• Shigella dysenteriae
• Whole Cell Lysate
• Staphylococcus aureus
• Periplasm, Cell Envelope & Cell Wall
• Streptococcus pneumoniae
• Whole Cell Lysate
• Yersinia pestis
• Periplasm, Cell Envelope & Cell Wall
• Membrane
• Escherichia coli
• Whole Cell Lysate
• Poster Presentations
• Peptidome Data

Comparison of two label-free global quantitation methods, APEX and 2D gel electrophoresis, applied to the Shigella dysenteriae proteome

Srilatha Kuntumalla¹, John C Braisted¹, Shih-Ting Huang¹, Prashanth P Parmar¹, David J Clark¹, Hamid Alami¹, Quanshun Zhang², Arthur Donohue-Rolfe², Saul Tzipori², Robert D Fleischmann¹, Scott N Peterson¹ and ¹

¹Pathogen Functional Genomics Resource Center, J. Craig Venter Institute, 9704 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD 20850, USA

²Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University, 200 Westboro Road, North Grafton, MA 01536, USA

Abstract

The in vitro stationary phase proteome of the human pathogen Shigella dysenteriae serotype 1 (SD1) was quantitatively analyzed in Coomassie Blue G250 (CBB)-stained 2D gels. More than four hundred and fifty proteins, of which 271 were associated with distinct gel spots, were identified. In parallel, we employed 2D-LC-MS/MS followed by the label-free computationally modified spectral counting method APEX for absolute protein expression measurements. Of the 4502 genome-predicted SD1 proteins, 1148 proteins were identified with a false positive discovery rate of 5% and quantitated using 2D-LC-MS/MS and APEX. The dynamic range of the APEX method was approximately one order of magnitude higher than that of CBB-stained spot intensity quantitation. A squared Pearson correlation analysis revealed a reasonably good correlation (R² = 0.67) for protein quantities surveyed by both methods. The correlation was decreased for protein subsets with specific physicochemical properties, such as low Mr values and high hydropathy scores. Stoichiometric ratios of subunits of protein complexes characterized in E. coli were compared with APEX quantitative ratios of orthologous SD1 protein complexes. A high correlation was observed for subunits of soluble cellular protein complexes in several cases, demonstrating versatile applications of the APEX method in quantitative proteomics.

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