A Simple Light Isotope Metabolic labeling (SLIM-labeling) strategy: a powerful tool to address the dynamics of proteome variations in vivo
Thibaut Leger, Camille Garcia, Laetitia Collomb and Jean-Michel Camadro
Molecular & Cellular Proteomics, in press, published August 18, 2017
The authors have developed a new approach to address some of the limitations imposed by current quantitative proteomics methods. With metabolic labelling or stable isotope reagents, there are challenges due to the variable mass shifts or the ion suppression from additional peptides present causing lower identification efficiencies.
The paper describes bottom-up proteomic analyses of the pathogenic yeast, C. albicans, grown on a synthetic medium containing either normal glucose or depleted glucose containing only 12C carbon atoms as the sole carbon source. The use of 12C resulted in an increase in the intensity of the monoisotopic ion, markedly improving bottom-up proteomics analyses.
12C incorporation resulted in better overall scores per identified peptide with average scores up to 28% higher leading to an average increase of the protein identification scores of 36%. The number of identified peptides and proteins in C. albicans also increased by 14% and 11%, respectively, when applying a 1% FDR filter after 12C enrichment in vivo.
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