Application of label-free proteomics for differential analysis of lung carcinoma cell line A549

Methods Mol Biol. 2012:893:241-8. doi: 10.1007/978-1-61779-885-6_16.

Abstract

A label-free solution basing on a highly reproducible and stable LC-MS/MS system allows quantitative proteome analyses. Due to nonlabeling approach, the label-free method has the potential to measure samples from clinical specimen monitoring and comparing thousands of proteins. The presented label-free workflow includes in-solution digest, LC-MS analyses, data evaluation by the means of Progenesis™ software, and validation of the differential proteins. We successfully applied this workflow in a proteomics study analyzing the human lung carcinoma cell line A549 treated with transforming growth factor beta 1, a cell culture model of lung fibrosis. The differential analysis of only 1 μg protein per sample led to 202 significantly regulated proteins.

MeSH terms

  • Cell Extracts / chemistry
  • Cell Extracts / isolation & purification
  • Cell Line, Tumor
  • Chromatography, Gel
  • Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
  • Data Interpretation, Statistical
  • Electrophoresis, Gel, Two-Dimensional
  • Humans
  • Lung Neoplasms
  • Peptide Mapping
  • Proteolysis
  • Proteome / chemistry
  • Proteome / isolation & purification
  • Proteome / metabolism*
  • Proteomics
  • Software
  • Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization
  • Tandem Mass Spectrometry
  • Transforming Growth Factor beta1 / physiology
  • Trypsin / chemistry

Substances

  • Cell Extracts
  • Proteome
  • Transforming Growth Factor beta1
  • Trypsin