Title
iPhos: a toolkit to streamline the alkaline phosphatase-assisted comprehensive LC-MS phosphoproteome investigation.
Abstract
Comprehensive characterization of the phosphoproteome in living cells is critical in signal transduction research. But the low abundance of phosphopeptides among the total proteome in cells remains an obstacle in mass spectrometry-based proteomic analysis. To provide a solution, an alternative analytic strategy to confidently identify phosphorylated peptides by using the alkaline phosphatase (AP) treatment combined with high-resolution mass spectrometry was provided. While the process is applicable, the key integration along the pipeline was mostly done by tedious manual work.We developed a software toolkit, iPhos, to facilitate and streamline the work-flow of AP-assisted phosphoproteome characterization. The iPhos tookit includes one assister and three modules. The iPhos Peak Extraction Assister automates the batch mode peak extraction for multiple liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC-MS) runs. iPhos Module-1 can process the peak lists extracted from the LC-MS analyses derived from the original and dephosphorylated samples to mine out potential phosphorylated peptide signals based on mass shift caused by the loss of some multiples of phosphate groups. And iPhos Module-2 provides customized inclusion lists with peak retention time windows for subsequent targeted LC-MS/MS experiments. Finally, iPhos Module-3 facilitates to link the peptide identifications from protein search engines to the quantification results from pattern-based label-free quantification tools. We further demonstrated the utility of the iPhos toolkit on the data of human metastatic lung cancer cells (CL1-5).In the comparison study of the control group of CL1-5 cell lysates and the treatment group of dasatinib-treated CL1-5 cell lysates, we demonstrated the applicability of the iPhos toolkit and reported the experimental results based on the iPhos-facilitated phosphoproteome investigation. And further, we also compared the strategy with pure DDA-based LC-MS/MS phosphoproteome investigation. The results of iPhos-facilitated targeted LC-MS/MS analysis convey more thorough and confident phosphopeptide identification than the results of pure DDA-based analysis.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1186/1471-2105-15-S16-S10
BMC Bioinformatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
phosphorylation, iPhos, mass spectrometry, phosphoproteome, targeted LC-MS/MS, label-free quantitative proteomics analysis
Chromatography liquid,Biology,Proteomics,Liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry,Tandem mass spectrometry,Alkaline phosphatase,Proteome,Mass spectrometry,Bioinformatics,DNA microarray
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
15 Suppl 16
S-16
1471-2105
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
5
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tzu-Hsien Yang1132.03
Hong-Tsun Chang210.36
Eric Sl Hsiao310.36
Juo-Ling Sun410.36
Chung-Ching Wang5131.88
Hsin-Yi Wu6272.47
C. P. Liao721.10
Wei-Sheng Wu814112.08