N‐terminome analysis of the human mitochondrial proteome

The high throughput characterization of protein N‐termini is becoming an emerging challenge in the proteomics and proteogenomics fields. The present study describes the free N‐terminome analysis of human mitochondria‐enriched samples using trimethoxyphenyl phosphonium (TMPP) labelling approaches. Owing to the extent of protein import and cleavage for mitochondrial proteins, determining the new N‐termini generated after translocation/processing events for mitochondrial proteins is crucial to understand the transformation of precursors to mature proteins. The doublet N‐terminal oriented proteomics (dN‐TOP) strategy based on a double light/heavy TMPP labelling has been optimized in order to improve and automate the workflow for efficient, fast and reliable high throughput N‐terminome analysis. A total of 2714 proteins were identified and 897 N‐terminal peptides were characterized (424 N‐α‐acetylated and 473 TMPP‐labelled peptides). These results allowed the precise identification of the N‐terminus of 693 unique proteins corresponding to 26% of all identified proteins. Overall, 120 already annotated processing cleavage sites were confirmed while 302 new cleavage sites were characterized. The accumulation of experimental evidence of mature N‐termini should allow increasing the knowledge of processing mechanisms and consequently also enhance cleavage sites prediction algorithms. Complete datasets have been deposited to the ProteomeXchange Consortium with identifiers PXD001521, PXD001522 and PXD001523 (http://proteomecentral.proteomexchange.org/dataset/PXD001521, http://proteomecentral.proteomexchange.org/dataset/PXD0001522 and http://proteomecentral.proteomexchange.org/dataset/PXD001523, respectively).

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