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Executive Summary .............................................................................. 17
1.
Basics of Proteomics ............................................................................. 19
Introduction....................................................................................................................... 19
History ............................................................................................................................... 19
Nucleic acids, genes and proteins ...................................................................................... 20
Genome .......................................................................................................................... 20
DNA ............................................................................................................................... 21
RNA ............................................................................................................................... 21
MicroRNAs .................................................................................................................. 21
Decoding of mRNA by the ribosome ............................................................................... 22
Genes ............................................................................................................................. 23
Alternative splicing ........................................................................................................... 23
Transcription ................................................................................................................... 24
Gene regulation ............................................................................................................... 24
Gene expression .............................................................................................................. 25
Chromatin ....................................................................................................................... 25
Golgi complex .................................................................................................................. 26
Proteins .......................................................................................................................... 26
Spliceosome ............................................................................................................... 27
Functions of proteins ................................................................................................... 27
Inter-relationship of protein, mRNA and DNA .................................................................. 28
Proteomics ......................................................................................................................... 29
Mitochondrial proteome .................................................................................................... 30
S-nitrosoproteins in mitochondria.................................................................................. 30
Proteomics and genomics .................................................................................................. 31
Classification of proteomics ............................................................................................... 33
Levels of functional genomics and various "omics" ............................................................... 33
Glycoproteomics .............................................................................................................. 34
Transcriptomics ............................................................................................................... 34
Metabolomics .................................................................................................................. 34
Cytomics......................................................................................................................... 35
Phenomics ......................................................................................................................... 35
Proteomics and systems biology ........................................................................................ 35
Functional synthetic proteins ............................................................................................. 36
2.
Proteomic Technologies ........................................................................ 37
Key technologies driving proteomics ................................................................................. 37
Sample preparation ........................................................................................................... 38
New trends in sample preparation ...................................................................................... 38
Pressure Cycling Technology ............................................................................................. 39
Protein separation technologies ........................................................................................ 39
High resolution 2DGE ....................................................................................................... 39
Variations of 2D gel technology.......................................................................................... 40
Limitations of 2DGE and measures to overcome these .......................................................... 40
1-D sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) PAGE ............................................................................. 40
Capillary electrophoresis systems ....................................................................................... 41
Head column stacking capillary zone electrophoresis ............................................................ 41
Removal of albumin and IgG ............................................................................................. 41
Companies with protein separation technologies .................................................................. 42
Protein purification ............................................................................................................ 43
Technologies for protein purification ................................................................................... 44
Applications of protein purification ..................................................................................... 44
Protein detection ............................................................................................................... 44
Protein identification and characterization ........................................................................ 44
Mass spectrometry (MS) ................................................................................................... 44
Companies involved in mass spectrometry ..................................................................... 45
Electrospray ionization ................................................................................................. 46
Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Mass Spectrometry ....................................... 47
Cryogenic MALDI- Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry ................................................. 48
Stable-isotope-dilution tandem mass spectrometry ......................................................... 49
HUPO Gold MS Protein Standard ................................................................................... 49
High performance liquid chromatography ............................................................................ 49
Multidimensional protein identification technology (MudPIT) .................................................. 49
Peptide mass fingerprinting ............................................................................................... 50
Combination of protein separation technologies with mass spectrometry ................................. 50
Combining capillary electrophoresis with mass spectrometry ............................................ 50