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Quantitative Mass Spectrometric Profiling of Cancer-cell Proteomes Derived From Liquid and Solid Tumors
Published on: February 27, 2015
Current perspectives in cancer proteomics
Miriam V Dwek1, Sarah L Rawlings
1Breast Cancer Research Group, Department of Surgery, Royal Free and University College London Medical School, Institute of Surgical Studies, UK. m.dwek@ucl.ac.uk
Abstract:
Proteome technology has been used widely in cancer research and is a useful tool for the identification of new cancer markers and treatment-related changes in cancer. This article details the use of proteome technology in cancer research, and laboratory-based and clinical cancer research studies are described. New developments in proteome technology that enable higher sample-throughput are evaluated and methods for enhancing conventional proteome analysis (based on two-dimensional electrophoresis) discussed. The need to couple laboratory-based proteomics research with clinically relevant models of the disease is also considered, as this remains the next main challenge of cancer-related proteome research.
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