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ABSTRACT: Background
Proteomics of bacterial pathogens is a developing field exploring microbial physiology, gene expression and the complex interactions between bacteria and their hosts. One of the complications in proteomic approach is micro- and macro-heterogeneity of bacterial species, which makes it impossible to build a comprehensive database of bacterial genomes for identification, while most of the existing algorithms rely largely on genomic data.Results
Here we present a large scale study of identification of single amino acid polymorphisms between bacterial strains. An ad hoc method was developed based on MS/MS spectra comparison without the support of a genomic database. Whole-genome sequencing was used to validate the accuracy of polymorphism detection. Several approaches presented earlier to the proteomics community as useful for polymorphism detection were tested on isolates of Helicobacter pylori, Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Escherichia coli.Conclusion
The developed method represents a perspective approach in the field of bacterial proteomics allowing to identify hundreds of peptides with novel SAPs from a single proteome.
SUBMITTER: Ischenko D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5100282 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ischenko Dmitry D Alexeev Dmitry D Shitikov Egor E Kanygina Alexandra A Malakhova Maja M Kostryukova Elena E Larin Andrey A Kovalchuk Sergey S Pobeguts Olga O Butenko Ivan I Anikanov Nikolay N Altukhov Ilya I Ilina Elena E Govorun Vadim V
BMC bioinformatics 20161108 1
<h4>Background</h4>Proteomics of bacterial pathogens is a developing field exploring microbial physiology, gene expression and the complex interactions between bacteria and their hosts. One of the complications in proteomic approach is micro- and macro-heterogeneity of bacterial species, which makes it impossible to build a comprehensive database of bacterial genomes for identification, while most of the existing algorithms rely largely on genomic data.<h4>Results</h4>Here we present a large sca ...[more]