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ArticleNature protocols2020

Complex-centric proteome profiling by SEC-SWATH-MS for the parallel detection of hundreds of protein complexes.

Isabell Bludau, Moritz Heusel, Max Frank, George Rosenberger, Robin Hafen, Amir Banaei-Esfahani, Audrey van Drogen, Ben C Collins, Matthias Gstaiger, Ruedi Aebersold

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Article in Nature protocols, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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39citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.2field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 67 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 4 institutions in 5 countries.

Isabell Bludau *Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2601-238X
Moritz Heusel *Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8506-530X
Max FrankInstitute of Molecular Systems Biology, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8961-9739
George RosenbergerInstitute of Molecular Systems Biology, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1655-6789
Robin HafenInstitute of Molecular Systems Biology, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Amir Banaei-EsfahaniInstitute of Molecular Systems Biology, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9533-7647
Audrey van DrogenInstitute of Molecular Systems Biology, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Ben C CollinsInstitute of Molecular Systems Biology, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0827-3495
Matthias GstaigerInstitute of Molecular Systems Biology, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. matthias.gstaiger@imsb.biol.ethz.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3245-3253
Ruedi AebersoldInstitute of Molecular Systems Biology, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. aebersold@imsb.biol.ethz.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9576-3267
ETH Zurich · CHLund University · SEQueen's University Belfast · GBUniversity of Zurich · CH

Funding

Technology CoreU19AI106761 · NIAID · SEATTLE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI SHERMAN, DAVID R, ZAK, DANIEL E · 2013 to 2017
$18.9M
NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI106761
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most catalytic, structural and regulatory functions of the cell are carried out by functional modules, typically complexes containing or consisting of proteins. The composition and abundance of these complexes and the quantitative distribution of specific proteins across different modules are therefore of major significance in basic and translational biology. However, detection and quantification of protein complexes on a proteome-wide scale is technically challenging. We have recently extended the targeted proteomics rationale to the level of native protein complex analysis (complex-centric proteome profiling). The complex-centric workflow described herein consists of size exclusion chromatography (SEC) to fractionate native protein complexes, data-independent acquisition mass spectrometry to precisely quantify the proteins in each SEC fraction based on a set of proteotypic peptides and targeted, complex-centric analysis where prior information from generic protein interaction maps is used to detect and quantify protein complexes with high selectivity and statistical error control via the computational framework CCprofiler (https://github.com/CCprofiler/CCprofiler). Complex-centric proteome profiling captures most proteins in complex-assembled state and reveals their organization into hundreds of complexes and complex variants observable in a given cellular state. The protocol is applicable to cultured cells and can potentially also be adapted to primary tissue and does not require any genetic engineering of the respective sample sources. At present, it requires ~8 d of wet-laboratory work, 15 d of mass spectrometry measurement time and 7 d of computational analysis.

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Chromatography, GelMass SpectrometryHEK293 CellsHumansProteinsProteomicsProteins

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PMID32690956
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