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ArticleJournal of proteome research2021

Peptide Correlation Analysis (PeCorA) Reveals Differential Proteoform Regulation.

Maria Dermit, Trenton M Peters-Clarke, Evgenia Shishkova, Jesse G Meyer

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Article in Journal of proteome research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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26citing papers in PubMed
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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26 citing papers in PubMed, 44 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Maria DermitCentre for Cancer Cell and Molecular Biology, Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, Charterhouse Square, London EC1M 6BQ, United Kingdom.
Trenton M Peters-ClarkeDepartment of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States.
Evgenia ShishkovaNational Center for Quantitative Biology of Complex Systems, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States.
Jesse G MeyerDepartment of Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-2753-3926
University of Wisconsin–Madison · USQueen Mary University of London · GB

Funding

Research Training for Computation and Informatics in Biology and MedicineT15LM007359 · NLM · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI Mark W. Craven, Colin Noel Dewey · 2002 to 2026
$22.6M
Institutional Training in the Genomic SciencesT32HG002760 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI Qiongshi Lu · 2003 to 2026
$17.7M
TR&D 2 Metabolic Labels for Ultraplexed Protein Quantification p. 453P41GM108538 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI COON, JOSHUA J · 2016 to 2025
$13.1M
NHGRI NIH HHS T32 HG002760NIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM108538NLM NIH HHS T15 LM007359
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Shotgun proteomics techniques infer the presence and quantity of proteins using peptide proxies produced by cleavage of the proteome with a protease. Most protein quantitation strategies assume that multiple peptides derived from a protein will behave quantitatively similar across treatment groups, but this assumption may be false due to (1) heterogeneous proteoforms and (2) technical artifacts. Here we describe a strategy called peptide correlation analysis (PeCorA) that detects quantitative disagreements between peptides mapped to the same protein. PeCorA fits linear models to assess whether a peptide's change across treatment groups differs from all other peptides assigned to the same protein. PeCorA revealed that ∼15% of proteins in a mouse microglia stress data set contain at least one discordant peptide. Inspection of the discordant peptides shows the utility of PeCorA for the direct and indirect detection of regulated post-translational modifications (PTMs) and also for the discovery of poorly quantified peptides. The exclusion of poorly quantified peptides before protein quantity summarization decreased false-positives in a benchmark data set. Finally, PeCorA suggests that the inactive isoform of prothrombin, a coagulation cascade protease, is more abundant in plasma from COVID-19 patients relative to non-COVID-19 controls. PeCorA is freely available as an R package that works with arbitrary tables of quantified peptides.

Indexed as

ProteomicsAnimalsCOVID-19HumansMiceMicrogliaPeptidesProtein Processing, Post-TranslationalProteomeProthrombinPeptidesProteomeProthrombinbioinformaticscomputationlinear modelpeptidesproteinsproteoformproteomicsquantificationRstatistics

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PMID33325715
PMCPMC8592057
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