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JOURNAL OF PROTEOME RESEARCH
Volume 2, Issue 3, Pages 303-311Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/pr025588i
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two-dimensional electrophoresis; membrane proteins; low-abundance proteins; multi-compartment electrolyzer; fractionation
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Abundant and hydrophilic nonmembrane proteins with isoelectric points below pH 8 are the predominant proteins identified in most proteomics projects. In yeast, however, low-abundance proteins make up 80% of the predicted proteome, approximately 50% have pl's above pH 8 and 30% of the yeast ORFs are predicted to encode membrane proteins with at least 1 trans-membrane span. By applying highly solubilizing reagents and isoelectric fractionation to a membrane fraction of yeast we have a purified and identified 780 protein isoforms, representing 323 gene products, including 28% low abundance proteins and 49% membrane or membrane associated proteins. More importantly, considering the frequency and importance of co- and post-translational modifications, the separation of protein isoforms is essential and two-dimensional electrophoresis remains the only technique which offers sufficient resolution to address this at a proteomic level.
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