Comparative proteome signatures of trace samples by multiplexed Data-Independent Acquisition
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ABSTRACT: Single cell transcriptomics have revolutionized fundamental understanding of basic biology and disease. Since transcripts often do not correlate with protein expression, it is paramount to complement transcriptomics approaches with proteome analysis at single cell resolution. Despite continuous technological improvements in sensitivity, mass spectrometry-based single cell proteomics ultimately faces the challenge of reproducibly comparing the protein expression profiles of thousands of individual cells. Here, we combine two hitherto opposing analytical strategies, DIA and Tandem-Mass-Tag (TMT)-multiplexing, to generate highly reproducible, quantitative proteome signatures from ultra-low input samples. While conventional, data-dependent shotgun proteomics (DDA) of ultra-low input samples critically suffers from the accumulation of missing values with increasing sample-cohort size, data-independent acquisition (DIA) strategies do usually not to take full advantage of isotope-encoded sample multiplexing. We also developed a novel, identification-independent proteomics data analysis pipeline to quantitatively compare DIA-TMT proteome signatures across hundreds of samples independent of their biological origin to identify cell types and single protein knockouts. We validate our approach using integrative data analysis of different human cell lines and standard database searches for knockouts of defined proteins. These data establish a novel and reproducible approach to markedly expand the numbers of proteins one detects from ultra-low input samples, such as single cells.
INSTRUMENT(S): Orbitrap Exploris 480
ORGANISM(S): Homo Sapiens (human) Saccharomyces Cerevisiae (baker's Yeast)
SUBMITTER: Claudia Ctortecka
LAB HEAD: Karl Mechtler
PROVIDER: PXD023574 | Pride | 2021-05-17
REPOSITORIES: Pride
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