitive to global shifts of all values.”
§ Accurate Proteome-wide Label-free Quantification by Delayed Normalization and Maximal Peptide Ratio Extraction, Termed MaxLFQ * > RESULTS
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“As a means to control the FDR and solve potential multiple hypothesis testing problems in real biological datasets, we usually apply permutation-based methods for calculating q-values and global FDRs.”
§ Accurate Proteome-wide Label-free Quantification by Delayed Normalization and Maximal Peptide Ratio Extraction, Termed MaxLFQ * > RESULTS
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- Not checked yetcites [55] Tusher, 2001, Significance analysis of microarrays applied to the ionizing radiation response, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A source
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“Extreme ratios typically coincide with very different peptide populations identified in the samples to be compared: many in the sample with high protein abundance, of which only a small subset is found in the low-abundance sample. This can make the protein ratio determination rely on very few quantification events, which increases the sensitivity to outliers.”
§ Accurate Proteome-wide Label-free Quantification by Delayed Normalization and Maximal Peptide Ratio Extraction, Termed MaxLFQ * > RESULTS
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“In addition, applications that require extreme robustness, such as sample handling in a clinical setting, will likely benefit from spike-in references that serve as internal standards.”
§ Accurate Proteome-wide Label-free Quantification by Delayed Normalization and Maximal Peptide Ratio Extraction, Termed MaxLFQ * > DISCUSSION
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“Biological studies that depend on the ultimate accuracy of the ratio readout or on quantitative information about individual peptides, such as post-translationally modified ones, will still rely on isotope labels.”
§ Accurate Proteome-wide Label-free Quantification by Delayed Normalization and Maximal Peptide Ratio Extraction, Termed MaxLFQ * > DISCUSSION
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“Label-free quantification benefits dramatically from this depth, as it increases the number of quantifiable features present in a given LC-MS run and allows averaging over more peptides for protein quantification.”
§ Accurate Proteome-wide Label-free Quantification by Delayed Normalization and Maximal Peptide Ratio Extraction, Termed MaxLFQ * > DISCUSSION
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“Recent advances in mass spectrometer hardware (76, 77) have provided a boost in the depth of standard analyses and enabled near-complete model proteome quantification in minimal measuring time (6).”
§ Accurate Proteome-wide Label-free Quantification by Delayed Normalization and Maximal Peptide Ratio Extraction, Termed MaxLFQ * > DISCUSSION
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- Not checked yetcites [76] Michalski, 2012, Ultra high resolution linear ion trap Orbitrap mass spectrometer (Orbitrap Elite) facilitates top down LC MS/MS and versatile peptide fragmentation modes, Mol. Cell. Proteomics source
- Not checked yetcites [77] Michalski, 2011, Mass spectrometry-based proteomics using Q Exactive, a high-performance benchtop quadrupole Orbitrap mass spectrometer, Mol. Cell. Proteomics source
- Not checked yetcites [6] Mann, 2013, The coming age of complete, accurate, and ubiquitous proteomes, Mol. Cell source
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“In datasets of practical interest, the true proportion of false positives is not known a priori.”
§ Accurate Proteome-wide Label-free Quantification by Delayed Normalization and Maximal Peptide Ratio Extraction, Termed MaxLFQ * > RESULTS
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“This quantity contains a sum running over all pairs of samples that grows quadratically with the number of samples.”
§ Accurate Proteome-wide Label-free Quantification by Delayed Normalization and Maximal Peptide Ratio Extraction, Termed MaxLFQ * > RESULTS
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A majority population of proteins exists that is not changing between the samples, so average behavior can be used as a relative standard.
“We exploit the fact that the majority of the proteome typically does not change between any two conditions so that the average behavior can be used as a relative standard.”
“MaxLFQ has the prerequisite that a majority population of proteins exists that is not changing between the samples.”
“normalization was based on the assumption of a dominating population of non-changing proteins.”
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“The only prerequisite is a dominant population of proteins that change minimally between experimental conditions.”
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“A large overlap of peptides between each pair of nodes was interpreted as a small distance between them.”
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“LFQ intensities are normalized median mass spectra intensity values that allow this quantification to be performed with any peptide and protein fractionation while maintaining high accuracy (Cox et al., 2014).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Cox, J., Hein, M. Y., Luber, C. A., Paron, I., Nagaraj, N., & Mann, M.
- Affiliations
- Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Cox, Jürgen
- Mann, Matthias
- Venue
- Molecular & Cellular Proteomics
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-09
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 2513-2526
- ISSN
- 1535-9476 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4159666
- OpenAlex
- W2170776626
- Semantic Scholar
- dc7f01616aea5d85e594d6b9d1113ca3bb292d28
- Cited by
- 5,180
- References
- 80
- Citations by year
- 2026: 369 · 2025: 513 · 2024: 583 · 2023: 558 · 2022: 512 · 2021: 561 · 2020: 550 · 2019: 448 · 2018: 402 · 2017: 299 · 2016: 245 · 2015: 111 · 2014: 24
- FWCI
- 97.15
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Molecular & Cellular Proteomics (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Max Planck Digital Library (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Spectroscopy › Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Advanced Biosensing Techniques and Applications
- Keywords
- label-free quantification, MaxQuant
- MeSH terms
- Algorithms, Escherichia coli, HeLa Cells, Humans, Peptides, Proteins, Software, Proteome, Proteomics
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