%0 Journal Article
%T Human Myocardial Protein Pattern Reveals Cardiac Diseases
%A Jonas Bergquist
%A G£¿khan Baykut
%A Maria Bergquist
%A Matthias Witt
%A Franz-Josef Mayer
%A Doan Baykut
%J International Journal of Proteomics
%D 2012
%I Hindawi Publishing Corporation
%R 10.1155/2012/342659
%X Proteomic profiles of myocardial tissue in two different etiologies of heart failure were investigated using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)/Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (FT-ICR MS). Right atrial appendages from 10 patients with hemodynamically significant isolated aortic valve disease and from 10 patients with isolated symptomatic coronary heart disease were collected during elective cardiac surgery. As presented in an earlier study by our group (Baykut et al., 2006), both disease forms showed clearly different pattern distribution characteristics. Interesting enough, the classification patterns could be used for correctly sorting unknown test samples in their correct categories. However, in order to fully exploit and also validate these findings there is a definite need for unambiguous identification of the differences between different etiologies at molecular level. In this study, samples representative for the aortic valve disease and coronary heart disease were prepared, tryptically digested, and analyzed using an FT-ICR MS that allowed collision-induced dissociation (CID) of selected classifier masses. By using the fragment spectra, proteins were identified by database searches. For comparison and further validation, classifier masses were also fragmented and analyzed using HPLC-/Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization (MALDI) time-of-flight/time-of-flight (TOF/TOF) mass spectrometry. Desmin and lumican precursor were examples of proteins found in aortic samples at higher abundances than in coronary samples. Similarly, adenylate kinase isoenzyme was found in coronary samples at a higher abundance. The described methodology could also be feasible in search for specific biomarkers in plasma or serum for diagnostic purposes. 1. Introduction Understanding the differences of proteomic profiles has a crucial importance for gaining insight into molecular mechanisms of disease. Although the molecular origin of the cardiac dysfunction is still largely unknown in the majority of heart diseases [1, 2], heart insufficiency is increasingly expected to be a result from alterations in gene and protein expression. Gene expression is a more static process; however, protein patterns may be altered faster in close relationship with the appearance of disease, making up an adequate identification of proteome characteristics important. If different etiologies and pathways of cardiac disease progression can be represented in the form of unequivocal proteomic patterns, these patterns may help simplify and accelerate the
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