New Insight of Common Regulatory Pathways in Human Trabecular Meshwork Cells in Response to Dexamethasone and Prednisolone Using an Integrated Quantitative Proteomics: SWATH and MRM-HR Mass Spectrometry.
Samantha Sze Wan ShanChi Wai DoThomas Chuen LamRicky Pak Wing KongKing Kit LiKa Man ChunWilliam Daniel StamerChi Ho ToPublished in: Journal of proteome research (2017)
The molecular pathophysiology of corticosteroid-induced ocular hypertension (CIH) is not well understood. To determine the biological mechanisms of CIH, this study investigated protein expression profiles of human trabecular meshwork (hTM) cells in response to dexamethasone and prednisolone treatment. Both discovery-based sequential windowed data independent acquisition of the total high-resolution mass spectra (SWATH-MS) and targeted based high resolution multiple reaction monitoring (MRM-HR) confirmation were applied using a hybrid quadrupole-time-of-flight mass spectrometer. A comprehensive list of 1759 proteins (1% FDR) was generated from the hTM. Quantitative proteomics revealed 20 differentially expressed proteins (p-value ≤ 0.05 and fold-change ≥ 1.5 or ≤ 0.67) commonly induced by prednisolone and dexamethasone, both at 300 nM. These included connective tissue growth factor (CTGF) and thrombospondin-1 (THBS1), two proteins previously implicated in ocular hypertension, glaucoma, and the transforming growth factor-β pathway. Their gene expressions in response to corticosteroids were further confirmed using reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction. Together with other novel proteins identified in the data sets, additional pathways implicated by these regulated proteins were the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)-protein kinase B (Akt) signaling pathway, integrin cell surface interaction, extracellular matrix (ECM) proteoglycans, and ECM-receptor interaction. Our results indicated that an integrated platform of SWATH-MS and MRM-HR allows high throughput identification and confirmation of novel and known corticosteroid-regulated proteins in trabecular meshwork cells, demonstrating the power of this technique in extending the current understanding of the pathogenesis of CIH.
Keyphrases
- mass spectrometry
- high resolution
- induced apoptosis
- extracellular matrix
- signaling pathway
- growth factor
- high throughput
- liquid chromatography
- protein kinase
- transforming growth factor
- cell cycle arrest
- endothelial cells
- blood pressure
- endoplasmic reticulum stress
- high performance liquid chromatography
- gas chromatography
- low dose
- epithelial mesenchymal transition
- genome wide
- transcription factor
- multiple sclerosis
- high dose
- high glucose
- cell proliferation
- pi k akt
- induced pluripotent stem cells
- ms ms
- small molecule
- tandem mass spectrometry
- oxidative stress
- cell death
- dna methylation
- pluripotent stem cells
- gene expression
- big data
- machine learning
- copy number
- diabetic rats
- label free
- cancer therapy
- drug induced
- bioinformatics analysis