Plasma-derived EV Phosphoproteomics through Chemical Affinity Purification
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ABSTRACT: Invasive nature and pain caused to patients inhibit the routine use of tissue biopsy-based procedures for cancer diagnosis and surveillance. The analysis of extracellular vesicles (EVs) from biofluids have recently gained significant traction in the liquid biopsy field. EVs offer an essential “snapshot” of their precursor cells in real time and contain information-rich collection of nucleic acids, proteins, lipids, etc. The analysis of protein phosphorylation, as a direct marker of cellular signaling and disease progression, could be an important stepstone to successful liquid biopsy applications. Here, we introduce a rapid EV isolation method based on chemical affinity called EVtrap (Extracellular Vesicles Total Recovery and Purification) for EV phosphoproteomics analysis of human plasma. Incorporating EVtrap with high performance mass spectrometry (MS), we were able to identify over 16,000 unique peptides representing 2,238 unique EV proteins from just 5 μL plasma sample, including most known EV markers, with substantially higher recovery levels compared to ultracentrifugation. Most importantly, more than 5,500 unique phosphopeptides representing almost 1,600 phosphoproteins in EVs were identified using only 1 mL of plasma. Finally, we carried out quantitative EV phosphoproteomics analysis of plasma samples from patients diagnosed with chronic kidney disease or kidney cancer (RCC), identifying dozens of phosphoproteins capable of distinguishing disease states from healthy controls. The study demonstrates the potential feasibility of our robust analytical pipeline for cancer signaling monitoring by tracking plasma EV phosphorylation.
INSTRUMENT(S): Q Exactive
ORGANISM(S): Homo Sapiens (human)
TISSUE(S): Blood Plasma
DISEASE(S): Renal Cell Carcinoma
SUBMITTER: Anton Iliuk
LAB HEAD: Andy Tao
PROVIDER: PXD017994 | Pride | 2020-06-15
REPOSITORIES: Pride
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