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The shotgun proteomic study of the human ThinPrep cervical smear using iTRAQ mass-tagging and 2D LC-FT-Orbitrap-MS: the detection of the Human Papillomavirus at the protein level

The shotgun proteomic study of the human ThinPrep cervical smear using iTRAQ mass-tagging and 2D LC-FT-Orbitrap-MS: the detection of the Human Papillomavirus at the protein level
The shotgun proteomic study of the human ThinPrep cervical smear using iTRAQ mass-tagging and 2D LC-FT-Orbitrap-MS: the detection of the Human Papillomavirus at the protein level
The ThinPrep cervical smear is widely used in clinical practice for the cytological and molecular screening against abnormal cells and Human Papillomavirus (HPV) infection. Current advancements made to LC–MS proteomics include the use of stable isotope labeling for the in-depth analysis of proteins in complex clinical specimens. Such approaches have yet to be realized for ThinPrep clinical specimens. In this study, an LC–MS method based on isobaric (iTRAQ) labeling and high-resolution FT-Orbitrap mass spectrometry was used for the proteomic analysis of 23 human ThinPrep smear specimens. Tandem mass spectrometry analysis was performed with both nitrogen high collision dissociation (HCD MS/MS) and helium collision induced dissociation (CID MS/MS) peptide fragmentation modes. The analysis of three 8-plex sample sets yielded the identification of over 3200 unique proteins at FDR < 1%, of which over 2300 proteins were quantitatively profiled in at least one of the three experiments. The interindividual variability served to define the required sample size needed to identify significant protein expression differences. The degree of in-depth proteome coverage allowed the detection of 6 HPV-derived proteins including the high-risk HPV16 type in the specimens tested. The presence of the HPV strains of origin was also confirmed with PCR-hybridization molecular methods. This proof-of-principle study constitutes the first ever report on the nontargeted analysis of HPV proteins in human ThinPrep clinical specimens with high-resolution mass spectrometry. A further testament to the sensitivity and selectivity of the proposed study method was the confident detection of a significant number of phosphopeptides in these specimens.
1535-3893
2078-2089
Papachristou, Evaggelia K.
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Roumeliotis, Theodoros I.
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Townsend, Paul A.
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Trigoni, Chrysanthi
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Charvalos, Ekatherina
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Papachristou, Evaggelia K., Roumeliotis, Theodoros I., Chrysagi, Argyro, Trigoni, Chrysanthi, Charvalos, Ekatherina, Townsend, Paul A., Pavlakis, Kitty and Garbis, Spiros (2013) The shotgun proteomic study of the human ThinPrep cervical smear using iTRAQ mass-tagging and 2D LC-FT-Orbitrap-MS: the detection of the Human Papillomavirus at the protein level. Journal of Proteome Research, 12 (5), 2078-2089. (doi:10.1021/pr301067r). (PMID:23510160)

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Abstract

The ThinPrep cervical smear is widely used in clinical practice for the cytological and molecular screening against abnormal cells and Human Papillomavirus (HPV) infection. Current advancements made to LC–MS proteomics include the use of stable isotope labeling for the in-depth analysis of proteins in complex clinical specimens. Such approaches have yet to be realized for ThinPrep clinical specimens. In this study, an LC–MS method based on isobaric (iTRAQ) labeling and high-resolution FT-Orbitrap mass spectrometry was used for the proteomic analysis of 23 human ThinPrep smear specimens. Tandem mass spectrometry analysis was performed with both nitrogen high collision dissociation (HCD MS/MS) and helium collision induced dissociation (CID MS/MS) peptide fragmentation modes. The analysis of three 8-plex sample sets yielded the identification of over 3200 unique proteins at FDR < 1%, of which over 2300 proteins were quantitatively profiled in at least one of the three experiments. The interindividual variability served to define the required sample size needed to identify significant protein expression differences. The degree of in-depth proteome coverage allowed the detection of 6 HPV-derived proteins including the high-risk HPV16 type in the specimens tested. The presence of the HPV strains of origin was also confirmed with PCR-hybridization molecular methods. This proof-of-principle study constitutes the first ever report on the nontargeted analysis of HPV proteins in human ThinPrep clinical specimens with high-resolution mass spectrometry. A further testament to the sensitivity and selectivity of the proposed study method was the confident detection of a significant number of phosphopeptides in these specimens.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 19 March 2013
Published date: 22 April 2013
Organisations: Cancer Sciences

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Local EPrints ID: 395405
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/395405
ISSN: 1535-3893
PURE UUID: 96824116-66e8-4890-90a2-550058fda92a
ORCID for Spiros Garbis: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1050-0805

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Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 00:39

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Author: Evaggelia K. Papachristou
Author: Theodoros I. Roumeliotis
Author: Argyro Chrysagi
Author: Chrysanthi Trigoni
Author: Ekatherina Charvalos
Author: Paul A. Townsend
Author: Kitty Pavlakis
Author: Spiros Garbis ORCID iD

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