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Automated Phosphopeptide Enrichment for Gram-Positive Bacteria

Journal

JOURNAL OF PROTEOME RESEARCH
Volume 20, Issue 10, Pages 4886-4892

Publisher

AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.1c00364

Keywords

BRAVO AssayMap; Fe(III)-IMAC; TiO2; automation; phosphopeptide enrichment; Listeria monocytogenes; Bacillus subtilis; Streptococcus pyogenes; bacterial phosphoproteomics

Funding

  1. Max Planck Society

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An automated Ser/Thr/Tyr phosphopeptide enrichment workflow was established on the Agilent AssayMap platform for studying bacterial phosphorylation. Optimal buffer conditions for TiO2 and Fe(III)-NTA-IMAC cartridge-based enrichment were presented, along with species-specific loading amounts for Streptococcus pyogenes, Listeria monocytogenes, and Bacillus subtilis. Both cartridges enriched a similar set of phosphopeptides, indicating that complementary use does not improve peptide yield.
Protein phosphorylation in prokaryotes has gained more attention in recent years as several studies linked it to regulatory and signaling functions, indicating importance similar to protein phosphorylation in eukaryotes. Studies on bacterial phosphorylation have so far been conducted using manual or HPLC-supported phosphopeptide enrichment, whereas automation of phosphopeptide enrichment has been established in eukaryotes, allowing for high-throughput sampling. To facilitate the prospect of studying bacterial phosphorylation on a systems level, we here established an automated Ser/Thr/Tyr phosphopeptide enrichment workflow on the Agilent AssayMap platform. We present optimized buffer conditions for TiO2 and Fe(III)-NTA-IMAC cartridge-based enrichment and the most advantageous, species-specific loading amounts for Streptococcus pyogenes, Listeria monocytogenes, and Bacillus subtilis. For higher sample amounts (>= 250 mu g), we observed superior performance of the Fe(III)-NTA cartridges, whereas for lower sample amounts (<= 100 mu g), TiO2-based enrichment is equally efficient. Both cartridges largely enriched the same set of phosphopeptides, suggesting no improvement of peptide yield by the complementary use of the two cartridges. Our data represent, to the best of our knowledge, the largest phosphoproteome identified in a single study for each of these bacteria.

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