Queiroz Rayner M L, Charneau Sébastien, Mandacaru Samuel C, Schwämmle Veit, Lima Beatriz D, Roepstorff Peter, Ricart Carlos A O
From the ‡Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Biology, University of Brasilia, Brasília, 70910-900 Brazil; §Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, 5230 Odense M, Denmark.
From the ‡Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Biology, University of Brasilia, Brasília, 70910-900 Brazil;
Mol Cell Proteomics. 2014 Dec;13(12):3457-72. doi: 10.1074/mcp.M114.040329. Epub 2014 Sep 15.
Chagas disease is a tropical neglected disease endemic in Latin America caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi. The parasite has four major life stages: epimastigote, metacyclic trypomastigote, bloodstream trypomastigote, and amastigote. The differentiation from infective trypomastigotes into replicative amastigotes, called amastigogenesis, takes place in vivo inside mammalian host cells after a period of incubation in an acidic phagolysosome. This differentiation process can be mimicked in vitro by incubating tissue-culture-derived trypomastigotes in acidic DMEM. Here we used this well-established differentiation protocol to perform a comprehensive quantitative proteomic and phosphoproteomic analysis of T. cruzi amastigogenesis. Samples from fully differentiated forms and two biologically relevant intermediate time points were Lys-C/trypsin digested, iTRAQ-labeled, and multiplexed. Subsequently, phosphopeptides were enriched using a TiO2 matrix. Non-phosphorylated peptides were fractionated via hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography prior to LC-MS/MS analysis. LC-MS/MS and bioinformatics procedures were used for protein and phosphopeptide quantitation, identification, and phosphorylation site assignment. We were able to identify regulated proteins and pathways involved in coordinating amastigogenesis. We also observed that a significant proportion of the regulated proteins were membrane proteins. Modulated phosphorylation events coordinated by protein kinases and phosphatases that are part of the signaling cascade induced by incubation in acidic medium were also evinced. To our knowledge, this work is the most comprehensive quantitative proteomics study of T. cruzi amastigogenesis, and these data will serve as a trustworthy basis for future studies, and possibly for new potential drug targets.
恰加斯病是一种在拉丁美洲流行的热带被忽视疾病,由原生动物克氏锥虫引起。该寄生虫有四个主要生命阶段:前鞭毛体、循环后期锥鞭毛体、血液中的锥鞭毛体和无鞭毛体。从感染性锥鞭毛体分化为增殖性无鞭毛体的过程,即无鞭毛体生成,在哺乳动物宿主细胞内的酸性吞噬溶酶体中孵育一段时间后在体内发生。这个分化过程可以在体外通过在酸性杜氏改良伊格尔培养基(DMEM)中孵育组织培养来源的锥鞭毛体来模拟。在这里,我们使用这个成熟的分化方案对克氏锥虫无鞭毛体生成进行了全面的定量蛋白质组学和磷酸化蛋白质组学分析。来自完全分化形式以及两个生物学相关中间时间点的样本用Lys-C/胰蛋白酶消化、iTRAQ标记并进行多重分析。随后,使用二氧化钛基质富集磷酸肽。在进行液相色谱-串联质谱(LC-MS/MS)分析之前,通过亲水相互作用液相色谱对非磷酸化肽进行分离。LC-MS/MS和生物信息学程序用于蛋白质和磷酸肽的定量、鉴定以及磷酸化位点分配。我们能够识别参与协调无鞭毛体生成的受调控蛋白质和途径。我们还观察到相当一部分受调控蛋白质是膜蛋白。由蛋白激酶和磷酸酶协调的磷酸化事件也得到了证实,这些蛋白激酶和磷酸酶是酸性培养基孵育诱导的信号级联反应的一部分。据我们所知,这项工作是对克氏锥虫无鞭毛体生成最全面的定量蛋白质组学研究,这些数据将为未来的研究以及可能的新潜在药物靶点提供可靠的基础。