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1Laboratory of Neuroproteomics, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil. paulcguest@yahoo.com.
Abstract:
This chapter describes a proteomic analysis of neural progenitor cells using isobaric tagging for relative and absolute quantitation (iTRAQ) mass spectrometry. A detailed procedure is described for the isolation, proliferation, and differentiation of these cells, including a comparative iTRAQ mass spectrometry analysis of the precursor and differentiated states. In total, there were changes in the levels of 55 proteins, many of which are not resolved easily by other proteomic methods. Therefore, this method should be useful for the identification of important regulatory molecules in the study of other precursor cells involved in neuronal or metabolic regulation in nutritional programming diseases.
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