Determination of Site-Specific Phosphorylation Ratios in Proteins with Targeted Mass Spectrometry
Lennard J. M. Dekker, Lona Zeneyedpour, Sandor Snoeijers, Jos Joore, Sieger Leenstra, and Theo M. Luider
J. Proteome Res. 2018, 17, 1654-1663
The authors developed a method to absolutely quantify phosphopeptides and to determine their percentage
of phosphorylation using parallel reaction monitoring (PRM) in combination with stable-isotope-labeled (SIL) peptides.
First a phosphoproteome profile is created by performing a data-dependent LC-MS measurement on enzymatic digested glioblastoma multiforme cell lysates that are enriched by TiO2. Second, a number of phosphopeptides were selected from this data set and used for a PRM approach with SIL peptides. In this PRM approach phosphorylated peptides as well as the nonphosphorylated counterparts including their SIL standards are targeted.
This resulted in the identification of 7774 unique phosphopeptides and 1980 pairs where the non-phosphorylated peptide partners were also observed. From this list, six peptide pairs were chosen based on their relevance to pathways that are known to be affected in glioma. This validation study showed that a reproducible quantity of phosphorylation could be determined with CV's of 6-13%.
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