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ArticleJournal of proteome research2018

Proteome-Wide Evaluation of Two Common Protein Quantification Methods.

Jeremy D O'Connell, Joao A Paulo, Jonathon J O'Brien, Steven P Gygi

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Article in Journal of proteome research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 100 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jeremy D O'ConnellDepartment of Cell Biology , Harvard Medical School , Boston , Massachusetts 02115 , United States.ORCID 0000-0002-7861-1122
Joao A PauloDepartment of Cell Biology , Harvard Medical School , Boston , Massachusetts 02115 , United States.
Jonathon J O'BrienDepartment of Cell Biology , Harvard Medical School , Boston , Massachusetts 02115 , United States.ORCID 0000-0001-9660-4797
Steven P GygiDepartment of Cell Biology , Harvard Medical School , Boston , Massachusetts 02115 , United States.
Harvard University · US

Funding

New Sample Multiplexing Technologies to Identify Chemical Probes and Illuminate Ubiquitin BiologyR01GM067945 · NIGMS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI GYGI, STEVEN P · 2003 to 2024
$10.5M
Resolving the role of nicotine-mediated phosphorylation on pancreatic fibrosisK01DK098285 · NIDDK · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI PAULO, JOAO A · 2013 to 2017
$638k
NIDDK NIH HHS K01 DK098285NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM067945
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Proteomics experiments commonly aim to estimate and detect differential abundance across all expressed proteins. Within this experimental design, some of the most challenging measurements are small fold changes for lower abundance proteins. While bottom-up proteomics methods are approaching comprehensive coverage of even complex eukaryotic proteomes, failing to reliably quantify lower abundance proteins can limit the precision and reach of experiments to much less than the identified-let alone total-proteome. Here we test the ability of two common methods, a tandem mass tagging (TMT) method and a label-free quantitation method (LFQ), to achieve comprehensive quantitative coverage by benchmarking their capacity to measure 3 different levels of change (3-, 2-, and 1.5-fold) across an entire data set. Both methods achieved comparably accurate estimates for all 3-fold-changes. However, the TMT method detected changes that reached statistical significance three times more often due to higher precision and fewer missing values. These findings highlight the importance of refining proteome quantitation methods to bring the number of usefully quantified proteins into closer agreement with the number of total quantified proteins.

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BenchmarkingFungal ProteinsProteomeProteomicsSensitivity and SpecificityStaining and LabelingFungal ProteinsProteomelabel-freeproteome quantitationsensitivityspecificityTMT

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PMID29635916
PMCPMC5984592
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