Abstract
Since the coining of the term Proteome, the field of Proteomics has developed rapidly and come to rely heavily on mass spectrometry, initially for protein identification but recently the use of stable isotopic labels for protein quantitation has grown in importance. This trend has been driven by improvements in the mass spectrometers and reagents but also by the need to understand the molecular dynamics of cells. Since proteins are important effector molecules in most biochemical processes, key questions to be answered are: how much is present and when. In this chapter we describe the various methods currently available to quantitate proteins based on stable isotope protein labeling and discuss their merits as well as some of the issues still to be addressed.
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Abbreviations
- ACN:
-
Acetonitrile
- AQUA:
-
Absolute quantification
- CID:
-
Collision induced disassociation
- CILAT:
-
Cleavable isobaric labeled affinity tag
- ESI:
-
Electrospray ionisation
- iCAT:
-
Isotopically coded affinity tags
- iTRAQ:
-
Isobaric tags for relative and absolute quantitation
- HILIC:
-
Hydrophilic interaction chromatography
- HPLC:
-
High performance liquid chromatography
- ICPL:
-
Isotope-coded protein label
- ICPMS:
-
Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry
- IgG:
-
Immunoglobulin
- IPG:
-
Immobilized pH gradient
- IPG-IEF:
-
Immobilized pH gradient isoelectric focusing
- LC-MALDI MS/MS:
-
Liquid chromatography matrix assisted laser desorption ionization tandem mass spectrometry
- LC-MS:
-
Liquid chromatography mass spectrometry
- MALDI:
-
Matrix assisted laser desorption ionisation
- MMTS:
-
Methyl methane-thiosulphonate
- MS:
-
Mass spectrometry
- MS/MS:
-
Tandem mass spectrometry
- Nano RP LC:
-
Nano reversed phase liquid chromatography
- NHS:
-
N-Hydroxysuccinamide
- PBS:
-
Phosphate buffered saline
- QconCAT:
-
Artificial proteins representing a quantification concatamer
- qTOF MS/MS:
-
Quadrupole time of flight tandem mass spectrometry
- RP LC:
-
Reversed phase liquid chromatography
- SILAC:
-
Stable isotope labeling by amino acids in cell culture
- SCX:
-
Strong cation exchange chromatography
- SISCAPA:
-
Stable isotope standards and capture by anti-peptide antibodies
- TCA:
-
Tri-chloroacetic acid
- TCEP:
-
Tris (2-carboxyethyl) phosphine
- TEAB:
-
Triethylammonium bicarbonate
- TMT:
-
Tandem Mass Tag Technology
- TOF/TOF:
-
Time of flight/time of flight
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Ashman, K., Cañás, M.I.R., Luque-Garcia, J.L., Martínez, F.G. (2011). Stable Isotopic Labeling for Proteomics. In: Ivanov, A., Lazarev, A. (eds) Sample Preparation in Biological Mass Spectrometry. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0828-0_27
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