This proposal is a competitive renewal. In the 3.5 years since we received funding, we have published 29 papers acknowledging support from this grant; another five papers are under review. These publications address issues in diagonal capillary electrophoresis, including reactor design and improved capillary zone electrophoresis separations. We and others have demonstrated that capillary zone electrophoresis consistently provides more protein and peptide identifications than high performance liquid chromatography for mass-limited samples. We will take advantage of our experience to develop and evaluate technology for the bottom-up proteomic analysis of single blastomeres.
Our first aim will develop on-column sample preconcentration technology, coupled with capillary zone electrophoresis peptide separation and an electrokinetically-pumped sheath flow nanoelectrospray interface with tandem mass spectrometry detection.
Our second aim will develop on-column cell lysis, reduction and alkylation, digestion, and preconcentration in an integrated device, which will be evaluated using blastomeres along the D1 lineage.
Our third aim provides bioinformatic support and ensures wide distribution of our results. This project also builds off of a recent publication from this team, which reported the first quantitative proteomic analysis of a developing embryo (Sci Rep. 2014; 4: 4365. PMID: 24626130). We studied single Xenopus laevis embryos at six stages of development, including stage 1 embryos. These stage 1 embryos have not divided, and constitute a single cell; we quantified the expression of 4,000 proteins from these single cells. We will extend our Sci Rep publication by quantitatively monitoring protein expression in single blastomeres from stage 2 of development through stage 20. These cells contain from 50-g to 50-pg of protein, and form a natural progression of cells with progressively smaller protein content, ultimately ending at the size of a typical mammalian somatic cell. This progression of cell sizes is ideal for the development and evaluation of technology for single cell analysis. We will focus on the analysis of single cells isolated from the lineage of the blastomere D1, which ultimately form portions of the adult retina, spinal cord, and brain. Proteomic analysis of single blastomeres isolated from this lineage will provide insight into the assembly of the organism's nervous system.

Public Health Relevance

Proteomics provides a detailed enumeration of the identity and abundance of proteins in complex samples. Those analyses typically require micrograms of sample. This proposal will develop and evaluate technology for quantitative proteomics of much smaller samples, ranging in protein content from 50-g to 50-pg. The technology will be applied to important issues in developmental biology, but the technology will also find application whenever dealing with mass-limited samples, such as circulating tumor cells, fine needle aspirant biopsies, or laser-capture microdissected tissues.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
5R01GM096767-07
Application #
9394801
Study Section
Enabling Bioanalytical and Imaging Technologies Study Section (EBIT)
Program Officer
Krepkiy, Dmitriy
Project Start
2011-08-01
Project End
2019-12-31
Budget Start
2018-01-01
Budget End
2018-12-31
Support Year
7
Fiscal Year
2018
Total Cost
Indirect Cost
Name
University of Notre Dame
Department
Chemistry
Type
Schools of Arts and Sciences
DUNS #
824910376
City
Notre Dame
State
IN
Country
United States
Zip Code
46556
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Sindelka, Radek; Abaffy, Pavel; Qu, Yanyan et al. (2018) Asymmetric distribution of biomolecules of maternal origin in the Xenopus laevis egg and their impact on the developmental plan. Sci Rep 8:8315
Qu, Yanyan; Sun, Liangliang; Zhu, Guijie et al. (2018) Sensitive and fast characterization of site-specific protein glycosylation with capillary electrophoresis coupled to mass spectrometry. Talanta 179:22-27
Zhang, Zhenbin; Dovichi, Norman J (2018) Optimization of mass spectrometric parameters improve the identification performance of capillary zone electrophoresis for single-shot bottom-up proteomics analysis. Anal Chim Acta 1001:93-99
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Peuchen, Elizabeth H; Cox, Olivia F; Sun, Liangliang et al. (2017) Phosphorylation Dynamics Dominate the Regulated Proteome during Early Xenopus Development. Sci Rep 7:15647
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