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JOURNAL OF PROTEOME RESEARCH
Volume 15, Issue 2, Pages 667-676Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.5b01001
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protein absolute quantification; microtubule-associated tau protein; parallel reaction monitoring; cerebrospinal fluid; alternative splicing-dependent peptides; protein fragments; protein precipitation; solid-phase extraction
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Tau protein plays a major role in neurodegenerative disorders, appears to be a central biomarker of neuronal injury in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), and is a promising target for Alzheimer's disease immunotherapies. To quantify tau at high sensitivity and gain insights into its naturally occurring structural variations in human CSF, we coupled absolute quantification using protein standard with the multiplex detection capability of targeted high-resolution mass spectrometry (MS) on a Quadrupole-Orbitrap instrument. Using recombinant tau we developed a step-by-step workflow optimization including an extraction protocol that avoided affinity reagents and achieved the monitoring of 22 tau peptides uniformly distributed along the tau sequence. The lower limits of quantification ranged (LLOQ) from 150 to 1500 pg/mL depending on the peptide. Applied to endogenous CSF tau, up to 19 peptides were detected. Interestingly, there were significant differences in the abundance of peptides depending on their position in the sequence, with peptides from the tau mid-domain appearing significantly more abundant than peptides from the N- and C-terminus domains. This MS-based strategy provided results complementary to those of previous ELISA or Western Blot studies of CSF tau and could be applied to tau monitoring in human CSF cohorts.
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