TY - JOUR
T1 - Mass Spectrometric Quantitation of Tubulin Acetylation from Pepsin-Digested Rat Brain Tissue Using a Novel Stable-Isotope Standard and Capture by Anti-Peptide Antibody (SISCAPA) Method
AU - Yang, Xiangkun
AU - Naughton, Sean X.
AU - Han, Zhen
AU - He, Maomao
AU - Zheng, Y. George
AU - Terry, Alvin V.
AU - Bartlett, Michael G.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 American Chemical Society.
PY - 2018/2/6
Y1 - 2018/2/6
N2 - Acetylation of α-tubulin at Lys-40 is a potential biomarker for cognitive deficits in various neurological disorders. However, this key post-translational modification (PTM) has not been previously studied with mass spectrometry, due to the inadequate distribution of tryptic cleavage sites. Following peptic digestion, a surrogate sequence containing this key PTM site was identified and was found to be stable and quantitatively reproducible. A highly sensitive and specific SISCAPA-LC-MS method for quantitating rat brain tubulin acetylation was developed, validated, and applied, and only required a small amount of tissue (2.2 mg). This workflow includes peptic digestion, stable-isotope dilution, capture with antiacetylated peptide antibody bound on protein G beads, and quantitation using LC-MS. The method allowed a lower limit of quantitation at 2.50 pmol/mg and provided a linear range of 2.50-62.50 pmol/mg. Selectivity, intra and interday precision and accuracy were also validated. This method has been successfully applied in a preclinical study of organophosphate neurotoxicity, and we found that chronic exposure to chlorpyrifos led to a significant and persistent inhibition of brain tubulin acetylation.
AB - Acetylation of α-tubulin at Lys-40 is a potential biomarker for cognitive deficits in various neurological disorders. However, this key post-translational modification (PTM) has not been previously studied with mass spectrometry, due to the inadequate distribution of tryptic cleavage sites. Following peptic digestion, a surrogate sequence containing this key PTM site was identified and was found to be stable and quantitatively reproducible. A highly sensitive and specific SISCAPA-LC-MS method for quantitating rat brain tubulin acetylation was developed, validated, and applied, and only required a small amount of tissue (2.2 mg). This workflow includes peptic digestion, stable-isotope dilution, capture with antiacetylated peptide antibody bound on protein G beads, and quantitation using LC-MS. The method allowed a lower limit of quantitation at 2.50 pmol/mg and provided a linear range of 2.50-62.50 pmol/mg. Selectivity, intra and interday precision and accuracy were also validated. This method has been successfully applied in a preclinical study of organophosphate neurotoxicity, and we found that chronic exposure to chlorpyrifos led to a significant and persistent inhibition of brain tubulin acetylation.
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U2 - 10.1021/acs.analchem.7b04484
DO - 10.1021/acs.analchem.7b04484
M3 - Article
C2 - 29320166
AN - SCOPUS:85041426504
SN - 0003-2700
VL - 90
SP - 2155
EP - 2163
JO - Analytical Chemistry
JF - Analytical Chemistry
IS - 3
ER -