Abstract
Shotgun proteomics has been widely applied to study proteins in complex biological samples. Combination of high-performance liquid chromatography with mass spectrometry has allowed for comprehensive protein analysis with high resolution, sensitivity, and mass accuracy. Prior to mass spectrometry analysis, proteins are extracted from biological samples and subjected to in-solution trypsin digestion. The digested proteins are subjected for clean-up and injected into the liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry system for peptide mass identification. Protein identification is performed by analyzing the mass spectrometry data on a protein search engine software such as PEAKS studio loaded with protein database for the species of interest. Results such as protein score, protein coverage, number of peptides, and unique peptides identified will be obtained and can be used to determine proteins identified with high confidence. This method can be applied to understand the proteomic changes or profile brought by bio-carrier-based therapeutics in vitro. In this chapter, we describe methods in which proteins can be extracted for proteomic analysis using a shotgun approach. The chapter outlines important in vitro techniques and data analysis that can be applied to investigate the proteome dynamics.
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Abidin, S.A.Z., Othman, I., Naidu, R. (2021). Shotgun Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry as a Tool for Protein Identification and Profiling of Bio-Carrier-Based Therapeutics on Human Cancer Cells. In: Narayanan, K. (eds) Bio-Carrier Vectors. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2211. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0943-9_16
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