Human serum extracellular vesicle proteomic profile depends on the enrichment method employed
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ABSTRACT: The proteomic profiling of serum samples supposes a challenge due to the large abundance of few blood proteins in comparison with other circulating proteins coming from different tissues and cells. Although the sensitivity of protein detection has increased enormously in the last years, to enrich less abundant proteins, getting rid of abundant proteins such as albumin, lipoproteins, and immunoglobulins, require specific strategies. One of the alternatives that has become more promising is to characterize circulating extracellular vesicles from serum samples. In the present work, we enriched the extracellular vesicles fraction from human serum by applying different techniques, including ultracentrifugation, size exclusion chromatography, and two commercial precipitation methods based on different mechanism of action. To improve the performance of the techniques and promote purity of the preparations we have employed samples of 80 ul. The comparative proteomic profiling of the enriched preparations shows that ultracentrifugation procedure yields a larger and completely different set of proteins than other techniques, including mitochondrial and ribosome related proteins. Size exclusion chromatography carries over lipoprotein associated proteins, while a polymer-based precipitation kit had more affinity for proteins associated with granules of platelets. The precipitation kit that targets glycosylation molecules enriched differentially protein harboring glycosylation sites, including immunoglobulins and proteins of the membrane attack complex.
INSTRUMENT(S): timsTOF Pro
ORGANISM(S): Homo Sapiens (human)
SUBMITTER: Mikel Azkargorta
LAB HEAD: Felix Elortza
PROVIDER: PXD029015 | Pride | 2022-02-17
REPOSITORIES: Pride
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