Establishment of a protein frequency library and its application in the reliable identification of specific protein interaction partners

Severine Boulon, Yasmeen Ahmad, Laura Trinkle-Mulcahy, Celine Verheggen, Andy Cobley, Peter Gregor, Edouard Bertrand, Mark Whitehorn, Angus I. Lamond

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    Abstract

    The reliable identification of protein interaction partners and how such interactions change in response to physiological or pathological perturbations is a key goal in most areas of cell biology. Stable isotope labeling with amino acids in cell culture (SILAC)-based mass spectrometry has been shown to provide a powerful strategy for characterizing protein complexes and identifying specific interactions. Here, we show how SILAC can be combined with computational methods drawn from the business intelligence field for multidimensional data analysis to improve the discrimination between specific and nonspecific protein associations and to analyze dynamic protein complexes. A strategy is shown for developing a protein frequency library (PFL) that improves on previous use of static "bead proteomes." The PFL annotates the frequency of detection in co-immunoprecipitation and pull-down experiments for all proteins in the human proteome. It can provide a flexible and objective filter for discriminating between contaminants and specifically bound proteins and can be used to normalize data values and facilitate comparisons between data obtained in separate experiments. The PFL is a dynamic tool that can be filtered for specific experimental parameters to generate a customized library. It will be continuously updated as data from each new experiment are added to the library, thereby progressively enhancing its utility. The application of the PFL to pulldown experiments is especially helpful in identifying either lower abundance or less tightly bound specific components of protein complexes that are otherwise lost among the large, nonspecific background. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics 9:861-879, 2010.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)861-879
    Number of pages19
    JournalMolecular & Cellular Proteomics
    Volume9
    Issue number5
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - May 2010

    Keywords

    • QUANTITATIVE MASS-SPECTROMETRY
    • CELL-CULTURE SILAC
    • AMINO-ACIDS
    • AFFINITY PURIFICATION
    • SACCHAROMYCES-CEREVISIAE
    • INTERACTION NETWORK
    • COMPLEXES
    • PROTEOMICS
    • REVEALS

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