Assessing the Role of Trypsin in Quantitative Plasma and Single-Cell Proteomics toward Clinical Application

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  • Jakob Woessmann
  • Valdemaras Petrosius
  • Üresin, Nil
  • David Kotol
  • Pedro Aragon-Fernandez
  • Andreas Hober
  • Ulrich auf dem Keller
  • Fredrik Edfors
  • Erwin M. Schoof

Mass spectrometry-based bottom-up proteomics is rapidly evolving and routinely applied in large-scale biomedical studies. Proteases are a central component of every bottom-up proteomics experiment, digesting proteins into peptides. Trypsin has been the most widely applied protease in proteomics due to its characteristics. With ever-larger cohort sizes and possible future clinical application of mass spectrometry-based proteomics, the technical impact of trypsin becomes increasingly relevant. To assess possible biases introduced by trypsin digestion, we evaluated the impact of eight commercially available trypsins in a variety of bottom-up proteomics experiments and across a range of protease concentrations and storage times. To investigate the universal impact of these technical attributes, we included bulk HeLa cell lysate, human plasma, and single HEK293 cells, which were analyzed over a range of selected reaction monitoring (SRM), data-independent acquisition (DIA), and data-dependent acquisition (DDA) instrument methods on three LC-MS instruments. The quantification methods employed encompassed both label-free approaches and absolute quantification utilizing spike-in heavy-labeled recombinant protein fragment standards. Based on this extensive data set, we report variations between commercial trypsins, their source, and their concentration. Furthermore, we provide suggestions on the handling of trypsin in large-scale studies.

Original languageEnglish
JournalAnalytical Chemistry
Volume95
Issue number36
Pages (from-to)13649-13658
ISSN0003-2700
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023

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