Leveraging homologies for cross-species plasma proteomics in ungulates using data-independent acquisition

Zainab Noor, Selvam Paramasivan, Priya Ghodasara, Saul Chemonges, Rajesh Gupta, Steven Kopp, Paul C. Mills, Shoba Ranganathan, Nana Satake, Pawel Sadowski*

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    Abstract

    The collection of blood plasma is minimally invasive, and the fluid is a rich source of proteins for biomarker studies in both humans and animals. Plasma protein analysis by mass spectrometry (MS) can be challenging, though modern data acquisition strategies, such as sequential window acquisition of all theoretical fragment ion spectra (SWATH), enable reproducible quantitation of hundreds of proteins in non-depleted plasma from humans and laboratory model animals. Although there is strong potential to enhance veterinary and translational research, SWATH-based plasma proteomics in non-laboratory animals is virtually non-existent. One limitation to date is the lack of comprehensively annotated genomes to aid protein identification. The current study established plasma peptide spectral repositories for sheep and cattle that enabled quantification of over 200 proteins in non-depleted plasma using SWATH approach. Moreover, bioinformatics pipeline was developed to leverage inter-species homologies to enhance the depth of baseline libraries and plasma protein quantification in bovids. Finally, the practical utility of using bovid libraries for SWATH data extraction in taxonomically related non-domestic ungulate species (giraffe) has been demonstrated. Significance: Ability to quickly generate comprehensive spectral libraries is limiting the applicability of data-independent acquisition, such as SWATH, to study proteomes of non-laboratory animals. We describe an approach to obtain relatively shallow foundational plasma repositories from domestic ruminants and employ homology searches to increase the depth of data, which we subsequently extend to unsequenced ungulates using SWATH method. When applied to cross-species proteomics, the number of proteins quantified by our approach far exceeds what is traditionally used in plasma protein tests.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number104384
    Pages (from-to)1-11
    Number of pages11
    JournalJournal of Proteomics
    Volume250
    Early online date1 Oct 2021
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 6 Jan 2022

    Keywords

    • Ungulates
    • Plasma proteomics
    • Data-independent acquisition
    • Sequence homology

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