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ArticlePloS one2020

New label-free methods for protein relative quantification applied to the investigation of an animal model of Huntington Disease.

Flora Cozzolino, Alfredo Landolfi, Ilaria Iacobucci, Vittoria Monaco, Marianna Caterino, Simona Celentano, Chiara Zuccato, Elena Cattaneo, Maria Monti

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Flora CozzolinoDepartment of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples "Federico II", Naples, Italy.
Alfredo LandolfiDepartment of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples "Federico II", Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-2964-0592
Ilaria IacobucciDepartment of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples "Federico II", Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-6210-5607
Vittoria MonacoCEINGE Advanced Biotechnologies, Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7459-8733
Marianna CaterinoDepartment of Molecular Medicine and Medical Biotechnologies, University of Naples "Federico II", Naples, Italy.
Simona CelentanoCEINGE Advanced Biotechnologies, Naples, Italy.
Chiara ZuccatoDepartment of Biosciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
Elena CattaneoDepartment of Biosciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
Maria MontiDepartment of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples "Federico II", Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7775-7154

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Abstract

Spectral Counts approaches (SpCs) are largely employed for the comparison of protein expression profiles in label-free (LF) differential proteomics applications. Similarly, to other comparative methods, also SpCs based approaches require a normalization procedure before Fold Changes (FC) calculation. Here, we propose new Complexity Based Normalization (CBN) methods that introduced a variable adjustment factor (f), related to the complexity of the sample, both in terms of total number of identified proteins (CBN(P)) and as total number of spectral counts (CBN(S)). Both these new methods were compared with the Normalized Spectral Abundance Factor (NSAF) and the Spectral Counts log Ratio (Rsc), by using standard protein mixtures. Finally, to test the robustness and the effectiveness of the CBNs methods, they were employed for the comparative analysis of cortical protein extract from zQ175 mouse brains, model of Huntington Disease (HD), and control animals (raw data available via ProteomeXchange with identifier PXD017471). LF data were also validated by western blot and MRM based experiments. On standard mixtures, both CBN methods showed an excellent behavior in terms of reproducibility and coefficients of variation (CVs) in comparison to the other SpCs approaches. Overall, the CBN(P) method was demonstrated to be the most reliable and sensitive in detecting small differences in protein amounts when applied to biological samples.

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Disease Models, AnimalAnimalsBiomarkersCerebral CortexEscherichia coli ProteinsHuntington DiseaseMiceMice, Inbred C57BLModels, TheoreticalProteomeReference StandardsReproducibility of ResultsTandem Mass SpectrometryBiomarkersEscherichia coli ProteinsProteome

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PMID32886703
PMCPMC7473538

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