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ReviewPractical laboratory medicine2022

Proteoforms and their expanding role in laboratory medicine.

Lauren M Forgrave, Meng Wang, David Yang, Mari L DeMarco

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Review in Practical laboratory medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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30citing papers in PubMed
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed, 46 citations in OpenAlex.

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  20. Alpha-1-Antitrypsin (A1AT) Proteotyping by LC-MS/MS.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Lauren M ForgraveDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Meng WangDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
David YangDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Mari L DeMarcoDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
University of British Columbia · CAProvidence Health Care · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The term "proteoforms" describes the range of different structures of a protein product of a single gene, including variations in amino acid sequence and post-translational modifications. This diversity in protein structure contributes to the biological complexity observed in living organisms. As the concentration of a particular proteoform may increase or decrease in abnormal physiological states, proteoforms have long been used in medicine as biomarkers of health and disease. Notably, the analytical approaches used to analyze proteoforms have evolved considerably over the years. While ligand binding methods continue to play a large role in proteoform measurement in the clinical laboratory, unanticipated or unknown post-translational modifications and sequence variants can upend even extensively tested and vetted assays that have successfully made it through the medical regulatory process. As an alternate approach, mass spectrometry-with its high molecular selectivity-has become an essential tool in detection, characterization, and quantification of proteoforms in biological fluids and tissues. This review explores the analytical techniques used for proteoform detection and quantification, with an emphasis on mass spectrometry and its various applications in clinical research and patient care including, revealing new biomarker targets, helping improve the design of contemporary ligand binding

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BiomarkersMass spectrometryPost-translational modificationsProtein isoformsProteoforms

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PMID34950758
PMCPMC8672040
OpenAlexW3217306685

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