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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 94, Issue 3, Pages 1525-1530Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.1c05441
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- National Institutes of Health [ES031707]
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This study established a LC-PRM method for high-throughput profiling of epitranscriptomic RWE proteins and applied it to breast cancer cells, finding that eight proteins showed commonly altered expression and suggesting a potential role for TRMT1 in breast cancer radioresistance.
Epitranscriptomic reader, writer, and eraser (RWE) proteins recognize, install, and remove modified nucleosides in RNA, which are known to play crucial roles in RNA processing, splicing, and stability. Here, we established a liquid chromatography-parallel-reaction monitoring (LC-PRM) method for high-throughput profiling of a total of 152 epitranscriptomic RWE proteins. We also applied the LC-PRM method, in conjunction with stable isotope labeling by amino acids in cell culture (SILAC), to quantify these proteins in two pairs of matched parental/radioresistant breast cancer cells (i.e., MDA-MB-231 and MCF-7 cells and their corresponding radioresistant C5 and C6 clones), with the goal of assessing the roles of these proteins in radioresistance. We found that eight epitranscriptomic RWE proteins were commonly altered by over 1.5-fold in the two pairs of breast cancer cells. Among them, TRMT1 (an m(2,2)G writer) may play a role in promoting breast cancer radioresistance due to its clinical relevance and its correlation with DNA repair gene sets. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a targeted proteomic method for comprehensive quantifications of epitranscriptomic RWE proteins. We envision that the LC-PRM method is applicable for studying the roles of these proteins in the metastatic transformation of cancer and therapeutic resistance of other types of cancer in the future.
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