| Autor: |
Tabang DN; Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 777 Highland Ave., Madison, WI, 53706, USA. lingjun.li@wisc.edu., Cui Y; Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 777 Highland Ave., Madison, WI, 53706, USA. lingjun.li@wisc.edu., Tremmel DM; Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 53706, USA., Ford M; Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 53706, USA., Li Z; Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 777 Highland Ave., Madison, WI, 53706, USA. lingjun.li@wisc.edu., Sackett SD; Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 53706, USA., Odorico JS; Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 53706, USA., Li L; Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 777 Highland Ave., Madison, WI, 53706, USA. lingjun.li@wisc.edu.; School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 53705, USA. |
| Abstrakt: |
The pancreas is a vital organ with digestive and endocrine roles, and diseases of the pancreas affect millions of people yearly. A better understanding of the pancreas proteome and its dynamic post-translational modifications (PTMs) is necessary to engineer higher fidelity tissue analogues for use in transplantation. The extracellular matrix (ECM) has major roles in binding and signaling essential to the viability of insulin-producing islets of Langerhans. To characterize PTMs in the pancreas, native and decellularized tissues from four donors were analyzed. N -Glycosylated and phosphorylated peptides were simultaneously enriched via electrostatic repulsion-hydrophilic interaction chromatography and analyzed with mass spectrometry, maximizing PTM information from one workflow. A modified surfactant and chaotropic agent assisted sequential extraction/on-pellet digestion was used to maximize solubility of the ECM. The analysis resulted in the confident identification of 3650 proteins, including 517 N -glycoproteins and 148 phosphoproteins. We identified 214 ECM proteins, of which 99 were N -glycosylated, 18 were phosphorylated, and 9 were found to have both modifications. Collagens, a major component of the ECM, were the most highly glycosylated of the ECM proteins and several were also heavily phosphorylated, raising the possibility of structural and thus functional changes resulting from these modifications. To our knowledge, this work represents the first characterization of PTMs in pancreatic ECM proteins. This work provides a basal profile of PTMs in the healthy human pancreatic ECM, laying the foundation for future investigations to determine disease-specific changes such as in diabetes and pancreatic cancer, and potentially helping to guide the development of tissue replacement constructs. Data are available via ProteomeXchange with identifier PXD025048. |
