Quantifying cross-tissue diversity in proteasome complexes by mass spectrometry

Sarah Pelletier1, Karianne G Schuurman, Celia R Berkers

  • 1Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Group, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research and Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

The composition of 20S mouse proteasome complexes isolated from mice heart, kidney, liver, lung, thymus and spleen was compared using quantitative mass spectrometry. Significant variety was observed in hybrid classes of immunoproteasomes which may have implications for the use of proteasome targeted inhibitors.