PMID- 21598389 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20110927 LR - 20110523 IS - 1615-9861 (Electronic) IS - 1615-9853 (Linking) VI - 11 IP - 11 DP - 2011 Jun TI - Direct quantitation of MHC-bound peptide epitopes by selected reaction monitoring. PG - 2336-40 LID - 10.1002/pmic.201000531 [doi] AB - We describe a cell-free approach that employs selected reaction monitoring (SRM) in tandem mass spectrometry to identify and quantitate T-cell epitopes. This approach utilises multiple epitope-specific SRM transitions to identify known T-cell epitopes and an absolute quantitation (AQUA) peptide strategy to afford AQUA. The advantage of a mass spectrometry-based approach over more traditional cell-based assays resides in the robustness and transferability of an SRM approach between laboratories and the ability of this strategy to detect multiple peptides simultaneously without the requirement of epitope-specific reagents such as T-cell lines. Thus, the SRM strategy for epitope quantitation will find application in studies of antigen density, the link between epitope abundance and immunogenicity, the dynamic range of epitope presentation and the abundance of T-cell epitopes in disease. CI - Copyright (c) 2011 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. FAU - Tan, Chor Teck AU - Tan CT AD - Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. FAU - Croft, Nathan P AU - Croft NP FAU - Dudek, Nadine L AU - Dudek NL FAU - Williamson, Nicholas A AU - Williamson NA FAU - Purcell, Anthony W AU - Purcell AW LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20110520 PL - Germany TA - Proteomics JT - Proteomics JID - 101092707 RN - 0 (Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte) RN - 0 (HLA Antigens) RN - 0 (OVA-8) RN - 0 (Peptide Fragments) RN - 0 (Peptides) RN - 9006-59-1 (Ovalbumin) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Antigen Presentation MH - Cells, Cultured MH - Drug Discovery MH - Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/*chemistry/metabolism MH - HLA Antigens/*analysis/chemistry MH - Mass Spectrometry/*methods MH - Mice MH - Mice, Inbred C57BL MH - Ovalbumin MH - Peptide Fragments MH - Peptides/chemistry/*immunology/metabolism MH - Protein Binding MH - Systems Biology EDAT- 2011/05/21 06:00 MHDA- 2011/09/29 06:00 CRDT- 2011/05/21 06:00 PHST- 2010/08/23 00:00 [received] PHST- 2011/01/17 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2011/02/21 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2011/05/21 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2011/05/21 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2011/09/29 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1002/pmic.201000531 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Proteomics. 2011 Jun;11(11):2336-40. doi: 10.1002/pmic.201000531. Epub 2011 May 20.