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Block Design with Common Reference Samples Enables Robust Large-Scale Label-Free Quantitative Proteome Profiling.

ABSTRACT: Label-free quantitative proteomics has become an increasingly popular tool for profiling global protein abundances. However, one major limitation is the potential performance drift of the LC-MS platform over time, which, in turn, limits its utility for analyzing large-scale sample sets. To address this, we introduce an experimental and data analysis scheme based on a block design with common references within each block for enabling large-scale label-free quantification. In this scheme, a large number of samples (e.g., >100 samples) are analyzed in smaller and more manageable blocks, minimizing instrument drift and variability within individual blocks. Each designated block also contains common reference samples (e.g., controls) for normalization across all blocks. We demonstrated the robustness of this approach by profiling the proteome response of human macrophage THP-1 cells to 11 engineered nanomaterials at two different doses. A total of 116 samples were analyzed in six blocks, yielding an average coverage of 4500 proteins per sample. Following a common reference-based correction, 2537 proteins were quantified with high reproducibility without any imputation of missing values from 116 data sets. The data revealed the consistent quantification of proteins across all six blocks, as illustrated by the highly consistent abundances of house-keeping proteins in all samples and the high levels of correlation among samples from different blocks. The data also demonstrated that label-free quantification is robust and accurate enough to quantify even very subtle abundance changes as well as large fold-changes. Our streamlined workflow is easy to implement and can be readily adapted to other large cohort studies for reproducible label-free proteome quantification.

SUBMITTER: Zhang T

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7425200 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Block Design with Common Reference Samples Enables Robust Large-Scale Label-Free Quantitative Proteome Profiling.

Zhang Tong T Gaffrey Matthew J MJ Monroe Matthew E ME Thomas Dennis G DG Weitz Karl K KK Piehowski Paul D PD Petyuk Vladislav A VA Moore Ronald J RJ Thrall Brian D BD Qian Wei-Jun WJ

Journal of proteome research 20200522 7

Label-free quantitative proteomics has become an increasingly popular tool for profiling global protein abundances. However, one major limitation is the potential performance drift of the LC-MS platform over time, which, in turn, limits its utility for analyzing large-scale sample sets. To address this, we introduce an experimental and data analysis scheme based on a block design with common references within each block for enabling large-scale label-free quantification. In this scheme, a large ...[more]

PMID: 32407631

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