建立了定量肽段串联体蛋白质(concatamers of Q peptides,QconCATs)结合18O同位素标记-多反应监测质谱的蛋白质绝对定量新方法。首先对QconCAT重组蛋白质进行了纯度表征,十二烷基硫酸钠-聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳(SDS-PAGE)表征结果表明重组蛋白质的纯度在99%以上,相对分子质量约为63.4 kDa。对QconCAT重组蛋白质酶切后的肽段混合物进行质谱分析,并经pFind和pLabel软件处理,验证了目标肽段。还考察了QconCAT重组蛋白质的酶切效率和18O标记效率,并对QconCAT蛋白质结合18O标记-同位素稀释-多反应监测质谱方法进行了评价。实验结果表明,采用该方法对腾冲嗜热厌氧菌(Thermoanaerobacter tengcongensis,TTE)中选定蛋白质的肽段进行绝对含量测定时,相对标准偏差小于20%,准确度较高,说明该方法可用于复杂生物样本中蛋白质的绝对定量。更重要的是所建方法不仅解决了细胞培养氨基酸稳定同位素标记(SILAC)技术的重标试剂价格昂贵的问题,也为定量蛋白质组学提供了一种新的方法。
A method of concatamers of Q peptides(QconCATs) protein labeled with 18O-multiple reaction monitoring mass spectrometry for absolute quantification of proteins is established.The purity of the QconCAT recombinant protein was characterized by sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis(SDS-PAGE),and its purity was above 99%.The relative molecular mass was approximately 63.4 kDa.The peptides digested from the QconCAT recombinant protein and the extract of Thermoanaerobacter tengcongensis(TTE) were analyzed by mass spectrometry.The raw data were processed by pFind and pLabel softwares.The results showed that the efficiencies of protein digestion and the 18O labeling efficiency were able to meet the need of the protein quantification.The performance of the method was evaluated.The absolute contents of the selected proteins in TTE were determined with the relative standard deviations of less than 20% and the accuracy is high.The method not only avoid using the expensive reagent of stable isotope labeling with amino acids in cell culture(SILAC),but also provides an alternative way for the accurately absolute quantification of proteins in biological samples for quantitative proteomic research.