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Mol Cell Proteomics ; 14(10): 2775-85, 2015 Oct.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26106084

ABSTRACT

Reverse phase protein arrays (RPPA) are an established tool for measuring the expression and activation status of multiple proteins in parallel using only very small amounts of tissue. Several studies have demonstrated the value of this technique for signaling pathway analysis using proteins extracted from fresh frozen (FF) tissue in line with validated antibodies for this tissue type; however, formalin fixation and paraffin embedding (FFPE) is the standard method for tissue preservation in the clinical setting. Hence, we performed RPPA to measure profiles for a set of 300 protein markers using matched FF and FFPE tissue specimens to identify which markers performed similarly using the RPPA technique in fixed and unfixed tissues. Protein lysates were prepared from matched FF and FFPE tissue specimens of individual tumors taken from three different xenograft models of human cancer. Materials from both untreated mice and mice treated with either anti-HER3 or bispecific anti-IGF-1R/EGFR monoclonal antibodies were analyzed. Correlations between signals from FF and FFPE tissue samples were investigated. Overall, 60 markers were identified that produced comparable profiles between FF and FFPE tissues, demonstrating significant correlation between the two sample types. The top 25 markers also showed significance after correction for multiple testing. The panel of markers covered several clinically relevant tumor signaling pathways and both phosphorylated and nonphosphorylated proteins were represented. Biologically relevant changes in marker expression were noted when RPPA profiles from treated and untreated xenografts were compared. These data demonstrate that, using appropriately selected antibodies, RPPA analysis from FFPE tissue is well feasible and generates biologically meaningful information. The identified panel of markers that generate similar profiles in matched fixed and unfixed tissue samples may be clinically useful for pharmacodynamic studies of drug effect using FFPE tissues.


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Antibodies, Monoclonal/pharmacology , Neoplasms/metabolism , Paraffin Embedding , Tissue Fixation , Animals , Cell Line, Tumor , ErbB Receptors/immunology , Female , Formaldehyde , Humans , Mice, SCID , Protein Array Analysis , Receptor, ErbB-3/immunology , Receptor, IGF Type 1/immunology
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Biosystems ; 122: 19-24, 2014 Aug.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24951946

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND AND SCOPE: Today, web-based data analysis pipelines exist for a wide variety of microarray platforms, such as ordinary gene-centered arrays, exon arrays and SNP arrays. However, most of the available software tools provide only limited support for reverse-phase protein arrays (RPPA), as relevant inherent properties of the corresponding datasets are not taken into account. Thus, we developed the web-based data analysis pipeline RPPApipe, which was specifically tailored to suit the characteristics of the RPPA platform and encompasses various tools for data preprocessing, statistical analysis, clustering and pathway analysis. IMPLEMENTATION AND PERFORMANCE: All tools which are part of the RPPApipe software were implemented using R/Bioconductor. The software was embedded into our web-based ZBIT Bioinformatics Toolbox which is a customized instance of the Galaxy platform. AVAILABILITY: RPPApipe is freely available under GNU Public License from http://webservices.cs.uni-tuebingen.de. A full documentation of the tool can be found on the corresponding website http://www.cogsys.cs.uni-tuebingen.de/software/RPPApipe.


Subject(s)
Computational Biology/methods , Data Interpretation, Statistical , Protein Array Analysis/methods , Software , Internet
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Proteomics ; 13(6): 1010-5, 2013 Mar.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23401470

ABSTRACT

Antibodies that recognize PTMs of histones play a central role in epigenetic proteomic research. Modification-specific antibodies are employed in chromatin immunoprecipitation, for Western blotting and during the immunoprecipitation steps for MS-based global proteomic analyses. Knowledge about the antibodies' off-target binding is essential for the interpretation of experimental data. To address this challenge we developed a fast and cost efficient system for generating peptide bead arrays. We employed this method to establish a bead-based peptide array containing 384 peptides displaying phosphorylated, acetylated, methylated, and citrullinated N-terminal regions of histones H2A, H2B, H3 and H4 and controls. We profiled the binding of 40 PTM-specific antibodies important for epigenetic proteomic research.


Subject(s)
Antibodies/chemistry , Histones/chemistry , Protein Array Analysis/methods , Protein Processing, Post-Translational , Amino Acid Sequence , Antibodies/immunology , Antibody Specificity , Epigenesis, Genetic , Epitopes/chemistry , HeLa Cells , Histones/immunology , Histones/metabolism , Humans , Peptides , Phosphorylation , Protein Binding , Proteomics
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Toxicol Sci ; 123(1): 113-22, 2011 Sep.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21705713

ABSTRACT

Aberrant signaling through the Wnt/ß-catenin pathway is a critical determinant in human and rodent liver carcinogenesis and generally accepted to be a potent driver of proliferation. Xenobiotic agonists of the constitutive androstane receptor (CAR) induce massive acute hyperplasia of mouse liver and facilitate the outgrowth of hepatocellular carcinomas with activated ß-catenin. In the present study, the interplay of ß-catenin-dependent and CAR-dependent signaling in the liver and its effect on hepatocyte proliferation were analyzed in transgenic mice with hepatocyte-specific knockout of Ctnnb1 (encoding ß-catenin) following treatment with two CAR agonists, 1,4-bis[2-(3,5-dichloropyridyloxy)]-benzene (TCPOBOP) and phenobarbital. Hepatocyte-specific knockout of ß-catenin inhibited CAR agonists-induced hepatocyte proliferation in male mice. By contrast, the proliferative effect of CAR agonists was strongly augmented in female ß-catenin knockout animals. This was due to prolonged proliferation of the knockout hepatocytes. CAR-mediated hepatocyte proliferation was, at least in part, dependent on estrogen signaling and was associated with enhanced expression of FoxM1 and elevated activity of the PDK1/p90RSK pathway. In conclusion, our study shows that gender-specific factors determine whether ß-catenin signaling plays a pro- or an antiproliferative role in the regulation of mouse hepatocyte proliferation induced by CAR agonists.


Subject(s)
Gene Expression Regulation/drug effects , Hepatocytes/drug effects , Phenobarbital/toxicity , Pyridines/toxicity , Recoverin/genetics , Wnt Signaling Pathway/drug effects , beta Catenin/genetics , 3-Phosphoinositide-Dependent Protein Kinases , Animals , Cell Proliferation/drug effects , Female , Forkhead Box Protein M1 , Forkhead Transcription Factors/genetics , Forkhead Transcription Factors/metabolism , Hepatocytes/metabolism , Male , Mice , Mice, Knockout , Protein Array Analysis , Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases/genetics , Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases/metabolism , Recoverin/agonists , Recoverin/metabolism , Ribosomal Protein S6 Kinases, 90-kDa/genetics , Ribosomal Protein S6 Kinases, 90-kDa/metabolism , Sex Factors , beta Catenin/metabolism
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