Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 2200, Copenhagen, Denmark.
The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenahagen, Blegdamsvej 3, 2200, Copenhagen N, Denmark.
Sci Rep. 2021 Jan 26;11(1):2184. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-81986-y.
Post translational modifications (PTMs) are covalent modifications of proteins that can range from small chemical modifications to addition of entire proteins. PTMs contribute to regulation of protein function and thereby greatly increase the functional diversity of the proteome. In the heart, a few well-studied PTMs, such as phosphorylation and glycosylation, are known to play essential roles for cardiac function. Yet, only a fraction of the ~ 300 known PTMs have been studied in a cardiac context. Here we investigated the proteome-wide map of PTMs present in human hearts by utilizing high-resolution mass spectrometry measurements and a suite of PTM identification algorithms. Our approach led to identification of more than 150 different PTMs across three of the chambers in human hearts. This finding underscores that decoration of cardiac proteins by PTMs is much more diverse than hitherto appreciated and provides insights in cardiac protein PTMs not yet studied. The results presented serve as a catalogue of which PTMs are present in human hearts and outlines the particular protein and the specific amino acid modified, and thereby provides a detail-rich resource for exploring protein modifications in human hearts beyond the most studied PTMs.
翻译后修饰(PTMs)是蛋白质的共价修饰,范围从微小的化学修饰到整个蛋白质的添加。PTMs 有助于调节蛋白质功能,从而大大增加蛋白质组的功能多样性。在心脏中,一些研究较多的 PTMs,如磷酸化和糖基化,被认为对心脏功能至关重要。然而,在心脏环境中研究的 PTM 仅占已知的 300 种 PTM 的一小部分。在这里,我们通过利用高分辨率质谱测量和一系列 PTM 鉴定算法,研究了人类心脏中存在的全蛋白质组 PTM 图谱。我们的方法在人类心脏的三个腔室中鉴定出了超过 150 种不同的 PTM。这一发现强调了心脏蛋白的 PTM 修饰比以前认为的要多样化得多,并为尚未研究的心脏蛋白 PTM 提供了新的认识。所呈现的结果可作为人类心脏中存在的 PTM 目录,并概述了被修饰的特定蛋白质和特定氨基酸,从而为探索人类心脏中的蛋白质修饰提供了一个详细的资源,超越了最受研究的 PTM。