Trypsin-Mediated 18O/16O labeling for biomarker discovery

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Abstract

Differential 18O/16O stable isotopic labeling that relies on post-digestion 18O exchange is a simple and ef fi cient method for the relative quantitation of proteins in complex mixtures. This method incorporates two 18O atoms onto the C-termini of proteolytic peptides resulting in a 4 Da mass-tag difference between 18O- and 16 O-labeled peptides. This allows for wide-range relative quantitation of proteins in complex mixtures using shotgun proteomics. Because of minimal sample consumption and unrestricted peptide tagging, the post-digestion 18O exchange is suitable for labeling of low-abundance membrane proteins enriched from cancer cell lines or clinical specimens, including tissues and body fl uids. This chapter describes a protocol that applies post-digestion 18O labeling to elucidate putative endogenous tumor hypoxia markers in the plasma membrane fraction enriched from a hypoxia-adapted malignant melanoma cell line. Plasma membrane proteins from hypoxic and normoxic cells were differentially tagged using 18O/16O stable isotopic labeling. The initial tryptic digestion and solubilization of membrane proteins were carried out in a buffer containing 60 % methanol followed by post-digestion 18O exchange/labeling in buffered 20 % methanol. The differentially labeled peptides were mixed in a 1:1 ratio and fractionated using off-line strong cation exchange (SCX) liquid chromatography followed by on-line reversed-phase nano- fl ow RPLC-MS identi fi cation and quantitation of peptides/proteins in respective SCX fractions. The present protocol illustrates the utility of 18O/16O stable isotope labeling in the context of quantitative shotgun proteomics that provides a basis for the discovery of hypoxia-induced membrane protein markers in malignant melanoma cell lines.

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Ye, X., Chan, K. C., Prieto, D. A., Luke, B. T., Johann, D. J., Stockwin, L. H., … Blonder, J. (2013). Trypsin-Mediated 18O/16O labeling for biomarker discovery. Methods in Molecular Biology. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-360-2_12

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