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ZoomQuant: an application for the quantitation of stable isotope labeled peptides. J Am Soc Mass Spectrom 2005 Mar;16(3):302-6

Date

03/01/2005

Pubmed ID

15734322

Pubmed Central ID

PMC2793075

DOI

10.1016/j.jasms.2004.11.014

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-14744285842 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)   67 Citations

Abstract

The main goal of comparative proteomics is the quantitation of the differences in abundance of many proteins between two different biological samples in a single experiment. By differentially labeling the peptides from the two samples and combining them in a single analysis, relative ratios of protein abundance can be accurately determined. Protease catalyzed (18)O exchange is a simple method to differentially label peptides, but the lack of robust software tools to analyze the data from mass spectra of (18)O labeled peptides generated by common ion trap mass spectrometers has been a limitation. ZoomQuant is a stand-alone computational tool that analyzes the mass spectra of (18)O labeled peptides from ion trap instruments and determines relative abundance ratios between two samples. Starting with a filtered list of candidate peptides that have been successfully identified by Sequest, ZoomQuant analyzes the isotopic forms of the peptides using high-resolution zoom scan spectrum data. The theoretical isotope distribution is determined from the peptide sequence and is used to deconvolute the peak areas associated with the unlabeled, partially labeled, and fully labeled species. The ratio between the labeled and unlabeled peptides is then calculated using several different methods. ZoomQuant's graphical user interface allows the user to view and adjust the parameters for peak calling and quantitation and select which peptides should contribute to the overall abundance ratio calculation. Finally, ZoomQuant generates a summary report of the relative abundance of the peptides identified in the two samples.

Author List

Halligan BD, Slyper RY, Twigger SN, Hicks W, Olivier M, Greene AS

MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold

Animals
Horses
Isotope Labeling
Mass Spectrometry
Myoglobin
Oxygen Isotopes
Peptides
Proteomics
Software
Trypsin