Abstract
We evaluated the differentially expressed proteins in the plasma of ovarian cancer (OVC) patients using 2-D SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) with post-translational modification (PTM) specific stains after the removal of six high-abundance proteins. The pooled plasma from patients with stage III or IV OVC was compared to a pooled postmenopausal age-matched control. Several proteins were identified as differentially expressed in the plasma of OVC patients. Among them, the phosphorylated fibrinogen-α-chain isoform (containing fibrinopeptide-A) was found to be up-regulated. Previously in our laboratory, phosphorylated fibrinopeptide-A was found to be up-regulated in the low molecular weight fraction of serum derived from OVC patients. We examined the levels of phosphorylated fibrinogen-α-chain in each patient that constituted the pooled plasma using Western blot, mass spectrometry (MS), and PTM specific stains. Phosphoprotein bands containing fibrinogen-α-chain fragments showed up-regulation in all OVC patients.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 3318-3325 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Journal of Proteome Research |
Volume | 5 |
Issue number | 12 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 2006 |
Keywords
- Biomarker
- Fibrinogen
- Glycosylation
- Mass spectrometry
- Ovarian cancer
- Phosphorylation
- Protein depletion
- Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis
- Western blot
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biochemistry
- Chemistry(all)