PMID- 26247297 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20160405 LR - 20240213 IS - 1750-2799 (Electronic) IS - 1754-2189 (Print) IS - 1750-2799 (Linking) VI - 10 IP - 9 DP - 2015 Sep TI - Complementary IMAC enrichment methods for HLA-associated phosphopeptide identification by mass spectrometry. PG - 1308-18 LID - 10.1038/nprot.2015.086 [doi] AB - Phosphorylation events within cancer cells often become dysregulated, leading to oncogenic signaling and abnormal cell growth. Phosphopeptides derived from aberrantly phosphorylated proteins that are presented on tumors and not on normal tissues by human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I molecules are promising candidates for future cancer immunotherapies, because they are tumor specific and have been shown to elicit cytotoxic T cell responses. Robust phosphopeptide enrichments that are suitable for low input amounts must be developed to characterize HLA-associated phosphopeptides from clinical samples that are limited by material availability. We present two complementary mass spectrometry-compatible, iron(III)-immobilized metal affinity chromatography (IMAC) methods that use either nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA) or iminodiacetic acid (IDA) in-house-fabricated columns. We developed these protocols to enrich for subfemtomole-level phosphopeptides from cell line and human tissue samples containing picograms of starting material, which is an order of magnitude less material than what is commonly used. In addition, we added a peptide esterification step to increase phosphopeptide specificity from these low-input samples. To date, hundreds of phosphopeptides displayed on melanoma, ovarian cancer, leukemia and colorectal cancer have been identified using these highly selective phosphopeptide enrichment protocols in combination with a program called 'CAD Neutral Loss Finder' that identifies all spectra containing the characteristic neutral loss of phosphoric acid from phosphorylated serine and threonine residues. This methodology enables the identification of HLA-associated phosphopeptides presented by human tissue samples containing as little as nanograms of peptide material in 2 d. FAU - Abelin, Jennifer G AU - Abelin JG AD - Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. FAU - Trantham, Paisley D AU - Trantham PD AD - Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. FAU - Penny, Sarah A AU - Penny SA AD - Department of Clinical Immunology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. FAU - Patterson, Andrea M AU - Patterson AM AD - Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. FAU - Ward, Stephen T AU - Ward ST AD - Department of Clinical Immunology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. FAU - Hildebrand, William H AU - Hildebrand WH AD - Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. FAU - Cobbold, Mark AU - Cobbold M AD - Department of Clinical Immunology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. FAU - Bai, Dina L AU - Bai DL AD - Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. FAU - Shabanowitz, Jeffrey AU - Shabanowitz J AD - Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. FAU - Hunt, Donald F AU - Hunt DF AD - 1] Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. [2] Department of Pathology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. LA - eng GR - GM 037537/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States GR - R37 AI033993/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 AI033993/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - T32 AI007633/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 GM037537/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States GR - AI 033993/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural DEP - 20150806 PL - England TA - Nat Protoc JT - Nature protocols JID - 101284307 RN - 0 (Histocompatibility Antigens) RN - 0 (Phosphopeptides) SB - IM MH - Chromatography, Affinity/*methods MH - Histocompatibility Antigens/metabolism MH - Mass Spectrometry MH - Phosphopeptides/*analysis/metabolism PMC - PMC4640213 MID - NIHMS731387 EDAT- 2015/08/08 06:00 MHDA- 2016/04/06 06:00 PMCR- 2016/09/01 CRDT- 2015/08/07 06:00 PHST- 2015/08/07 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2015/08/08 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2016/04/06 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2016/09/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - nprot.2015.086 [pii] AID - 10.1038/nprot.2015.086 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Nat Protoc. 2015 Sep;10(9):1308-18. doi: 10.1038/nprot.2015.086. Epub 2015 Aug 6.