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ArticleMolecular & cellular proteomics : MCP2024

A Causal Model of Ion Interference Enables Assessment and Correction of Ratio Compression in Multiplex Proteomics.

Moritz Madern, Wolfgang Reiter, Florian Stanek, Natascha Hartl, Karl Mechtler, Markus Hartl

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Article in Molecular & cellular proteomics : MCP, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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Moritz MadernMax Perutz Labs, Mass Spectrometry Facility, Vienna Biocenter Campus (VBC), Vienna, Austria; Department for Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Center for Molecular Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna Biocenter Campus (VBC), Vienna, Austria.
Wolfgang ReiterMax Perutz Labs, Mass Spectrometry Facility, Vienna Biocenter Campus (VBC), Vienna, Austria; Department for Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Center for Molecular Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna Biocenter Campus (VBC), Vienna, Austria.
Florian StanekResearch Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna Biocenter Campus (VBC), Vienna, Austria.
Natascha HartlMax Perutz Labs, Mass Spectrometry Facility, Vienna Biocenter Campus (VBC), Vienna, Austria.
Karl MechtlerResearch Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna Biocenter Campus (VBC), Vienna, Austria.
Markus HartlMax Perutz Labs, Mass Spectrometry Facility, Vienna Biocenter Campus (VBC), Vienna, Austria; Department for Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Center for Molecular Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna Biocenter Campus (VBC), Vienna, Austria. Electronic address: markus.hartl@univie.ac.at.

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Abstract

Multiplex proteomics using isobaric labeling tags has emerged as a powerful tool for the simultaneous relative quantification of peptides and proteins across multiple experimental conditions. However, the quantitative accuracy of the approach is largely compromised by ion interference, a phenomenon that causes fold changes to appear compressed. The degree of compression is generally unknown, and the contributing factors are poorly understood. In this study, we thoroughly characterized ion interference at the MS2 level using a defined two-proteome experimental system with known ground-truth. We discovered remarkably poor agreement between the apparent precursor purity in the isolation window and the actual level of observed reporter ion interference in MS2 scans-a discrepancy that we found resolved by considering cofragmentation of peptide ions hidden within the spectral "noise" of the MS1 isolation window. To address this issue, we developed a regression modeling strategy to accurately predict reporter ion interference in any dataset. Finally, we demonstrate the utility of our procedure for improved fold change estimation and unbiased PTM site-to-protein normalization. All computational tools and code required to apply this method to any MS2 TMT dataset are documented and freely available.

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PeptidesProteomicsIonsProteomeIonsPeptidesProteomeion interferenceisobaric labelratio compressionTMT

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PMID38097181
PMCPMC10828822

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