Abstract
Targeted proteomics is a method of choice for accurate and high-throughput quantification of predefined sets of proteins. Many workflows use isotope-labeled reference peptides for every target protein, which is time consuming and costly. We report a statistical approach for quantifying full protein panels with a reduced set of reference peptides. This label-sparse approach achieves accurate quantification while reducing experimental cost and time. It is implemented in the software tool SparseQuant.
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The work was supported in part by the LiverX program of the Swiss Initiative for Systems Biology (SystemsX) to E.S., by the European Research Council (ERC) via grant “Proteomics v3.0” (grant 233226) and the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant 31-147086) to R.A., and by the US National Science Foundation CAREER award DBI-1054826 to O.V. We thank M. Choi for assistance with the manuscript.
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C.-Y.C. developed and implemented the statistical analysis framework, analyzed the data sets and wrote the manuscript. E.S. designed and conducted the mouse liver study and wrote the manuscript. R.A. supervised the experimental aspects of the work and wrote the manuscript. O.V. designed and supervised the statistical aspects of the work and wrote the manuscript.
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Supplementary Data 1 and Supplementary Notes 1–3 (PDF 4597 kb)
Supplementary Data 2
Identified and quantified SRM transitions in the mouse liver study. These data are the input to the label-sparse quantification approach. (XLS 1793 kb)
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The raw data in the Skyline format, generated by the initial screening experiment. These data are evidence that some transitions lack their reference counterpart, and require the label-sparse quantification approach. (ZIP 14258 kb)
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The raw data in the Skyline format, generated by the actual experiment. These data can be used to assess the quality of the individual transitions. These transitions were identified and quantified, and the result is stored in Supplementary Data 2. (ZIP 17652 kb)
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Chang, CY., Sabidó, E., Aebersold, R. et al. Targeted protein quantification using sparse reference labeling. Nat Methods 11, 301–304 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.2806
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