Article
Unveiling alterative splice diversity from human oligodendrocyte proteome data
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TAVARES, Raphael; et al. Unveiling alterative splice diversity from human oligodendrocyte proteome data. Journal of Proteomics, v.151, p.293-301, May 2017.
1874-3919
10.1016/j.jprot.2016.05.023
1876-7737
Autor
Tavares, Raphael
Wajnberg, Gabriel
Scherer, Nicole de Miranda
Pauletti, Bianca Alves
Cassoli, Juliana S.
Ferreira, Carlos Gil
Leme, Adriana Franco Paes
Souza, Patricia Savio de Araujo
Souza, Daniel Martins de
Passetti, Fabio
Resumen
Oligodendrocytes produce and maintain the myelin sheath of axons in the central nervous system. Because misassembled myelin sheaths have been associated with brain disorders such as multiple sclerosis and schizophrenia, recent advances have been made towards the description of the oligodendrocyte proteome. The identification of splice variants represented in the proteome is as important as determining the level of oligodendrocyte-associated proteins. Here, we used an oligodendrocyte proteome dataset deposited in ProteomeXchange to search against a customized protein sequence file containing computationally predicted splice variants. Our approach resulted in the identification of 39 splice variants, including one variant from the GTPase KRAS gene and another from the human glutaminase gene family. We also detected the mRNA expression of five selected splice variants and demonstrated that a fraction of these have their canonical proteins participating in direct protein-protein interactions. In conclusion, we believe our findings contribute to the molecular characterization of oligodendrocytes and may encourage other research groups working with central nervous system disorders to investigate the biological significance of these splice variants. The splice variants identified in this study may encode proteins that could be targeted in novel treatment strategies and diagnostic methods. 2030-01-01