Global investigation of p53-induced apoptosis through quantitative proteomic profiling using comparative amino acid-coded tagging

Mol Cell Proteomics. 2004 Oct;3(10):998-1008. doi: 10.1074/mcp.M400033-MCP200. Epub 2004 Jul 28.

Abstract

p53-induced apoptosis plays a pivotal role in the suppression of tumorigenesis, and mutations in p53 have been found in more than 50% of human tumors. By comparing the proteome of a human colorectal cancer cell transfected with inducible p53 (DLD-1.p53) with that of the control DLD-1 cell line using amino acid-coded mass tagging (AACT)-assisted mass spectrometry, we have broadly identified proteins that are upregulated at the execution stage of the p53-mediated apoptosis. In cell culturing, the deuterium-labeled (heavy) amino acids were incorporated into the proteome of the induced DLD-1.p53 cells, whereas the DLD-1.vector cells were grown in the unlabeled medium. In high-throughput LC-ESI-MS/MS analyses, the AACT-containing peptides were paired with their unlabeled counterparts, and their relative spectral intensities, reflecting the differential protein expression, were quantified. In addition, our novel AACT-MS method utilized a number of different heavy amino acids as internal markers that significantly increased the peptide sequence coverage for both quantitation and identification purposes. As a result, we were able to identify differentially regulated protein isozymes that would be difficult to distinguish by ICAT-MS methods and to obtain a large dataset of the proteins with altered expression in the late stage of p53-induced apoptosis. The regulated proteins we identified are associated with several distinct functional categories: cell cycle arrest and p53 binding, protein chaperoning, plasma membrane dynamics, stress response, antioxidant enzymes, and anaerobic glycolysis. This result suggests that the p53-induced apoptosis involves the systematic activation of multiple pathways that are glycolysis-relevant, energy-dependent, oxidative stress-mediated, and possibly mediated through interorganelle crosstalks.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Amino Acids / chemistry
  • Amino Acids / metabolism*
  • Apoptosis / genetics*
  • Cell Line, Tumor
  • Chromatography, Liquid
  • Colorectal Neoplasms / genetics
  • Cyclophilin A / chemistry
  • Cyclophilins / chemistry
  • Deuterium / metabolism
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
  • Humans
  • Mass Spectrometry
  • Models, Biological
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Peptidyl-Prolyl Isomerase F
  • Peptidylprolyl Isomerase
  • Protein Array Analysis / methods*
  • Proteins / metabolism
  • Proteomics / methods*
  • Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
  • Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization
  • Tumor Suppressor Protein p53 / genetics
  • Tumor Suppressor Protein p53 / physiology*
  • Up-Regulation

Substances

  • Amino Acids
  • Peptidyl-Prolyl Isomerase F
  • Proteins
  • Tumor Suppressor Protein p53
  • cyclophilin B
  • Deuterium
  • Cyclophilin A
  • Cyclophilins
  • Peptidylprolyl Isomerase