Key result
RiboMaP improves spectral annotation across mass spectrometry datasets to facilitate identifying ADPr peptides and proteins.
Why the study?
Despite growing interest in ADP-ribosylation in inflammation and cardiovascular disease, computational resources to evaluate the quality of mass spectrometry-based ADP-ribosylated proteins remain limited.
The RiboMaP spectral annotation strategy improves the identification and reporting of ADP-ribosylated peptides in mass spectrometry-based proteomics, which may aid future research in inflammation and cardiovascular disease.
May aid ADPr proteomics in cardiovascular inflammation models; leaves open human translation and clinical utility.
ADP-ribosylation is a post-translational modification that is catalyzed by the ADP-ribosyltransferase enzyme family. Major emphasis to date has been ADP-ribosylation's role in cancer; however, there is growing interest in its role in inflammation and cardiovascular disease. Despite a recent boom in ADP-ribosylation mass spectrometry-based proteomics, there are limited computational resources to evaluate the quality of reported ADP-ribosylated (ADPr) proteins. We recently developed a novel mass spectral annotation strategy (RiboMaP) that facilitates identification and reporting of ADPr peptides and proteins. This strategy can monitor the fragmentation properties of ADPr peptide-unique fragment ions, termed m-ions and p-ions, that in turn provide spectral quality scores for candidate ADP-ribosyl peptides. In this study, we leveraged the availability of publicly available ADP-ribosylome data, acquired on various mass spectrometers, to evaluate the broader applicability of RiboMaP. We observed that fragmentation spectra of ADPr peptides vary considerably across datasets; nonetheless, RiboMaP improves ADPr peptide spectral annotation across all studies. We then reanalyzed our own previously published in vitro ADP-ribosylome data to determine common responses to the pro-inflammatory cytokine, IFN-γ. We conclude that despite these recent advances in the field of ADPr proteomics, studies in the context of inflammation and cardiovascular disease still require further bench-to-informatics workflow development in order to capture ADPr signaling events related to inflammatory pathways.
No takes yet. Share an insight, caveat, or question.
Singh et al. (2022) studied ADP-ribosylation in inflammation and cardiovascular disease. RiboMaP spectral annotation method was evaluated on ADPr peptide spectral annotation. The RiboMaP spectral annotation method improved ADPr peptide spectral annotation across various mass spectrometry datasets, facilitating identification of ADPr peptides and proteins.
Synapse has enriched 5 closely related papers on similar clinical questions. Consider them for comparative context: