Tandem Metal-Oxide Affinity Chromatography for Enhanced Depth of Phosphoproteome Analysis

Author(s)
Gerold J M Beckers, Wolfgang Höhenwarter, Horst Röhrig, Uwe Conrath, Wolfram Weckwerth
Abstract

In eukaryotic cells many diverse cellular functions are regulated by reversible protein phosphorylation. In recent years, phosphoproteomics has become a powerful tool to study protein phosphorylation because it allows unbiased localization, and site-specific quantification, of in vivo phosphorylation of hundreds of proteins in a single experiment. A common strategy to identify phosphoproteins and their phosphorylation sites from complex biological samples is the enrichment of phosphopeptides from digested cellular lysates followed by mass spectrometry. However, despite the high sensitivity of modern mass spectrometers the large dynamic range of protein abundance and the transient nature of protein phosphorylation remained major pitfalls in MS-based phosphoproteomics. Tandem metal-oxide affinity chromatography (MOAC) represents a robust and highly selective approach for the identification and site-specific quantification of low abundant phosphoproteins that is based on the successive enrichment of phosphoproteins and -peptides. This strategy combines protein extraction under denaturing conditions, phosphoprotein enrichment using Al(OH)3-based MOAC, tryptic digestion of enriched phosphoproteins followed by TiO2-based MOAC of phosphopeptides. Thus, tandem MOAC effectively targets the phosphate moiety of phosphoproteins and phosphopeptides and, thus, allows probing of the phosphoproteome to unprecedented depth.

Organisation(s)
External organisation(s)
Universität Wien
Volume
1072
Pages
621-632
No. of pages
12
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-631-3_42
Publication date
2014
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
106037 Proteomics, 104002 Analytical chemistry
Keywords
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Genetics, Molecular Biology
Portal url
https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/tandem-metaloxide-affinity-chromatography-for-enhanced-depth-of-phosphoproteome-analysis(505bd82b-f4c2-41cb-a707-c8980b769f37).html