Project description:Experiment was performed on 293 cells, details are presented in publication: Adenoviral E4 gene stimulates secretion of PEDF that maintains long-term survival of human glomerulus-derived endothelial cells Marina Jerebtsova‡§*, Namita Kumari‖, Yuri Obuhkov‖, and Sergei Nekhai‖†* (to be published in Molecular and Cellular Proteomics), please see more details in paper Workflow HPLC on PicoFrit C18 column, gradient 60 min from 2% to 30% ACN Nanospray 2 kV, flow rate 300 nL/min LTQ Orbitrap MS. Data dependent scan FT MS + 3 FT MS/MS. A blank water run was performed after each sample run Each 24 hours setup performance was tested on Apomyoglobin sample, 12 fmol. Coverage was 39-79 % Search is made by SEQUEST on human database
Project description:The experiment consists of M.hyp 232 cultures digests analyzed on two mass specs, LTQ Velos Pro and LTQ FT Ultra LTQ Velos Pro: Six cell culture replicates of M.hyo 232 were hydrophobically separated using tree detergents: Digitonin, Tween, and SDS. Each francion, including the insoluble pellet, was trypsin digested and then cleaned using an SCX trap follwed by a RP trap to remove detergents. Each fraction was sepated using a Dionex U3000 splitless nanoflow system operating at 333 nl per minute using a gradient of 2% ACN to 50% ACN in 4 hours. Eluate was analyzed using an LTQ Velos Pro mass spectrometer with 20 MS/MS scans of the 20 most intense peaks from each MS scan. Dynamic exclusion was enable for 3 minutes for each m/z with a repeat count of 1. LTQ FT Ultra: Two cell pellets for high resolution analysis were lysed and trypsin digested. Digested peptides were dried, resuspended in 20 mM KH2PO4, 20% ACN, pH 3 (Buffer A) in 2.5 µL and transferred to low retention vials in preparation for separation using an Ultimate 3000 configured for 2D-LC. Each sample was loaded at 15 µl/min onto an SCX microtrap for the first dimension of separation, involving SCX steps of Buffer A + 0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 40, 50, 100, 250, 500, and 1000 mM KCl. For the second dimension of separation, each eluted salt step was desalted with an inline peptide microtrap with 2% ACN, 0.1% FA at 5 µl/min. Once desalted, the microtrap was switched into line with a fritless nano column (75µm x ~10cm) containing C18 media (5µ, 200 Å Magic, Michrom). Peptides were eluted using a gradient of 2% to 36% ACN, 0.1% FA at 350 nl/min over 60 min and electrospray ionized for analysis using an LTQ FT Ultra mass spectrometer. A survey scan m/z 350-1750 was acquired in the FT ICR cell (Resolution = 100,000 at m/z 400, with an accumulation target value of 1,000,000 ions). Up to the 6 most abundant ions (>3,000 counts) with charge states > +2 were sequentially isolated and fragmented within the linear ion trap using collisionally induced dissociation with an activation q = 0.25 and activation time of 30 ms at a target value of 30,000 ions. M/z ratios selected for MS/ MS were dynamically excluded for 30 seconds. Analysis: X!tandem searches were performed using the Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae strain 232 reference protein set from NCBI. The only difference between the searches for the LTQ Velos and LTQ FT was the precursor mass tolenance being set to +-1500ppm and +-24ppm respectively. Decoy searches were performed and the data filtered at e-value <= 0.01 with single peptide proteins discarded. These results are included in the submission as two tab-delimited text files.
Project description:The atypical cadherin fat (ft) controls growth, planar cell polarity (PCP) tissue organization, and mitochondrial function, in organisms ranging from fruit flies to mammals. Working at the apical-junctional plasma membrane, the intracellular domain of the Ft protein, FtICD, binds to and regulates components of the Hippo and PCP pathways. Unexpectedly, we find that a fragment of the FtICD is present in the nucleus in cultured cells as well as in embryonic and larval tissues, and we identify nuclear localization and nuclear export signals in FtICD required for this localization. We show that membrane-bound FtICD is cleaved and enters nuclei in vivo. Using endogenously tagged Ft as well as overexpressed FtICD, we conducted ChIP-seq experiments and identified putative Ft targets, including genes involved in signaling pathways, chromatin organization, pattern formation, and neural development. RNAseq demonstrates that some of these genes are dysregulated in ft mutants. We observe strong co-localization of Ft binding regions with peaks for other factors such as DREF and BEAF-32, as well as the Hippo pathway components Yorkie (Yki) and Scalloped (Sd), suggesting that Ft may act in conjunction with these factors to regulate gene expression. Supporting this hypothesis, we found that Ft physiclly interacts with both Yki and Sd in co-immunoprecipitation experients in S2 cells. We propose that the modulation of Hippo pathway activity constitutes one of the nuclear functions of Ft, complementing its estalished function as an upstream regulator of Hippo signaling.
Project description:The atypical cadherin fat (ft) controls growth, planar cell polarity (PCP) tissue organization, and mitochondrial function, in organisms ranging from fruit flies to mammals. Working at the apical-junctional plasma membrane, the intracellular domain of the Ft protein, FtICD binds to and regulates components of the Hippo and PCP pathways. Unexpectedly, we find that a fragment of the FtICD is present in the nucleus in cultured cells as well as in embryonic and larval tissues and identify nuclear localization and nuclear export signals in FtICD required for this localization. We show membrane-bound FtICD is cleaved and enters nuclei in vivo. Using endogenously tagged Ft as well as overexpressed FtICD we conducted ChIP-seq experiments and identified putative Ft targets including genes involved in signaling pathways, chromatin organization, pattern formation, and neural development. RNAseq demonstrates that some of these genes are dysregulated in ft mutants. We observe strong co-localization of Ft binding regions with peaks for other factors such as DREF and BEAF-32, as well as the Hippo pathway components Yorkie (Yki) and Scalloped (Sd), suggesting that Ft may act in conjunction with these factors to regulate gene expression. Supporting this hypothesis, we found that Ft physically interacts with both Yki and Sd in co-immunoprecipitation experiments in S2 cells. We propose that the modulation of Hippo pathway activity constitutes one of the nuclear functions of Ft, complementing its established function as an upstream regulator of Hippo signaling.
Project description:The atypical cadherin fat (ft) controls growth, planar cell polarity (PCP) tissue organization, and mitochondrial function, in organisms ranging from fruit flies to mammals. Working at the apical-junctional plasma membrane, the intracellular domain of the Ft protein, FtICD, binds to and regulates components of the Hippo and PCP pathways. Unexpectedly, we find that a fragment of the FtICD is present in the nucleus in cultured cells as well as in embryonic and larval tissues, and we identify nuclear localization and nuclear export signals in FtICD required for this localization. We show that membrane-bound FtICD is cleaved and enters nuclei in vivo. Using endogenously tagged Ft as well as overexpressed FtICD, we conducted ChIP-seq experiments and identified putative Ft targets, including genes involved in signaling pathways, chromatin organization, pattern formation, and neural development. RNAseq demonstrates that some of these genes are dysregulated in ft mutants. We observe strong co-localization of Ft binding regions with peaks for other factors such as DREF and BEAF-32, as well as the Hippo pathway components Yorkie (Yki) and Scalloped (Sd), suggesting that Ft may act in conjunction with these factors to regulate gene expression. Supporting this hypothesis, we found that Ft physiclly interacts with both Yki and Sd in co-immunoprecipitation experients in S2 cells. We propose that the modulation of Hippo pathway activity constitutes one of the nuclear functions of Ft, complementing its estalished function as an upstream regulator of Hippo signaling.
Project description:Crude extracts of Moorea producens JHB (with blank solvent controls), grown under normal conditions or with excess sodium iodide, and run by LCMS on a Thermo LTQ FT and LCQ Advantage, respectively. Isolated pure compound mzXML files from the LTQ FT by direct nanomate injection.
Project description:Arabidopsis thaliana chlorosplasts extraction followed by subchloroplastic compartments fractionation (envelope, stroma, thylakoids). Afer SDS-PAGE separation and trypsin digestion, analysis of all gel bands twice by LC-MS/MS on a LTQ-FT
Project description:Saliva based diagnostics is a rapidly evolving field due to the large potential of saliva and the simple sample collection. A systematic comparison of IgG antibody profiles in saliva and plasma is currently lacking in scientific literature. Our hypothesis is that IgG profiles are equal in blood and saliva. By showing the equality of the profiles and relative IgG antigenic reactivities towards proteins and peptides we provide evidence that plasma IgG reactivities can be inferred from saliva IgG reactivities. IgG antibodies were isolated from human saliva and plasma samples. The reactivities of IgG isolates were analysed on peptide microarrays displaying linear epitopes of EBV (EBNA1 protein) and HBV (Large envelope protein) virus. Peptide arrays were printed by JPT Peptide Technologies (Berlin, Germany). We show high similarity of saliva and plasma IgG profiles on these two platforms and argue for generalisation from this subset to the whole immunological IgG antibody profile.