Thermal stabilization of tissues and the preservation of protein phosphorylation states for two-dimensional gel electrophoresis

Autor: Alexander J. Trachtenberg, Jae-Hyung Robert Chang, Winston Patrick Kuo, Gary B. Smejkal, Emily A. Freeman, Alexander R. Ivanov, Alexander Lazarev, Chiara Rivas-Morello
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: Electrophoresis. 32(16)
ISSN: 1522-2683
Popis: 2-DE is typically capable of discriminating proteins differing by a single phosphorylation or dephosphorylation event. However, a reliable representation of protein phosphorylation states as they occur in vivo requires that both phosphatases and kinases are rapidly and completely inactivated. Thermal stabilization of mouse cerebral cortex homogenates effectively inactivated these enzymes, as evidenced by comparison with unstabilized tissues where abscissal pI shifts were a common feature in 2-D gels. Of the 588 matched proteins separated on 2-D gels comparing stabilized and unstabilized tissues, 53 proteins exhibited greater than twofold differences in spot volume (ANOVA, p
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