The elusive phosphotyrosine: pinning down a rare species. Focus on "Large-scale phosphotyrosine proteomic profiling of rat renal collecting duct epithelium reveals predominance of proteins involved in cell polarity determination".
The elusive phosphotyrosine: pinning down a rare species. Focus on "Large-scale phosphotyrosine proteomic profiling of rat renal collecting duct epithelium reveals predominance of proteins involved in cell polarity determination".
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难以捉摸的磷酸酪氨酸:确定一种稀有物种。
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10.1152/ajpcell.00363.2011
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2012
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Ecelbarger,CarolynM
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Ecelbarger,CarolynM
PHOSPHORYLATION OF TYROSINE residues often occurs in the signaling cascades of growth factors and in pathways relevant to the design, organization, and maintenance of cell structure and polarity (7, 8). Identification of proteins undergoing tyrosine (Y) phosphorylation has not received the same level of intensive scrutiny as that of serine or threonine phosphorylation primarily because “Y” sites are relatively rare in relation to the others. Earlier studies by Knepper and colleagues (1) in renal inner medullary collecting duct (IMCD) cells, a region key to regulation of body fluid osmolality, showed that 2% of phosphorylatable sites on peptides are on tyrosine residues. Thus, elucidating their identity requires a greater degree of creativity and concentrated effort. Modifying a phosphotyrosine enrichment scheme gleaned from the cancer literature (10), Zhao, Knepper, and associates (11) identify a large number of unique phosphotyrosine-containing peptides in IMCD cells using large-scale, comprehensive phosphoproteomics. The basic approach utilized by Zhao et al. involved isolating enriched IMCD cells from the inner medulla of rats under basal conditions. IMCD suspensions were then treated with pervanadate (a protein tyrosine phosphatase inhibitor) to stabilize phosphotyrosines, which were then immunoprecipitated with three different commercially available anti-phospho-tyrosine antibodies. This was following (or preceding, in some cases) a phospho-peptide enrichment step using immobilized metal affinity chromatography (IMAC). Peptides were then run through liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectroscopy (LC-MS/MS) for identification. Peptides and existing tyrosine phosphorylation sites were identified from MS spectra using the NIH-based Biowulf Linux cluster at the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, MD), with the use of several different software programs applying slightly different algorithms. About half, ie, 990, of the peptides identified were phosphopeptides. Of those, over 90% were phosphotyrosines, illustrating the efficiency of the enrichment protocol. Overall, 19% of the phosphotyrosine sites identified were novel, ie, not reported previously in the PhosphoSitePlus database (3). Many phosphotyrosine sites were found to be highly conserved across species, indicating likely fundamental roles in cell physiology.Additional analyses were done to evaluate and identify conventional motifs (MOTIF-X) containing the phospho-sites, and likely kinases involved in phosphorylation (NetworKIN version 2.0)(5). These analyses predicted a number of kinase pathways related to insulin and ephrin signaling. Additional testing of these signaling pathways would be needed to confirm