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Pick-up single-cell proteomic analysis for quantifying up to 3000 proteins in a tumor cell

ABSTRACT: The shotgun proteomic analysis is currently the most promising single-cell protein sequencing technology, however its identification level of ~1000 proteins per cell is still insufficient for practical applications. Here, we develop a pick-up single-cell proteomic analysis (PiSPA) workflow to achieve a deep identification capable of quantifying up to 3000 protein groups in a tumor cell using the label-free quantitative method. The PiSPA workflow is specially established for single-cell samples mainly based on a nanoliter-scale microfluidic liquid handling robot, capable of achieving single-cell capture, pretreatment and injection under the pick-up operation strategy. Using this customized workflow with remarkable improvement in protein identification, 1804–3349, 1778–3049 and 1074–2487 protein groups are quantified in single A549 cells (n = 37), HeLa cells (n = 44) and U2OS cells (n = 27), respectively. Benefiting from the flexible cell picking-up ability, we study tumor cell migration at the single cell proteome level, demonstrating the potential in practical biological research from single-cell insight.

ORGANISM(S): Homo Sapiens

SUBMITTER: Qun Fang

PROVIDER: PXD041966 | iProX | Mon Oct 30 00:00:00 GMT 2023

REPOSITORIES: iProX

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Pick-up single-cell proteomic analysis for quantifying up to 3000 proteins in a Mammalian cell.

Wang Yu Y Guan Zhi-Ying ZY Shi Shao-Wen SW Jiang Yi-Rong YR Zhang Jie J Yang Yi Y Wu Qiong Q Wu Jie J Chen Jian-Bo JB Ying Wei-Xin WX Xu Qin-Qin QQ Fan Qian-Xi QX Wang Hui-Feng HF Zhou Li L Wang Ling L Fang Jin J Pan Jian-Zhang JZ Fang Qun Q

Nature communications 20240210 1

The shotgun proteomic analysis is currently the most promising single-cell protein sequencing technology, however its identification level of ~1000 proteins per cell is still insufficient for practical applications. Here, we develop a pick-up single-cell proteomic analysis (PiSPA) workflow to achieve a deep identification capable of quantifying up to 3000 protein groups in a mammalian cell using the label-free quantitative method. The PiSPA workflow is specially established for single-cell sampl ...[more]

PMID: 38341466

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Pick-up single-cell proteomic analysis for quantifying up to 3000 proteins in a tumor cell

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Pick-up single-cell proteomic analysis for quantifying up to 3000 proteins in a Mammalian cell.

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