TY - JOUR
T1 - Search for Breast Cancer Biomarkers in Fractionated Serum Samples by Protein Profiling With SELDI-TOF MS
AU - Opstal - van Winden, A.W.J.
AU - Beijnen, J.H.
AU - de Loof, A.
AU - van Heerde, W.L.
AU - Vermeulen, R.
AU - Peeters, P.H.M.
AU - van Gils, C.H.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - BackgroundMany high-abundant acute phase reactants have been previously detected as potential breast cancer biomar-kers. However, they are unlikely to be specific for breast cancer. Cancer-specific biomarkers are thought to be among the lower abundant proteins.MethodsWe aimed to detect lower abundant discriminating proteins by performing serum fractionation by strong anion exchange chromatography preceding protein profiling with SELDI-TOF MS. In a pilot study, we tested the different fractions resulting from fractionation, on several array types. Fraction 3 on IMAC30 and Fraction 6 on Q10 yielded the most discriminative proteins and were used for serum protein profiling of 73 incident breast cancer cases and 73 matched controls.ResultsEight peaks showed statistically significantly different intensities between cases and controls (P⧁0.05), and had less than 10% chance to be a false-positive finding. Seven of these were tentatively identified as apolipoprotein C-II (m/z 8,909), oxidized apolipoprotein C-II (m/z 8,925), apolipoprotein C-III (m/z 8,746), fragment of coagulation factor XIIIa (m/z 3,959), heterodimer of apolipoprotein A-I and apolipoprotein A-II (m/z 45,435), hemoglobin B-chain (m/z 15,915), and post-translational modified hemoglobin (m/z 15,346).ConclusionBy extensive serum fractionation, we detected many more proteins than in previous studies without fractionation. However, discriminating proteins were still high abundant. Results indicate that either lower abundant proteins are less distinctive, or more rigorous fractionation and selective protein depletion, or a more sensitive assay, are needed to detect lower abundant discriminative proteins.
AB - BackgroundMany high-abundant acute phase reactants have been previously detected as potential breast cancer biomar-kers. However, they are unlikely to be specific for breast cancer. Cancer-specific biomarkers are thought to be among the lower abundant proteins.MethodsWe aimed to detect lower abundant discriminating proteins by performing serum fractionation by strong anion exchange chromatography preceding protein profiling with SELDI-TOF MS. In a pilot study, we tested the different fractions resulting from fractionation, on several array types. Fraction 3 on IMAC30 and Fraction 6 on Q10 yielded the most discriminative proteins and were used for serum protein profiling of 73 incident breast cancer cases and 73 matched controls.ResultsEight peaks showed statistically significantly different intensities between cases and controls (P⧁0.05), and had less than 10% chance to be a false-positive finding. Seven of these were tentatively identified as apolipoprotein C-II (m/z 8,909), oxidized apolipoprotein C-II (m/z 8,925), apolipoprotein C-III (m/z 8,746), fragment of coagulation factor XIIIa (m/z 3,959), heterodimer of apolipoprotein A-I and apolipoprotein A-II (m/z 45,435), hemoglobin B-chain (m/z 15,915), and post-translational modified hemoglobin (m/z 15,346).ConclusionBy extensive serum fractionation, we detected many more proteins than in previous studies without fractionation. However, discriminating proteins were still high abundant. Results indicate that either lower abundant proteins are less distinctive, or more rigorous fractionation and selective protein depletion, or a more sensitive assay, are needed to detect lower abundant discriminative proteins.
U2 - 10.1002/jcla.20492
DO - 10.1002/jcla.20492
M3 - Article
SN - 0887-8013
VL - 26
SP - 1
EP - 9
JO - Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis
JF - Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis
IS - 1
ER -