Comprehensive Spectral Library from the Pathogenic Bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae with Focus on Phosphoproteins.
Abstract
To understand bacterial reactions to environmental stress or infection-related processes, it is necessary to identify the involved proteins. In mass spectrometry-based proteomics, the method of choice for spectra-to-peptide-match is database search, but in recent times, spectral libraries have come into focus. Here, we built a mass spectral library from Streptococcus pneumoniae D39, reflecting 76% of the theoretical proteome of the organism. Besides the proteins themselves, posttranslational protein modifications especially reveal central hubs of regulation in bacterial pathogenesis. Here, for example, phosphorylation events are involved in the signal transduction and regulation of virulence. Although there have been major advances in phosphoproteomics, identification of this modification is still challenging. To enhance the number of phosphorylated peptides, which can be reproducibly detected, a comprehensive mass spectral library of the S. pneumoniae D39 phosphoproteome has been compiled in addition to the comprehensive total proteome mass spectral library. The phosphopeptide library was manually validated, and the data quality was additionally proven by analyses of synthetic phosphorylated peptides. In total, 128 phosphoryla...Continue Reading
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