Journal
JOURNAL OF PROTEOME RESEARCH
Volume 9, Issue 12, Pages 6368-6379Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/pr100666c
Keywords
frontotemporal dementia; phosphorylation; immobilized metal-affinity chromatography (IMAC); proteomics; neurodegeneration
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- National Institutes of Health through the Emory Alzheimer's Disease Center [P50AG025688]
- Emory Neuroscience NINDS Core Facilities [P30NS055077]
- NIH [F32AG032848-02]
- American Health Assistance Foundation
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Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease characterized by behavioral abnormalities, personality changes, language dysfunction, and can co-occur with the development of motor neuron disease One major pathological form of FTLD is characterized by intracellular deposition of ubiquitinated and phosphorylated TAR DNA binding protein-43 (TDP-43), suggesting that dysregulation in phosphorylation events may contribute to disease progression However, to date systematic analysis of the phosphoproteome in FTLD brains has not been reported In this study, we employed immobilized metal affinity chromatography (IMAC) followed by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) to identify phosphopeptides from FTLD and age-matched control post-mortem human brain tissue Using this approach, we identified 786 phosphopeptides in frontal cortex (control and FTLD) in which the population of phosphopeptides represented approximately 50% of the total peptides analyzed Label-free quantification using spectral counts revealed six proteins with significant changes in the FTLD phosphoproteome N-myc-Downstream regulated gene 2 (NDRG2) and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) had an increased number of phosphospectra in FTLD, whereas microtubule associated protein 1A (MAP1A) reticulon 4 (RTN4, also referred to as neurite outgrowth inhibitor (Nogo)), protein kinase C gamma (PRKCG) and heat shock protein 90 kDa alpha, class A member 1(HSP90AA1) had significantly fewer phosphospectra compared to control brain To validate these differences, we examined NDRG2 phosphorylation in FTLD brain by immunoblot analyses, and using a phosphoserine-13 (pSer13) GFAP monoclonal antibody we show an increase in pSer13 GFAP levels by immunoblot concomitant with increased overall GFAP levels in FTLD cases These data highlight the utility of combining proteomic and phosphoproteomic strategies to characterize post-mortem human brain tissue
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