Deep proteome profiling reveals signatures of age and sex differences in paw skin and sciatic nerve of naïve mice

  1. Feng Xian
  2. Julia Regina Sondermann
  3. David Gomez Varela
  4. Manuela Schmidt  Is a corresponding author
  1. Systems Biology of Pain, Division of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Austria
7 figures, 1 table and 1 additional file

Figures

Figure 1 with 1 supplement
Data-independent acquisition paired with parallel accumulation serial fragmentation (DIA-PASEF) acquisition followed by DIA-NN analysis outperforms data-dependent acquisition paired with PASEF (DDA-PASEF) acquisition in deep proteome profiling of paw skin and sciatic nerve (SCN) of naïve mice.

(A, B) Pearson’s correlations of technical controls of paw skin (blue) and SCN (green) acquired over 20 days on a timsTOF Pro. (C, D) Comparisons of identified protein groups (protein IDs) using …

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Quantitative proteome and differentially expressed protein (DEP) lists of paw skin.

DEPs from age- and sex-dependent comparisons are listed in separated sheets.

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Quantitative proteome and differentially expressed protein (DEP) lists of sciatic nerve (SCN).

DEPs from age- and sex-dependent comparisons are listed in separated sheets.

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Experimental workflow of proteome profiling in mouse paw skin and sciatic nerves.
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Age and sex differences in proteomes of paw skin and sciatic nerve (SCN).

(A) Venn diagram shows unique and shared protein IDs across age and sex groups of paw skin. (B) Comparison of the quantified paw skin proteome with previously reported sub-proteomes of human skin (Dy…

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List of myelin proteins (Siems et al., 2020) not quantified in the sciatic nerve (SCN) proteome.

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Fuzzy C-means clustering analysis of the paw skin (A) and sciatic nerve (SCN) (B) proteome.

The R package ‘Mfuzz’ (https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/Mfuzz.html) was used for analysis with nine clusters specified for calculation. Y-axis shows the standardized …

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Differential expression analysis of paw skin samples reveals diverse age-dependent biological pathways in male and female mice.

(A) Venn diagram illustrates unique and shared differentially expressed proteins (DEPs; criteria: q-value ≤ 0.05, absolute log2 fold change [FC] ≥ 0.585, i.e., an absolute FC of 1.5) from …

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List of ligands and neuronal receptors found in skin cell types (Wangzhou et al., 2021), which we quantified in the paw skin proteome.

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Gene Ontology Biological Process (GO-BP) analysis of differentially expressed proteins (DEPs) from age-dependent comparisons in female (A) and male (B) paw skin.
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Age-dependent differential expression analysis in sciatic nerve (SCN) samples.

(A) Venn diagram illustrates unique and shared differentially expressed proteins (DEPs) (criteria: q-value ≤ 0.05, absolute log2 fold change [FC] ≥ 0.585, i.e., an absolute FC of 1.5) from …

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Synaptic proteins among differentially expressed proteins (DEPs) from age-dependent comparisons in sciatic nerve (SCN).

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Ligand list of neuronal receptors found in immune cells (Wangzhou et al., 2021), which we quantified in the sciatic nerve (SCN) proteome.

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Neuronal ligands of glial receptors (Wangzhou et al., 2021), which we quantified in the sciatic nerve (SCN) proteome.

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Glial ligands of neuronal receptors (Wangzhou et al., 2021), which we quantified in the sciatic nerve (SCN) proteome.

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Enriched Gene Ontology Biological Process (GO-BP) terms and their activity scores in age-dependent comparisons using common differentially expressed proteins (DEPs) (A) and DEPs enriched in male sciatic nerve (SCN) (B) and female SCN (C), respectively.
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Differential expression analysis indicates protein signatures of sexual dimorphism in paw skin and sciatic nerve (SCN).

(A, B) Differentially expressed proteins (DEPs) of sex-dependent comparisons at 4 weeks and 14 weeks in paw skin (A) and SCN (B). Heatmaps show the normalized protein expression (averaged intensity) …

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Sex-associated transcripts of human tibial nerves (Ray et al., 2019), which we quantified in the sciatic nerve (SCN) proteome.

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Sex-associated transcripts of mouse hind paws (Mecklenburg et al., 2020), which we quantified in the paw skin proteome.

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Sexual dimorphism in SCN and paw skin.

(A) Sex-dependent significance in the sciatic nerve (SCN) dataset of proteins previously reported to be sexually dimorphic in the transcriptome of human tibial nerves (Ray et al., 2019). (B) …

Multiple proteins associated with skin diseases and pain exhibit age and sex dependence.

(A) Venn diagram indicates the number of quantified protein IDs in paw skin (white) associated with various human skin diseases (light gray) upon comparison with a skin disease database (dark gray, h…

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Gene candidates of various human skin diseases (https://biohub.skinsciencefoundation.org/), which we quantified in the paw skin proteome.

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Fuzzy C-means clustering membership of 329 and 245 pathology-related proteins quantified in the paw skin and sciatic nerve (SCN) proteome.

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Differentially expressed genes (DEGs) of hand–foot psoriasis, palmoplantar pustulosis, and vesicular hand eczema quantified in the paw skin proteome.

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Pain-related genes (https://www.painresearchforum.org/, http://paingeneticslab.ca/4105/06_02_pain_genetics_database.asp, and https://humanpaingeneticsdb.ca/hpgdb/), which we quantified in the sciatic nerve (SCN) proteome.

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Differentially expressed proteins (DEPs) upon sciatic nerve (SCN) injury (spared nerve injury [SNI] model of neuropathic pain in mice) (Barry et al., 2018) quantified in the SCN proteome.

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Tables

Key resources table
Reagent type (species) or resourceDesignationSource or referenceIdentifiersAdditional information
Strain, strain background (mouse)C57BL/6JIn-house bredWild type, female and male, 3-4 and 1415 weeks old
Chemical compound, drugAcetonitrileFisher Scientific10001334
Chemical compound, drugFormic acidFisher Scientific15658430
Chemical compound, drug10× PBSFisher Scientific11594516
Chemical compound, drugTris 1 MAccugene/Avantor733-1653
Chemical compound, drugGlycerolFisher Scientific10021083
Chemical compound, drugDithiothreitol 1 MSigma-Aldrich43816
Chemical compound, drugAcetoneSigma-Aldrich1000201000
Chemical compound, drugEthanolSigma-Aldrich1117272500
Chemical compound, drugIodoacetamideSigma-AldrichI1149
Chemical compound, drugAmmonium bicarbonateSigma-Aldrich09830-500G
Chemical compound, drugWater MS gradeSigma-Aldrich1.15333.1000
Chemical compound, drugTrypsin/Lys-CPromegaV5073
Chemical compound, drugTrypsinServa37283.01
Chemical compound, drugSera-Mag SpeedBead beadsCytiva65152105050250,
45152105050250
1:1 mix
OthercOmplete Protease Inhibitor CocktailRoche/Merck58929700001Mix of protease inhibitors
OtherProtein LoBind tubeEppendorf0030108116Reagent tube
OtherAurora Series UHPLC columnIonOpticksAUR2-25075C18A-CSI25 cm × 75 µm column
OtherBiopsy punch 4 mmKai Medical48401Skin biopsy punch
Software, algorithmMaxQuantMax Planck Institute of BiochemistryVersion 1.6.17.0
Software, algorithmDIA-NNhttps://github.com/vdemichev/DiaNNRRID:SCR_022865Version 1.8.0
Software, algorithmRhttps://www.r-project.org/Version 4.1.1
Software, algorithmMouse proteome databaseUniProtUP000000589Downloaded on 2021-07-08, 17070 entries

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