Identification of novel peptide forms associated with seasonality and water restriction imposition in Eucalyptus grandis leaf proteome
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ABSTRACT: Climate change is escalating the frequency and intensity of warming and drought periods around the globe, currently representing a threat to many plant species. Understanding how plants cope with all those abiotic factors are indeed crucial. Here, we investigate how Eucalyptus grandis, a plant genus with several industry applications, cope with seasonal variation and water restriction imposition at their proteomic level under field conditions. For that, we attempted to confidently identify known proteins and novel peptides associated with the effect of seasonality and water restriction impositions, as well as to provide insights into how novel peptides behave under such conditions. Leaf proteome of E. grandis plants was studied under both a conventional proteomic workflow and a dedicated proteogenomics approach. The highest proteomic variability was identified in the summer season and the most abundant known proteins associated with seasonal variation were related to the photosynthesis process. Post-translational modifications, protein turnovers, and chaperones were the main functional classifications identified among biological treatments. Furthermore, we were able to identify 144 novel peptides by both spectral correlations against modified databases (43) and by a de novo peptide sequencing approach (101) not predicted by current proteomics pipelines. We believe that most single amino acid substituted (SAS) peptides, mainly associated with the photosynthesis process, decreased the protein stability by altering the quantitative change upon ΔΔG values and non-covalent interactions. MRM validation assays were performed for selected novel peptide identifications to provide an extra level of evidence showing to be a very robust mass-spectrometry method of validation.
INSTRUMENT(S): TSQ Quantiva, Q Exactive
ORGANISM(S): Eucalyptus Grandis
TISSUE(S): Plant Cell, Leaf
SUBMITTER: Gabriel Jorge
LAB HEAD: Tiago Santana Balbuena
PROVIDER: PXD031100 | Pride | 2024-03-25
REPOSITORIES: Pride
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