Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai 200433, China.
State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101408, China; Translational Research Institute of Brain and Brain-Like Intelligence, Shanghai Fourth People's Hospital and Cancer Center, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai 200434, China.
J Chromatogr A. 2024 Nov 8;1736:465368. doi: 10.1016/j.chroma.2024.465368. Epub 2024 Sep 10.
Histone post-translational modifications (PTMs) are critical epigenetic regulatory factors. Histone PTMs are highly dynamic and complicated, encompassing over 30 structurally diverse modifications across nearly 180 amino acid residues, which generated extensive information regarding histone marks. In proteomics-based characterization of histone PTMs, chemical derivatization and antibody-based affinity enrichment were frequently utilized to improve the identification depth. However, chemical derivatization suffered from the occurrence of side reactions, and antibody-based affinity enrichment focused on specific PTM types of interest. In this research, we developed a multi-step fractionation strategy for comprehensively unbiased detection of histone PTM sites. By combining protein-level fractionation with peptide-level alkaline and acid phase fractionation, we developed the Multidimensional Fractionation based Histone Mark Identification Technology (MudFIT) and increased PTM identification to a total of 264 histone PTM sites. To the best of our knowledge, this strategy achieved the most comprehensive characterization of histone PTM sites in a single proteomics study. Using the same starting amount of sample, MudFIT identified more Kac sites and Kac peptides than those in antibody-based acetylated peptide enrichment. Moreover, in addition to well-studied histone marks, we discovered 36 potential new histone PTM sites including H2BK116bu, H4R45me2, H1K63pr, and uncovered unknown histone PTM types like aminoadipic on lysine and nitrosylation on tyrosine. Our data provided a method and resource for in-depth characterization of histone PTM sites, facilitating further biological understanding of histone marks.
组蛋白翻译后修饰(PTMs)是至关重要的表观遗传调控因子。组蛋白 PTM 高度动态且复杂,包含近 180 个氨基酸残基上 30 多种结构不同的修饰,这些修饰产生了大量关于组蛋白标记的信息。在基于蛋白质组学的组蛋白 PTM 特征描述中,化学衍生化和基于抗体的亲和富集经常被用来提高鉴定深度。然而,化学衍生化会发生副反应,而基于抗体的亲和富集则专注于特定感兴趣的 PTM 类型。在这项研究中,我们开发了一种多步分级策略,用于全面、无偏地检测组蛋白 PTM 位点。通过将蛋白质水平分级与肽水平碱性和酸性相分级相结合,我们开发了多维分级的组蛋白标记识别技术(MudFIT),并将 PTM 鉴定增加到总共 264 个组蛋白 PTM 位点。据我们所知,这种策略在单个蛋白质组学研究中实现了对组蛋白 PTM 位点最全面的描述。使用相同数量的起始样本,MudFIT 鉴定出的 Kac 位点和 Kac 肽比基于抗体的乙酰化肽富集鉴定出的更多。此外,除了研究充分的组蛋白标记外,我们还发现了 36 个潜在的新组蛋白 PTM 位点,包括 H2BK116bu、H4R45me2、H1K63pr,并揭示了一些未知的组蛋白 PTM 类型,如赖氨酸上的氨基己二酸和酪氨酸上的亚硝基化。我们的数据为深入研究组蛋白 PTM 位点提供了一种方法和资源,有助于进一步深入了解组蛋白标记。