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Liquid Chromatography-High Resolution Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Platelet Frataxin as a Protein Biomarker for the Rare Disease Friedreich’s Ataxia Lili Guo, Qingqing Wang, Liwei Weng, Lauren A. Hauser, Cassandra J. Strawser, Agostinho G. Rocha, Andrew Dancis, Clementina A Mesaros, David R. Lynch, and Ian Alexander Blair Anal. Chem., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.7b04590 • Publication Date (Web): 22 Dec 2017 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on December 23, 2017
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Liquid Chromatography-High Resolution Mass Spectrometry
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Analysis of Platelet Frataxin as a Protein Biomarker for the Rare
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Disease Friedreich’s Ataxia
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Qingqing Wang,a,b,
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Lili Guo,a,b,
Liwei Weng,a Lauren A. Hauser,b,c,d
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Cassandra J. Strawser,b,c,d Agostinho G. Rocha,e
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Clementina Mesaros,a,b David R. Lynch,b,c,d and Ian A. Blaira,b,*
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Andrew Dancis,e
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Penn SRP Center and Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology Center, Department
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of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics Perelman School of Medicine,
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University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States
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19104, United States
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d
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Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States
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University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
Penn/CHOP Center of Excellence in Friedreich’s ataxia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States
Departments of Pediatrics and Neurology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Departments of Pediatrics and Neurology Perelman School of Medicine, University of
Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology-Oncology, Perelman School of Medicine,
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Keywords: Friedreich’s ataxia, genetic disease, parallel reaction monitoring, analytical
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validation, biomarker sensitivity, biomarker specificity, nano-UHPLC, stable isotopes
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ABSTRACT: Friedreich’s ataxia (FA) is an autosomal recessive disease caused by an intronic
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GAA triplet expansion in the FXN gene, leading to reduced expression of the mitochondrial
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protein frataxin. FA is estimated to affect 1 in 50,000 with a mean age of death in the fourth
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decade of life. There are no approved treatments for FA, although experimental approaches,
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which involve up-regulation or replacement of frataxin protein, are being tested. Frataxin is
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undetectable in serum or plasma, and whole blood cannot be used because it is present in long-
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lived erythrocytes. Therefore, an assay was developed for analyzing frataxin in platelets, which
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have a half-life of 10-days. The assay is based on stable isotope dilution immunopurification
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two-dimensional
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monitoring/mass spectrometry. The lower limit of quantification was 0.078 pg frataxin/µg protein
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and the assay had 100% sensitivity and specificity for discriminating between controls and FA
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cases. The mean levels of control and FA platelet frataxin were 9.4 ± 2.6 pg/µg protein and 2.4
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± 0.6 pg/µg protein, respectively. The assay should make it possible to rigorously monitor the
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effects of therapeutic interventions on frataxin expression in this devastating disease.
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There are > 40 rare genetic diseases that result from aberrant protein expression including,
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Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy (DMD),1 spinocerebellar ataxia 1 (SCA-1),2 and Friedreich’s
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ataxia (FA).3 Current approaches to developing therapies for these rare diseases primarily
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involve increasing expression of the normal protein. The necessity for monitoring protein levels
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was highlighted recently during the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) fast-track approval
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process for the drug eteplirsen (Exondys 51) to treat DMD.4 The lack of a rigorously validated
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method to assess up-regulation of dystrophin levels in DMD patients made it difficult to show a
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therapeutic response. This resulted in mobilization of advocate groups to help obtain FDA
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approval, an approach that will be discouraged in the future.5
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FA is an autosomal recessive disease estimated to affect 1 in 50,000.6 The abnormal
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gene contains an expanded GAA repeat in intron 1, which causes transcriptional silencing and
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reduced expression of the mitochondrial protein frataxin.7,8 Longer GAA repeats, which induce
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a greater frataxin deficiency, are associated with earlier onset of the disease and increased
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severity.9 A subset of patients (< 3%) have heterozygous GAA expansions coupled with a loss
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of function mutation.3,10 The exact role of frataxin is not completely understood; it could serve
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as an iron donor or regulate cysteine-derived persulfide formation during the assembly of
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mitochondrial iron-sulfur complexes.11,12
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activity of a number of mitochondrial enzymes involved in energy metabolism.13
Reduced frataxin expression results in decreased
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FA is characterized by slowly progressive ataxia14 and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.15
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Symptoms generally appear during adolescence and patients on average become wheelchair-
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bound 15.5-years after the disease onset.16,17 Lifespan is significantly reduced in FA with an
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average of death of 37-years, most commonly from cardiac-related pathologies.15 There are no
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approved treatments for FA, although numerous experimental approaches are being tested,
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which primarily involve up-regulation of frataxin protein.17-21 We have developed a strategy to
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monitor improvements in mitochondrial metabolism using FA platelets.22,23 However, a more
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direct measure of frataxin expression is also required. This stimulated our development of a
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sensitive and specific method for the quantification of mature platelet frataxin from FA patients.
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This method also provides an approach to monitor new therapies that are being developed for
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rare genetic diseases of aberrant protein expression such as DMD24 and SCA-1.2
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Figure 1. Sequence of full-length 23,135 Da frataxin (1-210) showing the mitochondrial
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processing peptidase (MPP) cleavage sites to give mature frataxin (81-210, green).
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The major FXN transcript encodes a full-length 210-amino acid form of frataxin (1-210;
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Figure 1) with a molecular weight (MW) of 23,135 Da.
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mitochondria where it is cleaved by mitochondrial processing peptidase (MPP) to the mature
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active form of frataxin (MW = 14,268 Da, Figure 1).25-27 Mitochondrial mature frataxin (81-210)
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is not normally secreted into the circulation, which means that in vivo monitoring must be
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conducted in blood cells rather than serum or plasma.28 Surprisingly, substantial amounts of
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mature frataxin (81-210) are present in erythrocytes from controls (70 ng/mL blood)29 and FA
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cases (17 ng/mL blood)29 even though they lack mitochondria (Table 1). Erythrocytes have a
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half-life of approximately 100-days (Table 1), which precludes the use of whole blood because
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changes would not be detected during clinical trials. In contrast, platelets have 86% of the
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mitochondria present in whole blood and a half-life of only 10-days (Table 1) making them an
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Table 1: Blood cell abundance,28 half-life,28 mitochondrial content,28 and reported mean frataxin
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levels.28,29 NR= not reported, DI = dipstick immunoassay, Mito = mitochondria.
Size (mm) Number (106/mL) Mito (per cell) Mito (106/mL) Mito (%) Half-life (days) Control levels (DI) FA case levels (DI)
Reticulo -cytes
Erythro -cytes
PlateLets
Granulo -cytes
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70 ng/mL blood 17 ng/mL blood
2.8 pg/µg protein 1.0 pg/µg protein
0.4 ng/mL bood
6.9 pg/µg protein 2.7 pg/µg protein
NR
NR
NR
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A lateral flow immunoassay (dipstick immunoassay, DI) found a significant difference in
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normal platelet frataxin (9.4 mAbs/µg protein) compared with FA platelet frataxin (3.2 mAbs/µg
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protein), although there was considerable inter-individual overlap.28 Absolute values reported
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subsequently for FA peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs, monocytes and lymphocytes)
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of 2.7 pg/µg protein28,29 (corresponding to 9.0 mAbs/µg protein28), made it possible to estimate
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that low levels of frataxin are present in normal control platelets (2.8 pg/µg protein) and FA
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platelets (1.0 pg/µg protein) (Table 1). The low overlapping levels,28 and the minimal amount of
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available blood, led to our development of an immunopurification two-dimensional-nano-
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ultrahigh performance liquid chromatography-parallel reaction monitoring/mass spectrometry (IP
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2D-nano-UHPLC-PRM/MS) assay for platelet frataxin. We report the rigorous validation and
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utility of the assay.
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EXPERIMENTAL SECTION Chemicals and materials.
Reagents and solvents were LC-MS grade quality unless
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otherwise noted. [13C615N2]-lysine and [13C615N1]-leucine were from Cambridge Isotope
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Laboratories (Andover, MA, USA). Anti-frataxin antibody (clone 1D9) was from LifeSpan
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Biosciences, Inc. (Seattle, WA).
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protease inhibitor cocktail, D,L-dithiothreitol (DTT), isopropyl-β-D-thiogalactoside (IPTG), bovine
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serum albumin (BSA), human lysozyme, imidazole, triethanolamine, ethanolamine, and M9,
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minimal salts, 5X powder, minimal microbial growth medium (M9 media) were purchased from
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MilliporeSigma (Billerica, MA).
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(Germantown, MD). LC grade water and acetonitrile were from Burdick and Jackson
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(Muskegon, MI, USA).
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Corporation (Grand Island, NY).
Dimethyl pimelimidate dihydrochloride (DMP), EDTA-free
Ni-NTA Agarose resin was purchased from Qiagen
Protein G magnetic beads were obtained from Life Technologies
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Clinical samples. Blood samples were obtained from FA patients (Table S-1; average age
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34.3) and unaffected control subjects (3 males, 4 females, average age 32.6). They all are
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enrolled in an ongoing natural history study at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (IRB # 01–
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Platelet isolation. Venous blood was drawn into 8.5 mL acid-citrate-dextrose Vacutainer
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tubes. Blood (4 mL) was transferred to 15-mL polypropylene tubes and spun at 200 g for 13
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min at room temperature with no brakes as described previously.23 The platelet pellet was
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carefully washed twice with 0.5 mL platelet wash buffer (10 mM sodium citrate, 150 mM NaCl, 1
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mM EDTA, 1% (w/v) glucose, pH 7.4.) by spinning at 800 g for 5 min. All platelet samples were
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immediately frozen at -80 ºC after preparation until analysis.
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Expression and purification of unlabeled and SILAC-labeled frataxin.
The coding
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sequence of human frataxin (81-210) was amplified by PCR reaction from the FXN cDNA
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plasmid (pTL1), which was a kind gift from Dr. M. Koenig.30 The amplified FXN fragment was
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cloned into a pET21b plasmid and linked to the 6x histidine (His) sequence through the XhoI
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site at the 3’ end. The 6x His-tag fusion of frataxin was expressed in Escherichia coli BL21 DE3
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in M9 media containing 1 mM MgSO4, 10 µM CaCl2, and 0.5% glucose with 100 mg/L ampicillin.
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For expressing unlabeled frataxin, M9 medium was supplemented with 0.025% leucine and
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lysine. For expressing stable isotope labeling by amino acids in cell culture (SILAC)-labeled
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frataxin, M9 medium was supplemented with 0.025% [13C615N1]-leucine and [13C615N2]-lysine.
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Cells were pre-cultured in 2 mL of corresponding M9 medium overnight at 37 °C (Figure S-1,
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lanes 1 and 4). The next day, the bacteria were grown in 250 mL medium at 37°C to A 600nm =
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0.9-1.0, and were induced for protein expression with 1 mM IPTG for 4 h at 30°C. Cells were
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pelleted and resuspended in 10 mL of lysis buffer (50 mM Tris-HCl (pH 8.0), 500 mM NaCl, 10
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mM imidazole, 10% glycerol, 2 mM β-mercaptoethanol, 2x protease inhibitor cocktail, 1mM
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PMSF). Cell-pellets were then lysed by addition of 100 µL 10 mg/mL human lysozyme and
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incubation on ice for 30 min followed by 6 x 20 sec probe sonication (Figure S-1, lanes 2, and
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200 µL Ni-NTA resin for 1 h at 4˚C. The resin was washed twice with 10 mL of washing buffer
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(50 mM Tris-HCl (pH 8.0), 500 mM NaCl, 20 mM imidazole, 10% glycerol, 2 mM β-
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mercaptoethanol, 2x protease inhibitor cocktail). Frataxin was eluted by incubating the resin
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with 3 x 150 µL of elution buffer (50 mM Tris-HCl (pH 8.0), 500 mM NaCl, 400 mM imidazole,
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10% glycerol, 2 mM β-mercaptoethanol, 2x protease inhibitor cocktail).
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unlabeled His-tagged frataxin (Figure S-1, lane 3). His-tagged SILAC-labeled frataxin (Figure S-
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1, lane 6) was established as > 95% pure by SDS-PAGE and Coomassie Blue staining
The purity of the
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To determine the unlabeled frataxin concentration, imidazole was removed by concentrating
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100 µL of frataxin eluate in an Amicon 3 kDa 0.5 mL filter to < 15 µL and refilling the filter unit
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with phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) at 4°C. This step was repeated 5 times and the purified
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protein was suspended in 100 µL PBS. The frataxin concentration was determined by
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measuring the absorption at 280 nm and using the extinction coefficient (λmax) = 26,930 M-1cm-1
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(predicted by the amino acid sequence).31 The concentration of the unlabeled standard was
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verified by comparing frataxin bands with bands from known amounts of BSA in a Coomassie
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Blue stained SDS-PAGE gel. The concentration of the SILAC-labeled frataxin internal standard
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was determined by comparing it with endogenous frataxin bands and BSA bands in a
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Coomassie Blue stained SDS-PAGE gel. Frataxin standards were stored in PBS containing 1
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mM DTT mixed with 50% glycerol at -20°C. For long term storage, the standards were kept at -
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80°C.
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DMP cross-linking of mAb with magnetic beads. Protein G magnetic beads were washed
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twice with PBS before use. 80 µg of anti-frataxin mAb (1D9) was incubated with 10 mg of
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protein G beads for 1 h at room temperature or 4˚C overnight. The antibody solution was
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removed and beads were washed twice with 1 mL cross-linking buffer (0.2 M triethanolamine,
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pH 8.2). Antibody bound protein G beads were incubated with 2 mL of freshly prepared DMP
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solution (13 mg/mL in cross-linking buffer) at room temperature for 45 min on a rotator. DMP
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solution was removed and beads were washed twice with 2 mL blocking buffer (0.1 M
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ethanolamine, pH 8.2). Blocking buffer was removed and beads were washed twice with 2 mL
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PBS. The beads were quickly rinsed with 2 mL 0.1 M glycine-HCl (pH 3) and washed three
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times with 2 mL PBS. The beads were stored in 500 µL PBS at 4˚C. The antibody coupled
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beads were shown to be effective 3 weeks after preparation with 0.02% sodium azide included
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in PBS. For preparation of larger amounts, reagents were scaled up accordingly.
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Cell lysate preparation. Frozen platelet pellets were lysed in 180 µL ice cold IP-lysis buffer
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(50 mM Tris, pH 7.5, 150 mM NaCl, 0.5% Triton X-100, 0.5% NP-40, 1 mM DTT) supplemented
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with 1x complete protease cocktail and incubated on ice for 15 min. Cell lysates (4 µL) were
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taken for protein concentration measurement by Bradford assay (Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA). A
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SILAC-labeled frataxin internal standard (20 ng) was spiked in before addition of 20 µL of 10%
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SDS solution to reach a 1% final SDS concentration. Samples were mixed and heated at 95˚C
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for 5 min.
For viscous samples, pulse sonication was applied for 30 sec using a sonic
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dismembranator (Fisher). Samples were centrifuged at 16,000 g using a bench top centrifuge
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for 15 min at room temperature. The supernatants were diluted 10 times by adding 1.8 mL of IP
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lysis buffer with protease inhibitor before applying to Amicon Ultracel-50K filters (MilliporeSigma,
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transferred to Amicon Ultracel-3K filter units and spun at 4000 g, 4 ˚C for 20 min until the
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sample volume was concentrated to less than 300 µL. Samples were transferred to clean
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Eppendorf Protein LoBind tubes (Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany) for immunoprecipitation.
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The filters were spun at 4000 g, 4˚C for 20 min.
Western blot and gel staining.
The flow-through was
Frataxin was detected by mAb anti-Frataxin (Abcam,
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Cambridge, MA) and anti-mouse HRP (Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Dallas, TX). Western blots
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were developed using ECL reagents. Gels were stained with colloidal Coomassie (Promega,
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Madison, WI).
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Intact protein analysis by high-resolution MS. Samples were infused into a Q Exactive
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HF Hybrid Quadrupole-Orbitrap mass spectrometer equipped with a HESI probe with a flow rate
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of 3 µL/min.
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capillary temperature 300°C, ion polarity positive, S-lens RF level 60, in-source CID 80 eV,
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resolution, 60,000, microscan,10.
MS operating conditions were as follows: spray voltage 4000 V, ion transfer
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Immunoprecipitation and trypsin digestion. Samples were incubated with 0.3 mg of
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DMP cross-linked anti-frataxin protein beads at 4˚C overnight in protein LoBind tubes. The
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unbound samples were removed, the beads resuspended in 500 µL IP lysis buffer, and then
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transferred to clean LoBind tubes. Samples were washed 3 times with 1 mL PBS and frataxin
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was eluted by incubating the beads with 100 µL elution buffer (300 mM acetic acid/10%
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acetonitrile) with shaking for 15 min. The elutes were transferred to deactivated glass inserts
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(Waters, Milford, MA) and dried under nitrogen flow.
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aqueous NH4HCO3 (50 µL) containing 100 ng trypsin and incubated at 37˚C overnight before
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Frataxin depletion of human platelet lysates.
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provided by the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Intact platelets (80 mg) were lysed
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in 8 mL of IP lysis buffer containing 1 mM DTT and protease inhibitor. Samples were pulse-
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sonicated for 1 min and the cell debris was removed by spinning at 16,000 g for 15 min. In the
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first round of depletion, the supernatant was incubated with 40 µg anti-frataxin mAb 1D9 bound
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to 6 mg protein G Dynabeads overnight followed by the removal of the beads, which removed
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approximately 90% of endogenous frataxin. To maximize the depletion efficiency, lysates were
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incubated a second time with 80 µg anti-frataxin mAb 1D9 bound to 12 mg protein G
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Dynabeads for 20 h. The depletion efficiency was first examined by SDS-PAGE and western
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blot by loading 70 µg of platelet lysates before and after depletion into a gel. LC-MS was then
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employed to calculate the efficiency.
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Method validation. Frataxin-depleted platelet protein and BSA were used for preparation of
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calibration standards and quality controls (QCs).
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spiking appropriate amounts of the frataxin standard to 500 µg frataxin-depleted platelet lysates
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or 500 µg of BSA to make the final concentrations of 0.078, 0.156, 0.313, 0.625, 1.25, 2.5, 5,
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10, 20, 40 pg/µg protein. The preparation procedures for QC samples at concentrations of 0.25,
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2.0 and 30 pg/µg protein were the same as for the calibration standards. Assay validation was
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conducted according to US FDA guidance.32 Linearity of standard curves was evaluated from
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0.078 pg/µg protein to 40 pg/µg protein. The lower limit of quantification (LLOQ) of 0.078 pg/µg
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protein was defined as the lowest QC sample, which could be fitted to the calibration curve with
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a residual of less than 10% when using BSA as matrix and peak area ratio of analyte to internal
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standard deviating by < 15%. The accuracy and precision were determined on five replicates of
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LLOQ, low quality control (LQC), middle quality control (MQC) and high quality control (HQC).
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QC samples (n = 5) were analyzed on the same day (intraday) for the frataxin-depleted platelet
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protein and BSA matrix. Interday assays were performed for each of the frataxin-depleted
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platelet protein QC samples on five different days (n=5) and on three different days (n=3) for the
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Dionex Ultimate 3000 RSLCnano with capillary flowmeter chromatographic systems (Thermo
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Fisher Scientific, San Jose, CA, USA). The 2D system was setup as a pre-concentration mode
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which was composed of a ten-port valve, one nanopump for delivering solvents to analytical
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column, and a micropump for delivering solvents to trapping column. The 2D nanoLC system
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was controlled by Xcalibur software from the Q-Exactive mass spectrometer. The LC trapping
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column was an Acclaim PepMap C18 cartridge (0.3 mm × 5 mm, 100Å, Thermo Scientific) and
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the analytical column was a C18 AQ nano-LC column with a 10 µm pulled tip (75 µm × 25 cm, 3
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Samples (6 µL) were injected using the microliter-pickup injection mode. Loading solvent
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was water/acetonitrile (99.7:0.3; v/v) containing 0.2% formic acid. In the sample loading step,
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the valve stayed in loading position (1-2) with loading solvent at 10 µL/min for 3 min. In the
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elution and analysis step, the valve stayed in injection position (1-10) at which the trapping
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column was connected to the nanopump and the analytical column, and samples were back-
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flushed into the analytical column. Washing of the trapping column using the nanopump was
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continued until 5 min before the end of the run. Samples were eluted in the mass spectrometer
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with a linear gradient at a flow rate of 0.4 µL/min. Solvent A was water/acetonitrile (99.5:0.5;
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v/v) containing 0.1% formic acid, and solvent B was acetonitrile/water (98:2, v/v) containing
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0.1% formic acid. The gradient on the analytical column was as follows: 2% B at the start, 5% B
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at 9 min, 27% B at 27 min, 95% B at 31 min, held for 14 min, then re-equilibrated at 2% B from
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Scientific). MS operating conditions were as follows: spray voltage 2800 V, ion transfer capillary
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temperature 275°C, ion polarity positive, S-lens RF level 55, in-source CID 1.0 eV. Both full
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AGC target 2e5, maximum IT 80 ms, loop count 5, isolation window 2.0 Da, NCE 25. The PRM
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were scheduled for 27.4 to 29.1 min for L136GGDLGTYVINK147, 25.5 to 27.7 min for
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Data analysis. Data analysis was performed using Skyline (MacCoss Laboratory, University of
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unlabeled/light (L) peptide to SILAC-labeled/heavy (H) peptide was calculated by the Skyline
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average L/H ratios of the three PRM transitions.
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average of the three selected peptides.
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transitions during method validation provided higher accuracy and precision compared with the
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use of single PRM transitions. Although, the use of all three PRM transitions for quantification
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could have increased the chance of interference, this was not observed during sample
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Prism (v 5.01, GraphPad Software Inc., La Jolla, CA).
The peak area ratio of each PRM transition for each
The peptide ratios were calculated by the Frataxin levels were calculated from the
Interestingly, using the average of three PRM
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Selection of frataxin peptides and PRM transitions. The expressed and purified frataxin
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standard was digested in-solution by trypsin, and the proteolytic peptides were analyzed in full
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scan and PRM modes. Uniqueness of the tryptic peptides was verified by searching the BLAST
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database in Skyline.33
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precursor and all product ions assessed for signal intensity in the PRM/MS mode. The early
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eluting R165YDWTGK171 and the late eluting N172WVYSHDGVSLHELLAAELTK192 tryptic
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peptides exhibited signal fluctuations during LC-PRM/MS analysis. S81GTLGHPGSLEDTYER96
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is the amino-terminal tryptic peptide derived from mature frataxin (Figure 1). A previous report
Six potentially useful peptides were selected (Figure S-2) and their
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suggested that there could be a frataxin isoform with a five-amino acid addition (M76NLRK80) at
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the amino terminus, which would also give rise to this tryptic peptide.34
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y11+
y7+
y3+
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y8+ y7+
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y4+
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MH22+ = 591.841 Da NL: 3.77E6
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peptides. (A) Endogenous peptides; (B) Stable isotope labeled peptides. The chromatograms
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are from one sample used for standard curve construction. Light frataxin was 10 pg/µg and
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heavy frataxin was 40 pg/µg.
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Precursor ions of the peptides generated from pure protein standards presented 2-10 folder
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high signals detected in full scan mode compared to signals of the most intense product ions
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detected in PRM mode. However, the precursor ions had interfering signals or were even not
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detected when the endogenous frataxin level was < 0.6 pg/µg protein in platelet protein. In
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contrast, some product ions provided excellent signals for frataxin levels even below 0.05 pg/µg
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endogenous frataxin (Figure 2A, Table S-2) and SILAC-labeled internal standard (Figure 2B,
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Preparation of frataxin protein standard and SILAC-labeled internal standard. Both the
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endogenous and SILAC-labeled proteins were purified from E. coli with a two-amino acid linker
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(LE) and His tag (HHHHHH) at the carboxyl terminus (Figure S-3). The linker to the protein and
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the His-tag increased the mass of the unlabeled standard and SILAC-labeled standard by 1,055
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Da and 1,269 Da, respectively (Figure S-3). This caused a slight reduction in mobility when
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compared with the endogenous frataxin, which was extremely useful for evaluating the
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efficiency of processing procedures by western blot (see below). Because commercial frataxin
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protein standards are either the intermediate or the precursor forms of frataxin or have long
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extended linker and tags, the purified E. coli expressed frataxin (> 95% purity) was used as an
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authentic standard for assay validation. The protein concentration was determined by UV with
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extinction coefficient = 26,930 M-1cm-1.31 The calculated frataxin concentration determined from
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its UV absorbance was also consistent with the amount estimated by comparing it on SDS-
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Trypsin digestion of SILAC-labeled frataxin revealed > 99.8% {heavy/(light + heavy)} labeling
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efficiency based on the PRM transitions for the three peptides (Figure 2, Table S-2).
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Interestingly, when the endogenous and SILAC-labeled frataxin proteins were mixed at a 1:1
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ratio, the signal intensity for the precursor protonated molecule of the labeled peptide (such as
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L198DLSSLAYSGK208) was generally lower than the corresponding endogenous peptide (Figure
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S-4). This was because SILAC labeling of frataxin in E. coli resulted in significant M-1, M-2, M-3
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isotopic peaks (Figure S-4). This was not due to the differences of isotopic composition in the
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amino acid substrates and so most likely occurred through exchange of the [15N]-labeled leucine
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by transamination during the labeling process. In support of this concept, transamination of
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leucine is known to occur in E. coli.35
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correlated with the number of leucine residues (1, 2, or 3; Figure S-4).
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differences in isotopic composition of the labeled tryptic peptide standards did not cause any
Furthermore, the increase in M-1, M-2, and M-3
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interference in the PRM transitions that were used to monitor the endogenous tryptic peptides.
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This meant that there was no effect on the assay sensitivity or specificity. However, incomplete
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labeling of the SILAC frataxin standard meant that when standard curves were constructed for
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each peptide separately, the slopes were slightly different, but the back calculated frataxin
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prepared with no interference into the PRM channels used for analysis of frataxin. Therefore,
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we do not anticipate any issues with assay performance so long as standard curves are
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Sample processing and immunoprecipitation of frataxin. Frataxin forms high molecular
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weight (> 600 kDa) oligomers in an iron-dependent manner.36-38 In order to effectively extract
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frataxin from platelets before a high-speed centrifugation step that removes cell debris, 1% SDS
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at 95 °C was used to denature cell lysates (Figure 3). Samples with 1% SDS were later diluted
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ten times with IP-lysis buffer to accommodate antibody binding. Western blot analysis showed
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the SILAC-labeled frataxin added to the samples was also more soluble. Because our goal was
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to quantify frataxin levels lower than 0.2 pg/µg, an enrichment step was necessary before LC-
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MS detection (Figure 3). Numerous anti-frataxin monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) were tested
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before it was found that mAb 1D9 had the strongest binding with the antigen. A substantial
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number of additional proteins were captured by the mAb and were eluted with frataxin from the
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beads (Figures S-5A, S-5B; lane 2). Most of these proteins (even those with molecular weights
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< 50 kDa) were removed with a 50 kDa cut-off filter (Figures S-5A, S-5B; lane 3).
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Light and heavy chains that arose from the mAb were not removed by filtration and they
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caused suppression of ionization in source of the mass spectrometer limiting the assay
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sensitivity. Covalently linking mAbs to the beads is known to prevents loss of heavy and light
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mAb chains.39,40 DMP proved to be an efficient cross-linker so that it was possible to enrich
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platelet frataxin by > 70 % by an overnight incubation with the DMP cross-linked magnetic
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beads (Figures S-5A, S-5B; lane 4). The heavy and light mAb chains remained bound to the
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beads but proteins that eluted from the non-covalently bound mAb were also detected even
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after stringent washing (Figures S-5A, S-B; lane 4). Fortunately, they were readily removed by
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the 50 kDa filter (Figures S-5A, S-5B; lane 5).
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DMP cross-linked frataxin mAb magnetic beads
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Figure 3. Platelet frataxin sample processing procedure.
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Method validation using IP-UHPLC-PRM/HRMS and SILAC-labeled frataxin.
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rounds of frataxin depletion of platelets using an anti-frataxin antibody were performed.
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Western blot and LC-MS analysis showed that more than >99.5% frataxin was depleted, while
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the cell lysate protein composition remained unchanged. Calibration curves were constructed at
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ten different concentrations spanning three orders of magnitudes (0.078-40.0 pg/µg protein)
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using frataxin-depleted platelet lysates (500 µg) as the matrix. Because frataxin-depleted
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standards to BSA (500 µg) as an alternative surrogate matrix. Overlapping linear standard
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curves were obtained for each of the three peptides with r2 values > 0.999 for both the frataxin-
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depleted platelet protein and the BSA matrix (Figures S-6A, S-6B, S-6C). Furthermore, similar
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values were found when mean area ratios of analyte to internal standard for the three peptides
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were plotted against frataxin concentrations (Figure S-6D).
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The LLOQ was set at 0.078 pg/µg protein, which is 20-fold lower than the lowest amount ever
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reported in FA platelets (Table 1). Accuracy and precision for the LLOQ using frataxin-depleted
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platelet protein matrix were well within the limits of acceptance - intraday: (n=5) precision 5.1%,
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accuracy 96.8%; interday (n=5), precision 3.7%, accuracy 101.0% (Table S-3A). Therefore, this
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conservative LLOQ readily met the criteria required by the FDA of precision better than 15 %
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NL: 7.37E4
NL: 4.66E4
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transitions from the corresponding SILAC- labeled analogs (K = [13C615N2]-lysine, L = [13C615N1]-
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(A) Three PRM/MS transitions for endogenous platelet frataxin tryptic peptides –
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validation was performed using quality control (QC) samples at three different
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concentrations according to FDA guidance41 with low (LQC, 0.25 pg/µg protein), middle (MQC,
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platelet protein. Precision for intraday (n=5) QC analysis was 2.0%-5.1% and accuracy was
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97.0%-101.1% (Table S-3A).
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instead of frataxin-depleted platelet protein. Similar precision and accuracies were obtained:
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intraday; (n=5) precision 1.0-1.5%, accuracy 94.5%-107.7%; interday (n=3), precision 1.3%-
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3.1%, accuracy 97.5%-105.2% (Table S-3B). Our observation suggests that there is no matrix
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effect for the range of frataxin concentration we examined. Therefore, calibration curves and
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Precision of interday (n=5) QC analysis was 1.6%-4.8% and accuracy was Method validation was also conducted using BSA as matrix
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Platelet frataxin levels in unaffected control subjects and FA cases.
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clinical utility of the IP 2D-nanoUHPLC-PRM/MS method, frataxin levels were quantified in FA
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platelets (n=7; Table S-1) and control platelets (n=7). Typical chromatograms for platelet
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frataxin from an FA case are shown in Figures 4A and 4B, respectively. All samples were within
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the linear range of the standard curves. The frataxin level (mean ± SD) in platelets from control
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unaffected subjects was 9.4 ± 2.6 pg/µg protein. The mean level for FA cases was 74.5% lower
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than controls at 2.4 ± 0.6 pg/µg (Figure 5A). There was no overlap between controls and FA
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cases (Figure 5A), which meant the assay had 100% specificity and 100% sensitivity for
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discriminating control and FA platelets. Despite the small sample size of FA cases (n = 7),
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there was an inverse relationship of frataxin levels with the total number of GAA repeat lengths
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determined from each of the individual tryptic peptides were compared with each other (Figures
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S-7A, S-7B, S-7C). Excellent correlations were found for all three peptides from all the platelet
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samples with r2 value ranging from 0.957-0.980.
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SILAC-labeled frataxin standard corrected for the variations in IP and trypsin digestion
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efficiency. It also confirmed that there were no post-translational modifications on the platelet
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frataxin tryptic peptides that were analyzed.
This high consistency confirmed that the
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MS-based proteomics approaches have identified frataxin as one of the 4,497 human
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platelet proteins.42-44 Similar approaches failed to detect frataxin as one of the 2,650 human
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erythrocyte proteins,45 although it was detected by the DI assay (Table 1). This led to our
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development of a more sensitive and specific stable isotope dilution IP 2D-nano-UHPLC-
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PRM/MS method (Figure 3).
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quantification of platelet frataxin because it corrected for losses during IP and trypsin
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digestion.46,47
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immunoprecipitation efficiency was noticed among different batches of samples, likely caused
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by the filtration or antibody conjugation efficiency, or matrix effects. Although this variation had
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very little impact on the LC-MS analysis, it reinforces the importance of using a SILAC internal
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standard to compensate for these variations as well as the authentic protein for preparing
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standard curves.
A SILAC-labeled standard (Figure S-3) facilitated accurate
The assay was highly precise and accurate (Table S-3).
Variation of
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It is noteworthy that platelet frataxin levels in unaffected controls did not overlap with FA
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cases (Figure 5A). Consequently, the assay had 100% sensitivity and 100% specificity for
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discriminating the controls from FA cases. A previously reported DI method for platelet frataxin
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had a sensitivity for distinguishing normal and FA platelet frataxin of 76.5% and a specificity of
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only 66.7%. This was because the frataxin values for four of the nine controls overlapped with
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seventeen of the FA cases and values from three of the FA cases overlapped with the nine
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controls.28 The DI method also underestimated the amount of control platelet frataxin and FA
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platelet frataxin (Table 1) by 70 % and 58 %, respectively.. Although, an inverse relationship
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between FA platelet frataxin levels and total GAA repeat lengths was observed, it did not reach
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statistical significance (Figure 5B, p=0.067). This likely reflects the small number of subjects
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tested here and the relative inaccuracy of GAA repeat testing. However, the intercept on the y-
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axis (GAA repeat lengths = 0) corresponded to 5.1 pg/µg protein (Figure 5B). Interestingly, 5.1
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pg/µg protein is close to the level found for the lowest unaffected normal control (6.1 pg/µg
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protein) where total GAA repeat lengths were < 80. This suggests that it will be possible to
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distinguish platelet frataxin levels in carriers with GAA repeats on only one FXN allele from both
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FA cases and unaffected subjects.
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The high sensitivity and specificity of the assay will also make it possible for the first time, to
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rigorously evaluate the effect of new therapeutic strategies that are being employed to up-
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such as occurred recently with dystrophin (another platelet protein48) and the DMD drug
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relationship between levels in platelets and affected tissues.
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modifications to the 2D nano-UHPLC-PRM/MS method because of the homology in amino acid
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sequences of mouse (95.4% similarity) and monkey frataxin (98.5% similarity) when compared
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with human frataxin.
Furthermore, mouse and monkey models can be employed to determine the This will require only minor
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LG and QQW contributed equally to the work and should be regarded as co-first authors.
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The authors declare no competing financial interests.
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Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States.
Current address: Agostinho Rocha, Center for Pharmacogenomics, Department of Internal
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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We gratefully acknowledge support of the Hamilton and Finneran families, the Penn
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Medicine/CHOP Friedreich's Ataxia Center of Excellence, and NIH grants P42ES023720,
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P30ES013508, R01FD006029, and UL1TR001878.
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