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. 2006 Oct;24(10):1285-92.
doi: 10.1038/nbt1240. Epub 2006 Sep 10.

A probability-based approach for high-throughput protein phosphorylation analysis and site localization

Sean A Beausoleil  1 , Judit Villén, Scott A Gerber, John Rush, Steven P Gygi
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A probability-based approach for high-throughput protein phosphorylation analysis and site localization

Sean A Beausoleil et al. Nat Biotechnol. 2006 Oct.

Abstract

Data analysis and interpretation remain major logistical challenges when attempting to identify large numbers of protein phosphorylation sites by nanoscale reverse-phase liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) (Supplementary Figure 1 online). In this report we address challenges that are often only addressable by laborious manual validation, including data set error, data set sensitivity and phosphorylation site localization. We provide a large-scale phosphorylation data set with a measured error rate as determined by the target-decoy approach, we demonstrate an approach to maximize data set sensitivity by efficiently distracting incorrect peptide spectral matches (PSMs), and we present a probability-based score, the Ascore, that measures the probability of correct phosphorylation site localization based on the presence and intensity of site-determining ions in MS/MS spectra. We applied our methods in a fully automated fashion to nocodazole-arrested HeLa cell lysate where we identified 1,761 nonredundant phosphorylation sites from 491 proteins with a peptide false-positive rate of 1.3%.

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