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ArticleAnalytical biochemistry2013

Absolute quantitation of endogenous proteins with precision and accuracy using a capillary Western system.

Jin-Qiu Chen, Madeleine R Heldman, Michelle A Herrmann, Noemi Kedei, Wonhee Woo, Peter M Blumberg, Paul K Goldsmith

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Article in Analytical biochemistry, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 59 papers.

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59 citing papers in PubMed, 99 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jin-Qiu ChenCollaborative Protein Technology Resource, Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. Electronic address: chenj13@mail.nih.gov.
Madeleine R Heldman
Michelle A Herrmann
Noemi Kedei
Wonhee Woo
Peter M Blumberg
Paul K Goldsmith
National Institutes of Health · USNational Cancer Institute · US

Funding

Molecular Mechanism of Action of Phorbol EsterZIABC005270 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI BLUMBERG, PETER · 2009 to 2018
$18.4M
Spatial Imaging Technology ResourceZICBC011434 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI MALIK, MARIAM · 2012 to 2025
$12.8M
MOLECULAR MECHANISM OF ACTION OF PHORBOL ESTER TUMOR PROMOTERSZ01BC005270 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI BLUMBERG, PETER · 1996 to 2008
$4.3M
Intramural NIH HHS Z01 BC005270Intramural NIH HHS ZIC BC011434NCI NIH HHS Z1A BC 005270NCI NIH HHS Z1C BC 011434
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Precise and accurate quantification of protein expression levels in a complex biological setting is challenging. Here, we describe a method for absolute quantitation of endogenous proteins in cell lysates using an automated capillary immunoassay system, the size-based Simple Western system (recently developed by ProteinSimple). The method was able to accurately measure the absolute amounts of target proteins at picogram or sub-picogram levels per nanogram of cell lysates. The measurements were independent of the cell matrix or the cell lysis buffer and were not affected by different antibody affinities for their specific epitopes. We then applied this method to quantitate absolute levels of expression of protein kinase C (PKC) isoforms in LNCaP and U937 cells, two cell lines used extensively for probing the downstream biological responses to PKC targeted ligands. Our absolute quantitation confirmed the predominance of PKCδ in both cells, supporting the important functional role of this PKC isoform in these cell lines. The method described here provides an approach to accurately quantitate levels of protein expression and correlate protein level with function. In addition to enhanced accuracy relative to conventional Western analysis, it circumvents the distortions inherent in comparison with signal intensities from different antibodies with different affinities.

Indexed as

AutomationBlotting, WesternCell Line, TumorHumansImmunoassayIsoenzymesProtein Kinase CRecombinant ProteinsIsoenzymesProtein Kinase CRecombinant ProteinsCapillary immunoassayProtein kinase C (PKC)Quantitative protein analysisSimple Western

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PMID23896461
PMCPMC3805113
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