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Two‐dimensional electrophoresis map of the human hepatocellular carcinoma cell line, HCC‐M, and identification of the separated proteins by mass spectrometry
Author(s) -
Seow Teck Keong,
Ong ShaoEn,
Liang Rosa C. M. Y.,
Ren EeChee,
Chan Lily,
Ou Keli,
Chung Maxey C. M.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
electrophoresis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.666
H-Index - 158
eISSN - 1522-2683
pISSN - 0173-0835
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1522-2683(20000501)21:9<1787::aid-elps1787>3.0.co;2-a
Subject(s) - proteome , hepatocellular carcinoma , proteomics , asparagine synthetase , prohibitin , isocitrate dehydrogenase , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , mass spectrometry , peptide mass fingerprinting , chemistry , biochemistry , cancer research , asparagine , chromatography , enzyme , mitochondrion , gene
Abstract Currently, one of the most popular applications of proteomics is in the area of cancer research. In Africa, Southeast Asia, and China, hepatocellular carcinoma is one of the most common cancers, occurring as one of the top five cancers in frequency. This project was initiated with the purpose of separating and identifying the proteins of a human hepatocellular carcinoma cell line, HCC‐M. After two‐dimensional gel electrophoresis separation, silver staining, matrix‐assisted laser desorption/ionization time‐of‐flight mass spectrometry (MALDI‐TOF‐MS) analyses, tryptic peptide masses were searched for matches in the SWISS‐PROT and NCBI nonredundant databases. Approximately 400 spots were analyzed using this approach. Among the proteins identified were housekeeping proteins such as alcohol dehydrogenase, alpha‐enolase, asparagine synthetase, isocitrate dehydrogenase, and glucose‐6‐phosphate 1‐dehydrogenase. In addition, we also identified proteins with expression patterns that have been postulated to be related to the process of carcinogenesis. These include 14‐3‐3 protein, annexin, prohibitin, and thioredoxin peroxidase. This study of the HCC‐M proteome, coupled with similar proteome analyses of normal liver tissues, tumors, and other hepatocellular carcinoma cell lines, represents the first step towards the establishment of protein databases, which are valuable resources in studies on the differential protein expressions of human hepatocellular carcinoma.