Comparative Evaluation of Two Isobaric Labeling Tags, DiART and iTRAQ

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• 作者：Zhen Chen ; Quanhui Wang ; Liang Lin ; Qi Tang ; James L. Edwards ; Shuwei Li ; Siqi Liu
• 刊名：Analytical Chemistry
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：March 20, 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：84
• 期：6
• 页码：2908-2915
• 全文大小：340K
• 年卷期：v.84,no.6(March 20, 2012)
• ISSN：1520-6882

文摘

Isobaric tags have broad applications in both basic and translational research, as demonstrated by the widely used isobaric tag for relative and absolute quantitation (iTRAQ). Recent results from large-scale quantitative proteomics projects, however, indicate that protein quantification by iTRAQ is often biased in complex biological samples. Here, we report the application of another isobaric tag, deuterium isobaric amine reactive tag (DiART), for quantifying the proteome of Thermoanaerobacter tengcongensis (T. tengcongensis), a thermophilic bacterium first discovered in China. We compared the performance of DiART with iTRAQ from several different aspects, including their fragmentation mechanisms, the number of identified proteins, and the accuracy of quantification. Our results revealed that, as compared with iTRAQ, DiART yielded significantly stronger reporter ions, which did not reduce the number of identifiable peptides, but improved the signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) for quantification. Remarkably, we found that, under identical chromatography and mass spectrometry (MS) conditions, DiART exhibited less reporter ions ratio compression than iTRAQ, probably due to more reporter ions with higher intensities produced by DiART labeling. Taken together, we demonstrate that DiART is a valuable alternative of iTRAQ with enhanced performance for quantitative proteomics.