Biphasic Affinity Chromatographic Approach for Deep Tyrosine

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A biphasic affinity chromatographic approach for deep tyrosine phosphoproteome analysis Zhenzhen Deng, Mingming Dong, Yan Wang, Jing Dong, Shawn S.C. Li, Hanfa Zou, and Mingliang Ye Anal. Chem., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.6b04288 • Publication Date (Web): 18 Jan 2017 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on January 18, 2017

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Analytical Chemistry

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A biphasic affinity chromatographic approach for deep tyrosine phosphoproteome analysis

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Zhenzhen Deng1,2, Mingming Dong1, Yan Wang1,2, Jing Dong1, Shawn S.-C. Li3,

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Hanfa Zou1,# , Mingliang Ye1,*

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Key Laboratory of Separation Science for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian Institute of

Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, 116023, China 2

Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

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Departments of Biochemistry, Oncology and the Children’s Health Research

Institute, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London,

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Ontario N6A 5C1, Canada

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* To whom correspondence should be addressed: (M.L. Ye) Phone: +86-411-84379620. Fax: +86-411-84379620.

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E-mail: [email protected].

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# Deceased April 25, 2016

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Abstract:

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Tyrosine phosphorylation (pTyr) is important for normal physiology and

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implicated in many human diseases, particularly cancer. Identification of pTyr sites is

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critical to dissecting signaling pathways and understanding disease pathologies.

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However, compared with serine/threonine phosphorylation (pSer/pThr), the analysis

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of pTyr at the proteome level is more challenging due to its low abundance. Here, we

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developed a biphasic affinity chromatographic approach where Src SH2 superbinder

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was

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phosphoproteome analysis. With the use of competitive elution agent biotin-pYEEI,

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this strategy can distinguish high-affinity phosphotyrosyl peptides from low-affinity

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ones, while the excess competitive agent is readily removed by using NeutrAvidin

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agarose resin in an integrated tip system. The excellent performance of this system

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was demonstrated by analyzing tyrosine phosphoproteome of Jurkat cells from which

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3,480 unique pTyr sites were identified. The biphasic affinity chromatography method

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for deep Tyr phosphoproteome analysis is rapid, sensitive, robust and cost-effective. It

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is widely applicable to the global analysis of the tyrosine phosphoproteome associated

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with tyrosine kinase signal transduction.

coupled

with

NeutrAvidin

affinity

chromatography,

for

tyrosine

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INTRODUCTION

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Protein tyrosine phosphorylation (pTyr) is of central importance in signaling

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systems in eukaryotic cells as it regulates many important biological events including

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proliferation, adhesion, differentiation, hormone responses and immune defense.1-3

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The deregulation of tyrosine phosphorylation has been implicated in human diseases

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including cancer. Tyrosine kinases, the enzymes catalyzing the phosphorylation of

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tyrosine residues, are a major class of drug targets, and a number of tyrosine kinase

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inhibitors have been approved for clinical use.4-6 Deep Tyr phosphoproteome holds

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great promise for understanding tyrosine phosphorylation-regulated aberrant signal

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transduction in human disease. Sensitive methods are highly required for the detection

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of tyrosine phosphorylation events. Mass spectrometry (MS) has been proved to be an

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ideal platform for the global identification of proteins and their post-translational

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modifications (PTMs).7 Because of the low abundance of tyrosine phosphorylated

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proteins, the coverage of Tyr phosphoproteome depends on the performance of the

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pTyr peptide enrichment prior to MS analysis. Typically, pTyr peptides are enriched

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from protein digest by pan-specific antibodies for pTyr, such as 4G10, P-Tyr-100 and

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PY-99,8 for tyrosine phosphoproteome analysis. However, the high cost of these

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antibodies prohibits their use in a sufficient amount to saturate the pTyr peptides in a

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sample, resulting in a relatively low coverage of the Tyr phosphoproteome.9,10 Despite

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the large number of Tyr kinases in the cell, tyrosine phosphorylation is tightly

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regulated and maintained at low abundance (accounting for 10,000 pTyr

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sites from 9 human cell lines, achieving unprecedented deep coverage for tyrosine

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phosphoproteome.10

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The SH2 domain is a sequence-specific phosphotyrosine-binding module

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presented in many signaling molecules. There are 120 SH2 domains encoded by the

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human genome, and each SH2 domain binds a unique spectrum of tyrosine

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phosphorylated sites.12,13 Because SH2 domains are what the cell uses to respond to

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changes in tyrosine phosphorylation during signaling, the binding pTyr sites of

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different SH2 domains can provide a wealth of information about the mechanisms and

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status of pTyr signaling. With the markedly enhanced binding affinity, almost all pTyr

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peptides could be bound to the SH2 superbinder. Nevertheless, LC-MS/MS analysis

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following one-step elution of all bound peptides by TFA would result in the loss of


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information in binding specificity and affinity for the identified pTyr sites. It’s known

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that the SH2 superbinder and the wild-type SH2 domain have similar specificity

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toward pTyr peptides despite large differences in affinity.10 We hypothesize that the

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bound pTyr peptides could be sequentially eluted on basis of their binding affinity.

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Because progressive elution of the bound pTyr peptides based on affinity would

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provide another dimension of separation prior to LC-MS/MS analysis, it could lead to

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deeper and broader coverage of the Tyr phosphoproteome. The superbinder used in

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this study is derived from Src SH2 domains. pTyr-Glu-Glu-Ile (pYEEI) was found to

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have highest affinity to Src SH2 domains by screening of degenerate phosphopeptide

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library.14-16 Therefore, we utilized a biotinylated pTyr peptide with the sequence of

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biotin-pYEEI as a competitive elution agent. To prevent the interference of the

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competing reagent on the detection of the enriched pTyr peptides, a biphasic affinity

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chromatographic approach was developed to enrich and fractionate pTyr peptides. It

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was found that the pTyr peptides were successively released in accordance with their

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binding affinity to the superbinder SH2 domain. A total of 7,227 pTyr peptides and

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3,480 unique pTyr sites were identified by the sequential elution for affinity

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purification from only 2 mg pervanadate-treated Jurkat cell lysate digest.

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EXPERIMENTAL SECTION

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Chemicals and Materials

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Formic acid (FA) was obtained from Fluka (Buches, Germany). Acetonitrile

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(ACN, HPLC-grade) was purchased from Merck (Darmstadt, Germany). NeutrAvidin

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agarose resin was obtained from Thermo Fisher Scientific (Massachusetts, USA).



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CNBr-activated Sepharose 4B was purchased from GE (New Jersey, USA). Daisogel

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ODS-AQ (5 μm) was purchased from DAISO Chemical CO., Ltd (Osaka, Japan).

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Biotin-pYEEI was synthesized from ChinaPeptides (Shanghai, China). Fused-silica

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capillaries with 200 μm and 75 μm i.d. were purchased from Polymicro Technologies

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(Phoenix, AZ, USA). All the water in the experiments was purified by a Milli-Q

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system from Millipore Company (Bedford, MA, USA). All other chemicals were

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purchased from Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, MO, USA).

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Expression, purification and immobilization of the Src superbinder

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We performed the expression and purification of Src superbinder according to

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Kaneko et al.11 The Src superbinder SH2 domain was immobilized on CNBr-activated

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Sepharose 4B following manufacture’s protocol (GE Healthcare), and the final

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concentration for the immobilized Src superbinder was 1 mg protein per mL medium.

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Cell culture, protein extraction and protein digestion

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Jurkat cells were cultured in RPMI 1640 medium with 10 % neonatal bovine

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serum, 100 units/mL penicillin/streptomycin in a humidified atmosphere of 5 % CO2

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at 37°C. The cells were collected by centrifugation, washed three times with PBS, and

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treated with 1 mM pervanadate (freshly prepared by mixing 1 mM orthovanadate with

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1 mM hydrogen peroxide) in tube for 15 min at 37°C. The procedures for cell lysis

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and trypsin digestion were performed according to Humphrey et al.17

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Phosphotyrosyl (pTyr) peptide enrichment

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The protein digest was subjected to enrichment with immobilized titanium (IV)

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ion affinity chromatography (Ti4+-IMAC) for phosphopeptides as previous reported.18


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The enriched phosphopeptides from 2 mg initial cell lysate were then dissolved in

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ice-cold immunoaffinity purification (IAP) buffer containing 50 mM MOPS-NaOH

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(pH 7.2), 10 mM Na2HPO4 and 50 mM NaCl. The sample was incubated with

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immobilized Src superbinder (300 µg) at 4°C overnight with rotation. For the

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application of Src superbinder-based sequential competitive elution strategy (as

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shown in Figure 1), a sieve plate with 2 mm diameter was packed into a tip (1 mL),

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washed with 80 % ACN containing 0.1 % TFA and 50 mM NH4HCO3 buffer (pH7.2),

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respectively. Then, 500 µL NeutrAvidin agarose resin was packed into the tip and

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washed with 50 mM NH4HCO3 buffer (the binding capacity was ~ 40 nmol

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biotin-pYEEI per milliliter of resin, according to the specification of NeutrAvidin

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resins that the binding capacity was 10 µg biotin per milliliter). Another sieve plate

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with 5 mm diameter was packed into the tip above the NeutrAvidin. Finally, the

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immobilized Src superbinder Sepharose beads with the captured pTyr peptides were

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packed into the tip. This biphasic tip was washed five times with 400 µL NH4HCO3

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buffer, and sequentially eluted with 4 µM, 8 µM, 16 µM and 32 µM competitive agent

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(biotin-pYEEI) in NH4HCO3 buffer (300 µL). All the eluents were collected,

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lyophilized, and stored at -30°C for further analysis.

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For the single step competitive elution strategy, all the steps were identical with

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these mentioned above, except the elution step using 30 µM competitive agent (400

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µL). Another single step competitive elution strategy was performed similarly except

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the use of NeutrAvidin. For the trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) elution strategy, the

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NeutrAvidin agarose resin was absent, and the elution step was performed using 0.2%



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TFA (400 µL). For comparison, the experiments using samples without subject to

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Ti4+-IMAC enrichment were also performed. These samples were desalted by OASIS

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HLB column, then incubated with immobilized Src superbinder. After washing with

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50 mM NH4HCO3 buffer, the bound peptides were finally eluted with either 30 µM

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biotin-pYEEI or 0.2 % TFA.

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MS analysis, database searching and data analysis

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Peptides were loaded onto a 14 cm-capillary column with a 75 µm inner diameter,

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packed in-house with C18 particles (3 µm, 120 Å). For the RPLC separation, 0.1% FA

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in water and in 80% acetonitrile were used as buffer A and B. Peptides were eluted

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with a gradient of 4% - 35% buffer B over 85 minutes followed by 35% - 45% buffer

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B over 10 min, resulting in approximately 95 min gradients, at a flow rate of 0.3

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µL/min.

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Quadrupole-Orbitrap mass spectrometer (Thermo Fisher Scientific), with one full

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scan (400-2,000 m/z, R=70,000 at 200 m/z) at a target of 1e6 ions with max IT of 120

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ms. And the ions were fragmented by higher-energy collisional dissociation (NCE

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28%), followed by ten data-dependent MS/MS scans with a resolution of 35,000 at

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200 m/z (target 5e5 ions with max IT of 100 ms, isolation window 2.0 m/z). Dynamic

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exclusion (30 s) was on.

The

MS

analysis

was

performed

on

a

Q-Exactive

Hybrid

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The raw data files generated by the Q-Exactive were analyzed with software

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MaxQuant version 1.3.0.5, which was developed by Matthias Mann’s lab.19 The

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MS/MS spectra were searched against the Human Uniprot FASTA database. Trypsin

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specificity (KR/P, DE) was adopted, and up to two missed cleavage sites were


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allowed. Carbamidomethyl (C) was chosen for fixed modifications, and oxidation on

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methionine, phospho (S, T, Y) were set as variable modifications. The mass tolerances

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for the precursor ions and fragment ions were set to 10 ppm and 0.05 Da, respectively.

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

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proteins. All the phosphorylation sites reported in this study met the combined cutoff

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values of localization probability >0.75 and ΔPTM score ≥5. Sequence logos were

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automatically generated by the WebLogo (http://weblogo.berkeley.edu/logo.cgi).20

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RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

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In this study we aimed to fractionate the pTyr peptides according to their binding

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affinity to Src SH2 superbinder. This was achieved by eluting the bound pTyr peptides

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with increased concentrations of a competing agent. The peptide pYEEI was found to

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have the strongest affinity to the Src SH2 domain by screening a degenerate

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phosphopeptide library.14-16 Because the SH2 superbinder and the wild-type SH2

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domain have similar specificity toward pTyr peptides, pYEEI would be a good

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competing reagent for selective elution of bound pTyr peptides. However, the

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presence of pYEEI in the eluted sample would interfere with subsequent LC-MS/MS

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analysis of pTyr peptides. To solve this problem, we used biotin-pYEEI as the

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competing agent. After elution, the biotin-pYEEI could be removed by immobilized

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NeutrAvidin. Thus, in this approach two affinity purifications are performed. To

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facilitate

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chromatography scheme as shown in Figure 1. The sample to be enriched was first

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incubated with the Sepharose beads with immobilized Src superbinder at 4°C

this fractionation

procedure,

we

designed

the

biphasic

affinity



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overnight with rotation. After the pTyr peptides were bound to the superbinder, the

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beads were transferred into a 1mL-pippet tip prepacked with NeutrAvidin agarose

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resins at the end of the tip. In this way, a biphasic affinity tip, where the superbinder

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was at the top and the avidin was at the bottom, was formed. When the biotin-pYEEI

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was used to elute the bound pTyr peptides from the superbinder beads, the excess

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biotin-pYEEI was directily captured by the avidin at the bottom of the tip. In this way,

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the enriched pTyr peptides would be free of biotin-pYEEI. Using the biphasic affinity

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tip, the fractionation of the pTyr peptides could be conveniently achieved by elution

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with increasing concentrations of competitive agent biotin-pYEEI.

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We first investigated the performance of this approach to enrich pTyr peptides

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from the complex peptide mixture. Tryptic digest of the total cell lysate of Jurkat cells

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was first subjected to purification with immobilized titanium (IV) ion affinity

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chromatography (Ti4+-IMAC) to deplete unphosphorylated peptides. The resulting

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phosphopeptides, with the majority of them being pSer/pThr peptides as they were the

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highly abundant ones, were then subjected to the biphasic affinity purification scheme

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to enrich the low-abundance pTyr peptides. The biphasic affinity tip was thoroughly

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washed to remove pSer/pThr peptides and residual nonphosphorylated peptides. The

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bound pTyr peptides were then eluted by 30 µM biotin-pYEEI and analyzed by

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LC-MS/MS. This resulted in the identification of 2,467 unique peptides

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(Supplementary Table 1), of which 2,194 (88.93%) were pTyr peptides, indicating

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good specificity. We also investigated if the avidin purification could be omitted. As

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shown in Figure 2A, the biotin-pYEEI was observed to be eluted from 65 min to 90


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min for the RPLC analysis of the sample without avidin purification. Because of

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serious interference of the biotin-pYEEI in the sample, only 1,300 pTyr peptides were

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identified without NeutrAvidin. As shown in Figure 2B, the biphasic affinity

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chromatography could effectively remove the interference of biotin-pYEEI, resulting

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in a 69% increase in pTyr peptide identification. Clearly the biphasic affinity tip with

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NeutrAvidin was preferred for competitive elution.

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Instead of competitive elution, the bound peptides could also be eluted by TFA,

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which resulted in the identification of 3,034 unique peptides where 2,553 (84.15%)

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were pTyr peptides. Compared with TFA elution, higher specificity was obtained by

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the competitive elution. However, a slightly lower number of pTyr peptides was

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identified by the latter approach. Similar results were obtained from replicate runs

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(Supplementary Table 1). Combining the pTyr sites identified from two replicate runs

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for each method, the competition method recapitulated 82% of the pTyr sites

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identified by the TFA elution method. The number of identified pTyr sites did not

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increase with a further increase of the biotin-pYEEI concentration, indicating that 30

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µM competitive peptide was sufficient to elute the bound pTyr peptides from the

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superbinder (Supplementary Table 1). A significant advantage of the competitive

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approach is its high specificity. When the crude protein digest without Ti4+-IMAC

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enrichment was directly subjected to the biphasic affinity chromatography

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purification, high specificity (>72%) was still achieved (Supplementary Table 1). In

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contrast, for the TFA elution method, the specificity for pTyr identification was 44%

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with the majority of identified peptides found to be unphosphorylated.



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To achieve wider coverage of the Tyr phosphoproteome, we used step-wise

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competitive elution to fractionate the bound pTyr peptides in the biphasic affnity

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purification protocol. The same sample, i.e., the phosphopeptides enriched from the

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digest of the total cell lysate of Jurkat cells by Ti4+-IMAC, was loaded onto the

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superbinder sepharose beads. The weakly bound peptides were eluted by washing

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with low concentration (4 µM) of biotin-pYEEI. More strongly bound peptides were

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eluted stepwise with 8 µM, 16 µM and 32 µM biotin-pYEEI. Each fraction was

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seperately collected and analyzed by LC-MS/MS. After database searching, 3,480

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unique pTyr sites were identified in 2 replicate MS runs from 2 mg initial Jurkat cell

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lysate. We compared the number of identified unique pTyr sites in different fractions

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(Figure 3A). It was found that most pTyr sites, 1,467 (42.2 %), were identified in

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fraction 2. Only 62 (1.8 %) were detected in all the four fractions indicating excellent

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resolution of fractionation. For deep analysis of tyrosine phosphoproteome, separation

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and fractionation approaches to further reduce the sample complexity are equally

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important with specific enrichment. As shown in Figure 3B, compared with the single

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step competitive elution method, 2.2 folds more pTyr sites were identified by the

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fractionation method, which indicated the coverage was improved significantly. We

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also found that >85% of sites identified by the TFA elution could also be identified by

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the fractionation method, indicating that the step-wise elution with the competitive

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peptide was fairly complete.

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According to the mechanism of competitive elution, the weakly bound peptides

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would be firstly eluted with the initial elution buffer containing low concentration of


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biotin-pYEEI, and more strongly bound peptides would be eluted in the next round of

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wash with higher concentration of elution agent. As the binding of Src superbinder to

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pTyr peptides is dependent on the primary sequence around the pTyr, we compared

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the amino acid residues around the pTyr sites identified in the four sequential

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competitive elutions to elucidate the characteristic distribution. First, we investigated

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the consensus sequences containing pTyr sites using WebLogo software for the four

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fractions.20 Considering the weakly bound peptides may not be completely replaced

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by the elution agent and still appeared in the latter eluent, we separately uploaded the

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new identified pTyr sites from each elution compared to the results in the former

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elutions with 13-amino acid sequence window to WebLogo and obtained the

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frequency plots as shown in Figure 4. An apparent increase in frequencies for Asp (D)

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and Glu (E), C-terminal to the pY residue (pY+1, +2), were observed in the four

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sequential elutions, indicating these two residues are dominant determinants of strong

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binding affinity to the Src superbinder. Besides, sequences containing Leu (L)/Val

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(V)/Pro (P)/Ile (I) occupied a great proportion at position of pY+3 for the strong

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binding. Consequently, the Src superbinder preferred phosphopeptides with

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pY-[D/E]-[D/E]-[L/I/V/P] motif. This motif is highly consistent with the binding

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motif of wide type Src SH2 domain, which confirms that superbinder SH2 has the

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same specificity regardless of its markedly enhanced binding affinity.

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The pTyr mediates the assembly of protein complexes essential to intracellular

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kinase signaling. Comprehensive Resource of Mammalian Protein Complexes

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(CORUM) is a database of manually curated and validated mammalian protein



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complexes.21 The pTyr sites identified in this study were mapped to the complexes in

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CORUM. Among 1,565 complexes in the CORUM, 538 (34.4 %) contain at least 1

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pTyr sites (Supplementary Figure 1). Some complexes (98, 6.3 %) have more than 5

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pTyr sites. This indicated that tyrosine kinases play a significant role in regulating the

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function or assembling of protein complex. The fractionation of pTyr peptides by the

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Src SH2 superbinder enabled the separation of the pTyr sites into different categories.

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We then investigated if any macromolecular complexes enriched with pTyr proteins

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with different site categories. It was found a total of 86 complexes were enriched with

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p-value

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