The development of multiple reaction monitoring assays for liver-derived plasma proteins

Matthew J. McKay, Jamie Sherman, Matthew T. Laver, Mark S. Baker, Stephen J. Clarke, Mark P. Molloy*

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    Abstract

    There is wide interpatient variability in toxicity to chemotherapeutic drugs and a lack of routine clinical tests for prospectively identifying patients at risk of developing toxicity from chemotherapy. An empirically driven MS strategy has been developed to monitor liver-derived plasma proteins as potential biomarkers of early toxicity. Multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) has been used to assess 46 candidate peptides from 18 liver-derived proteins. Following an iterative process of assay design, optimisation and assessment we selected 29 MRM assays (median CV 4.6%, range 1.2-11.6%) and monitored changes in levels of plasma proteins from a small number of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients undergoing chemotherapy. We demonstrated MRM assay robustness, and show that patients undergo minor elevation in plasma proteins when profiled on Day 3 of the chemotherapeutic regime. The MRM assays were in general agreement with 2-D DIGE-based quantitation from the same patient samples. The data supports the application of MRM-based methods as facile, highly reproducible, medium-throughput techniques that warrant expanded investigation for clinical utility in identifying patients at risk of developing chemotoxicity.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1570-1581
    Number of pages12
    JournalProteomics - Clinical Applications
    Volume1
    Issue number12
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Dec 2007

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