Chemical modifications of proteins add difficulty to achieving excellent protein recovery from FFPE tissues, as the scope of number of modifications are poorly described. However, due to chemical reactions that take place following formaldehyde induced cross-linking and over time during preservation, intra- and intermolecular interactions within the tissue and protein matrices occur. Formalin fixation and paraffin-embedding has been a standard method used for preservation of the tissues and recently FFPE tissues have also been used to reveal cancer biomarkers, analysis of glycoproteomes with MS in cancer, and genetics. After removal from the patients, tissues are stored as either formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) or fresh frozen (FF) tissues, often in optimal cutting temperature (OCT) medium. In the emerging field of tissue proteomics, biopsies and sections from organs are being used to convert solid tissues to molecular and digital information. Moreover, we found that temperature increases during incubation with urea on 4 μm thick FF tissue revealed a decrease in the number of identified proteins and increase in the number of the carbamylated peptides. Surprisingly, PPS-containing buffer showed good extraction of the proteins from 4 μm thick FFPE tissue with the average of 270 protein identifications (1 mm 2), similar to the results on 4 μm thick FF. We evaluated sensitivity and repeatability of the methods and found that the protocol containing Rapigest enabled detection of 630 proteins from FF tissue of 1 mm 2 and 15 μm thick, whereas 498 and 297 proteins were detected with the protocols containing ProteaseMax and PPS, respectively. Methods were applied on 4 and 15 μm thick FF tissues, and 4 μm thick FFPE tissues. Here, we describe development of several protocols incorporating mass spectrometry compatible detergents, including Rapigest, PPS, and ProteaseMax. An important goal is to achieve adequate and consistent protein recovery across and within large-scale studies. One objective is to complement current diagnostic methods with new specific molecular information.
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Video tutorial on how to idenify cross linked peptides using ProteinProspector by Robert Chalkley.The application of proteomics to fresh frozen (FF) and formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) human tissues is an important development spurred on by requests from stakeholder groups in clinical fields. Video tutorial on how to set a distributed computing system using Pladipus by Kenneth Verheggen.
Galaxy-P has tutorials on how to run proteomics tools in Galaxy. The Biocontainers website contains extensive tutorials on how to design containers for bioinformatic tools.
The complete list of tutorials can be found at. The Computational Omics and Systems Biology Group at the VIB-UGent provide tutorials using user-friendly proteomics bioinformatics tools, most importantly SearchGUI and PeptideShaker. The Skyline wiki provides several tutorials on how to use the software. The documentation of both tools can be found here. The documentation of MaxQuant and Perseus contains abundant teaching material on the interpretation of quantitative data and associated statistics.
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