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ArticleMolecular & cellular proteomics : MCP2023

MSstatsPTM: Statistical Relative Quantification of Posttranslational Modifications in Bottom-Up Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics.

Devon Kohler, Tsung-Heng Tsai, Erik Verschueren, Ting Huang, Trent Hinkle, Lilian Phu, Meena Choi, Olga Vitek

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Article in Molecular & cellular proteomics : MCP, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.

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8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Devon KohlerKhoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Tsung-Heng TsaiDepartment of Mathematical Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA.
Erik VerschuerenULUA BV, Antwerp, Belgium; MPL, Genentech, South San Francisco, California, USA.
Ting HuangKhoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Trent HinkleMPL, Genentech, South San Francisco, California, USA.
Lilian PhuMPL, Genentech, South San Francisco, California, USA.
Meena ChoiMPL, Genentech, South San Francisco, California, USA. Electronic address: choi.meena@gene.com.
Olga VitekKhoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Electronic address: o.vitek@northeastern.edu.
Northeastern University · USGene Therapy Laboratory · FRKent State University · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Liquid chromatography coupled with bottom-up mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)-based proteomics is increasingly used to detect changes in posttranslational modifications (PTMs) in samples from different conditions. Analysis of data from such experiments faces numerous statistical challenges. These include the low abundance of modified proteoforms, the small number of observed peptides that span modification sites, and confounding between changes in the abundance of PTM and the overall changes in the protein abundance. Therefore, statistical approaches for detecting differential PTM abundance must integrate all the available information pertaining to a PTM site and consider all the relevant sources of confounding and variation. In this manuscript, we propose such a statistical framework, which is versatile, accurate, and leads to reproducible results. The framework requires an experimental design, which quantifies, for each sample, both peptides with PTMs and peptides from the same proteins with no modification sites. The proposed framework supports both label-free and tandem mass tag-based LC-MS/MS acquisitions. The statistical methodology separately summarizes the abundances of peptides with and without the modification sites, by fitting separate linear mixed effects models appropriate for the experimental design. Next, model-based inferences regarding the PTM and the protein-level abundances are combined to account for the confounding between these two sources. Evaluations on computer simulations, a spike-in experiment with known ground truth, and three biological experiments with different organisms, modification types, and data acquisition types demonstrate the improved fold change estimation and detection of differential PTM abundance, as compared to currently used approaches. The proposed framework is implemented in the free and open-source R/Bioconductor package MSstatsPTM.

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ProteomicsTandem Mass SpectrometryChromatography, LiquidPeptidesProtein Processing, Post-TranslationalProteinsPeptidesProteinsbioinformatics softwaremass spectrometryposttranslational modificationsquantificationstatistics

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PMID36496144
PMCPMC9860394
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