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Proteomics for Biological Discovery


SECOND EDITION



Edited by

Timothy D. Veenstra

Watertown, Wisconsin


John R. Yates III

Torrey Mesa, California





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Foreword

WHAT IS PROTEOMICS?

A critical advance in biology was the sequencing of the human genome approximately 15 years ago. A dedicated effort to advance technology has made it feasible and cost‐effective to sequence the entire genomes of individuals with a growing use in clinical diagnosis. The growing collection of DNA sequence data has provided a powerful resource for studies involving protein biochemistry, in particular to create a better understanding of how disease mechanisms manifest from genes to proteins. Advanced methods in large‐scale protein biochemistry or proteomics have broadened the types of experiments possible.

HOW IS THIS DRIVING BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH?

Understanding diseases requires discovering the mechanisms by which biological processes are disrupted. These mechanisms are often manifested through proteins and their functions. Proteomic methods are now able to measure protein expression, the composition of organelles, posttranslational modifications, and protein–protein interactions to determine how proteins are changed as a function of disease. A variety of methods make these measurements possible, including mass spectrometry and protein arrays. Protein arrays allow the study of large‐scale protein expression. They also allow scanning for circulating reactive antibodies that associate with disease. These advanced methods are increasingly used for studies to identify markers for disease. Increasingly, proteomic tools are being used in the development of therapeutic treatments.

In this second edition of Proteomics for Biological Discovery, chapters describe research meeting these needs.

Mohammed and Heck describe recent advances in quantitative proteomics using mass spectrometry. Veenstra describes proteome analysis of posttranslational modifications. Delahunty and Yates describe mass spectrometry‐based methods and applications to use affinity purification mass spectrometry for characterization of protein complexes. Diamandis and Drabovich cover the process of biomarker discovery. Yates discusses the large‐scale analysis of phosphorylation in biological systems. Robinson discusses the characterization of intact protein complexes using native mass spectrometry. Borchers describes the use of protein cross‐linking to characterize protein structures and protein–protein interactions. Emili describes the use of proteomics to understand protein function. Haab discusses the use of antibodies for proteomic profiling. LaBaer describes the use of protein arrays in proteomics. Sweedler describes the use of mass spectrometry imaging. An important new area of proteomics is single cell mass cytometry which is described by Edgar Arriaga. Kuster describes how to characterize drug–protein interactions.

List of Contributors

Timothy D. Veenstra
Department of Applied Science
Maranatha Baptist University
Watertown, WI, USA

John R. Yates III
Departments of Molecular Medicine and Neurobiology
The Scripps Research Institute, LaJolla, CA, USA

Edgar A. Arriaga
Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA

Marcus Bantscheff
Cellzome, Heidelberg, Germany

Christoph H. Borchers
University of Victoria – Genome British Columbia Proteomics Centre
Vancouver Island Technology Park, Victoria, BC, Canada

Claire M. Delahunty
Departments of Molecular Medicine and Neurobiology
The Scripps Research Institute, LaJolla, CA, USA

Eleftherios P. Diamandis
Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada

Andrei P. Drabovich
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta,
Edmonton, AB, Canada

Sage J.B. Dunham
Department of Chemistry and the Beckman Institute of Science and Technology
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA

Andrew Emili
Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Fernanda Festa
Departments of Pediatrics and Biochemistry/Molecular Biology
College of Medicine, Penn State University, Hershey, PA, USA

Christian K. Frese
Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics
Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research and Utrecht Institute for
Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht
The Netherlands

Heather M. Grundhofer
Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA

Brian B. Haab
Van Andel Research Institute, Grand Rapids, MI, USA

Pierre C. Havugimana
Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto,
Toronto, ON, Canada

Albert J.R. Heck
Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular
Research and Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University,
Utrecht, The Netherlands

Jonathan T.S. Hopper
Department of Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory,
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Pingzhao Hu
Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics, University of Manitoba,
Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Michelle M. Kuhns
Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Bernhard Kuster
Cellzome, Heidelberg, Germany. Technical University Munich, F.reising,
Germany

Joshua LaBaer
Virginia G. Piper Center for Personalized Diagnostics, Biodesign Institute,
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

Eric J. Lanni
Department of Chemistry and the Beckman Institute of Science and Technology,
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA

Eduardo Martínez‐Morillo
Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada

Shabaz Mohammed
Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics
Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research and Utrecht Institute for
Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht
The Netherlands

Elizabeth K. Neumann
Department of Chemistry and the Beckman Institute of Science and Technology
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA

Ta‐Hsuan Ong
Department of Chemistry and the Beckman Institute of Science and Technology,
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA

Evgeniy V. Petrotchenko
University of Victoria – Genome British Columbia Proteomics Centre
Vancouver Island Technology Park, Victoria, BC, Canada

Carol V. Robinson
Department of Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Markus Schirle
Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA

Jason J. Serpa
University of Victoria – Genome British Columbia Proteomics Centre
Vancouver Island Technology Park, Victoria, BC, Canada

Jonathan V. Sweedler
Department of Chemistry and the Beckman Institute of Science and Technology
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA

Henk van den Toorn
Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Bijvoet Center for
Biomolecular Research and Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences
Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands