Abstract
Hydroponic isotope labeling of entire plants (HILEP) combines hydroponic plant cultivation and metabolic labeling with stable isotopes using 15N-containing inorganic salts to label whole and mature plants. Employing 15N salts as the sole nitrogen source for HILEP leads to the production of healthy-looking plants which contain 15N proteins labeled to nearly 100%. Therefore, HILEP is suitable for quantitative plant proteomic analysis, where plants are grown in either 14N- or 15N-hydroponic media and pooled when the biological samples are collected for relative proteome quantitation. The pooled 14N-/15N-protein extracts can be fractionated in any suitable way and digested with a protease for shotgun proteomics, using typically reverse phase liquid chromatography nanoelectrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry (RPLC-nESI-MS/MS). Best results were obtained with a hybrid ion trap/FT-MS mass spectrometer, combining high mass accuracy and sensitivity for the MS data acquisition with speed and high-throughput MS/MS data acquisition, increasing the number of proteins identified and quantified and improving protein quantitation. Peak processing and picking from raw MS data files, protein identification, and quantitation were performed in a highly automated way using integrated MS data analysis software with minimum manual intervention, thus easing the analytical workflow. In this methodology paper, we describe how to grow Arabidopsis plants hydroponically for isotope labeling using 15N salts and how to quantitate the resulting proteomes using a convenient workflow that does not require extensive bioinformatics skills.
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Bindschedler, L.V., Mills, D.J.S., Cramer, R. (2012). Hydroponic Isotope Labeling of Entire Plants and High-Performance Mass Spectrometry for Quantitative Plant Proteomics. In: Marcus, K. (eds) Quantitative Methods in Proteomics. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 893. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-885-6_12
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