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Proteomic Characterization of Alternative Splicing and Coding Polymorphism. Nathan Edwards Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology University of Maryland, College Park. Mass Spectrometry for Proteomics. Measure mass of many (bio)molecules simultaneously High bandwidth
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Proteomic Characterization of Alternative Splicing and Coding Polymorphism Nathan Edwards Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology University of Maryland, College Park
Mass Spectrometry for Proteomics • Measure mass of many (bio)molecules simultaneously • High bandwidth • Mass is an intrinsic property of all (bio)molecules • No prior knowledge required
Mass Spectrometry for Proteomics • Measure mass of many molecules simultaneously • ...but not too many, abundance bias • Mass is an intrinsic property of all (bio)molecules • ...but need a reference to compare to
100 % Intensity 0 m/z 250 500 750 1000 High Bandwidth
Mass Spectrometry for Proteomics • Mass spectrometry has been around since the turn of the century... • ...why is MS based Proteomics so new? • Ionization methods • MALDI, Electrospray • Protein chemistry & automation • Chromatography, Gels, Computers • Protein sequence databases • A reference for comparison
Enzymatic Digest and Fractionation Sample Preparation for Peptide Identification
Single Stage MS MS m/z
Tandem Mass Spectrometry(MS/MS) m/z Precursor selection m/z
Tandem Mass Spectrometry(MS/MS) Precursor selection + collision induced dissociation (CID) m/z MS/MS m/z
Peptide Identification • For each (likely) peptide sequence 1. Compute fragment masses 2. Compare with spectrum 3. Retain those that match well • Peptide sequences from protein sequence databases • Swiss-Prot, IPI, NCBI’s nr, ... • Automated, high-throughput peptide identification in complex mixtures
Why don’t we see more novel peptides? • Tandem mass spectrometry doesn’t discriminate against novel peptides......but protein sequence databases do! • Searching traditional protein sequence databases biases the results towards well-understood protein isoforms!
What goes missing? • Known coding SNPs • Novel coding mutations • Alternative splicing isoforms • Alternative translation start-sites • Microexons • Alternative translation frames
Why should we care? • Alternative splicing is the norm! • Only 20-25K human genes • Each gene makes many proteins • Proteins have clinical implications • Biomarker discovery • Evidence for SNPs and alternative splicing stops with transcription • Genomic assays, ESTs, mRNA sequence. • Little hard evidence for translation start site
Novel Splice Isoform • Human Jurkat leukemia cell-line • Lipid-raft extraction protocol, targeting T cells • von Haller, et al. MCP 2003. • LIME1 gene: • LCK interacting transmembrane adaptor 1 • LCK gene: • Leukocyte-specific protein tyrosine kinase • Proto-oncogene • Chromosomal aberration involving LCK in leukemias. • Multiple significant peptide identifications
Novel Mutation • HUPO Plasma Proteome Project • Pooled samples from 10 male & 10 female healthy Chinese subjects • Plasma/EDTA sample protocol • Li, et al. Proteomics 2005. (Lab 29) • TTR gene • Transthyretin (pre-albumin) • Defects in TTR are a cause of amyloidosis. • Familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy • late-onset, dominant inheritance
Novel Mutation Ala2→Pro associated with familial amyloid polyneuropathy
Searching ESTs • Proposed long ago: • Yates, Eng, and McCormack; Anal Chem, ’95. • Now: • Protein sequences are sufficient for protein identification • Computationally expensive/infeasible • Difficult to interpret • Make EST searching feasible for routine searching to discover novel peptides.
Pros No introns! Primary splicing evidence for annotation pipelines Evidence for dbSNP Often derived from clinical cancer samples Cons No frame Large (8Gb) “Untrusted” by annotation pipelines Highly redundant Nucleotide error rate ~ 1% Searching Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs)
Compressed EST Peptide Sequence Database • For all ESTs mapped to a UniGene gene: • Six-frame translation • Eliminate ORFs < 30 amino-acids • Eliminate amino-acid 30-mers observed once • Compress to C2 FASTA database • Complete, Correct for amino-acid 30-mers • Gene-centric peptide sequence database: • Size: < 3% of naïve enumeration, 20774 FASTA entries • Running time: ~ 1% of naïve enumeration search • E-values: ~ 2% of naïve enumeration search results
Compressed EST Peptide Sequence Database • For all ESTs mapped to a UniGene gene: • Six-frame translation • Eliminate ORFs < 30 amino-acids • Eliminate amino-acid 30-mers observed once • Compress to C2 FASTA database • Complete, Correct for amino-acid 30-mers • Gene-centric peptide sequence database: • Size: < 3% of naïve enumeration, 20774 FASTA entries • Running time: ~ 1% of naïve enumeration search • E-values: ~ 2% of naïve enumeration search results
SBH-graph ACDEFGI, ACDEFACG, DEFGEFGI
Compressed SBH-graph ACDEFGI, ACDEFACG, DEFGEFGI
Sequence Databases & CSBH-graphs • Original sequences correspond to paths ACDEFGI, ACDEFACG, DEFGEFGI
Sequence Databases & CSBH-graphs • All k-mers represented by an edge have the same count 1 2 2 1 2
cSBH-graphs • Quickly determine those that occur twice 2 2 1 2
Correct, Complete, Compact (C3) Enumeration • Set of paths that use each edge exactly once ACDEFGEFGI, DEFACG
Correct, Complete (C2) Enumeration • Set of paths that use each edge at least once ACDEFGEFGI, DEFACG
Patching the CSBH-graph • Use artificial edges to fix unbalanced nodes
Compressed EST Database • Gene centric compressed EST peptide sequence database • 20,774 sequence entries • ~8Gb vs 223 Mb • ~35 fold compression • 22 hours becomes 15 minutes • E-values improve by similar factor! • Makes routine EST searching feasible • Search ESTs instead of IPI?
“Novel Peptide” Computational Infrastructure • Binaries (C++) • cSBH-graph construction • Condor grid-enabled • Eulerian path k-mer enumeration • Suitable for large graphs • Data-model for peptide identification • Spectra (>5 million) • Peptide identifications • Mascot, SEQUEST, X!Tandem, NIST • Genomic context of peptides
“Novel Peptide” Computational Infrastructure • Condor grid-enabled MS/MS search • Mascot, X!Tandem, (Inspect, OMSSA) • TurboGears python web-stack • SQLObject Object-Relational-Manager • MVC web-application framework • Suitable for AJAX & web-services too • Integration with UCSC genome browser • caBIG compatible web-services • Java applet for viewing spectra
Back to the lab... • Current LC/MS/MS workflows identify a few peptides per protein • ...not sufficient for protein isoforms • Need to raise the sequence coverage to (say) 80% • ...protein separation prior to LC/MS/MS analysis • Potential for database of splice sites of (functional) proteins!
Direct observation of microorganism biomarkers in the field. Peaks represent masses of abundant proteins. Statistical models assess identification significance. Microorganism Identification by MALDI Mass Spectrometry B.anthracisspores MALDI Mass Spectrometry
Key Principles • Protein mass from protein sequence • No introns, few PTMs • Specificity of single mass is very weak • Statistical significance from many peaks • Not all proteins are equally likely to be observed • Ribosomal proteins, SASPs
Protein Sequences 8.1M (2.9M) Species ~ 18K Genbank, Microbial, Virus, Plasmid RefSeq CMR, Swiss-Prot TrEMBL Rapid Microorganism Identification Database (www.RMIDb.org)
Informatics Issues • Need good species / strain annotation • B.anthracis vs B.thuringiensis • Need correct protein sequence • B.anthracis Sterne α/β SASP • RefSeq/Gb: MVMARN... (7442 Da) • CMR: MARN... (7211 Da) • Need chemistry based protein classification
Conclusions • Proteomics can inform genome annotation • Eukaryotic and prokaryotic • Functional vs silencing variants • Peptides identify more than just proteins • Untapped source of disease biomarkers • Compressed peptide sequence databases make routine EST searching feasible
Future Research Directions • Identification of protein isoforms: • Optimize proteomics workflow for isoform detection • Identify splice variants in cancer cell-lines (MCF-7) and clinical brain tumor samples • Aggressive peptide sequence enumeration • dbPep for genomic annotation • Open, flexible informatics infrastructure for peptide identification
Future Research Directions • Proteomics for Microorganism Identification • Specificity of tandem mass spectra • Revamp RMIDb prototype • Incorporate spectral matching • Primer design • k-mer sets as FASTA sequence databases • Uniqueness oracle for exact and inexact match • Integration with Primer3 • Tiling, multiplexing, pooling, & tag arrays