A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal

Label-free quantitative phosphoproteomics with novel pairwise abundance normalization reveals synergistic RAS and CIP2A signaling




AuthorsOtto Kauko, Teemu Daniel Laajala, Mikael Jumppanen, Petteri Hintsanen, Veronika Suni, Pekka Haapaniemi, Garry Corthals, Tero Aittokallio, Jukka Westermarck, Susumu Y. Imanishi

PublisherNature Publishing Group

Publication year2015

JournalScientific Reports

Journal name in sourceScientific Reports

Article number13099

Volume5

Number of pages17

ISSN2045-2322

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1038/srep13099(external)

Web address http://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id:84939558729(external)


Abstract

Hyperactivated RAS drives progression of many human malignancies. However, oncogenic activity of RAS is dependent on simultaneous inactivation of protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) activity. Although PP2A is known to regulate some of the RAS effector pathways, it has not been systematically assessed how these proteins functionally interact. Here we have analyzed phosphoproteomes regulated by either RAS or PP2A, by phosphopeptide enrichment followed by mass-spectrometry-based label-free quantification. To allow data normalization in situations where depletion of RAS or PP2A inhibitor CIP2A causes a large uni-directional change in the phosphopeptide abundance, we developed a novel normalization strategy, named pairwise normalization. This normalization is based on adjusting phosphopeptide abundances measured before and after the enrichment. The superior performance of the pairwise normalization was verified by various independent methods. Additionally, we demonstrate how the selected normalization method influences the downstream analyses and interpretation of pathway activities. Consequently, bioinformatics analysis of RAS and CIP2A regulated phosphoproteomes revealed a significant overlap in their functional pathways. This is most likely biologically meaningful as we observed a synergistic survival effect between CIP2A and RAS expression as well as KRAS activating mutations in TCGA pan-cancer data set, and synergistic relationship between CIP2A and KRAS depletion in colony growth assays.




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