PMID- 32419461 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210617 LR - 20210808 IS - 1535-3907 (Electronic) IS - 1535-3893 (Print) IS - 1535-3893 (Linking) VI - 19 IP - 8 DP - 2020 Aug 7 TI - Toward a Universal Sample Preparation Method for Denaturing Top-Down Proteomics of Complex Proteomes. PG - 3315-3325 LID - 10.1021/acs.jproteome.0c00226 [doi] AB - A universal and standardized sample preparation method becomes vital for denaturing top-down proteomics (dTDP) to advance the scale and accuracy of proteoform delineation in complex biological systems. It needs to have high protein recovery, minimum bias, good reproducibility, and compatibility with downstream mass spectrometry (MS) analysis. Here, we employed a lysis buffer containing sodium dodecyl sulfate for extracting proteoforms from cells and, for the first time, compared membrane ultrafiltration (MU), chloroform-methanol precipitation (CMP), and single-spot solid-phase sample preparation using magnetic beads (SP3) for proteoform cleanup for dTDP. The MU method outperformed CMP and SP3 methods, resulting in high and reproducible protein recovery from both Escherichia coli cell (59 +/- 3%) and human HepG2 cell (86 +/- 5%) samples without a significant bias. Single-shot capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE)-MS/MS analyses of the prepared E. coli and HepG2 cell samples using the MU method identified 821 and 516 proteoforms, respectively. Nearly 30 and 50% of the identified E. coli and HepG2 proteins are membrane proteins. CZE-MS/MS identified 94 histone proteoforms from the HepG2 sample with various post-translational modifications, including acetylation, methylation, and phosphorylation. Our results suggest that combining the SDS-based protein extraction and the MU-based protein cleanup could be a universal sample preparation method for dTDP. The MS raw data have been deposited to the ProteomeXchange Consortium with the data set identifier PXD018248. FAU - Yang, Zhichang AU - Yang Z AD - Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, 578 S Shaw Ln, East Lansing, Michigan 48824 United States. FAU - Shen, Xiaojing AU - Shen X AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-2079-9115 AD - Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, 578 S Shaw Ln, East Lansing, Michigan 48824 United States. FAU - Chen, Daoyang AU - Chen D AD - Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, 578 S Shaw Ln, East Lansing, Michigan 48824 United States. FAU - Sun, Liangliang AU - Sun L AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-8939-5042 AD - Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, 578 S Shaw Ln, East Lansing, Michigan 48824 United States. LA - eng GR - R01 GM125991/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. DEP - 20200529 PL - United States TA - J Proteome Res JT - Journal of proteome research JID - 101128775 RN - 0 (Escherichia coli Proteins) RN - 0 (Proteome) SB - IM MH - Escherichia coli/genetics MH - *Escherichia coli Proteins MH - Humans MH - *Proteome MH - Proteomics MH - Reproducibility of Results MH - Tandem Mass Spectrometry PMC - PMC7542658 MID - NIHMS1634043 OTO - NOTNLM OT - CZE-MS/MS OT - PTMs OT - SDS OT - SP3 OT - chloroform-methanol precipitation OT - denaturing top-down proteomics OT - histone OT - membrane proteins OT - membrane ultrafiltration OT - sample preparation COIS- The authors declare no competing financial interest. EDAT- 2020/05/19 06:00 MHDA- 2021/06/22 06:00 PMCR- 2021/08/07 CRDT- 2020/05/19 06:00 PHST- 2020/05/19 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/06/22 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2020/05/19 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2021/08/07 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1021/acs.jproteome.0c00226 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Proteome Res. 2020 Aug 7;19(8):3315-3325. doi: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.0c00226. Epub 2020 May 29.