Abstract
In the advanced stages, malignant melanoma (MM) has a very poor prognosis. Due to tremendous efforts in cancer research over the last 10 years, and the introduction of novel therapies such as targeted therapies and immunomodulators, the rather dark horizon of the median survival has dramatically changed from under 1 year to several years. With the advent of proteomics, deep-mining studies can reach low-abundant expression levels. The complexity of the proteome, however, still surpasses the dynamic range capabilities of current analytical techniques. Consequently, many predicted protein products with potential biological functions have not yet been verified in experimental proteomic data. This category of ‘missing proteins’ (MP) is comprised of all proteins that have been predicted but are currently unverified. As part of the initiative launched in 2016 in the USA, the European Cancer Moonshot Center has performed numerous deep proteomics analyses on samples from MM patients. In this study, nine MPs were clearly identified by mass spectrometry in MM metastases. Some MPs significantly correlated with proteins that possess identical PFAM structural domains; and other MPs were significantly associated with cancer-related proteins. This is the first study to our knowledge, where unknown and novel proteins have been annotated in metastatic melanoma tumour tissue.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 261-272 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Cell Biology and Toxicology |
Volume | 36 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2020 Jun 1 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This study was approved by the Regional Ethical Committee at Lund University, Southern Sweden, approval numbers: DNR 191/2007, 101/2013 and 2015/266, 2015/618. All patients involved in the study provided written informed consent. Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.
Funding Information:
Open access funding provided by Lund University. This study was financially supported by the Berta Kamprad Foundation, ThermoFisher Scientific, Global, and Liconic Biobanking, and was also supported by grants from the National Research Foundation of Korea, funded by the Korean government (2015K1A1A2028365 and 2016K2A9A1A03904900) and Brain Korea 21 Plus Project, Republic of Korea, as well as the NIH/NCI International Cancer Proteogenome Consortium and the Mats and Stefan Paulsson Trust.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, The Author(s).
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Toxicology
- Cell Biology
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis