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Protein phosphorylation is a key regulator in many biological processes, such as homeostasis, cellular signaling and communication, transcriptional and translational regulation, and apoptosis. The defects in this tightly controlled reversible post-translational modification have been described to contribute to genesis and progression of various diseases, emphasizing the importance of a systematic research of this phenomenon. Although considerable effort has been devoted to improving the analysis of phosphorylation by mass spectrometry, which is currently the method of choice to study protein phosphorylation, the detection and identification of phosphorylation sites remains challenging because of the low abundance and low ionization efficacy of phosphoproteins in comparison with nonphosphorylated proteins. To overcome this obstacle, different enrichment strategies for phosphorylated peptides/proteins have been established and optimized for subsequent mass spectrometry analysis. In this review, we will give an overview of the methods currently available for the enrichment of phosphorylated proteins and peptides including immunoprecipitation, chemical derivatization and affinity enrichment techniques.

Author(s): Jiri Dresler[sup.1] , Marcela Krutova[sup.2] , Alena Fucikova[sup.3] , Jana Klimentova[sup.3] , Veronika Hruzova[sup.1] , Miloslava Duracova[sup.3] , Katerina Houdkova[sup.1] , Barbora Salovska[sup.1] , Jana Matejkova[sup.2] , Martin Hubalek[sup.4] [...]

Understanding how proteins in different mammalian tissues are regulated is central to biology. Protein abundance, turnover, and post-translational modifications like phosphorylation, are key factors that determine tissue-specific proteome properties. However, these properties are challenging to study across tissues and remain poorly understood. Here, we present Turnover-PPT , a comprehensive resource mapping the abundance and lifetime of 11,000 proteins and 40,000 phosphosites across eight mouse tissues and various brain regions, using advanced proteomics and stable isotope labeling. We revealed tissue-specific short- and long-lived proteins, strong correlations between interacting protein lifetimes, and distinct impacts of phosphorylation on protein turnover. Notably, we discovered that peroxisomes are regulated by protein turnover across tissues, and that phosphorylation regulates the stability of neurodegeneration-related proteins, such as Tau and α-synuclein. Thus, Turnover-PPT provides new fundamental insights into protein stability, tissue dynamic proteotypes, and the role of protein phosphorylation, and is accessible via an interactive web-based portal at https://yslproteomics.shinyapps.io/tissuePPT., Competing Interests: Declaration of interests The authors declare no competing interests.

Phosphorylation is one of the most important post-translational modifications (PTMs) of proteins, governing critical protein functions. Most human proteins have been shown to undergo phosphorylation, and phosphoproteomic studies have been widely applied due to recent advancements in high-resolution mass spectrometry technology. Although the experimental workflow for phosphoproteomics has been well-established, it would be useful to optimize and summarize a detailed, feasible protocol that combines phosphoproteomics and data-independent acquisition (DIA), along with follow-up data analysis procedures due to the recent instrumental and bioinformatic advances in measuring and understanding tens of thousands of site-specific phosphorylation events in a single experiment. Here, we describe an optimized Phos-DIA protocol, from sample preparation to bioinformatic analysis, along with practical considerations and experimental configurations for each step. The protocol is designed to be robust and applicable for both small-scale phosphoproteomic analysis and large-scale quantification of hundreds of samples for studies in systems biology and systems medicine., Competing Interests: Yi Di, Wenxue Li, Barbora Salovska, Qian Ba, Zhenyi Hu, Shisheng Wang and Yansheng Liu declare that they have no conflict of interest., (© The Author(s) 2023.)

Stable isotope labeling by amino acids in cell culture (SILAC) and iodoacetyl tandem mass tag (iodoTMT) are well-implemented mass spectrometry-based approaches for quantification of proteins and for site-mapping of cysteine modification. We describe here a combination of SILAC and iodoTMT to assess ongoing changes in the global proteome and cysteine modification levels using liquid chromatography separation coupled with high-resolution mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)., (© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.)