Many cell biologists wish to know the subcellular localization of proteins of interest. Proteomics methods have the potential to describe the entire protein content of organelles. However, practical limitations in organelle isolation and analysis of low abundance proteins have meant that organelle proteomics has had, until recently, only limited success. Some examples of quantitative proteomic ...

Fluorescence two-dimensional difference gel electrophoresis (DiGE) is rapidly becoming established as a powerful technique for the characterization of differences in protein expression levels between two or more conditions. In this review, we consider the application of DiGE-both minimal and saturation labelling-to biomaterials research, considering the challenges and rewards of this approach.

Serological proteome analysis (SERPA) combines classical proteomic technology with effective separation of cellular protein extracts on two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, western blotting, and identification of the antigenic spot of interest by mass spectrometry. A critical point is related to the antigenic target characterization by mass spectrometry, which depends on the accuracy of the mat...

In continuous lines of cultured Drosophila cells two forms of cytoplasmic actin, designated II and III, are detected after a 25- to 120-min pulse label with [35S]methionine. However, only one of these, actin II, accumulates in the cell. With the use of a pulse-chase protocol and two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, it has been found that actin III is synthesized as a precursor of the more stabl...

We have used two-dimensional gel electrophoresis to study the structural transition to the triplex H form of sequences 5'-AAGGGAGAAXGGGGTATAGGGGYAAGAGGGAA-3' where X and Y are any DNA bases. The transition was observed at acid pH under superhelical stress. For X = Y = A or X = Y = G the sequences corresponded to homopurine-homopyrimidine mirror repeats (H-palindrome) which are known to adopt th...

This report demonstrates directly, using two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and alloantisera, the following: (a) The DR4 light chains show a structural polymorphism among the Dw4, DKT2, and DYT cells. (b) Most of the class II light chains consist of the DR light chain. (c) The MT3 molecule is distinct from the DR4 molecule in the Dw4, DKT2, and DYT cells. (d) The MT3 molecule does not show any...

2DE and 2D-DIGE based proteomics analysis of serum from women with endometriosis revealed several proteins to be dysregulated. A complete list of these proteins along with their mass spectrometry data and subsequent bioinformatics analysis are presented here. The data is related to "Investigation of serum proteome alterations in human endometriosis" by Dutta et al. [1].

Joan-J Bech-Serra1, Núria Colomé1, ProteoRed2, Andy Borthwick3, Martin Wells3, Juan-Pablo Albar4, Francesc Canals1 1 Proteomics Laboratory Medical Oncology Research Program. Vall d’Hebron University Hospital Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain; 2ProteoRed consortium. Spanish National Institute of Proteomics; 3Nonlinear Dynamics, Newcastle, UK; 4Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia-CSIC, Madrid, Spain

Quantitative proteomic studies, based on two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, are commonly used to find proteins that are differentially expressed between samples or groups of samples. These proteins are of interest as potential diagnostic or prognostic biomarkers, or as proteins associated with a trait. The complexity of proteomic data poses many challenges, so while experiments may reveal pro...