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A sensitive, robust and cost-effective approach for tyrosine phosphoproteome analysis Mingming Dong, Yangyang Bian, Yan Wang, Jing Dong, Yating Yao, Zhenzhen Deng, Hongqiang Qin, Hanfa Zou, and Mingliang Ye Anal. Chem., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.7b02078 • Publication Date (Web): 10 Aug 2017 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on August 11, 2017

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A sensitive, robust and cost-effective approach for tyrosine

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phosphoproteome analysis

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Mingming Dong1,2,4, Yangyang Bian1,3,4, Yan Wang1,2, Jing Dong1, Yating Yao1,2,

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Zhenzhen Deng1,2, Hongqiang Qin1, Hanfa Zou1,#, Mingliang Ye1,*

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Chromatographic R&A Center, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese

CAS Key Laboratory of Separation Sciences for Analytical Chemistry, National

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Academy of Sciences (CAS), Dalian 116023, China;

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University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

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Medical Research Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University,

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Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan 450052, China

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These authors contributed equally to the work

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To whom correspondence should be addressed: (M.L. Ye) Phone: +86-411-84379610.

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Fax: +86-411-84379620. E-mail: [email protected].

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Abstract

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Albeit much less abundant than Ser/Thr phosphorylation (pSer/pThr), Tyr

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phosphorylation (pTyr) is considered as a hallmark in cellular signal transduction.

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However, its analysis at the proteome level remains challenging. The conventional

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immunopurification (IP) approach using antibodies specific to pTyr sites is known to

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have low sensitivity, poor reproducibility and high cost. Our recent study indicated

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that SH2 domain-derived pTyr-superbinder is a good replacement of pTyr antibody

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for the specific enrichment of pTyr peptides for phosphoproteomics analysis. In this

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study, we presented an efficient SH2 superbinder based workflow for the sensitive

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analysis of tyrosine phosphoproteome. This new method can identify 41% more pTyr

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peptides than the previous method. Its excellent performance was demonstrated by the

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analysis of a variety of different samples. For the highly tyrosine phosphorylated

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sample, e.g. pervanadate-treated Jurkat T cells, it identified over 1800 high confident

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pTyr sites from only 2 mg of proteins. For the unstimulated Jurkat cells where the

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pTyr events rarely occurred, it identified 343 high confident pTyr sites from 5 mg of

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proteins, which was 31% more than that obtained by the antibody-based method. For

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the heterogeneous sample of tissue, it identified 197 high confident pTyr sites from 5

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mg protein digest of mouse skeletal muscle. In general, it is a sensitive, robust and

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cost-effective approach and would have wide applications in the study of the

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regulatory role of tyrosine phosphorylation in diverse physiological and pathological

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processes.

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Introduction

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Aberrant regulation of tyrosine phosphorylation (pTyr) often plays an important

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role in the initiation and progression of various types of diseases, especially cancer.

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Analysis of tyrosine phosphorylation at the proteome level will shed light on the

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regulatory role of tyrosine phosphorylation in diverse physiological and pathological

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processes. Enrichment of pTyr peptide from cell lysate digest by anti-pTyr antibody

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followed by mass spectrometry identification, is a widely used strategy in tyrosine

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phosphoproteomics. At present, a few site-specific anti-pTyr antibodies are

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commercially available, i.e. P-Tyr-100, P-Tyr-1000, 4G10, and PY99. There are

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numerous publications on immunopurification of pTyr peptides using these antibodies

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decrease the sample complexity and increase pTyr enrichment selectivity 7-9. Although

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prevailing for pTyr phosphoproteomics analysis, the antibody based pTyr enrichment

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strategy has the drawbacks of high cost, and when used in unsaturation amount, often

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causes the issue of poor reproducibility. For example, Palma et. al. performed 6

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replicate pTyr immuno-affinity purification (pY-IP) experiments 4, and found the

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number of identified pY peptides ranging from 500 to approximately 1000, with the

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RSD as high as 42%, showed the poor reproducibility of the antibody based method.

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SH2 domain is a sequence-specific phosphotyrosine-binding module present in many

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signaling molecules

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enrichment of pTyr peptides for the global tyrosine phosphoproteomics analysis

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because its affinity to the pTyr is too low (0.1 to 10 µM)

. The combined use of immunopurification and IMAC or MOAC was reported to

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. Wild type SH2 domains are not good for the effective

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. By introducing three 3

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mutations into the pTyr-binding pocket of the wild type Src SH2 domain, an SH2

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superbinder, exhibiting nano-to-micromolar affinities to pTyr, was created 12. We have

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demonstrated that this SH2 superbinder is a good replacement of pTyr antibody for

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phosphoproteomics analysis

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pTyr sites from 9 cell lines using this approach. However, due to the using of multiple

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desalting steps, the enrichment procedure in that initial study is tedious and

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cumbersome. Recently, we presented a new strategy to elute pTyr from the SH2

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superbinder by using biotin-pYEEI as the competitive reagent

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could be fractionated according to their binding affinities to SH2 superbinder when

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stepwise elution with biotin-pYEEI of different concentrations was applied. However,

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the competitive reagents used for elution must be removed before LC-MS/MS

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analysis. This additional purification step will also result in significant sample loss.

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The low recovery of these methods limited their applications to untreated cells or

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tissue samples with much lower pTyr levels

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. We have successfully identified more than 10,000

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. The pTyr peptides

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In this study, we presented an efficient SH2 superbinder based approach for the

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sensitive analysis of tyrosine phosphoproteome. It combined the specific

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phosphopeptide enrichment methods of Ti4+-IMAC with the SH2 superbinder affinity

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chromatography in a seamless way which significantly reduced sample loss and

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improved the robustness of the method. Compared with our previous method, this

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new method can identify 41% more pTyr peptides. Compared with antibody 4G10,

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this method can identify 31% more pTyr sites. The excellent performance of this

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strategy was further demonstrated by analyzing a tissue sample of mouse skeletal 4

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muscle and epidermal growth factor (EGF) stimulated HeLa cells. For the mouse

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muscle, we effectively identified 197 high confident pY sites (of which 73 were novel)

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from 5 mg protein digest. For the EGF stimulated HeLa cells, 262 pTyr sites were

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quantified from 5 mg stable-isotope dimethyl labeled protein digest. Overall it is a

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sensitive, robust and cost-effective approach for tyrosine phosphoproteome analysis.

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Experimental Section

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Tyrosine Phosphorylated (pTyr) Peptide Enrichment

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Four distinctive experimental workflows (Figure 1) were executed for the

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enrichment of tyrosine phosphopeptides. Workflow A used SH2 superbinder

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immobilized on Ni2+-NTA beads as affinity material, other workflows used SH2

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superbinder covalently immobilized on CNBr-activated sepharose beads as affinity

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material (Refer to the detail procedure in the supporting information for the

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immobilization of SH2 superbinder). For the antibody-based method, the procedure is

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identical to workflow C except the commercially available anti-phosphotyrosine

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antibody 4G10 (agarose conjugate, Millipore, USA) was used as affinity material.

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These four workflows were applied to enrich pTyr peptides from the same amount (2

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mg) of protein digest derived from pervanadate-treated Jurkat T cells. The detailed

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experimental procedures for the four workflows were described below.

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Experimental workflow A was the same as used in our previous study 13. Firstly,

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the desalted peptides were dissolved in ice-cold IAP buffer containing 50 mM

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Tris-HCl (pH 7.2), 50 mM NaCl and 10 mM Na2HPO4. Secondly, the

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hexahistidine-tagged SH2 superbinder were purified by Ni2+-NTA beads. The 5

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Ni2+-NTA beads containing 900 µg SH2 superbinders were washed with two column

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volumes of IAP buffer, split into three aliquots (300 µg/aliquot). Then, each aliquot

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was incubated with 2 mg peptides at 4 °C overnight with rotating. In the next morning,

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the beads were washed with ten column volumes of ice-cold IAP buffer, and then

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eluted with elution buffer (500 mM imidazole in PBS buffer, pH 7.2). The eluate was

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acidified and desalted on OASIS HLB columns. The peptides eluted from the OASIS

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HLB columns were further enriched with Ti4+-IMAC beads to enhance the enrichment

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specificity. The resulting phoshopeptides were lyophilized to dryness and dissolved in

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0.5% FA for RPLC-MS/MS analysis.

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For experimental workflow B, firstly, the hexahistidine-tagged SH2 superbinder

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proteins were purified by Ni2+-NTA and covalently immobilized on CNBr-activated

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sepharose beads. The protein concentration of the sepharose slurry was determined to

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be 0.5 mg/mL. Secondly, the desalted peptides (2 mg) were dissolved in cold IAP

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buffer and incubated with the SH2 superbinder (300 µg) immobilized sepharose beads

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at 4 °C overnight with rotating. Thirdly, the sepharose beads were washed three times

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with cold IAP buffer and two times with water. Then the bound peptides were eluted

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twice by 0.1% TFA at room temperature. Finally, the eluate was collected and further

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incubated with Ti4+-IMAC beads for the enrichment of phosphopeptide. The resulting

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phoshopeptides were lyophilized to dryness and dissolved in 0.5% FA for

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RPLC-MS/MS analysis.

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For experimental workflow C, firstly, protein digests (2 mg) were subjected to

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Ti4+-IMAC enrichment for phosphopeptides. Secondly, the phosphopeptides were 6

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dissolved in cold IAP buffer and incubated with sepharose beads containing

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covalently immobilized SH2 superbinders (300 µg) at 4 °C overnight with rotating.

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The next morning, the sepharose beads were washed three times with cold IAP buffer

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and two times with water. Finally, the bound peptides were eluted twice by 0.1% TFA

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at room temperature. The eluate was collected and lyophilized for RPLC-MS/MS

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analysis.

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For experimental workflow D, firstly, the desalted peptides (2 mg) were dissolved

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in cold IAP buffer and incubated with SH2 superbinder (300 µg) immobilized

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sepharose beads at 4 °C overnight with rotating. Secondly, the sepharose beads were

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washed three times with cold IAP buffer and two times with water. Finally, the bound

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peptides were eluted twice with 0.1% TFA. The elution was lyophilized to dryness

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and dissolved in 0.5% FA for RPLC-MS/MS analysis.

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Workflow C was applied to enrich pTyr peptide from the mouse skeletal muscle

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sample and EGF treated sample. The initial protein amounts were 5 mg for both

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samples, while the amounts of immobilized SH2 superbinder used for enrichment

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were 100 µg and 200 µg for mouse skeletal muscle samples and EGF treated samples,

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respectively.

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Stable Isotope Dimethyl Labeling

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The EGF stimulated and unstimulated HeLa cells were subjected to heavy and

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light stable isotope dimethyl labeling, separately. In brief, 2 mL of CD2O (4%, v/v) or

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subsequently to both samples. The resultant mixtures were incubated for 1 h at room

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temperature followed by the addition of 50 µL of ammonia (25%, v/v). The mixture

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was allowed to stand for another 15 min before formic acid (FA) was added to adjust

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the pH to 2~3. Finally, the two heavy and light dimethyl labeling samples were

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combined

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phosphopeptides were lyophilized and stored at -80 °C for further usage.

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Mass Spectrometric (MS) Analysis

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The

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The nano RPLC−MS/MS experiments were performed on an UltiMate 3000

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RSLCnano systems (Thermo Scientific, USA) connected to a Q Exactive mass

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spectrometer (Thermo Scientific, USA). For the LC-MS/MS analysis, the sample was

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automatically loaded onto the C18 trap column (3 cm × 200 µm i.d.) at a flow rate of

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5 µL / min with 0.1% formic acid (FA) as loading buffer. The 75 µm i.d. analytical

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column was packed with C18 AQ particles (5 µm, 12 nm) to 15 cm length. The

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mobile phase A was 99.9% water / 0.1% FA, and mobile phase B was 80% ACN / 0.1%

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FA. The elution gradient executed was 5% to 35% mobile phase B lasted for 78 min.

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The Q Exactive mass spectrometer was operated in the data dependent mode.

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Survey scan MS spectra (m/z 400−2 000) were acquired by the Orbitrap with 70 000

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resolution (m/z 200), and the AGC target was set to 1 × 106 with a max injection time

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of 120 micro seconds. Dynamic exclusion was set to 30 s. The 12 most intense

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multiply charged ions were fragmented by higher-energy collisional dissociation

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(HCD). The MS/MS scans were also acquired by the Orbitrap with 35 000 resolution

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micro seconds. Typical mass spectrometric settings were as follows: spray voltage, 2

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kV; heated capillary temperature, 250 °C; normalized HCD collision energy, 27%.

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Database Search and Data Analysis

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The raw data files generated by the Q Exactive mass spectrometer were searched 15

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with software MaxQuant

version 1.3.0.5, against the uniprot human database

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(released on December 11, 2013 and containing 88473 protein sequences) or the

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uniprot mouse database (released on December 11, 2013), supplemented by

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frequently observed contaminants, and reversed versions of all sequences were

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contained. Enzyme specificity was set to trypsin (KR/P), up to two missed cleavage

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sites were allowed. Phospho (STY), oxidation (M), loss of ammonia and water were

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chosen for variable modifications, carbamidomethyl was set as fixed modifications.

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The maximum false-discovery rate (FDR) was set to 1% for both the peptides and

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proteins. The minimum required peptide length was set at six amino acids. For stable

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isotope dimethyl labeling samples, the multiply was set as 2, Lys0 and Nter0 were

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chosen for light label, Lys4 and Nter4 were chosen for heavy label. All the

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phosphorylation sites reported in this study were class I sites, defined by the

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combined cutoff values of protein FDR < 1%, peptide FDR < 1%, localization

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probability > 0.75 and ΔPTM score ≥ 5.

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Raw data repository

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All the mass spectrometry proteomics data have been deposited to the

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ProteomeXchange Consortium via the PRIDE16 partner repository with the dataset

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Please refer to supporting information for more experimental conditions.

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Results and discussion

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Establishment of the efficient SH2 superbinder based pTyr peptide enrichment

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strategy

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To develop a sensitive and robust affinity purification approach for tyrosine

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phosphoproteome analysis, a seamless workflow to minimize sample loss while keep

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high specificity should be established. To this end, we investigated the performances

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of four different experimental workflows for the enrichment of tyrosine

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phosphopeptides using SH2 superbinder. In the workflow A (Figure 1A), the SH2

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superbinders were chelated on Ni2+-NTA beads via its His tag

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experimental workflow has two desalting steps, which was tedious and

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time-consuming. To simplify the experimental procedure, in this study, we covalently

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immobilized the SH2 superbinder to CNBr-activated agarose beads, and applied them

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in the workflow B-D (Figure 1B-D). Workflow B was similar to A, except that the

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bound pTyr peptides were eluted by 0.1% TFA, and the second SPE desalting step

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was omitted. As for workflow C, the Ti4+-IMAC enrichment was applied before SH2

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superbinder enrichment. Since the protein digests with urea could be directly

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subjected to Ti4+-IMAC enrichment, no desalting step was required. The experimental

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workflow D aimed to test if the Ti4+-IMAC enrichment could be omitted for pTyr

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phosphoproteomics analysis.

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These four workflows were applied to enrich pTyr peptides from the same

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Three replicates enrichments were performed for each workflow, and the obtained

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peptides were submitted to LC-MS/MS analysis by Q Exactive mass spectrometer,

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separately. The detailed identification results for each enrichment experiment were

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summarized in Table S1 and S2. It should be mentioned that strict criteria was applied

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to filter the searching results. All the pTyr peptides reported were filtered with cutoff

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values of protein FDR < 1%, peptide FDR < 1% and score ≥ 40 , all the

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phosphorylation sites reported in this study were class I sites, defined by the

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localization probability > 0.75 and ΔPTM score ≥ 5. The combined pTyr peptide

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identifications for three replicate enrichments of each workflow were depicted in

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Figure 2A. Obviously, the experimental workflow C yielded the highest number of

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pTyr peptide identifications (3519), which was about 41% more identifications than

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workflow A (2494) and B (2488), and 62% more than workflow D (2171). We also

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compared the enrichment specificity defined as the proportion of pTyr peptides in

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total identifications for these strategies. The workflows A, B, C have higher

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specificity of 87.6%, 89.8% and 90.1% compared with that of 61.4% for workflow D,

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(Figure 2A). The reason why workflow A and B identified less number of pTyr

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peptides was attributed to that at least one SPE desalting step was employed, which

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would lead to significant sample loss. As for workflow C, because the denaturing

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reagent (urea) in protein digest was compatible with Ti4+-IMAC enrichment, no SPE

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desalting was required, which effectively reduce the sample loss. The first step

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Ti4+-IMAC enrichment can not only remove the non-phosphorylated peptides, but

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the binding strength between phosphopeptide and Ti4+-IMAC is quite strong, which

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minimized the sample loss. All these made workflow C an optimal strategy. On the

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contrary, workflow D without Ti4+-IMAC enrichment step identified the lowest

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number of pTyr peptides (2171) with the poorest specificity (61%). From Figure 2A

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we can see that, the non-phosphopepides made a large proportion in the identification

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results of workflow D, which indicated that many non-phosphopeptides still presented

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in the sample which may interfere with the detection of pTyr peptides. Clearly the

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Ti4+-IMAC purification step is very helpful for improving the specificity of pTyr

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peptide enrichment and increasing the identification sensitivity. High specificity can

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also be achieved by competitive elution of the captured pTyr peptides using

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competitive reagents as we reported recently14. However, the competitive reagents

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must be removed before LC-MS/MS analysis. This additional purification step will

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result in sample loss and cannot compete the protocol developed in this study.

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Reproducibility is critical for the analysis of Tyr phosphoproteome. As mentioned

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above, to reduce the error caused by a single experiment operation, we performed

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three replicates for each enrichment strategy. The relative standard deviation (RSD,

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n=3) for the pTyr peptide identification numbers achieved by the workflow A, B, C, D

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were 4%, 4%, 2% and 4% (Table S1 and Figure S1), respectively, indicating good

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repeatability of the SH2 superbinder based enrichment. The RSD (n=3) values for the

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ratio of pTyr peptides in workflow A, B and C were less than 1%, while for workflow

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D, it was slightly higher, 3%. All these demonstrated that the SH2 superbinder based

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example, the three independent enrichment experiments C1, C2 and C3 identified

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2545, 2702 and 2753 pTyr peptides, respectively. More than 87% of pTyr peptides

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identified in one enrichment experiment can also be identified by the other two

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experiments (Figure 2B), indicating good reproducibility of the method.

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In our previous study13, we compared the enrichment performances between SH2

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superbinder and antibody, either 4G10, P-Tyr-100 alone or an antibody mixture

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containing ~1/3 each of 4G10, P-Tyr-100 and PY-99. We found that the SH2

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superbinder outperformed the antibody-based methods, and between different

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antibodies, 4G10 performed slightly better than the P-Tyr-100 or the antibody mixture.

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In this study, we further compared the immobilized SH2 superbinder with antibody

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4G10 for the enrichment of pTyr peptides. Instead of using pervanadate-treated

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sample, the lysate digest derived from Jurkat cells without any stimulation was used

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as the test sample. It is an extremely challenge sample as the pTyr peptides are present

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at very low abundance. Equal molar amount of 4G10 and SH2 superbinder (capacity

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equivalent to 0.6 nmol 4G10) were used to enrich pTyr peptides from 5mg protein

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digests according to workflow C (the immobilized SH2 superbinder was replaced by

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4G10 for the antibody based method). The obtained pTyr peptides were subjected to

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LC-MS/MS analysis. pTyr peptides were successfully identified by both methods, but

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the numbers were much lower than that identified from the pervanadate-treated

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sample. The SH2 superbinder identified 481 pTyr peptides and 343 high confident

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pTyr sites, while the 4G10 method identified 356 pTyr peptides and 262 sites (Figure

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3A&B, Table S3). The SH2 superbinder method identified 35.1% and 30.9% more 13

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pTyr peptides and sites, respectively. We also compared the average intensity of the

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pTyr sites identified by the two affinity reagents (Figure 3C). It shows that pTyr sites

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presented in the SH2 superbinder dataset with an average intensity of 1.5 times higher

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than that in 4G10 dataset, which further proved that the SH2 superbinder based

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strategy compared favorably to antibody based approach. We then investigate the

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binding specificity of SH2 superbinder and 4G10 to pTyr peptides under the current

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experimental conditions. Weblogos

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in Figure 3D. It can be seen that the amino acid sequence surrounding pTyr sites were

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similar between these two dataset, with D, E overpresented on +1 position, E,N on +2

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position, and L, V, I, P on +3 position. In our previous study 13, we found that different

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affinity reagents displayed distinct specificities when used in an amount insufficient to

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saturate pTyr peptides from the samples. And the difference in motif selectivity

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became smaller when using more affinity reagent. This is because the affinity reagents

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primarily enrich the pTyr peptides with stronger binding affinity when they are not

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sufficient and so display distinct specificity, while they gradually enrich pTyr peptides

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with weaker binding affinity when they are sufficient and so display similar

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specificities. The high similarity of the binding specificity for SH2 superbinder and

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4G10 in this study may because the affinity reagents used here is sufficient to saturate

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the pTyr peptides in the sample as pTyr rarely occurred in the cells without any

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stimulation. Above data indicated that our method outperformed the conventional

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antibody based method and was applicable to analyze sample with extremely low

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pTyr level.

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Analysis of the tyrosine phosphoproteome of mouse skeletal muscle

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Above experiments indicated the SH2 superbinder based method is able to

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efficiently recover pTyr peptides from the cellular lysate digest of a single type of cell

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line. We then investigate the efficiency of this method for the analysis of a more

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heterogeneous sample, i.e. tissue sample. Skeletal muscle has been widely studied to

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understand the molecular basis for energy metabolism, muscle contractile function

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and insulin resistance related signal transduction

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phosphorylation plays an important role in modulating muscle contraction, glucose

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transport, glycogen synthesis and protein synthesis in skeletal muscle

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. It has been reported that Tyr

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. The

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optimized workflow was applied for enrichment of pTyr peptides from 5 mg mouse

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skeletal muscle protein digest. The LC-MS/MS analysis of the enriched sample

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resulted in the identification of 264 pTyr peptides and 197 high confident pTyr sites.

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The list of all identified pTyr peptides was available at Table S4. Zhang et. al.

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performed

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phosphoproteome in rat skeletal muscle, which is similar to our protocol D. They

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identified 87 pTyr sites from 10 mg protein digests, only accounted for 44.2% of the

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number achieved in this study. Comparing the sites identified in this study with the

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sites deposited in the PhosphoSitePlus

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that 74 sites (37.6%) were novel. The high percentage of novel sites compared with

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this comprehensive database (including 9140 pTyr sites on mouse proteins) indicated

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the high sensitivity of our approach. It was known that tyrosine phosphorylation plays

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key role in regulating glycogenolysis. After close examination of our data, we observe

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that most enzymes involved in glycogenolysis (including Pygm, Pgm1, Gpd2, Pgk1,

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Pgam2, Ldha, Enol1, Pkm2, Ldha) were tyrosine phosphorylated, as shown in Table

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S4. We also found the four key proteins (gene name: Tnc, Tpm, Actin, Myosin)

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participated in muscle contraction pathway were tyrosine phosphorylated. Titin is the

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largest protein in mammalian cells and is considered to be the regulatory node that

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integrates myocyte signaling pathways 23. Interestingly, 53 pTyr sites were identified

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from this giant muscle protein by our method, and more than half of them (28) were

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identified for the first time, indicating the high sensitivity of the present method.

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Clearly the tyrosine phosphoproteome dataset obtained by the SH2 superbinder based

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method could shed light on the regulatory role of pTyr in tissue.

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Quantitative analysis of pTyr events in cells after EGF stimulation

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Quantitative analysis of the dynamic change of phosphotyrosine events in

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response to a stimulation is of great importance in understanding the downstream

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signal cascades. To allow for the quantification of pTyr events, we next set out to

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incorporate the stable isotope dimethyl labeling into our sequential Ti4+-IMAC and

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SH2 superbinder enrichment strategy. In this quantitative method, the dimethyl

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labeling step was performed before Ti4+-IMAC enrichment. To evaluate the

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performance of this method, it was applied to quantify the difference in pTyr events

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before and after EGF stimulation. In detail, HeLa cells were treated with EGF for15

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min or mock treated, then were lysed and digested with trypsin, separately. 5mg lysate

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digest derived from untreated cells was labeled with light dimethyl, while the same

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Ti4+-IMAC enrichment. Because the reagents in the peptide mixture after dimethyl

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labeling has no interference with Ti4+-IMAC enrichment, no additional SPE desalting

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step was performed. The sample was further subjected to the SH2 superbinder based

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enrichment followed by the LC-MS/MS analysis. From this analysis, we identified

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449 pTyr peptides and 317 unique high confident pTyr sites (Table S5). Among these

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sites, 262 sites were quantified. Compared with previous studies where typically

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around 100 pTyr sites were quantified for such a model system

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phosphoproteome obtained in this study was impressive. As shown in Figure 4A, a

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global increase in tyrosine phosphorylation after EGF stimulation was observed. We

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choose the pTyr sites with fold change >±1.5 as obvious up- or down-regulated sites,

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a cutoff value commonly used in quantitative proteomics24-26.

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, the tyrosine

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We identified 178 up-regulated pTyr sites, while only 6 down-regulated sites due

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to the EGF stimulation. After a closer examination of the data, we observed that most

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pTyr events related to the EGFR signaling pathway showed a significant increase in

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phosphorylation upon EGF stimulation. To visualize the effect of EGF stimulation,

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the responsive phosphorylation sites identified in our study were mapped to a network

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diagram and shown in Figure 4B. 6 tyrosine autophosphorylation sites (Y998, Y1016,

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Y1092, Y1110, Y1172, Y1197) presented in the EGFR and 2 tyrosine

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autophosphorylation sites (Y1139, Y1148) in ERBB2 (receptor tyrosine-protein

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kinase erbB-2) were successfully quantified with marked increase in phosphorylation,

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which indicated their kinase activities were enhanced. Differently, 3 tyrosine 17

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autophosphorylation sites (Y1185, Y1189, Y1190) in INSR (insulin receptor) were

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also quantified but only with 1.2 times increase in phosphorylation upon EGF

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stimulation. This could be because the pTyr on these sites were decayed after the

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stimulation for 15 min, as we knew phosphorylation on some sites peaked as short as

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2 min

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reported to be directly interact with EGFR, like GAB1 (Y259, Y373, Y406, Y657,

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Y689), PLCG1 (Y472, Y771, Y775, Y783, Y1254), SHC1 (Y349, Y350, Y428) were

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also successfully quantified. Though EGFR pathway has been extensively studied,

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there are still 14 novel sites presented in our dataset, compared to the human

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phosphorylation dataset downloaded from PhosphositePlus on Dec. 16, 2016,

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including 38 388 unique pTyr sites. For example, 4 pTyr sites (Y20, Y291, Y371,

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Y374) on STAM2 (signal transducing adapter molecule 2) were identified. Among

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them, Y20 presented in the VHS domain of STAM2 were reported and quantified for

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the first time in this study. VHS domains are thought to be very important in aiding

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membrane targeting and cargo recognition, so whether the novel Y20 site participates

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in these processes needs further investigation. VAV3 is a guanine nucleotide exchange

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factor that plays an important role in angiogenesis and down-regulated by EGF and

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TGF-beta, and we identified two novel EGF up-regulated pTyr sites located in the

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RhoGEF domain (Y367) and C1 domain (Y542) of VAV3. Although the potential

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biological significance and function of these pTyr sites need further study, we believe

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that our data may provide new information for biologists to explore.

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. Tyrosine phosphorylation sites presented in signaling molecules that

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In this study, we presented a sensitive, robust and cost-effective approach for

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tyrosine phosphoproteome analysis. This method combined the Ti4+-IMAC and SH2

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superbinder affinity chromatography in a seamless way and therefore enabled the

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efficient recovery of low abundant pTyr peptides from complex cellular lysate digest.

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We demonstrated that this method is highly robust and is readily to analyze a variety

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of samples. In addition to the hyper tyrosine phosphorylated sample of

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pervanadate-treated Jurkat T cells where over 1 800 pTyr sites were identified from 2

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mg of proteins, this method was applied to analyze the samples with low pTyr level.

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For the unstimulated Jurkat cells where the pTyr events rarely occurred, we identified

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481 pTyr peptides and 343 high confident pTyr sites from 5 mg proteins, which were

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25.6% and 23.6% more than those obtained by the antibody-based method. For the

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heterogeneous sample of tissue, we identified 264 pTyr peptides and 197 high

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confident pTyr sites from 5 mg protein digest of mouse skeletal muscle. By

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combining the cost-effective stable isotopic labeling, we detected 317 high confident

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pTyr sites and quantified 262 pTyr sites in HeLa cells after EGF stimulation using

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only 5mg starting proteins. Most of above data are unprecedented indicating high

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efficiency of this method. Therefore, using this method, a rather complete qualitative

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and quantitative picture of tyrosine phosphorylation signaling events can be generated.

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It is readily applicable to analyze either cell or tissue samples to reveal the regulatory

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role of tyrosine phosphorylation in diverse physiological and pathological processes.

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Acknowledgments

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This work was supported, in part, by funds from the China State Key Basic 19

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Research Program Grants (2016YFA0501402, 2013CB911202), the National Natural

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Science Foundation of China (21605140, 21235006, 21535008, 81600046). MY is a

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recipient of the National Science Fund of China for Distinguished Young Scholars

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(21525524). We also thank Prof. Shawn Li in University of Western (Canada) for

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providing the SH2 superbinder plasmids.

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Competing financial interests: The authors declare no competing financial

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interest.

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Supporting information available

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Additional information as noted in text. This material is available free of charge via the Internet at http://pubs.acs.org.

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Figure 1. Four different experiment workflows for pTyr peptide enrichment

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using SH2 superbinder. SH2 superbinders non-covalently chelated on Ni2+-NTA

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beads were used in workflow A, while SH2 superbinders covalently immobilized to

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CNBr-activated agarose beads were used in workflow B-D.

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Figure 2. Comparison of the pTyr peptide enrichment performance for different

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experiment workflows. (A) The numbers of identified peptides and the pTyr peptide

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enrichment specificity for the four different experiment workflows were shown in

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Figure 1. (B) The overlap of pTyr peptides identified by the three replicates

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enrichment experiments of workflow C.

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Figure 3. Comparison of the antibody 4G10 and SH2 superbinder based

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strategies. Equal molar amount of 4G10 and SH2 superbinder (capacity equivalent to

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0.6 nmol 4G10) were used to enrich pTyr peptides from 5mg untreated Jurkat celluar

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protein digests according to workflow C (the immobilized SH2 superbinder was

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replaced by 4G10 for the antibody based method). The overlap of the identified pTyr

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peptides and pTyr sites of these two method were shown in (A) and (B), respectively.

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(C) Comparison of the log2 intensity of pTyr sites identified by the SH2 superbinder

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method and the 4G10 antibody method. The bottom and top edges of the box

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represent the first and third quartiles, and the band inside the box corresponds to the

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median of the data. The median 25.4 and 24.8 corresponding to pY intensities of

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4.42E7 and 2.92E7, respectively. So the average intensity of pY sites in the SH2

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superbinder dataset was 1.5 times of that in the 4G10 antibody dataset. (D) Weblogos 22

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were generated for the pTyr sites identified by the SH2 superbinder and 4G10

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antibody based method, respectively, for the comparison of pTyr motif selectivities of

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the two affinity reagents.

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Figure 4. Quantitative analysis of pTyr events in cells stimulated by EGF. The

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same amount of protein digest (5 mg) derived from HeLa cells treated by EGF for 0

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min and 15 min were labeled with light and heavy dimethyl, separately. Then they

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were pooled together for pTyr peptide enrichment according to workflow C. (A) The

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Log2 values of the H/L ratios for the identified pTyr sites. (B) The responsive

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phosphorylation sites identified in our study towards EGF stimulation were mapped to

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a signaling network diagram. The site of phosphorylation is indicated by “Y”

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