Biotechnologists engaged in protein biomarker studies are well aware of some of the challenges they face trying to identify biomarkers in albumin and IgG rich serum and plasma. Protein biomarkers generally tend to be low-abundance proteins which are very difficult to detect among highly complex samples. Furthermore, an ever-increasing amount of biomarker studies are focused on identifying biomarkers in other biological sources such as muscle tissue and cell lines. Traditional approaches to solving this problem include depletion methods for removing high abundant proteins so that the proverbial “needle in the haystack” biomarker is easier to locate. While this approach has its advantages, it suffers from being too specific and may not work well in sample types other than serum and plasma.
Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. has developed the ProteoMiner protein enrichment technology which uses a library of hexapeptides to bind all proteins in a complex mixture allowing reduction of high-abundance proteins and enrichment of medium and low-abundance proteins.
This Tech Note discusses the use of ProteoMner protein enrichment kits for the enrichment of low- and medium- abundance proteins and the depletion of high-abundance proteins in tissue, cell line and bacterial samples, with detailed experimental parameters in a 2-D gel based proteomics workflow.
Enrichment of Medium- and Low-abundance Proteins
Tags: Bio-Rad Laboratories, biomarker, proteominer