Bioinformatic identification of proteins with altered PTM levels in a mouse line established to study the mechanisms of the development of fibromuscular dysplasia

Abstract

Data from a mass spectrometry experiment of a mouse line developed to study the mechanisms of fibromuscular dysplasia and deposited by d'Escamard et al. in ProteomeXchange (PXD051750) have been analyzed. Identification of peptides with post-translational modifications (PTMs) was repeated using more stringent conditions than in the original work. The following modifications were considered during analysis of changes in the PTM levels in experimental and control groups of mice: acetylation of lysine residue and N-terminal protein peptide, ubiquitination of lysine residue, phosphorylation of serine, threonine and tyrosine residues, and deamination of asparagine and glutamine residues. The multistage analysis resulted in selection of 23 proteins with PTMs for which different levels of modification between experimental and control groups could be assumed. These included six proteins with N-terminal protein acetylation, which were particularly interesting: P80318 (T-complex protein 1 subunit gamma), P43274 (Histone H1.4), P97823 (Acyl-protein thioesterase 1), P63242 (Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 5A-1), Q3UMT1 (Protein phosphatase 1 regulatory subunit 12C), Q9D8Y0 (EF-hand domain-containing protein D2). Thus, repeated bioinformatic analysis of the data deposited in the specialized databases resulted in detection of changes in the level of N-terminal acetylation of proteins that might be functionally significant in the mechanisms underlying the development of fibromuscular dysplasia.

Keywords: bioinformatics; fibromuscular dysplasia; posttranslational modifications.