1. Integrating Proteomes for Lung Tissues and Lavage Reveals Pathways That Link Responses in Allergen-Challenged Mice
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Neeloffer Mookherjee, Andrew J. Halayko, Thomas H. Mahood, Sujata Basu, Peyman Ezzati, Christopher D. Pascoe, Tobias K. Karakach, Aruni Jha, and Victor Spicer
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General Chemical Engineering ,Biology ,medicine.disease_cause ,Article ,Allergen challenge ,Biological pathway ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Allergen ,medicine ,Extracellular ,QD1-999 ,030304 developmental biology ,House dust mite ,0303 health sciences ,Innate immune system ,Lung ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,Allergic asthma ,General Chemistry ,respiratory system ,biology.organism_classification ,respiratory tract diseases ,Chemistry ,Bronchoalveolar lavage ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,030228 respiratory system ,Immunology ,Proteome ,Lung tissue ,Protein network - Abstract
To capture interplay between biological pathways, we analyzed the proteome from matched lung tissues and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) of individual allergen-naïve and house dust mite (HDM)-challenged BALB/c mice, a model of allergic asthma. Unbiased label-free liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) analysis quantified 2675 proteins from tissues and BALF of allergen-naïve and HDM-exposed mice. In comparing the four datasets, we found significantly greater diversity in proteins between lung tissues and BALF than in the changes induced by HDM challenge. The biological pathways enriched after allergen exposure were compartment-dependent. Lung tissues featured innate immune responses and oxidative stress, while BALF most strongly revealed changes in metabolism. We combined lung tissues and BALF proteomes, which principally highlighted oxidation reduction (redox) pathways, a finding influenced chiefly by the lung tissue dataset. Integrating lung and BALF proteomes also uncovered new proteins and biological pathways that may mediate lung tissue and BALF interactions after allergen challenge, for example, B-cell receptor signaling. We demonstrate that enhanced insight is fostered when different biological compartments from the lung are investigated in parallel. Integration of proteomes from lung tissues and BALF compartments reveals new information about protein networks in response to environmental challenge and interaction between intracellular and extracellular processes.
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- 2021