Research ArticleMiniaturized Digestion and Extraction of SurfaceProteins from Candida albicans following Treatment withHistatin 5 for Mass Spectrometry Analysis
Shirley Fan1 Eduardo B Moffa23 Yizhi Xiao23
Walter L Siqueira23 and Ken K-C Yeung12
1Department of Chemistry Faculty of Science University of Western Ontario London ON Canada N6A 5B72Department of Biochemistry Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry University of Western OntarioLondon ON Canada N6A 5C13Schulich Dentistry Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry University of Western OntarioLondon ON Canada N6A 5C1
Correspondence should be addressed to Ken K-C Yeung kyeunguwoca
Received 22 June 2016 Revised 25 October 2016 Accepted 31 October 2016
Academic Editor Christian Huck
Copyright copy 2016 Shirley Fan et al This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution Licensewhich permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited
A common approach to isolate surface proteins from fungal and bacterial cells is to perform a proteolytic cleavage of proteins on thesurface of intact cells suspended in solution This paper describes miniaturization of this technique in which cells are adhered onglass surfaces and all sample treatments are conducted at 120583L volumes Specifically Candida albicans cells were attached onto HSA-coated glass slides By depositing the appropriate reagent solutions on the adhered cells we successfully performed cell washingtreatment with antifugal peptide Histatin 5 and a proteolysis on intact cells with trypsinThe resulting peptides were subsequentlyanalysed by mass spectrometry In general the data obtained was similar to that collected with suspended cells in much largersample volumes However our miniaturized workflow offers the benefit of greatly reducing the consumption of cells and reagents
1 Introduction
Candida albicans is a very common fungus found within thegenitourinary and gastrointestinal tracts as well as on thesurface of skins [1] It exists within humans in a commensalrelationship where it benefits without causing damage [2]However individuals with compromised immune systemscan develop the infection known as candidiasis [2 3]The most commonly used method to treat infections isto administer antifungal drugs orally or systematically intothe circulatory system [2 4] Despite these mechanisms Calbicans has developed resistance towards them [4] and thusthe discoveries of new therapeutic approaches are needed
For infections to begin adhesion to oral surfaces ofprotein films is the initial step [5 6] From these proteinssalivary proteins such as histatins statherins and acidicproline-rich ones have exhibited antifungal properties [7 8]The family known as histatins (HTN) comprised of HTN1
HTN3 and HTN5 have been of increasing interest due to itsclear ability to control and kill C albicans [5 7 9 10] Studiestargeting the effects of HTN5 on cellular respiration at themitochondrial level have been performed however the exactmechanism remains unknown [9 11 12] Mass spectrometry-(MS-) based proteomics is therefore the next logical choice ofmethod in studying C albicans and its influence by HTN5
MS is becoming an increasingly popular tool in studyingmicroorganisms Common applications include protein pro-filing for taxonomy classification as well as clinical differen-tiation between pathogenic and nonpathogenic species [13ndash17] The degree of classification achieved has been reporteddown to the genus species and strain levels [18] Massspectral protein profiling has also been incorporated intostudying the response of bacterial cells to drug treatment [19]Typically the analysis of the total proteome of lysed cells ispreferred for a comprehensive nontargeted characterizationBut the use of total cell lysates has its drawbacks Due to the
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complexity of the proteome and background of lysed cellssample cleanup andor fractionation is crucial to obtaininghigh qualityMSdata [16]The identification of a large numberof proteins also requires a substantial effort in data analysisAlternatively the analysis of intact whole cells offers thebenefit of reduced complexity Anhalt and Fenselau wereamong the earliest to report the analysis of whole cellsfor species identification [20] Through gentle heating inthe ion source phospholipids were vaporized leading tothe production of characteristic mass spectra Alternativelyspecies identification through proteins and peptides fromwhole cell analyses has also been reported [21ndash23]
When applying MS to study changes in protein levels ofC albicans upon treatment with HTN5 the global approachof studying the total proteome was certainly appropriateHowever our group previously observed a reduction incell adhesion property upon administration of HTN5 in90 minutes suggesting an effect of HTN5 on the surfaceproteins [24] Hence the targeted approach on the surfaceproteins is logical for studying the influence of HTN5 In2006 Rodrıguez-Ortega et al reported a protocol calledldquocell shavingrdquo which allowed them to focus on proteinspartially exposed on the outside of cells [25] This was doneby subjecting whole live cells to proteolytic enzymes in asolution The surface peptides cleaved from intact cells weresubsequently isolated for MS analyses Others have alsoused a similar approach towards studying surface proteinsfrom other fungal and bacterial species [26 27] Despite itseffectiveness the procedure of ldquocell shavingrdquo is still generallytime-consuming Cells grown in media were harvested andwashed followed by overnight tryptic digestion for 18ndash20hours in mL volume solution The sample mixture was thencentrifuged and the supernatant was collected for fraction-ation andor enrichment prior to injection into the liquidchromatography-mass spectrometer [28ndash30] Furthermoreto overcome biological variation and growth variability theentire procedure was typically repeated for multiple timesthus requiring large quantities of cells and reagents
In this study the aim is to refine and miniaturize theexisting cell shaving technique by performing the procedureson adhered C albicans cells rather than suspended cells insolution We will demonstrate that the attachment of cells onsurfaces allows easy introduction and removal of 120583L volumereagents solutions with a micropipette Furthermore treat-ment with antifungal peptide HTN5 is readily performedon the adhered cells We will also demonstrate that the 120583Lsample volume resulting from our miniaturized approachis directly compatible with subsequent MALDI MS andorLC ESI MSMS analyses Importantly the resulting MS datashould be comparable to previous information obtained withthe conventional in solution approach that required muchlarger quantities of reagent and cells
2 Materials and Methods
21 C albicans Culturing The strain of C albicans used forall experiments was ATCC90028 Stock cultures of cells weregrown on plates containing Sabouraud dextrose agar (SDA)medium (Becton Dickson and Company NJ USA) The
(a)
(b)
(c)
Figure 1 Schematics of the miniaturized procedures of cell adhe-sion treatment and tryptic digestion Description is presented inMaterials and Methods
inoculated plates were incubated at 37∘C for 48 hours A thirdof a loop of the colonies were transferred into 45mL of yeastnitrogen base (YNB) supplemented with 50mM sucrose(Sigma Aldrich MO USA) The mixture was then incubatedat 37∘C for 21 hours under shaking at 200 rpm Following theincubation the mixture was centrifuged at 6000 rpm for 5minutes The pellet was resuspended in phosphate bufferedsaline solution (PBS pH 74 Sigma Aldrich) The final cellsuspension was stored at 4∘C until use
22 Adhesion of C albicans to Glass Slides and TreatmentwithHTN5 ADakodelimiting pen composed of 60ndash100 1-bromopropane and 5ndash10 dipentene (Cedarlane BurlingtonCA) was used to draw circles with an inner diameter ofroughly 6mm on standard microscope glass slides (Fig-ure 1(a)) The hydrophobic ink functioned as a barrier tosurround a droplet of aqueous sample solution A total ofthree circles were made on each glass slide (Figure 1(b))During an experiment each sample spot was covered with aninverted glass vial containing a wet cotton which maintaineda high humidity environment and minimized evaporation ofthe sample droplet (Figure 1(c)) To prepare for cell adhesionthe glass surface within the hydrophobic circles was treatedwith 25 120583L of 010mgmL human serum albumin (HSA)solution (Sigma Aldrich) for 2 hours at room temperature(RT) based on a protocol previously reported by our group[5] The HSA-coated surface was then washed three timeswith water Next 25120583L of C albicans suspension at aconcentration of 107 cellsmL was introduced to the HSA-coated slideThe adhesion was carried out under a 90-minute
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incubation at RT The surface with adhered cells was thenrinsed three times with PBS to remove the unattached cellsFor theHTN5 treatment 25120583L ofHTN5 solution (ChinaPep-tides Company Shanghai China) at various concentrationswas deposited to the cells When not specified a HTN5concentration of 30120583gmL was used The HTN5 treatmentwas done for 90min at RT which was the minimum time toobserve a clear effect of HTN5 on C albicans [24] The finalsamples of treated cells on the glass slide were washed threetimes with water
23 Tryptic Digestions on Solid Support In a previous reportthe trypsin digestion of surface proteins on C albicanscells suspended in buffer solution was performed at atrypsin concentration of 10 120583gmL trypsin for up to 20min[28] The authors also performed propidium iodide stainingexperiment to confirm that the C albicans cells were notpermeabilized by trypsin In this work digestions wereperformed on adhered C albicans cells with or withoutHTN5 treatment on glass surfaces within the hydropho-bic circles at RT It was therefore necessary to reoptimizethe digestion time and trypsin concentration Due to thelarge number of experiments required to map these twoparameters we decided to first evaluate the digestion usinga standard protein cytochrome c from horse heart (Cata-logue number C2506 Sigma Aldrich) For all digestions inthis work tosyl phenylalanyl chloromethyl ketone- (TPCK-)treated trypsin resuspended in 50mM ammonium bicarbon-ate (Sigma Aldrich) was used
To determine the optimal digestion time for cytochromec a very high concentration of trypsin was initially usedto ensure that it was not a limiting factor Specifically036 120583L of 01mgmL cytochrome c was mixed with 036120583Lof 10mgmL trypsin to perform the digestion directly on aMALDI sample target plate under a range of digestion timesfrom 025 to 60min After the optimal time was determinedbased on MALDI MS results which turned out to be 10minthe digestion was then performed on adhered C albicanscells The trypsin concentration used was reduced to a rangecomparable to that reported in the literature [28] namely 05to 20120583gmL and a volume of 3 120583L was used The optimaltrypsin concentration was determined to be 15 120583gmL basedon MALDI MS results Finally using this trypsin concentra-tion we reexamined the digestion time study with adheredC albicans cells The MALDI MS results confirmed that theoptimal digestion time remained at 10min Finally followingthe digestion step performed on C albicans cells the trypsinsolution now with resulting peptides was recovered using amicropipette for subsequent MALDI MS or LC ESI MSMSanalyses
24 MALDI MS Analysis The 120572-cyano-4-hydroxycinnamicacid (CHCA) matrix solution was prepared at 55mgmL in6mM ammonium phosphate monobasic 50 acetonitrileand 01 trifluoroacetic acid (Sigma Aldrich) The recoveredpeptides 072120583L from cytochrome c or 3 120583L fromC albicanswere mixed in a 1 1 (vv) ratio with this CHCA matrix solu-tion All sample-matrix mixtures were spotted at a volumeof 075 120583L on a 384 well Opti-TOF 123 times 83mm SS MALDI
plate (Sciex MA USA) The instrument is equipped with a349 nm OptiBeam On-Axis laser with a pulse rate at 400HzData acquisition and processing were done using TOF-TOFSeries Explorer (Sciex) and Data Explorer The spectra wereacquired in Reflectron positive mode from 500ndash3500 mzPeak lists were created using the following parameters apeak density of 10 per 25Da minimal signal-to-noise (SN)of 10 minimum area of 50 and a maximum peak per spotof 200 Second fragmentation MSMS was also performedvia postsource decay (PSD) using the 1 kV in positive ionacquisition mode
25 Nano-HPLC ESI MSMS Prior to injection for LCMS the peptide sample (3 120583L) underwent sample cleanupusing C18 ZipTip (Millipore MA USA) The eluted peptideswere then dried and concentrated by the Vacufuge vacuumconcentrator (Eppendorf Germany) This was performed atRT for 10minutes at 14000 rpmOnce dried the peptideswereresuspended in 10 120583L of 01 formic acid (Sigma Aldrich)with 8 120583L of this sample injected to LC MS
Nano-HPLC was carried out on an Thermo ScientificEasy nLC II instrument (Thermo Scientific CA USA) The85-minute gradient composition ranged from 5 to 55 ofsolvent B which was 975 acetonitrile and 01 formic acid(Sigma Aldrich) Solvent A is 01 FA in water The flow rateused was 200 nLmin at a pressure of 280 bar The volumeof sample injected was 8 120583L ESI was conducted using avoltage of 20 kV with an ion transfer capillary temperatureof 2500∘C
MS analyses were performed on a Thermo Scientificlinear trap quadrupole (LTQ) Velos ion mass spectrom-eter (Thermo Scientific) Positive mode data acquisitionsand processing were done using Thermo Xcalibur 210SP11162 software (Thermo Scientific USA) The MS scanmz range used was 0ndash2000 MSMS was done via collisioninduced dissociation (CID) using helium (He) as the inertgas
26Database Searches AllMALDIMSspectrawere searchedagainst the Uniprot protein database (SwissProt 2015 02547 599 entries) on MASCOT provided by Matrix Science(httpwwwmatrixsciencecom) The search parametersused forC albicanswere (1) trypsinwith onemissed cleavage(2) fungi as the taxonomy (3) a variable modification forthe oxidation of methionine and (4) a mass tolerance ofplusmn70 ppm
All ESI MSMS spectra were run through the ThermoProteome Discoverer version 130339 software (ThermoFisher Scientific Inc USA) using the algorithm known asSEQUEST The C albicans database chosen to search resultsagainst was the UniProt Knowledgebase more commonlyknown as UniProtKB (UniProt Consortium httpwwwuniprotorg)Thedata analysis programSEQUESTwas usedfor protein identification The search parameters were asfollows (1) enzymatic cleavage by trypsin with up to 2missedcleavages (2) signal-to-noise ratio (SN) of 15 (3) precursormass tolerance of plusmn2Da and (4) fragment mass tolerance ofplusmn08Da
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2 120583m
(a) Control
2 120583m
(b) 30120583gmL
2 120583m
(c) 25120583gmL
2 120583m
(d) 20120583gmL
Figure 2 Microscope images of C albicans adhered on slides after a 2-hour treatment with Histatin 5 The concentrations of HTN5 areindicated in (bndashd) with units of 120583gmL The average cell counts (119899 = 4) with standard deviations were (a) 110 plusmn 8 (b) 16 plusmn 8 (c) 25 plusmn 5 and(d) 42 plusmn 4
3 Results and Discussion
31 C albicans Cell Adhesion and HTN5 Treatment Our re-search team previously studied and reported fungicidal activ-ity of HTN5 on C albicans [24] The results indicated thatpreexposition of HTN5 to oral epithelial cells diminishedthe adhesion of C albicans to the epithelium Since theminiaturized assay in this work is performed on adheredcells it is important to determine an optimal dosage ofHTN5which is sufficient to cause detected changes in proteinabundance but not too high to eradicate and desorb all cellsfrom the glass surface
To begin we reproduced the adhesion of C albicans onHSA-coated glass surfaces as previously reported [5] andthen the cells were treated with varying concentrations ofHTN5 Given the physiological concentration ofHTN5 in theoral cavity 10ndash30 120583M[31] we performedHTN5 treatments at20 25 and 30 120583gmL (Figures 2(b) and 2(c)) A 2-hour treat-ment time was selected based on the previous observationthat 90min was sufficient to cause a reduction in C albicanscolonization [24] Figure 2 shows the typical microscopicalviews of the adhered cells after HTN5 treatments Theaverage cell count numbers presented in the caption referto counts within the microscopical views As expected areduction in cell counts after exposure to HTN5 was evidentand the effect was greater at higher HTN5 concentration
Given that sufficient cells remained adhered even at thehighest concentration studied 30 120583gmL we chose to use thisconcentration in subsequent HTN5 treatments to maximizechanges in the C albicans protein levels
32 Tryptic Digestions Performed on Adhered Cells Prior toperforming digestion of C albicans cells adhered on glasssurfaces an optimization of the tryptic digestion conditionswas conducted The first objective was to determine theshortest reaction time require to complete a digestion withan excess quantity of trypsin We chose to conduct thisstudy on a standard protein cytochrome c In contrast toworking with cells the use of a standard protein allows us toeasily control the amount of starting materials and providesa set of well-defined tryptic peptide products as the reactionend-point Triplicate digestions at RT were conducted underthe concentrations of 005mgmL for cytochrome c and05mgmL for trypsin at a total volume of less than 1 120583LThereaction time durations studied were 025 05 075 1 2 3 45 10 15 20 25 30 and 60 minutes It was observed that theshorter digestion times of 15 seconds to 4 minutes producedconsiderably low peptide signals (data not shown) The mostcritical changes in number of peptides andor peak intensitiesoccurred between 5 and 15 minutes of digestion time A totalof eight tryptic peaks of cytochrome c with up to 1 missedcleavage were detected (119898119911 of 63439 116862 126058
International Journal of Proteomics 5
129672 145481 149570 159878 and 163382) The changesin peak intensities of these eight peptides between digestionperiods of 5 to 15 minutes are shown in Figure S1 (seeSupporting Information in Supplementary Material availableonline at httpdxdoiorg10115520169812829) Essentiallyhighest signals were recorded from the digestion time of 10minutes Beyond 10 minutes the digestion appeared to becompleted and the opposing effect of peptide loss due tononspecific adsorption on surfaces was speculated
Using the optimal digestion time of 10 minutes forcytochrome c we subsequently optimized the trypsin con-centration for the adhered C albicans cells The trypsinconcentrations used for this experiment were 05 075 115 and 2120583gmL Five replicate digestion experiments wereconducted by depositing 3 120583L of trypsin solution at variousconcentrations on adhered cells as shown in Figure 1 Fromthe 25 resulting mass spectra peaks with SN above 10were extracted for their values of 119898119911 and peak heightBackground signals from trypsin and HSA were removedfrom the list and averages of peak intensities were takenfrom replicates The two lowest concentrations studied 05and 075 120583gmL resulted in noticeably fewer peaks andso only the results from the higher three concentrationswere shown in Table S1 (under Supporting Information)Based on the number of signals observed our results indi-cated that 15 120583gmL was the optimal In addition the peakintensities were also highest at this concentration in mostcases
Once again the optimal digestion time of 10min waspreviously determined using cytochrome c In case thisoptimal value is substrate-specific we reexamined the effectof digestion time for C albicans at a trypsin concentrationof 15 120583gmL Four digestion times 5 10 15 and 20 minutesin replicates of four were studied The results are presentedin Table S2 which confirmed that 10 minutes remainedto be optimal in yielding the highest number of signalsPrevious work performed the isolation of surface peptidesfrom C albicans in solution under digestion times from fiveto twenty minutes [28] They reported that five minutes wassufficient for the release of easily accessible surface peptidesand as the time was increased the number of resultingpeptides increased as well Our data generally agreed withtheir observations Even though the greatest number of peakswas observed at 10 minutes the peak intensities of somepeaks continued to increase beyond 10 minutes for example119898119911 of 6560 8514 11115 and 24470 However we havenot yet confirmed which of these signals originated fromC albicans and thus the comparison should not be basedon the intensities of selected peaks This led us back to theconclusion of 10 minutes being optimal based on the highestnumber of observed peaks
Most importantly the results demonstrated the successfultryptic digestion performed on C albicans adhered on glasswith as little as 3 120583L of trypsin solution Using the establishedoptimal reaction time of 10min and trypsin concentration of15 120583gmL digestions were performed finally on C albicanscells treated with HTN5 The resulting peptides were recov-ered for analysis by LC ESI MSMS for identification
33 Analyses of Peptides from C albicans by Nano-HPLCESI MSMS ESI MS and MSMS data were generated forsamples collected from the tryptic digestion of C albicanscells with and without HTN5 treatments The entire studywas performed in replicates of six for each of the two groupsand the results were searched against the C albicans databasefor protein identification It is noteworthy that the natureof our miniaturized assay while reducing the consumptionof reagents and cells also produces a limited quantity ofpeptides for protein identification It was estimated that lessthan 2 120583g of materials was injected for each LC MS analysisFor this reason we have taken a less stringent approachin setting our database search parameters and so we caninclude results with moderate to high levels of confidenceFurthermore instead of focusing only on peptides withsubstantial changes in abundance after exposure to HTN5we also take the inclusive approach and present the differentlevels of abundance changes resulting from the treatmentTo help readers distinguishing the peptides detected withincreased intensities from those with reduced intensitiesfollowing HTN5 treatment the results are divided into twotables Table 1 presents the precursor ions with averageintensities that were higher from the HTN5 treated samplescompared to the control whereas Table 2 shows the ionswith lower intensities from the treated group compared tothe control The 119901 values resulting from 119905-test are included inthe tables to illustrate the significance of the signal intensitychanges Entries with high119901 values (gt01) should be treated asstatistically indistinguishable The signal intensities of theseions were highly variable within the replicate measurementswhich resulted in large standard deviations and low statisticalconfidences
The confidences of protein assignments were also illus-trated in the tables as 119883Corr values 119883Corr values above 2 areusually indicative of a good correlation It is noteworthy thatsome observed precursor ions were matched with multipletheoretical precursor ions for example observed119898119911 129759was matched with theoretical 119898119911 129854 129749 129769129770 129775 and 129867 Readers should take into accountthe 119883Corr scores when interpreting the results as some ofthese protein assignments are only putative Finally theprotein entries were sorted according to their biologicalfunctions but these listed functions were taken straight outof the Uniprot database based on the accession numbersresulting from the search (listed next to the protein names inTables 1 and 2) Further experimental verifications were notconducted in this work
In the previous study of peptides resulting from cellshaving of C albicans in solution [28] the authors reportedthe detection of proteins with the following functionsmetabolism cell defense and virulence transport and pro-tein fate Likewise the profiling ofC albicans surface proteinswas reported by two other groups in different analyticalapproaches [29 32] Broadly speaking similar functions wereobserved in Tables 1 and 2 While these previous reportsoffered more comprehensive listings of proteins with cellwall functions our work focused on the changes in surfaceproteins upon HTN5 treatment
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(UniProt
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128483
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Y81)
3303
465996
466019
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
RRS
VSYS
PGPsSIKS
QLP
HLT
SSST
TtssVQ
SPP
PPPP
SQPP
RG
361
417360
417373
2400
0plusmn
1200
1300
0plusmn
1200
000
0014
KtV
TsIN
GSP
PPLE
tAPsSH
HNVPIDFIHFK
KESD
RT
Uncharacterized
protein
(A0A
0A3E
PD4)
3312
436859
436789
3300
0plusmn
2100
07100plusmn
1300
0020
KNMQFP
PYQVS
sHNsSEtSQ
sIPN
TPSITR
QVE
SNTR
S
Transcrip
tionalregulatory
proteinLE
U3
(A0A
0A3B
TY8)
3354
436790
KtPTT
TTTT
TTtANGNTS
NGNTS
NGNsTGKT
ATA
ATAT
KSNtK
Transcrip
tionproteinfamilylowast
(A0A
0A3C
3Y1)
319
Protein
synthesis
80477
80541
4200
0plusmn
2200
01900
0plusmn
3100
0034
KQTS
LNDKC
Manno
syltransfe
rase
familylowast
(A0A
0A3C
UB4
)1
254
80445
RVKI
DSD
KS
ProteintransporterS
EC24
(A0A
0A3E
HG4)
151
117588
117398
6400
0plusmn
3900
2200
0plusmn
1100lt000
001
KTK
QFN
DsK
KK
Vesic
letetheringprotein
familylowast
(A0A
0A6K
IG6)
1201
128483
128372
2700
0plusmn
9500
1400
0plusmn
2800
0016
KtAGsN
HNsEKK
Ribo
somalRN
A-processin
gprotein12
(A0A
0A4B
GJ7)
1251
412103
411993
3100
0plusmn
2300
01700
0plusmn
7200
013
KFF
sDNIANDLA
tTTT
TTTT
TNTG
AtSV
HPIL
QVDAIK
YCA
SCS
Eproteinfamilylowast
(A0A
0A6L
8P2)
3324
436859
437093
3300
0plusmn
2100
07100plusmn
1300
0020
KES
SSTA
DQPS
VVPP
QES
HKD
TVET
PKPE
VtEtsV
EAtKE
Transla
tioninitiationfactor
4G(A
0A0A
4CDK4
)3
299
436703
KNPT
PTPT
PTPT
PTPN
NLA
QGVDsSST
LDV
EtTL
tGLtRR
I
Imidazoleglycerolpho
sphate
synthase
cycla
sesubu
nit
(A0A
0A6I238)
321
8 International Journal of Proteomics
Table1Con
tinued
Biological
functio
n
Observed
precursor
mz
Theoretic
alprecursor
mz
MSsig
nal
intensities
119901values
Aminoacid
sequ
ence
Proteinname
(UniProt
AccessionNum
ber)
Charges119883
Corr
Con
trol
HTN
5tre
ated
Sign
allin
g
350340
350460
4300
0plusmn
8300
3100
0plusmn
2500
0013
KRS
SITtPtPP
LTTT
HSSNGNGNGNV
NVNVNsK
R
Peroxisometransmem
brane
receptorlowast
(A0A
0A3Z
WC2
)3
330
411551
411676
3100
0plusmn
2000
01700
0plusmn
7200
0017
KQST
TNTsTL
ssTtAAST
LATS
NNTQ
PDTY
TSTS
TSIRG
Pleckstrin
homologydo
mainlowast
(A0A
0A6L
5L9)
3333
441651
441487
2900
0plusmn
2700
01600
0plusmn
1100
010
RQHPD
PLSN
QsN
FNsN
TINNYS
NYR
SsTRS
GLD
PsQRH
RhoGTP
asea
ctivating
proteindo
mainlowast
(A0A
0A3B
MU5)
3412
465996
466032
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
KDLP
IGYILH
mIN
LcPN
IVsLNLG
NLSLsTD
YEISRS
TIHKY
F-bo
xproteinCO
S111
(A0A
0A3C
YY6)
3368
465821
KWNKE
KIEL
DsPLIVS
YVSSLC
NGGGGGIIT
NsTNST
ttNSK
Pentatric
opeptid
erepeat
(PPR
)protein
familylowast
(A0A
0A3C
GE7
)111
Misc
ellaneou
s
128483
128542
2700
0plusmn
9500
1400
0plusmn
2800
0016
RNDsD
tsLsK
EInsulin
indu
cedprotein
familylowast
(A0A
0A3C
RM0)
116
6RYtmNEV
FKV
GYF
domainlowast
(A0A
0A3C
0N8)
333128
333159
6300
0plusmn
1200
1400
0plusmn
1400lt000
001
ETsQ
FMGNAES
EDLtGNGLL
TSTL
AVLS
SIS
Orfin
Calbicans
major
repeat
sequ
enceR
B2region
(Q5A
475)
3315
333128
333244
6300
0plusmn
1200
1400
0plusmn
1400
023
KLS
SLGNHGTtTT
SSLS
SSsSsSIsNNT
SIAKI
CBSdo
mainlowast
(A0A
0A6JTB
4)3
346
337660
337659
4300
0plusmn
1200
03300
0plusmn
2800
0RKQ
QDQNEV
AGAAAAT
TTTA
tAtAT
AAT
NWKP
KN
321
349815
349857
3400
0plusmn
8900
1800
0plusmn
1600
00054
KSSsLIK
NsTsSNQSsPA
TSTN
TSIV
DVPIEK
SWDrepeatproteinlowast
(A0A
0A3C
A48)
3321
417360
417295
2400
0plusmn
1200
1300
0plusmn
1200
000
0014
RIN
NNNDKs
sILsNITTT
NTT
TGTG
TTNTtT
VPS
IKTK
R(A
0A0A
6IY5
3)424
349815
349948
3400
0plusmn
8900
1800
0plusmn
1600
00054
KAFS
SsKL
TSDSA
NStNStNsTSM
SILG
NDKD
CDKinhibitorP
HO81
(A0A
0A6M
Y31)
3316
389536
389486
3600
0plusmn
4100
2600
0plusmn
3100
00037
RISRP
NGVG
GISTS
GSSSP
TTEF
VTP
QAs
KsSV
DQNKK
RUbiqu
itininteractingmotiflowast
(C4Y
NW3)
3329
442103
442109
3200
0plusmn
1900
01700
0plusmn
7200
0080
RHLILG
YKItV
VtDHQSLTsVMTS
SSRP
ENNRM
IRW
Aspartic
peptidasefam
ilylowast
(A0A
0A4C
VF8
)3
383
393914
394016
3600
0plusmn
2400
01700
0plusmn
1800
000026
RNVNGSG
StNtN
TMtRLD
sTTIASSLF
CRQLY
FNLL
SKD
Globinfamilylowast
(A0A
0A4C
D75)
3311
437257
437390
9600plusmn
4600
5400plusmn
1800
0058
RNNsT
VSST
NSL
mSN
NsD
TNtAAT
AAT
AAT
SGS
TTNNVKR
M(A
0A0A
3XE4
6)338
International Journal of Proteomics 9
Table1Con
tinued
Biological
functio
n
Observed
precursor
mz
Theoretic
alprecursor
mz
MSsig
nal
intensities
119901values
Aminoacid
sequ
ence
Proteinname
(UniProt
AccessionNum
ber)
Charges119883
Corr
Con
trol
HTN
5tre
ated
441615
441482
2900
0plusmn
2700
01600
0plusmn
1100
010
RNGtYSSsStSSSsTSSVS
SSSA
TTANGES
LNST
THNIQ
LERT
Sec2plowast
(A0A
0A6JGN5)
3289
465996
466133
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
KQNYV
DPG
QIAIKGLK
GFV
NLG
AtCF
MssILQtLIH
NPL
IKY
Ubiqu
itincarboxyl-te
rminal
hydrolase
(C4Y
KS7)
3369
466093
KYD
KPmED
TEEIDDVtSISK
sINEQ
IDDPF
sQFN
SVTL
RY
Protein-serin
ethreon
ine
kinase
(A0A
0A4A
NB2
)35
1
Uncharacterized
117588
117373
6400
0plusmn
4000
2200
0plusmn
1100lt000
001
KtIm
tItIK
I(Q
59T3
9)1
207
333128
333260
6300
0plusmn
1200
1400
0plusmn
1400lt000
001
RIsNIITL
NSSLS
SSsSsSSSsSSLLL
LTL
KS
(Q5A
AP9
)3
311
389536
389370
3600
0plusmn
4100
2600
0plusmn
3100
00034
KTT
PVMGNSStPST
VtANtN
tGAY
STSSDTA
AKP
TKKA
(A0A
0A6JKT
0)3
314
393914
394074
3600
0plusmn
2400
01700
0plusmn
1800
000026
KTT
PVMGNSStPST
VtANtN
tGAY
STSSDTA
AKP
TKKA
(A0A
0A6JKT
0)3
346
411551
411679
3100
0plusmn
2000
01700
0plusmn
7200
0017
KTV
CNWQtLGHTD
EFEE
stQFA
RGVS
DtAL
VGGITKL
(Q59K0
1)
3
218
411482
TCG
KSCF
INSttANKL
IsYN
LFQSStEVDS
IGPT
GSK
T(Q
59KZ
4)386
41162
KTT
PVMGNSsTP
STVTA
NTN
TGAY
STSsDt
AAKP
TKKA
TKR
(A0A
0A6JKT
0)391
411504
RILLL
LPLL
GVtILTS
KSSLES
ISLN
sPSD
SIALssSKS
(Q5A
H83)
234
441651
441518
2900
0plusmn
2700
01600
0plusmn
1100
010
KST
SSANIKtKPK
PNTA
TtAT
TPTA
tTAT
TtA
TTSSID
PTEK
D(A
0A0A
4CH02)
3259
442103
441999
3200
0plusmn
1900
01700
0plusmn
7200
0080
RLS
GtN
NPG
sGsG
sGGGGGGGANNNSLPG
YSV
GSSIG
RGRG
LGRG
(A0A
0A6LWB8
)3
189
436859
436693
3300
0plusmn
2100
07100plusmn
1300
0020
KNYN
QFK
LIEL
DDSM
NTT
TTTT
TTTT
tTttT
tTST
IGKF
(A0A
0A6M
D82)
3376
436787
KSK
sTTIHNQSN
IHSE
QISIN
DEN
NNKS
tstS
TSTD
TKK
(A0A
0A3E
QM3)
132
437257
437082
9600plusmn
4600
5400plusmn1800
0058
KSSGGSSDTK
SVWIAtTGSD
FASQ
SNSD
SsStASR
NSSSSASR
Q(A
0A0A
3BP13)
3246
437317
KEsEG
VWGWsLQCL
LLLF
TKVNLR
scDQL
LICA
LVIRE
(Q5A
KS1)
299
465996
466136
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
KVILIG
NSM
TsRT
TsSV
RFFSIM
LTVS
LPItN
ILVsSEL
SKV
(A0A
0A3B
Z01)
3311
10 International Journal of Proteomics
Table 2 Proteins identified from a miniaturized assay of HTN5 treatment of C albicans with increased MS signals Average MS signalsand their standard deviations were calculated based on six replicates Proteins indicated with an asterisk (lowast) have been determined usingtheir associated protein families Lower case letters in amino acid sequences indicated modified residues Blank spaces indicated proteinsunidentified by the databases
Biologicalfunction
Observedprecursor119898119911
Theoreticalprecursor119898119911
Ion counts119901 values Amino acid sequence Protein name Charges 119883CorrBefore After
Surface-associated 129759 129854 18000 plusmn
880051000 plusmn5400 000042 KKPsTEDtFSKY
Peroxisomal proteinfamilylowast
(A0A0A6JC81)1 182
Mitochondrial-associated 129759 129749 18000 plusmn
880051000 plusmn5400 000042 RNsIttEsVKA
Aldehyde hydrogenasefamilylowast
(A0A0A3BNV6)1 203
DNA binding
57544 57645 9700 plusmn1000
28000 plusmn6200 000055 KSLLSRI
Telomerase reversetranscriptase familylowast
(C4YDL3)1 154
129759
12977518000 plusmn8800
51000 plusmn5400 000042
KNVIPAtItKV Spt6(D3IZV2)
1
154
129867 KEFTIGPFKcIKW
Transcriptionalregulatory protein
familylowast(A0A0A3CXJ5)
156
Miscellaneous57544 57631 9700 plusmn
110028000 plusmn6200 000055 RSLNSRI ATPase familylowast
(A0A0A4CD62) 1 315
190171 190374 7800 plusmn3900
13000 plusmn2300 0025 KNKATssSSStsRDTRW Leucine rich repeatslowast
(C4YMX3) 2 319
Uncharacterized 129759 129769 18000 plusmn8800
51000 plusmn5400 000042 RNNTtVSKGRIKV (A0A0A6M207) 1 151
129770 KKHQtHILNVKS (A0A0A6HZ28) 160
In another previous study quantitative LC MS wasperformed to characterize changes in the mitochondrialproteome of C albicans upon HTN5 treatments [33] Theauthors reported an upregulation of mitochondrial proteinsmainly involved in genomemaintenance and gene expressionand a downregulation for respiratory enzyme complexesIn our work the MS analysis was performed on samplesresulted from the tryptic shaving of adhered intact cellsGiven that the two approaches focused on different parts ofthe proteome we should not directly compare the proteinsidentified from these studies It suffices to conclude that ageneral decrease in MS signals was observed in our workfor many virulence- and surface-associated proteins afterHTN5 treatment as onewould expect Finally readers shouldbe reminded that the peptide sample quantity producedfrom our miniaturized technique was substantially lowerthan that typically used in previous studies due to thelower amount of starting materials in our work Neverthe-less one could alleviate this limitation by increasing thedensity of adhered cells on glass with a cell suspension ofhigher concentration andor by increasing the surface areaused of each assay which is defined by the hydrophobicboundary made by the user An increase in cell numberper assay will directly increase the quantity of peptidesproduced for LC MS analysis and subsequently improve thenumber of proteins identified andor the confidence of theidentification
4 Conclusions
This paper reported successful miniaturization of the trypticdigestion of surface proteins performed on whole cellsIn particular C albicans were adhered on glass surfacewhere introduction and removal of reagent solutions wereconveniently conducted with a micropipette Compared tothe use of cells suspended in solutions our treatment ofadhered cells also better resembles the antifungal treat-ment of C albicans cells adhered on tissues in the oralcavity Importantly the reduction in reagent volumes frommL to 120583L levels will allow users to perform many morereplicate assays while keeping an overall low consump-tion of reagents and cells Nevertheless the downside ofthe miniaturization is the reduced peptide sample quantityresulting from the LC MS analysis which could reducethe confidence of the protein identification Ultimatelyresearchers should select methods based on their purposesIn this case the miniaturized approach with adhered cellsis more effective for high-throughput screenings of celltypes or fungicides while the batch mode with suspendedcells is more suitable for a comprehensive profiling of theproteome
Disclosure
The paper is a part of MS thesis work of S Fan [34] WalterL Siqueira andKenK-C Yeung areCoprincipal Investigators
International Journal of Proteomics 11
Competing Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests
Acknowledgments
The work was funded by the University of Western Ontariothe Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council ofCanada (NSERC) and the Canadian Institutes of HealthResearch (CIHR) Walter L Siqueira is recipient of CIHRNew Investigator Salary Award The authors acknowledgeMs Kristina Jurcic for assistance in MALDI MS data acqui-sition and processing and Ms Tayebeh Basiri for insightfuladvices in fungal culturing Permission to access the Univer-sity of Western Ontario MALDI Mass Spectrometry Facilityis also acknowledged
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Microbiology
2 International Journal of Proteomics
complexity of the proteome and background of lysed cellssample cleanup andor fractionation is crucial to obtaininghigh qualityMSdata [16]The identification of a large numberof proteins also requires a substantial effort in data analysisAlternatively the analysis of intact whole cells offers thebenefit of reduced complexity Anhalt and Fenselau wereamong the earliest to report the analysis of whole cellsfor species identification [20] Through gentle heating inthe ion source phospholipids were vaporized leading tothe production of characteristic mass spectra Alternativelyspecies identification through proteins and peptides fromwhole cell analyses has also been reported [21ndash23]
When applying MS to study changes in protein levels ofC albicans upon treatment with HTN5 the global approachof studying the total proteome was certainly appropriateHowever our group previously observed a reduction incell adhesion property upon administration of HTN5 in90 minutes suggesting an effect of HTN5 on the surfaceproteins [24] Hence the targeted approach on the surfaceproteins is logical for studying the influence of HTN5 In2006 Rodrıguez-Ortega et al reported a protocol calledldquocell shavingrdquo which allowed them to focus on proteinspartially exposed on the outside of cells [25] This was doneby subjecting whole live cells to proteolytic enzymes in asolution The surface peptides cleaved from intact cells weresubsequently isolated for MS analyses Others have alsoused a similar approach towards studying surface proteinsfrom other fungal and bacterial species [26 27] Despite itseffectiveness the procedure of ldquocell shavingrdquo is still generallytime-consuming Cells grown in media were harvested andwashed followed by overnight tryptic digestion for 18ndash20hours in mL volume solution The sample mixture was thencentrifuged and the supernatant was collected for fraction-ation andor enrichment prior to injection into the liquidchromatography-mass spectrometer [28ndash30] Furthermoreto overcome biological variation and growth variability theentire procedure was typically repeated for multiple timesthus requiring large quantities of cells and reagents
In this study the aim is to refine and miniaturize theexisting cell shaving technique by performing the procedureson adhered C albicans cells rather than suspended cells insolution We will demonstrate that the attachment of cells onsurfaces allows easy introduction and removal of 120583L volumereagents solutions with a micropipette Furthermore treat-ment with antifungal peptide HTN5 is readily performedon the adhered cells We will also demonstrate that the 120583Lsample volume resulting from our miniaturized approachis directly compatible with subsequent MALDI MS andorLC ESI MSMS analyses Importantly the resulting MS datashould be comparable to previous information obtained withthe conventional in solution approach that required muchlarger quantities of reagent and cells
2 Materials and Methods
21 C albicans Culturing The strain of C albicans used forall experiments was ATCC90028 Stock cultures of cells weregrown on plates containing Sabouraud dextrose agar (SDA)medium (Becton Dickson and Company NJ USA) The
(a)
(b)
(c)
Figure 1 Schematics of the miniaturized procedures of cell adhe-sion treatment and tryptic digestion Description is presented inMaterials and Methods
inoculated plates were incubated at 37∘C for 48 hours A thirdof a loop of the colonies were transferred into 45mL of yeastnitrogen base (YNB) supplemented with 50mM sucrose(Sigma Aldrich MO USA) The mixture was then incubatedat 37∘C for 21 hours under shaking at 200 rpm Following theincubation the mixture was centrifuged at 6000 rpm for 5minutes The pellet was resuspended in phosphate bufferedsaline solution (PBS pH 74 Sigma Aldrich) The final cellsuspension was stored at 4∘C until use
22 Adhesion of C albicans to Glass Slides and TreatmentwithHTN5 ADakodelimiting pen composed of 60ndash100 1-bromopropane and 5ndash10 dipentene (Cedarlane BurlingtonCA) was used to draw circles with an inner diameter ofroughly 6mm on standard microscope glass slides (Fig-ure 1(a)) The hydrophobic ink functioned as a barrier tosurround a droplet of aqueous sample solution A total ofthree circles were made on each glass slide (Figure 1(b))During an experiment each sample spot was covered with aninverted glass vial containing a wet cotton which maintaineda high humidity environment and minimized evaporation ofthe sample droplet (Figure 1(c)) To prepare for cell adhesionthe glass surface within the hydrophobic circles was treatedwith 25 120583L of 010mgmL human serum albumin (HSA)solution (Sigma Aldrich) for 2 hours at room temperature(RT) based on a protocol previously reported by our group[5] The HSA-coated surface was then washed three timeswith water Next 25120583L of C albicans suspension at aconcentration of 107 cellsmL was introduced to the HSA-coated slideThe adhesion was carried out under a 90-minute
International Journal of Proteomics 3
incubation at RT The surface with adhered cells was thenrinsed three times with PBS to remove the unattached cellsFor theHTN5 treatment 25120583L ofHTN5 solution (ChinaPep-tides Company Shanghai China) at various concentrationswas deposited to the cells When not specified a HTN5concentration of 30120583gmL was used The HTN5 treatmentwas done for 90min at RT which was the minimum time toobserve a clear effect of HTN5 on C albicans [24] The finalsamples of treated cells on the glass slide were washed threetimes with water
23 Tryptic Digestions on Solid Support In a previous reportthe trypsin digestion of surface proteins on C albicanscells suspended in buffer solution was performed at atrypsin concentration of 10 120583gmL trypsin for up to 20min[28] The authors also performed propidium iodide stainingexperiment to confirm that the C albicans cells were notpermeabilized by trypsin In this work digestions wereperformed on adhered C albicans cells with or withoutHTN5 treatment on glass surfaces within the hydropho-bic circles at RT It was therefore necessary to reoptimizethe digestion time and trypsin concentration Due to thelarge number of experiments required to map these twoparameters we decided to first evaluate the digestion usinga standard protein cytochrome c from horse heart (Cata-logue number C2506 Sigma Aldrich) For all digestions inthis work tosyl phenylalanyl chloromethyl ketone- (TPCK-)treated trypsin resuspended in 50mM ammonium bicarbon-ate (Sigma Aldrich) was used
To determine the optimal digestion time for cytochromec a very high concentration of trypsin was initially usedto ensure that it was not a limiting factor Specifically036 120583L of 01mgmL cytochrome c was mixed with 036120583Lof 10mgmL trypsin to perform the digestion directly on aMALDI sample target plate under a range of digestion timesfrom 025 to 60min After the optimal time was determinedbased on MALDI MS results which turned out to be 10minthe digestion was then performed on adhered C albicanscells The trypsin concentration used was reduced to a rangecomparable to that reported in the literature [28] namely 05to 20120583gmL and a volume of 3 120583L was used The optimaltrypsin concentration was determined to be 15 120583gmL basedon MALDI MS results Finally using this trypsin concentra-tion we reexamined the digestion time study with adheredC albicans cells The MALDI MS results confirmed that theoptimal digestion time remained at 10min Finally followingthe digestion step performed on C albicans cells the trypsinsolution now with resulting peptides was recovered using amicropipette for subsequent MALDI MS or LC ESI MSMSanalyses
24 MALDI MS Analysis The 120572-cyano-4-hydroxycinnamicacid (CHCA) matrix solution was prepared at 55mgmL in6mM ammonium phosphate monobasic 50 acetonitrileand 01 trifluoroacetic acid (Sigma Aldrich) The recoveredpeptides 072120583L from cytochrome c or 3 120583L fromC albicanswere mixed in a 1 1 (vv) ratio with this CHCA matrix solu-tion All sample-matrix mixtures were spotted at a volumeof 075 120583L on a 384 well Opti-TOF 123 times 83mm SS MALDI
plate (Sciex MA USA) The instrument is equipped with a349 nm OptiBeam On-Axis laser with a pulse rate at 400HzData acquisition and processing were done using TOF-TOFSeries Explorer (Sciex) and Data Explorer The spectra wereacquired in Reflectron positive mode from 500ndash3500 mzPeak lists were created using the following parameters apeak density of 10 per 25Da minimal signal-to-noise (SN)of 10 minimum area of 50 and a maximum peak per spotof 200 Second fragmentation MSMS was also performedvia postsource decay (PSD) using the 1 kV in positive ionacquisition mode
25 Nano-HPLC ESI MSMS Prior to injection for LCMS the peptide sample (3 120583L) underwent sample cleanupusing C18 ZipTip (Millipore MA USA) The eluted peptideswere then dried and concentrated by the Vacufuge vacuumconcentrator (Eppendorf Germany) This was performed atRT for 10minutes at 14000 rpmOnce dried the peptideswereresuspended in 10 120583L of 01 formic acid (Sigma Aldrich)with 8 120583L of this sample injected to LC MS
Nano-HPLC was carried out on an Thermo ScientificEasy nLC II instrument (Thermo Scientific CA USA) The85-minute gradient composition ranged from 5 to 55 ofsolvent B which was 975 acetonitrile and 01 formic acid(Sigma Aldrich) Solvent A is 01 FA in water The flow rateused was 200 nLmin at a pressure of 280 bar The volumeof sample injected was 8 120583L ESI was conducted using avoltage of 20 kV with an ion transfer capillary temperatureof 2500∘C
MS analyses were performed on a Thermo Scientificlinear trap quadrupole (LTQ) Velos ion mass spectrom-eter (Thermo Scientific) Positive mode data acquisitionsand processing were done using Thermo Xcalibur 210SP11162 software (Thermo Scientific USA) The MS scanmz range used was 0ndash2000 MSMS was done via collisioninduced dissociation (CID) using helium (He) as the inertgas
26Database Searches AllMALDIMSspectrawere searchedagainst the Uniprot protein database (SwissProt 2015 02547 599 entries) on MASCOT provided by Matrix Science(httpwwwmatrixsciencecom) The search parametersused forC albicanswere (1) trypsinwith onemissed cleavage(2) fungi as the taxonomy (3) a variable modification forthe oxidation of methionine and (4) a mass tolerance ofplusmn70 ppm
All ESI MSMS spectra were run through the ThermoProteome Discoverer version 130339 software (ThermoFisher Scientific Inc USA) using the algorithm known asSEQUEST The C albicans database chosen to search resultsagainst was the UniProt Knowledgebase more commonlyknown as UniProtKB (UniProt Consortium httpwwwuniprotorg)Thedata analysis programSEQUESTwas usedfor protein identification The search parameters were asfollows (1) enzymatic cleavage by trypsin with up to 2missedcleavages (2) signal-to-noise ratio (SN) of 15 (3) precursormass tolerance of plusmn2Da and (4) fragment mass tolerance ofplusmn08Da
4 International Journal of Proteomics
2 120583m
(a) Control
2 120583m
(b) 30120583gmL
2 120583m
(c) 25120583gmL
2 120583m
(d) 20120583gmL
Figure 2 Microscope images of C albicans adhered on slides after a 2-hour treatment with Histatin 5 The concentrations of HTN5 areindicated in (bndashd) with units of 120583gmL The average cell counts (119899 = 4) with standard deviations were (a) 110 plusmn 8 (b) 16 plusmn 8 (c) 25 plusmn 5 and(d) 42 plusmn 4
3 Results and Discussion
31 C albicans Cell Adhesion and HTN5 Treatment Our re-search team previously studied and reported fungicidal activ-ity of HTN5 on C albicans [24] The results indicated thatpreexposition of HTN5 to oral epithelial cells diminishedthe adhesion of C albicans to the epithelium Since theminiaturized assay in this work is performed on adheredcells it is important to determine an optimal dosage ofHTN5which is sufficient to cause detected changes in proteinabundance but not too high to eradicate and desorb all cellsfrom the glass surface
To begin we reproduced the adhesion of C albicans onHSA-coated glass surfaces as previously reported [5] andthen the cells were treated with varying concentrations ofHTN5 Given the physiological concentration ofHTN5 in theoral cavity 10ndash30 120583M[31] we performedHTN5 treatments at20 25 and 30 120583gmL (Figures 2(b) and 2(c)) A 2-hour treat-ment time was selected based on the previous observationthat 90min was sufficient to cause a reduction in C albicanscolonization [24] Figure 2 shows the typical microscopicalviews of the adhered cells after HTN5 treatments Theaverage cell count numbers presented in the caption referto counts within the microscopical views As expected areduction in cell counts after exposure to HTN5 was evidentand the effect was greater at higher HTN5 concentration
Given that sufficient cells remained adhered even at thehighest concentration studied 30 120583gmL we chose to use thisconcentration in subsequent HTN5 treatments to maximizechanges in the C albicans protein levels
32 Tryptic Digestions Performed on Adhered Cells Prior toperforming digestion of C albicans cells adhered on glasssurfaces an optimization of the tryptic digestion conditionswas conducted The first objective was to determine theshortest reaction time require to complete a digestion withan excess quantity of trypsin We chose to conduct thisstudy on a standard protein cytochrome c In contrast toworking with cells the use of a standard protein allows us toeasily control the amount of starting materials and providesa set of well-defined tryptic peptide products as the reactionend-point Triplicate digestions at RT were conducted underthe concentrations of 005mgmL for cytochrome c and05mgmL for trypsin at a total volume of less than 1 120583LThereaction time durations studied were 025 05 075 1 2 3 45 10 15 20 25 30 and 60 minutes It was observed that theshorter digestion times of 15 seconds to 4 minutes producedconsiderably low peptide signals (data not shown) The mostcritical changes in number of peptides andor peak intensitiesoccurred between 5 and 15 minutes of digestion time A totalof eight tryptic peaks of cytochrome c with up to 1 missedcleavage were detected (119898119911 of 63439 116862 126058
International Journal of Proteomics 5
129672 145481 149570 159878 and 163382) The changesin peak intensities of these eight peptides between digestionperiods of 5 to 15 minutes are shown in Figure S1 (seeSupporting Information in Supplementary Material availableonline at httpdxdoiorg10115520169812829) Essentiallyhighest signals were recorded from the digestion time of 10minutes Beyond 10 minutes the digestion appeared to becompleted and the opposing effect of peptide loss due tononspecific adsorption on surfaces was speculated
Using the optimal digestion time of 10 minutes forcytochrome c we subsequently optimized the trypsin con-centration for the adhered C albicans cells The trypsinconcentrations used for this experiment were 05 075 115 and 2120583gmL Five replicate digestion experiments wereconducted by depositing 3 120583L of trypsin solution at variousconcentrations on adhered cells as shown in Figure 1 Fromthe 25 resulting mass spectra peaks with SN above 10were extracted for their values of 119898119911 and peak heightBackground signals from trypsin and HSA were removedfrom the list and averages of peak intensities were takenfrom replicates The two lowest concentrations studied 05and 075 120583gmL resulted in noticeably fewer peaks andso only the results from the higher three concentrationswere shown in Table S1 (under Supporting Information)Based on the number of signals observed our results indi-cated that 15 120583gmL was the optimal In addition the peakintensities were also highest at this concentration in mostcases
Once again the optimal digestion time of 10min waspreviously determined using cytochrome c In case thisoptimal value is substrate-specific we reexamined the effectof digestion time for C albicans at a trypsin concentrationof 15 120583gmL Four digestion times 5 10 15 and 20 minutesin replicates of four were studied The results are presentedin Table S2 which confirmed that 10 minutes remainedto be optimal in yielding the highest number of signalsPrevious work performed the isolation of surface peptidesfrom C albicans in solution under digestion times from fiveto twenty minutes [28] They reported that five minutes wassufficient for the release of easily accessible surface peptidesand as the time was increased the number of resultingpeptides increased as well Our data generally agreed withtheir observations Even though the greatest number of peakswas observed at 10 minutes the peak intensities of somepeaks continued to increase beyond 10 minutes for example119898119911 of 6560 8514 11115 and 24470 However we havenot yet confirmed which of these signals originated fromC albicans and thus the comparison should not be basedon the intensities of selected peaks This led us back to theconclusion of 10 minutes being optimal based on the highestnumber of observed peaks
Most importantly the results demonstrated the successfultryptic digestion performed on C albicans adhered on glasswith as little as 3 120583L of trypsin solution Using the establishedoptimal reaction time of 10min and trypsin concentration of15 120583gmL digestions were performed finally on C albicanscells treated with HTN5 The resulting peptides were recov-ered for analysis by LC ESI MSMS for identification
33 Analyses of Peptides from C albicans by Nano-HPLCESI MSMS ESI MS and MSMS data were generated forsamples collected from the tryptic digestion of C albicanscells with and without HTN5 treatments The entire studywas performed in replicates of six for each of the two groupsand the results were searched against the C albicans databasefor protein identification It is noteworthy that the natureof our miniaturized assay while reducing the consumptionof reagents and cells also produces a limited quantity ofpeptides for protein identification It was estimated that lessthan 2 120583g of materials was injected for each LC MS analysisFor this reason we have taken a less stringent approachin setting our database search parameters and so we caninclude results with moderate to high levels of confidenceFurthermore instead of focusing only on peptides withsubstantial changes in abundance after exposure to HTN5we also take the inclusive approach and present the differentlevels of abundance changes resulting from the treatmentTo help readers distinguishing the peptides detected withincreased intensities from those with reduced intensitiesfollowing HTN5 treatment the results are divided into twotables Table 1 presents the precursor ions with averageintensities that were higher from the HTN5 treated samplescompared to the control whereas Table 2 shows the ionswith lower intensities from the treated group compared tothe control The 119901 values resulting from 119905-test are included inthe tables to illustrate the significance of the signal intensitychanges Entries with high119901 values (gt01) should be treated asstatistically indistinguishable The signal intensities of theseions were highly variable within the replicate measurementswhich resulted in large standard deviations and low statisticalconfidences
The confidences of protein assignments were also illus-trated in the tables as 119883Corr values 119883Corr values above 2 areusually indicative of a good correlation It is noteworthy thatsome observed precursor ions were matched with multipletheoretical precursor ions for example observed119898119911 129759was matched with theoretical 119898119911 129854 129749 129769129770 129775 and 129867 Readers should take into accountthe 119883Corr scores when interpreting the results as some ofthese protein assignments are only putative Finally theprotein entries were sorted according to their biologicalfunctions but these listed functions were taken straight outof the Uniprot database based on the accession numbersresulting from the search (listed next to the protein names inTables 1 and 2) Further experimental verifications were notconducted in this work
In the previous study of peptides resulting from cellshaving of C albicans in solution [28] the authors reportedthe detection of proteins with the following functionsmetabolism cell defense and virulence transport and pro-tein fate Likewise the profiling ofC albicans surface proteinswas reported by two other groups in different analyticalapproaches [29 32] Broadly speaking similar functions wereobserved in Tables 1 and 2 While these previous reportsoffered more comprehensive listings of proteins with cellwall functions our work focused on the changes in surfaceproteins upon HTN5 treatment
6 International Journal of ProteomicsTa
ble1Proteins
identifi
edfro
mam
iniaturiz
edassayof
HTN
5tre
atmento
fCalbica
nswith
decreasedMSsig
nals
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Ssig
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werec
alculatedbased
onsix
replicatesProteinsind
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with
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aveb
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usingtheirassociated
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aminoacidsequ
encesind
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ified
resid
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Blankspaces
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unidentifi
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thed
atabases
Biological
functio
n
Observed
precursor
mz
Theoretic
alprecursor
mz
MSsig
nal
intensities
119901values
Aminoacid
sequ
ence
Proteinname
(UniProt
AccessionNum
ber)
Charges119883
Corr
Con
trol
HTN
5tre
ated
Virulence
128483
128665
2700
0plusmn
9500
1400
0plusmn
2800
0016
KsLYT
ISPN
KGKR
Transcrip
tionalregulator
STP3
(A0A
0A6LWB8
)3
252
128369
KSK
YNLP
FAMKE
Cand
idapepsin
-7(A
0A0A
4B714)
375
129587
129570
6600
0plusmn
1100
1900
0plusmn
7000
000
0013
RtKKW
GLG
WIK
NIntegrasefam
ilylowast
(A0A
0A3B
ML7
)1
161
357979
358147
4000
0plusmn
5000
3100
0plusmn
3600
0030
HPQ
YsEA
CsAV
mVVTY
SSGSG
EHIH
TTDIK
Kexin
(A0A
0A6IYX
0)3
333
389536
389280
3600
0plusmn
4100
2600
0plusmn
3100
00037
ELKT
TVIV
TSCF
NNVC
SETsITTPK
tAVtAT
tSK
Flocculinlowast
(A0A
0A3C
M71)
3310
465996
465822
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
KHLT
LKSSTP
AST
LEYS
TSIPPA
LATT
SSSLStES
TtLttIS
RS
325
411551
411594
5100
0plusmn
1200
02400
0plusmn
1700
00017
VTF
VEK
AtST
STTN
tTttT
TTTT
TTTT
TTT
TIPV
KR120573-Lactamasefam
ilylowast
(A0A
0A6K
6B3)
3323
412103
412205
3100
0plusmn
2300
01700
0plusmn
7200
013
KNVKV
ITTT
TTtSPS
SFSSSSSLMsPITPQ
TPN
IPKT
PKT
PXdo
mainlowast
(A0A
0A3C
BE8)
3394
Surfa
ce-
associated
117588
117366
6400
0plusmn
3900
2200
0plusmn
1100lt000
001
RtIN
LDsQ
VKY
31015840(21015840 )51015840-Bisp
hosphate
nucle
otidase2
(A0A
0A6N
TV1)
1316
465996
465987
6600
0plusmn
1100
2000
0plusmn
7000
000
001
mQTS
ISttT
IEDHLH
HYsPE
ESQKL
LSRE
SSIN
TDLF
KE
Budsites
electionprotein
BUD4
(A0A
0A3D
IG6)
3313
Mito
chon
drial-
associated
117588
117515
6400
0plusmn
3900
2200
0plusmn
1100lt000
001
KYM
LLTL
LtKL
YAP-bd
ALF
4glom
ulin
familylowast
(A0A
0A3C
AC1)
1296
129587
129768
6600
0plusmn
1100
1900
0plusmn
7000
000
001
KLT
tLISSIEN
KI
296
137401
137670
1600
0plusmn
1300
1000
0plusmn
3000
000
47RTA
SGNIIPS
STGAAKA
Glyceraldehyde-3-ph
osph
ate
dehydrogenase
(Q92211)
1286
465996
466023
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
KStIV
EEIYsN
ARS
HLV
QGNKE
mGmALF
NE
LLAIN
ESIYGKV
Clusteredmito
chon
dria
proteinho
molog
(A0A
0A4C
6G1)
3337
DNAbind
ing
80477
80444
4200
0plusmn
2200
01900
0plusmn
3100
0034
KQPA
VFSRI
DNApo
lymerase
(Q5A
4E5)
1256
128483
128353
2700
0plusmn
9500
1400
0plusmn
2800
0016
RVA
SHsLsTsR
RMinichrom
osom
emaintenance
protein10
(A0A
0A3C
IN8)
1267
333128
333142
6300
0plusmn
1200
1400
0plusmn
1400lt000
001
KGFT
NTM
ISHIG
FDPT
GtsL
NQNsTS
LGsK
S3
321
280676
280620
4700
0plusmn
3600
03000
0plusmn
2300
0021
RTT
PPTV
sITG
PNPsSSPA
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NtSKS
Phosph
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(A0A
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QA3)
3360
International Journal of Proteomics 7Ta
ble1Con
tinued
Biological
functio
n
Observed
precursor
mz
Theoretic
alprecursor
mz
MSsig
nal
intensities
119901values
Aminoacid
sequ
ence
Proteinname
(UniProt
AccessionNum
ber)
Charges119883
Corr
Con
trol
HTN
5tre
ated
337660
337698
4300
0plusmn
1200
03200
0plusmn
2800
0023
KSSPT
SsAT
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128483
128372
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2800
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(A0A
0A6L
8P2)
3324
436859
437093
3300
0plusmn
2100
07100plusmn
1300
0020
KES
SSTA
DQPS
VVPP
QES
HKD
TVET
PKPE
VtEtsV
EAtKE
Transla
tioninitiationfactor
4G(A
0A0A
4CDK4
)3
299
436703
KNPT
PTPT
PTPT
PTPN
NLA
QGVDsSST
LDV
EtTL
tGLtRR
I
Imidazoleglycerolpho
sphate
synthase
cycla
sesubu
nit
(A0A
0A6I238)
321
8 International Journal of Proteomics
Table1Con
tinued
Biological
functio
n
Observed
precursor
mz
Theoretic
alprecursor
mz
MSsig
nal
intensities
119901values
Aminoacid
sequ
ence
Proteinname
(UniProt
AccessionNum
ber)
Charges119883
Corr
Con
trol
HTN
5tre
ated
Sign
allin
g
350340
350460
4300
0plusmn
8300
3100
0plusmn
2500
0013
KRS
SITtPtPP
LTTT
HSSNGNGNGNV
NVNVNsK
R
Peroxisometransmem
brane
receptorlowast
(A0A
0A3Z
WC2
)3
330
411551
411676
3100
0plusmn
2000
01700
0plusmn
7200
0017
KQST
TNTsTL
ssTtAAST
LATS
NNTQ
PDTY
TSTS
TSIRG
Pleckstrin
homologydo
mainlowast
(A0A
0A6L
5L9)
3333
441651
441487
2900
0plusmn
2700
01600
0plusmn
1100
010
RQHPD
PLSN
QsN
FNsN
TINNYS
NYR
SsTRS
GLD
PsQRH
RhoGTP
asea
ctivating
proteindo
mainlowast
(A0A
0A3B
MU5)
3412
465996
466032
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
KDLP
IGYILH
mIN
LcPN
IVsLNLG
NLSLsTD
YEISRS
TIHKY
F-bo
xproteinCO
S111
(A0A
0A3C
YY6)
3368
465821
KWNKE
KIEL
DsPLIVS
YVSSLC
NGGGGGIIT
NsTNST
ttNSK
Pentatric
opeptid
erepeat
(PPR
)protein
familylowast
(A0A
0A3C
GE7
)111
Misc
ellaneou
s
128483
128542
2700
0plusmn
9500
1400
0plusmn
2800
0016
RNDsD
tsLsK
EInsulin
indu
cedprotein
familylowast
(A0A
0A3C
RM0)
116
6RYtmNEV
FKV
GYF
domainlowast
(A0A
0A3C
0N8)
333128
333159
6300
0plusmn
1200
1400
0plusmn
1400lt000
001
ETsQ
FMGNAES
EDLtGNGLL
TSTL
AVLS
SIS
Orfin
Calbicans
major
repeat
sequ
enceR
B2region
(Q5A
475)
3315
333128
333244
6300
0plusmn
1200
1400
0plusmn
1400
023
KLS
SLGNHGTtTT
SSLS
SSsSsSIsNNT
SIAKI
CBSdo
mainlowast
(A0A
0A6JTB
4)3
346
337660
337659
4300
0plusmn
1200
03300
0plusmn
2800
0RKQ
QDQNEV
AGAAAAT
TTTA
tAtAT
AAT
NWKP
KN
321
349815
349857
3400
0plusmn
8900
1800
0plusmn
1600
00054
KSSsLIK
NsTsSNQSsPA
TSTN
TSIV
DVPIEK
SWDrepeatproteinlowast
(A0A
0A3C
A48)
3321
417360
417295
2400
0plusmn
1200
1300
0plusmn
1200
000
0014
RIN
NNNDKs
sILsNITTT
NTT
TGTG
TTNTtT
VPS
IKTK
R(A
0A0A
6IY5
3)424
349815
349948
3400
0plusmn
8900
1800
0plusmn
1600
00054
KAFS
SsKL
TSDSA
NStNStNsTSM
SILG
NDKD
CDKinhibitorP
HO81
(A0A
0A6M
Y31)
3316
389536
389486
3600
0plusmn
4100
2600
0plusmn
3100
00037
RISRP
NGVG
GISTS
GSSSP
TTEF
VTP
QAs
KsSV
DQNKK
RUbiqu
itininteractingmotiflowast
(C4Y
NW3)
3329
442103
442109
3200
0plusmn
1900
01700
0plusmn
7200
0080
RHLILG
YKItV
VtDHQSLTsVMTS
SSRP
ENNRM
IRW
Aspartic
peptidasefam
ilylowast
(A0A
0A4C
VF8
)3
383
393914
394016
3600
0plusmn
2400
01700
0plusmn
1800
000026
RNVNGSG
StNtN
TMtRLD
sTTIASSLF
CRQLY
FNLL
SKD
Globinfamilylowast
(A0A
0A4C
D75)
3311
437257
437390
9600plusmn
4600
5400plusmn
1800
0058
RNNsT
VSST
NSL
mSN
NsD
TNtAAT
AAT
AAT
SGS
TTNNVKR
M(A
0A0A
3XE4
6)338
International Journal of Proteomics 9
Table1Con
tinued
Biological
functio
n
Observed
precursor
mz
Theoretic
alprecursor
mz
MSsig
nal
intensities
119901values
Aminoacid
sequ
ence
Proteinname
(UniProt
AccessionNum
ber)
Charges119883
Corr
Con
trol
HTN
5tre
ated
441615
441482
2900
0plusmn
2700
01600
0plusmn
1100
010
RNGtYSSsStSSSsTSSVS
SSSA
TTANGES
LNST
THNIQ
LERT
Sec2plowast
(A0A
0A6JGN5)
3289
465996
466133
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
KQNYV
DPG
QIAIKGLK
GFV
NLG
AtCF
MssILQtLIH
NPL
IKY
Ubiqu
itincarboxyl-te
rminal
hydrolase
(C4Y
KS7)
3369
466093
KYD
KPmED
TEEIDDVtSISK
sINEQ
IDDPF
sQFN
SVTL
RY
Protein-serin
ethreon
ine
kinase
(A0A
0A4A
NB2
)35
1
Uncharacterized
117588
117373
6400
0plusmn
4000
2200
0plusmn
1100lt000
001
KtIm
tItIK
I(Q
59T3
9)1
207
333128
333260
6300
0plusmn
1200
1400
0plusmn
1400lt000
001
RIsNIITL
NSSLS
SSsSsSSSsSSLLL
LTL
KS
(Q5A
AP9
)3
311
389536
389370
3600
0plusmn
4100
2600
0plusmn
3100
00034
KTT
PVMGNSStPST
VtANtN
tGAY
STSSDTA
AKP
TKKA
(A0A
0A6JKT
0)3
314
393914
394074
3600
0plusmn
2400
01700
0plusmn
1800
000026
KTT
PVMGNSStPST
VtANtN
tGAY
STSSDTA
AKP
TKKA
(A0A
0A6JKT
0)3
346
411551
411679
3100
0plusmn
2000
01700
0plusmn
7200
0017
KTV
CNWQtLGHTD
EFEE
stQFA
RGVS
DtAL
VGGITKL
(Q59K0
1)
3
218
411482
TCG
KSCF
INSttANKL
IsYN
LFQSStEVDS
IGPT
GSK
T(Q
59KZ
4)386
41162
KTT
PVMGNSsTP
STVTA
NTN
TGAY
STSsDt
AAKP
TKKA
TKR
(A0A
0A6JKT
0)391
411504
RILLL
LPLL
GVtILTS
KSSLES
ISLN
sPSD
SIALssSKS
(Q5A
H83)
234
441651
441518
2900
0plusmn
2700
01600
0plusmn
1100
010
KST
SSANIKtKPK
PNTA
TtAT
TPTA
tTAT
TtA
TTSSID
PTEK
D(A
0A0A
4CH02)
3259
442103
441999
3200
0plusmn
1900
01700
0plusmn
7200
0080
RLS
GtN
NPG
sGsG
sGGGGGGGANNNSLPG
YSV
GSSIG
RGRG
LGRG
(A0A
0A6LWB8
)3
189
436859
436693
3300
0plusmn
2100
07100plusmn
1300
0020
KNYN
QFK
LIEL
DDSM
NTT
TTTT
TTTT
tTttT
tTST
IGKF
(A0A
0A6M
D82)
3376
436787
KSK
sTTIHNQSN
IHSE
QISIN
DEN
NNKS
tstS
TSTD
TKK
(A0A
0A3E
QM3)
132
437257
437082
9600plusmn
4600
5400plusmn1800
0058
KSSGGSSDTK
SVWIAtTGSD
FASQ
SNSD
SsStASR
NSSSSASR
Q(A
0A0A
3BP13)
3246
437317
KEsEG
VWGWsLQCL
LLLF
TKVNLR
scDQL
LICA
LVIRE
(Q5A
KS1)
299
465996
466136
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
KVILIG
NSM
TsRT
TsSV
RFFSIM
LTVS
LPItN
ILVsSEL
SKV
(A0A
0A3B
Z01)
3311
10 International Journal of Proteomics
Table 2 Proteins identified from a miniaturized assay of HTN5 treatment of C albicans with increased MS signals Average MS signalsand their standard deviations were calculated based on six replicates Proteins indicated with an asterisk (lowast) have been determined usingtheir associated protein families Lower case letters in amino acid sequences indicated modified residues Blank spaces indicated proteinsunidentified by the databases
Biologicalfunction
Observedprecursor119898119911
Theoreticalprecursor119898119911
Ion counts119901 values Amino acid sequence Protein name Charges 119883CorrBefore After
Surface-associated 129759 129854 18000 plusmn
880051000 plusmn5400 000042 KKPsTEDtFSKY
Peroxisomal proteinfamilylowast
(A0A0A6JC81)1 182
Mitochondrial-associated 129759 129749 18000 plusmn
880051000 plusmn5400 000042 RNsIttEsVKA
Aldehyde hydrogenasefamilylowast
(A0A0A3BNV6)1 203
DNA binding
57544 57645 9700 plusmn1000
28000 plusmn6200 000055 KSLLSRI
Telomerase reversetranscriptase familylowast
(C4YDL3)1 154
129759
12977518000 plusmn8800
51000 plusmn5400 000042
KNVIPAtItKV Spt6(D3IZV2)
1
154
129867 KEFTIGPFKcIKW
Transcriptionalregulatory protein
familylowast(A0A0A3CXJ5)
156
Miscellaneous57544 57631 9700 plusmn
110028000 plusmn6200 000055 RSLNSRI ATPase familylowast
(A0A0A4CD62) 1 315
190171 190374 7800 plusmn3900
13000 plusmn2300 0025 KNKATssSSStsRDTRW Leucine rich repeatslowast
(C4YMX3) 2 319
Uncharacterized 129759 129769 18000 plusmn8800
51000 plusmn5400 000042 RNNTtVSKGRIKV (A0A0A6M207) 1 151
129770 KKHQtHILNVKS (A0A0A6HZ28) 160
In another previous study quantitative LC MS wasperformed to characterize changes in the mitochondrialproteome of C albicans upon HTN5 treatments [33] Theauthors reported an upregulation of mitochondrial proteinsmainly involved in genomemaintenance and gene expressionand a downregulation for respiratory enzyme complexesIn our work the MS analysis was performed on samplesresulted from the tryptic shaving of adhered intact cellsGiven that the two approaches focused on different parts ofthe proteome we should not directly compare the proteinsidentified from these studies It suffices to conclude that ageneral decrease in MS signals was observed in our workfor many virulence- and surface-associated proteins afterHTN5 treatment as onewould expect Finally readers shouldbe reminded that the peptide sample quantity producedfrom our miniaturized technique was substantially lowerthan that typically used in previous studies due to thelower amount of starting materials in our work Neverthe-less one could alleviate this limitation by increasing thedensity of adhered cells on glass with a cell suspension ofhigher concentration andor by increasing the surface areaused of each assay which is defined by the hydrophobicboundary made by the user An increase in cell numberper assay will directly increase the quantity of peptidesproduced for LC MS analysis and subsequently improve thenumber of proteins identified andor the confidence of theidentification
4 Conclusions
This paper reported successful miniaturization of the trypticdigestion of surface proteins performed on whole cellsIn particular C albicans were adhered on glass surfacewhere introduction and removal of reagent solutions wereconveniently conducted with a micropipette Compared tothe use of cells suspended in solutions our treatment ofadhered cells also better resembles the antifungal treat-ment of C albicans cells adhered on tissues in the oralcavity Importantly the reduction in reagent volumes frommL to 120583L levels will allow users to perform many morereplicate assays while keeping an overall low consump-tion of reagents and cells Nevertheless the downside ofthe miniaturization is the reduced peptide sample quantityresulting from the LC MS analysis which could reducethe confidence of the protein identification Ultimatelyresearchers should select methods based on their purposesIn this case the miniaturized approach with adhered cellsis more effective for high-throughput screenings of celltypes or fungicides while the batch mode with suspendedcells is more suitable for a comprehensive profiling of theproteome
Disclosure
The paper is a part of MS thesis work of S Fan [34] WalterL Siqueira andKenK-C Yeung areCoprincipal Investigators
International Journal of Proteomics 11
Competing Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests
Acknowledgments
The work was funded by the University of Western Ontariothe Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council ofCanada (NSERC) and the Canadian Institutes of HealthResearch (CIHR) Walter L Siqueira is recipient of CIHRNew Investigator Salary Award The authors acknowledgeMs Kristina Jurcic for assistance in MALDI MS data acqui-sition and processing and Ms Tayebeh Basiri for insightfuladvices in fungal culturing Permission to access the Univer-sity of Western Ontario MALDI Mass Spectrometry Facilityis also acknowledged
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incubation at RT The surface with adhered cells was thenrinsed three times with PBS to remove the unattached cellsFor theHTN5 treatment 25120583L ofHTN5 solution (ChinaPep-tides Company Shanghai China) at various concentrationswas deposited to the cells When not specified a HTN5concentration of 30120583gmL was used The HTN5 treatmentwas done for 90min at RT which was the minimum time toobserve a clear effect of HTN5 on C albicans [24] The finalsamples of treated cells on the glass slide were washed threetimes with water
23 Tryptic Digestions on Solid Support In a previous reportthe trypsin digestion of surface proteins on C albicanscells suspended in buffer solution was performed at atrypsin concentration of 10 120583gmL trypsin for up to 20min[28] The authors also performed propidium iodide stainingexperiment to confirm that the C albicans cells were notpermeabilized by trypsin In this work digestions wereperformed on adhered C albicans cells with or withoutHTN5 treatment on glass surfaces within the hydropho-bic circles at RT It was therefore necessary to reoptimizethe digestion time and trypsin concentration Due to thelarge number of experiments required to map these twoparameters we decided to first evaluate the digestion usinga standard protein cytochrome c from horse heart (Cata-logue number C2506 Sigma Aldrich) For all digestions inthis work tosyl phenylalanyl chloromethyl ketone- (TPCK-)treated trypsin resuspended in 50mM ammonium bicarbon-ate (Sigma Aldrich) was used
To determine the optimal digestion time for cytochromec a very high concentration of trypsin was initially usedto ensure that it was not a limiting factor Specifically036 120583L of 01mgmL cytochrome c was mixed with 036120583Lof 10mgmL trypsin to perform the digestion directly on aMALDI sample target plate under a range of digestion timesfrom 025 to 60min After the optimal time was determinedbased on MALDI MS results which turned out to be 10minthe digestion was then performed on adhered C albicanscells The trypsin concentration used was reduced to a rangecomparable to that reported in the literature [28] namely 05to 20120583gmL and a volume of 3 120583L was used The optimaltrypsin concentration was determined to be 15 120583gmL basedon MALDI MS results Finally using this trypsin concentra-tion we reexamined the digestion time study with adheredC albicans cells The MALDI MS results confirmed that theoptimal digestion time remained at 10min Finally followingthe digestion step performed on C albicans cells the trypsinsolution now with resulting peptides was recovered using amicropipette for subsequent MALDI MS or LC ESI MSMSanalyses
24 MALDI MS Analysis The 120572-cyano-4-hydroxycinnamicacid (CHCA) matrix solution was prepared at 55mgmL in6mM ammonium phosphate monobasic 50 acetonitrileand 01 trifluoroacetic acid (Sigma Aldrich) The recoveredpeptides 072120583L from cytochrome c or 3 120583L fromC albicanswere mixed in a 1 1 (vv) ratio with this CHCA matrix solu-tion All sample-matrix mixtures were spotted at a volumeof 075 120583L on a 384 well Opti-TOF 123 times 83mm SS MALDI
plate (Sciex MA USA) The instrument is equipped with a349 nm OptiBeam On-Axis laser with a pulse rate at 400HzData acquisition and processing were done using TOF-TOFSeries Explorer (Sciex) and Data Explorer The spectra wereacquired in Reflectron positive mode from 500ndash3500 mzPeak lists were created using the following parameters apeak density of 10 per 25Da minimal signal-to-noise (SN)of 10 minimum area of 50 and a maximum peak per spotof 200 Second fragmentation MSMS was also performedvia postsource decay (PSD) using the 1 kV in positive ionacquisition mode
25 Nano-HPLC ESI MSMS Prior to injection for LCMS the peptide sample (3 120583L) underwent sample cleanupusing C18 ZipTip (Millipore MA USA) The eluted peptideswere then dried and concentrated by the Vacufuge vacuumconcentrator (Eppendorf Germany) This was performed atRT for 10minutes at 14000 rpmOnce dried the peptideswereresuspended in 10 120583L of 01 formic acid (Sigma Aldrich)with 8 120583L of this sample injected to LC MS
Nano-HPLC was carried out on an Thermo ScientificEasy nLC II instrument (Thermo Scientific CA USA) The85-minute gradient composition ranged from 5 to 55 ofsolvent B which was 975 acetonitrile and 01 formic acid(Sigma Aldrich) Solvent A is 01 FA in water The flow rateused was 200 nLmin at a pressure of 280 bar The volumeof sample injected was 8 120583L ESI was conducted using avoltage of 20 kV with an ion transfer capillary temperatureof 2500∘C
MS analyses were performed on a Thermo Scientificlinear trap quadrupole (LTQ) Velos ion mass spectrom-eter (Thermo Scientific) Positive mode data acquisitionsand processing were done using Thermo Xcalibur 210SP11162 software (Thermo Scientific USA) The MS scanmz range used was 0ndash2000 MSMS was done via collisioninduced dissociation (CID) using helium (He) as the inertgas
26Database Searches AllMALDIMSspectrawere searchedagainst the Uniprot protein database (SwissProt 2015 02547 599 entries) on MASCOT provided by Matrix Science(httpwwwmatrixsciencecom) The search parametersused forC albicanswere (1) trypsinwith onemissed cleavage(2) fungi as the taxonomy (3) a variable modification forthe oxidation of methionine and (4) a mass tolerance ofplusmn70 ppm
All ESI MSMS spectra were run through the ThermoProteome Discoverer version 130339 software (ThermoFisher Scientific Inc USA) using the algorithm known asSEQUEST The C albicans database chosen to search resultsagainst was the UniProt Knowledgebase more commonlyknown as UniProtKB (UniProt Consortium httpwwwuniprotorg)Thedata analysis programSEQUESTwas usedfor protein identification The search parameters were asfollows (1) enzymatic cleavage by trypsin with up to 2missedcleavages (2) signal-to-noise ratio (SN) of 15 (3) precursormass tolerance of plusmn2Da and (4) fragment mass tolerance ofplusmn08Da
4 International Journal of Proteomics
2 120583m
(a) Control
2 120583m
(b) 30120583gmL
2 120583m
(c) 25120583gmL
2 120583m
(d) 20120583gmL
Figure 2 Microscope images of C albicans adhered on slides after a 2-hour treatment with Histatin 5 The concentrations of HTN5 areindicated in (bndashd) with units of 120583gmL The average cell counts (119899 = 4) with standard deviations were (a) 110 plusmn 8 (b) 16 plusmn 8 (c) 25 plusmn 5 and(d) 42 plusmn 4
3 Results and Discussion
31 C albicans Cell Adhesion and HTN5 Treatment Our re-search team previously studied and reported fungicidal activ-ity of HTN5 on C albicans [24] The results indicated thatpreexposition of HTN5 to oral epithelial cells diminishedthe adhesion of C albicans to the epithelium Since theminiaturized assay in this work is performed on adheredcells it is important to determine an optimal dosage ofHTN5which is sufficient to cause detected changes in proteinabundance but not too high to eradicate and desorb all cellsfrom the glass surface
To begin we reproduced the adhesion of C albicans onHSA-coated glass surfaces as previously reported [5] andthen the cells were treated with varying concentrations ofHTN5 Given the physiological concentration ofHTN5 in theoral cavity 10ndash30 120583M[31] we performedHTN5 treatments at20 25 and 30 120583gmL (Figures 2(b) and 2(c)) A 2-hour treat-ment time was selected based on the previous observationthat 90min was sufficient to cause a reduction in C albicanscolonization [24] Figure 2 shows the typical microscopicalviews of the adhered cells after HTN5 treatments Theaverage cell count numbers presented in the caption referto counts within the microscopical views As expected areduction in cell counts after exposure to HTN5 was evidentand the effect was greater at higher HTN5 concentration
Given that sufficient cells remained adhered even at thehighest concentration studied 30 120583gmL we chose to use thisconcentration in subsequent HTN5 treatments to maximizechanges in the C albicans protein levels
32 Tryptic Digestions Performed on Adhered Cells Prior toperforming digestion of C albicans cells adhered on glasssurfaces an optimization of the tryptic digestion conditionswas conducted The first objective was to determine theshortest reaction time require to complete a digestion withan excess quantity of trypsin We chose to conduct thisstudy on a standard protein cytochrome c In contrast toworking with cells the use of a standard protein allows us toeasily control the amount of starting materials and providesa set of well-defined tryptic peptide products as the reactionend-point Triplicate digestions at RT were conducted underthe concentrations of 005mgmL for cytochrome c and05mgmL for trypsin at a total volume of less than 1 120583LThereaction time durations studied were 025 05 075 1 2 3 45 10 15 20 25 30 and 60 minutes It was observed that theshorter digestion times of 15 seconds to 4 minutes producedconsiderably low peptide signals (data not shown) The mostcritical changes in number of peptides andor peak intensitiesoccurred between 5 and 15 minutes of digestion time A totalof eight tryptic peaks of cytochrome c with up to 1 missedcleavage were detected (119898119911 of 63439 116862 126058
International Journal of Proteomics 5
129672 145481 149570 159878 and 163382) The changesin peak intensities of these eight peptides between digestionperiods of 5 to 15 minutes are shown in Figure S1 (seeSupporting Information in Supplementary Material availableonline at httpdxdoiorg10115520169812829) Essentiallyhighest signals were recorded from the digestion time of 10minutes Beyond 10 minutes the digestion appeared to becompleted and the opposing effect of peptide loss due tononspecific adsorption on surfaces was speculated
Using the optimal digestion time of 10 minutes forcytochrome c we subsequently optimized the trypsin con-centration for the adhered C albicans cells The trypsinconcentrations used for this experiment were 05 075 115 and 2120583gmL Five replicate digestion experiments wereconducted by depositing 3 120583L of trypsin solution at variousconcentrations on adhered cells as shown in Figure 1 Fromthe 25 resulting mass spectra peaks with SN above 10were extracted for their values of 119898119911 and peak heightBackground signals from trypsin and HSA were removedfrom the list and averages of peak intensities were takenfrom replicates The two lowest concentrations studied 05and 075 120583gmL resulted in noticeably fewer peaks andso only the results from the higher three concentrationswere shown in Table S1 (under Supporting Information)Based on the number of signals observed our results indi-cated that 15 120583gmL was the optimal In addition the peakintensities were also highest at this concentration in mostcases
Once again the optimal digestion time of 10min waspreviously determined using cytochrome c In case thisoptimal value is substrate-specific we reexamined the effectof digestion time for C albicans at a trypsin concentrationof 15 120583gmL Four digestion times 5 10 15 and 20 minutesin replicates of four were studied The results are presentedin Table S2 which confirmed that 10 minutes remainedto be optimal in yielding the highest number of signalsPrevious work performed the isolation of surface peptidesfrom C albicans in solution under digestion times from fiveto twenty minutes [28] They reported that five minutes wassufficient for the release of easily accessible surface peptidesand as the time was increased the number of resultingpeptides increased as well Our data generally agreed withtheir observations Even though the greatest number of peakswas observed at 10 minutes the peak intensities of somepeaks continued to increase beyond 10 minutes for example119898119911 of 6560 8514 11115 and 24470 However we havenot yet confirmed which of these signals originated fromC albicans and thus the comparison should not be basedon the intensities of selected peaks This led us back to theconclusion of 10 minutes being optimal based on the highestnumber of observed peaks
Most importantly the results demonstrated the successfultryptic digestion performed on C albicans adhered on glasswith as little as 3 120583L of trypsin solution Using the establishedoptimal reaction time of 10min and trypsin concentration of15 120583gmL digestions were performed finally on C albicanscells treated with HTN5 The resulting peptides were recov-ered for analysis by LC ESI MSMS for identification
33 Analyses of Peptides from C albicans by Nano-HPLCESI MSMS ESI MS and MSMS data were generated forsamples collected from the tryptic digestion of C albicanscells with and without HTN5 treatments The entire studywas performed in replicates of six for each of the two groupsand the results were searched against the C albicans databasefor protein identification It is noteworthy that the natureof our miniaturized assay while reducing the consumptionof reagents and cells also produces a limited quantity ofpeptides for protein identification It was estimated that lessthan 2 120583g of materials was injected for each LC MS analysisFor this reason we have taken a less stringent approachin setting our database search parameters and so we caninclude results with moderate to high levels of confidenceFurthermore instead of focusing only on peptides withsubstantial changes in abundance after exposure to HTN5we also take the inclusive approach and present the differentlevels of abundance changes resulting from the treatmentTo help readers distinguishing the peptides detected withincreased intensities from those with reduced intensitiesfollowing HTN5 treatment the results are divided into twotables Table 1 presents the precursor ions with averageintensities that were higher from the HTN5 treated samplescompared to the control whereas Table 2 shows the ionswith lower intensities from the treated group compared tothe control The 119901 values resulting from 119905-test are included inthe tables to illustrate the significance of the signal intensitychanges Entries with high119901 values (gt01) should be treated asstatistically indistinguishable The signal intensities of theseions were highly variable within the replicate measurementswhich resulted in large standard deviations and low statisticalconfidences
The confidences of protein assignments were also illus-trated in the tables as 119883Corr values 119883Corr values above 2 areusually indicative of a good correlation It is noteworthy thatsome observed precursor ions were matched with multipletheoretical precursor ions for example observed119898119911 129759was matched with theoretical 119898119911 129854 129749 129769129770 129775 and 129867 Readers should take into accountthe 119883Corr scores when interpreting the results as some ofthese protein assignments are only putative Finally theprotein entries were sorted according to their biologicalfunctions but these listed functions were taken straight outof the Uniprot database based on the accession numbersresulting from the search (listed next to the protein names inTables 1 and 2) Further experimental verifications were notconducted in this work
In the previous study of peptides resulting from cellshaving of C albicans in solution [28] the authors reportedthe detection of proteins with the following functionsmetabolism cell defense and virulence transport and pro-tein fate Likewise the profiling ofC albicans surface proteinswas reported by two other groups in different analyticalapproaches [29 32] Broadly speaking similar functions wereobserved in Tables 1 and 2 While these previous reportsoffered more comprehensive listings of proteins with cellwall functions our work focused on the changes in surfaceproteins upon HTN5 treatment
6 International Journal of ProteomicsTa
ble1Proteins
identifi
edfro
mam
iniaturiz
edassayof
HTN
5tre
atmento
fCalbica
nswith
decreasedMSsig
nals
AverageM
Ssig
nalsandtheirstand
arddeviations
werec
alculatedbased
onsix
replicatesProteinsind
icated
with
anasteris
k(lowast)h
aveb
eendeterm
ined
usingtheirassociated
proteinfamiliesLow
ercaselette
rsin
aminoacidsequ
encesind
icated
mod
ified
resid
ues
Blankspaces
indicatedproteins
unidentifi
edby
thed
atabases
Biological
functio
n
Observed
precursor
mz
Theoretic
alprecursor
mz
MSsig
nal
intensities
119901values
Aminoacid
sequ
ence
Proteinname
(UniProt
AccessionNum
ber)
Charges119883
Corr
Con
trol
HTN
5tre
ated
Virulence
128483
128665
2700
0plusmn
9500
1400
0plusmn
2800
0016
KsLYT
ISPN
KGKR
Transcrip
tionalregulator
STP3
(A0A
0A6LWB8
)3
252
128369
KSK
YNLP
FAMKE
Cand
idapepsin
-7(A
0A0A
4B714)
375
129587
129570
6600
0plusmn
1100
1900
0plusmn
7000
000
0013
RtKKW
GLG
WIK
NIntegrasefam
ilylowast
(A0A
0A3B
ML7
)1
161
357979
358147
4000
0plusmn
5000
3100
0plusmn
3600
0030
HPQ
YsEA
CsAV
mVVTY
SSGSG
EHIH
TTDIK
Kexin
(A0A
0A6IYX
0)3
333
389536
389280
3600
0plusmn
4100
2600
0plusmn
3100
00037
ELKT
TVIV
TSCF
NNVC
SETsITTPK
tAVtAT
tSK
Flocculinlowast
(A0A
0A3C
M71)
3310
465996
465822
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
KHLT
LKSSTP
AST
LEYS
TSIPPA
LATT
SSSLStES
TtLttIS
RS
325
411551
411594
5100
0plusmn
1200
02400
0plusmn
1700
00017
VTF
VEK
AtST
STTN
tTttT
TTTT
TTTT
TTT
TIPV
KR120573-Lactamasefam
ilylowast
(A0A
0A6K
6B3)
3323
412103
412205
3100
0plusmn
2300
01700
0plusmn
7200
013
KNVKV
ITTT
TTtSPS
SFSSSSSLMsPITPQ
TPN
IPKT
PKT
PXdo
mainlowast
(A0A
0A3C
BE8)
3394
Surfa
ce-
associated
117588
117366
6400
0plusmn
3900
2200
0plusmn
1100lt000
001
RtIN
LDsQ
VKY
31015840(21015840 )51015840-Bisp
hosphate
nucle
otidase2
(A0A
0A6N
TV1)
1316
465996
465987
6600
0plusmn
1100
2000
0plusmn
7000
000
001
mQTS
ISttT
IEDHLH
HYsPE
ESQKL
LSRE
SSIN
TDLF
KE
Budsites
electionprotein
BUD4
(A0A
0A3D
IG6)
3313
Mito
chon
drial-
associated
117588
117515
6400
0plusmn
3900
2200
0plusmn
1100lt000
001
KYM
LLTL
LtKL
YAP-bd
ALF
4glom
ulin
familylowast
(A0A
0A3C
AC1)
1296
129587
129768
6600
0plusmn
1100
1900
0plusmn
7000
000
001
KLT
tLISSIEN
KI
296
137401
137670
1600
0plusmn
1300
1000
0plusmn
3000
000
47RTA
SGNIIPS
STGAAKA
Glyceraldehyde-3-ph
osph
ate
dehydrogenase
(Q92211)
1286
465996
466023
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
KStIV
EEIYsN
ARS
HLV
QGNKE
mGmALF
NE
LLAIN
ESIYGKV
Clusteredmito
chon
dria
proteinho
molog
(A0A
0A4C
6G1)
3337
DNAbind
ing
80477
80444
4200
0plusmn
2200
01900
0plusmn
3100
0034
KQPA
VFSRI
DNApo
lymerase
(Q5A
4E5)
1256
128483
128353
2700
0plusmn
9500
1400
0plusmn
2800
0016
RVA
SHsLsTsR
RMinichrom
osom
emaintenance
protein10
(A0A
0A3C
IN8)
1267
333128
333142
6300
0plusmn
1200
1400
0plusmn
1400lt000
001
KGFT
NTM
ISHIG
FDPT
GtsL
NQNsTS
LGsK
S3
321
280676
280620
4700
0plusmn
3600
03000
0plusmn
2300
0021
RTT
PPTV
sITG
PNPsSSPA
sAST
NtSKS
Phosph
atasefam
ilylowast
(A0A
0A3B
QA3)
3360
International Journal of Proteomics 7Ta
ble1Con
tinued
Biological
functio
n
Observed
precursor
mz
Theoretic
alprecursor
mz
MSsig
nal
intensities
119901values
Aminoacid
sequ
ence
Proteinname
(UniProt
AccessionNum
ber)
Charges119883
Corr
Con
trol
HTN
5tre
ated
337660
337698
4300
0plusmn
1200
03200
0plusmn
2800
0023
KSSPT
SsAT
TTAT
tSVsISSLSLtMGKP
KNSK
LMediatorc
omplexlowast
(A0A
0A3C
P70)
3315
349815
350080
3400
0plusmn
8900
1800
0plusmn
1600
00054
KLG
SVLT
tRSQ
LIEY
ELtTRtIFIN
CSA
ALK
ISpt6
(D3IZV
2)3
311
350340
350474
4300
0plusmn
8300
3100
0plusmn
2500
0014
REV
IIKL
SITR
tHtPPP
DST
tTTT
PTTS
IEKT
Znfin
gerd
omainlowast
(A0A
0A6J6A
5)3
357
393914
394046
3600
0plusmn
4000
1700
0plusmn
8000
00026
VSSY
ILDGNNST
KLPsPV
LtHtTF
DSR
sDEG
QR
Basic
leucinez
ipperd
omainlowast
(A0A
0A3D
LJ5)
3399
411551
411695
5100
0plusmn
1200
02400
0plusmn
1700
00017
RAPQ
sIQLP
PIQsFtKsQ
AVFP
QSV
RDSA
PAANFN
RY
Transcrip
tionfactor
andDNA
bind
ingproteinfamilieslowast
(A0A
0A6ITE
8)3
312
465996
465915
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
MKImmIPTH
HQtYNIN
THQPP
QQHQYL
PPPG
tSY
TSPR
A312
411551
411487
5100
0plusmn
1200
02400
0plusmn
1700
00017
KsStQ
MSSCtNsV
TQTL
DRL
PKIV
STQQNNL
TPTS
KI
Zn(2)-DNAbind
ingdo
mainlowast
(A0A
0A6K
Y81)
3303
465996
466019
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
RRS
VSYS
PGPsSIKS
QLP
HLT
SSST
TtssVQ
SPP
PPPP
SQPP
RG
361
417360
417373
2400
0plusmn
1200
1300
0plusmn
1200
000
0014
KtV
TsIN
GSP
PPLE
tAPsSH
HNVPIDFIHFK
KESD
RT
Uncharacterized
protein
(A0A
0A3E
PD4)
3312
436859
436789
3300
0plusmn
2100
07100plusmn
1300
0020
KNMQFP
PYQVS
sHNsSEtSQ
sIPN
TPSITR
QVE
SNTR
S
Transcrip
tionalregulatory
proteinLE
U3
(A0A
0A3B
TY8)
3354
436790
KtPTT
TTTT
TTtANGNTS
NGNTS
NGNsTGKT
ATA
ATAT
KSNtK
Transcrip
tionproteinfamilylowast
(A0A
0A3C
3Y1)
319
Protein
synthesis
80477
80541
4200
0plusmn
2200
01900
0plusmn
3100
0034
KQTS
LNDKC
Manno
syltransfe
rase
familylowast
(A0A
0A3C
UB4
)1
254
80445
RVKI
DSD
KS
ProteintransporterS
EC24
(A0A
0A3E
HG4)
151
117588
117398
6400
0plusmn
3900
2200
0plusmn
1100lt000
001
KTK
QFN
DsK
KK
Vesic
letetheringprotein
familylowast
(A0A
0A6K
IG6)
1201
128483
128372
2700
0plusmn
9500
1400
0plusmn
2800
0016
KtAGsN
HNsEKK
Ribo
somalRN
A-processin
gprotein12
(A0A
0A4B
GJ7)
1251
412103
411993
3100
0plusmn
2300
01700
0plusmn
7200
013
KFF
sDNIANDLA
tTTT
TTTT
TNTG
AtSV
HPIL
QVDAIK
YCA
SCS
Eproteinfamilylowast
(A0A
0A6L
8P2)
3324
436859
437093
3300
0plusmn
2100
07100plusmn
1300
0020
KES
SSTA
DQPS
VVPP
QES
HKD
TVET
PKPE
VtEtsV
EAtKE
Transla
tioninitiationfactor
4G(A
0A0A
4CDK4
)3
299
436703
KNPT
PTPT
PTPT
PTPN
NLA
QGVDsSST
LDV
EtTL
tGLtRR
I
Imidazoleglycerolpho
sphate
synthase
cycla
sesubu
nit
(A0A
0A6I238)
321
8 International Journal of Proteomics
Table1Con
tinued
Biological
functio
n
Observed
precursor
mz
Theoretic
alprecursor
mz
MSsig
nal
intensities
119901values
Aminoacid
sequ
ence
Proteinname
(UniProt
AccessionNum
ber)
Charges119883
Corr
Con
trol
HTN
5tre
ated
Sign
allin
g
350340
350460
4300
0plusmn
8300
3100
0plusmn
2500
0013
KRS
SITtPtPP
LTTT
HSSNGNGNGNV
NVNVNsK
R
Peroxisometransmem
brane
receptorlowast
(A0A
0A3Z
WC2
)3
330
411551
411676
3100
0plusmn
2000
01700
0plusmn
7200
0017
KQST
TNTsTL
ssTtAAST
LATS
NNTQ
PDTY
TSTS
TSIRG
Pleckstrin
homologydo
mainlowast
(A0A
0A6L
5L9)
3333
441651
441487
2900
0plusmn
2700
01600
0plusmn
1100
010
RQHPD
PLSN
QsN
FNsN
TINNYS
NYR
SsTRS
GLD
PsQRH
RhoGTP
asea
ctivating
proteindo
mainlowast
(A0A
0A3B
MU5)
3412
465996
466032
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
KDLP
IGYILH
mIN
LcPN
IVsLNLG
NLSLsTD
YEISRS
TIHKY
F-bo
xproteinCO
S111
(A0A
0A3C
YY6)
3368
465821
KWNKE
KIEL
DsPLIVS
YVSSLC
NGGGGGIIT
NsTNST
ttNSK
Pentatric
opeptid
erepeat
(PPR
)protein
familylowast
(A0A
0A3C
GE7
)111
Misc
ellaneou
s
128483
128542
2700
0plusmn
9500
1400
0plusmn
2800
0016
RNDsD
tsLsK
EInsulin
indu
cedprotein
familylowast
(A0A
0A3C
RM0)
116
6RYtmNEV
FKV
GYF
domainlowast
(A0A
0A3C
0N8)
333128
333159
6300
0plusmn
1200
1400
0plusmn
1400lt000
001
ETsQ
FMGNAES
EDLtGNGLL
TSTL
AVLS
SIS
Orfin
Calbicans
major
repeat
sequ
enceR
B2region
(Q5A
475)
3315
333128
333244
6300
0plusmn
1200
1400
0plusmn
1400
023
KLS
SLGNHGTtTT
SSLS
SSsSsSIsNNT
SIAKI
CBSdo
mainlowast
(A0A
0A6JTB
4)3
346
337660
337659
4300
0plusmn
1200
03300
0plusmn
2800
0RKQ
QDQNEV
AGAAAAT
TTTA
tAtAT
AAT
NWKP
KN
321
349815
349857
3400
0plusmn
8900
1800
0plusmn
1600
00054
KSSsLIK
NsTsSNQSsPA
TSTN
TSIV
DVPIEK
SWDrepeatproteinlowast
(A0A
0A3C
A48)
3321
417360
417295
2400
0plusmn
1200
1300
0plusmn
1200
000
0014
RIN
NNNDKs
sILsNITTT
NTT
TGTG
TTNTtT
VPS
IKTK
R(A
0A0A
6IY5
3)424
349815
349948
3400
0plusmn
8900
1800
0plusmn
1600
00054
KAFS
SsKL
TSDSA
NStNStNsTSM
SILG
NDKD
CDKinhibitorP
HO81
(A0A
0A6M
Y31)
3316
389536
389486
3600
0plusmn
4100
2600
0plusmn
3100
00037
RISRP
NGVG
GISTS
GSSSP
TTEF
VTP
QAs
KsSV
DQNKK
RUbiqu
itininteractingmotiflowast
(C4Y
NW3)
3329
442103
442109
3200
0plusmn
1900
01700
0plusmn
7200
0080
RHLILG
YKItV
VtDHQSLTsVMTS
SSRP
ENNRM
IRW
Aspartic
peptidasefam
ilylowast
(A0A
0A4C
VF8
)3
383
393914
394016
3600
0plusmn
2400
01700
0plusmn
1800
000026
RNVNGSG
StNtN
TMtRLD
sTTIASSLF
CRQLY
FNLL
SKD
Globinfamilylowast
(A0A
0A4C
D75)
3311
437257
437390
9600plusmn
4600
5400plusmn
1800
0058
RNNsT
VSST
NSL
mSN
NsD
TNtAAT
AAT
AAT
SGS
TTNNVKR
M(A
0A0A
3XE4
6)338
International Journal of Proteomics 9
Table1Con
tinued
Biological
functio
n
Observed
precursor
mz
Theoretic
alprecursor
mz
MSsig
nal
intensities
119901values
Aminoacid
sequ
ence
Proteinname
(UniProt
AccessionNum
ber)
Charges119883
Corr
Con
trol
HTN
5tre
ated
441615
441482
2900
0plusmn
2700
01600
0plusmn
1100
010
RNGtYSSsStSSSsTSSVS
SSSA
TTANGES
LNST
THNIQ
LERT
Sec2plowast
(A0A
0A6JGN5)
3289
465996
466133
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
KQNYV
DPG
QIAIKGLK
GFV
NLG
AtCF
MssILQtLIH
NPL
IKY
Ubiqu
itincarboxyl-te
rminal
hydrolase
(C4Y
KS7)
3369
466093
KYD
KPmED
TEEIDDVtSISK
sINEQ
IDDPF
sQFN
SVTL
RY
Protein-serin
ethreon
ine
kinase
(A0A
0A4A
NB2
)35
1
Uncharacterized
117588
117373
6400
0plusmn
4000
2200
0plusmn
1100lt000
001
KtIm
tItIK
I(Q
59T3
9)1
207
333128
333260
6300
0plusmn
1200
1400
0plusmn
1400lt000
001
RIsNIITL
NSSLS
SSsSsSSSsSSLLL
LTL
KS
(Q5A
AP9
)3
311
389536
389370
3600
0plusmn
4100
2600
0plusmn
3100
00034
KTT
PVMGNSStPST
VtANtN
tGAY
STSSDTA
AKP
TKKA
(A0A
0A6JKT
0)3
314
393914
394074
3600
0plusmn
2400
01700
0plusmn
1800
000026
KTT
PVMGNSStPST
VtANtN
tGAY
STSSDTA
AKP
TKKA
(A0A
0A6JKT
0)3
346
411551
411679
3100
0plusmn
2000
01700
0plusmn
7200
0017
KTV
CNWQtLGHTD
EFEE
stQFA
RGVS
DtAL
VGGITKL
(Q59K0
1)
3
218
411482
TCG
KSCF
INSttANKL
IsYN
LFQSStEVDS
IGPT
GSK
T(Q
59KZ
4)386
41162
KTT
PVMGNSsTP
STVTA
NTN
TGAY
STSsDt
AAKP
TKKA
TKR
(A0A
0A6JKT
0)391
411504
RILLL
LPLL
GVtILTS
KSSLES
ISLN
sPSD
SIALssSKS
(Q5A
H83)
234
441651
441518
2900
0plusmn
2700
01600
0plusmn
1100
010
KST
SSANIKtKPK
PNTA
TtAT
TPTA
tTAT
TtA
TTSSID
PTEK
D(A
0A0A
4CH02)
3259
442103
441999
3200
0plusmn
1900
01700
0plusmn
7200
0080
RLS
GtN
NPG
sGsG
sGGGGGGGANNNSLPG
YSV
GSSIG
RGRG
LGRG
(A0A
0A6LWB8
)3
189
436859
436693
3300
0plusmn
2100
07100plusmn
1300
0020
KNYN
QFK
LIEL
DDSM
NTT
TTTT
TTTT
tTttT
tTST
IGKF
(A0A
0A6M
D82)
3376
436787
KSK
sTTIHNQSN
IHSE
QISIN
DEN
NNKS
tstS
TSTD
TKK
(A0A
0A3E
QM3)
132
437257
437082
9600plusmn
4600
5400plusmn1800
0058
KSSGGSSDTK
SVWIAtTGSD
FASQ
SNSD
SsStASR
NSSSSASR
Q(A
0A0A
3BP13)
3246
437317
KEsEG
VWGWsLQCL
LLLF
TKVNLR
scDQL
LICA
LVIRE
(Q5A
KS1)
299
465996
466136
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
KVILIG
NSM
TsRT
TsSV
RFFSIM
LTVS
LPItN
ILVsSEL
SKV
(A0A
0A3B
Z01)
3311
10 International Journal of Proteomics
Table 2 Proteins identified from a miniaturized assay of HTN5 treatment of C albicans with increased MS signals Average MS signalsand their standard deviations were calculated based on six replicates Proteins indicated with an asterisk (lowast) have been determined usingtheir associated protein families Lower case letters in amino acid sequences indicated modified residues Blank spaces indicated proteinsunidentified by the databases
Biologicalfunction
Observedprecursor119898119911
Theoreticalprecursor119898119911
Ion counts119901 values Amino acid sequence Protein name Charges 119883CorrBefore After
Surface-associated 129759 129854 18000 plusmn
880051000 plusmn5400 000042 KKPsTEDtFSKY
Peroxisomal proteinfamilylowast
(A0A0A6JC81)1 182
Mitochondrial-associated 129759 129749 18000 plusmn
880051000 plusmn5400 000042 RNsIttEsVKA
Aldehyde hydrogenasefamilylowast
(A0A0A3BNV6)1 203
DNA binding
57544 57645 9700 plusmn1000
28000 plusmn6200 000055 KSLLSRI
Telomerase reversetranscriptase familylowast
(C4YDL3)1 154
129759
12977518000 plusmn8800
51000 plusmn5400 000042
KNVIPAtItKV Spt6(D3IZV2)
1
154
129867 KEFTIGPFKcIKW
Transcriptionalregulatory protein
familylowast(A0A0A3CXJ5)
156
Miscellaneous57544 57631 9700 plusmn
110028000 plusmn6200 000055 RSLNSRI ATPase familylowast
(A0A0A4CD62) 1 315
190171 190374 7800 plusmn3900
13000 plusmn2300 0025 KNKATssSSStsRDTRW Leucine rich repeatslowast
(C4YMX3) 2 319
Uncharacterized 129759 129769 18000 plusmn8800
51000 plusmn5400 000042 RNNTtVSKGRIKV (A0A0A6M207) 1 151
129770 KKHQtHILNVKS (A0A0A6HZ28) 160
In another previous study quantitative LC MS wasperformed to characterize changes in the mitochondrialproteome of C albicans upon HTN5 treatments [33] Theauthors reported an upregulation of mitochondrial proteinsmainly involved in genomemaintenance and gene expressionand a downregulation for respiratory enzyme complexesIn our work the MS analysis was performed on samplesresulted from the tryptic shaving of adhered intact cellsGiven that the two approaches focused on different parts ofthe proteome we should not directly compare the proteinsidentified from these studies It suffices to conclude that ageneral decrease in MS signals was observed in our workfor many virulence- and surface-associated proteins afterHTN5 treatment as onewould expect Finally readers shouldbe reminded that the peptide sample quantity producedfrom our miniaturized technique was substantially lowerthan that typically used in previous studies due to thelower amount of starting materials in our work Neverthe-less one could alleviate this limitation by increasing thedensity of adhered cells on glass with a cell suspension ofhigher concentration andor by increasing the surface areaused of each assay which is defined by the hydrophobicboundary made by the user An increase in cell numberper assay will directly increase the quantity of peptidesproduced for LC MS analysis and subsequently improve thenumber of proteins identified andor the confidence of theidentification
4 Conclusions
This paper reported successful miniaturization of the trypticdigestion of surface proteins performed on whole cellsIn particular C albicans were adhered on glass surfacewhere introduction and removal of reagent solutions wereconveniently conducted with a micropipette Compared tothe use of cells suspended in solutions our treatment ofadhered cells also better resembles the antifungal treat-ment of C albicans cells adhered on tissues in the oralcavity Importantly the reduction in reagent volumes frommL to 120583L levels will allow users to perform many morereplicate assays while keeping an overall low consump-tion of reagents and cells Nevertheless the downside ofthe miniaturization is the reduced peptide sample quantityresulting from the LC MS analysis which could reducethe confidence of the protein identification Ultimatelyresearchers should select methods based on their purposesIn this case the miniaturized approach with adhered cellsis more effective for high-throughput screenings of celltypes or fungicides while the batch mode with suspendedcells is more suitable for a comprehensive profiling of theproteome
Disclosure
The paper is a part of MS thesis work of S Fan [34] WalterL Siqueira andKenK-C Yeung areCoprincipal Investigators
International Journal of Proteomics 11
Competing Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests
Acknowledgments
The work was funded by the University of Western Ontariothe Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council ofCanada (NSERC) and the Canadian Institutes of HealthResearch (CIHR) Walter L Siqueira is recipient of CIHRNew Investigator Salary Award The authors acknowledgeMs Kristina Jurcic for assistance in MALDI MS data acqui-sition and processing and Ms Tayebeh Basiri for insightfuladvices in fungal culturing Permission to access the Univer-sity of Western Ontario MALDI Mass Spectrometry Facilityis also acknowledged
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2 120583m
(a) Control
2 120583m
(b) 30120583gmL
2 120583m
(c) 25120583gmL
2 120583m
(d) 20120583gmL
Figure 2 Microscope images of C albicans adhered on slides after a 2-hour treatment with Histatin 5 The concentrations of HTN5 areindicated in (bndashd) with units of 120583gmL The average cell counts (119899 = 4) with standard deviations were (a) 110 plusmn 8 (b) 16 plusmn 8 (c) 25 plusmn 5 and(d) 42 plusmn 4
3 Results and Discussion
31 C albicans Cell Adhesion and HTN5 Treatment Our re-search team previously studied and reported fungicidal activ-ity of HTN5 on C albicans [24] The results indicated thatpreexposition of HTN5 to oral epithelial cells diminishedthe adhesion of C albicans to the epithelium Since theminiaturized assay in this work is performed on adheredcells it is important to determine an optimal dosage ofHTN5which is sufficient to cause detected changes in proteinabundance but not too high to eradicate and desorb all cellsfrom the glass surface
To begin we reproduced the adhesion of C albicans onHSA-coated glass surfaces as previously reported [5] andthen the cells were treated with varying concentrations ofHTN5 Given the physiological concentration ofHTN5 in theoral cavity 10ndash30 120583M[31] we performedHTN5 treatments at20 25 and 30 120583gmL (Figures 2(b) and 2(c)) A 2-hour treat-ment time was selected based on the previous observationthat 90min was sufficient to cause a reduction in C albicanscolonization [24] Figure 2 shows the typical microscopicalviews of the adhered cells after HTN5 treatments Theaverage cell count numbers presented in the caption referto counts within the microscopical views As expected areduction in cell counts after exposure to HTN5 was evidentand the effect was greater at higher HTN5 concentration
Given that sufficient cells remained adhered even at thehighest concentration studied 30 120583gmL we chose to use thisconcentration in subsequent HTN5 treatments to maximizechanges in the C albicans protein levels
32 Tryptic Digestions Performed on Adhered Cells Prior toperforming digestion of C albicans cells adhered on glasssurfaces an optimization of the tryptic digestion conditionswas conducted The first objective was to determine theshortest reaction time require to complete a digestion withan excess quantity of trypsin We chose to conduct thisstudy on a standard protein cytochrome c In contrast toworking with cells the use of a standard protein allows us toeasily control the amount of starting materials and providesa set of well-defined tryptic peptide products as the reactionend-point Triplicate digestions at RT were conducted underthe concentrations of 005mgmL for cytochrome c and05mgmL for trypsin at a total volume of less than 1 120583LThereaction time durations studied were 025 05 075 1 2 3 45 10 15 20 25 30 and 60 minutes It was observed that theshorter digestion times of 15 seconds to 4 minutes producedconsiderably low peptide signals (data not shown) The mostcritical changes in number of peptides andor peak intensitiesoccurred between 5 and 15 minutes of digestion time A totalof eight tryptic peaks of cytochrome c with up to 1 missedcleavage were detected (119898119911 of 63439 116862 126058
International Journal of Proteomics 5
129672 145481 149570 159878 and 163382) The changesin peak intensities of these eight peptides between digestionperiods of 5 to 15 minutes are shown in Figure S1 (seeSupporting Information in Supplementary Material availableonline at httpdxdoiorg10115520169812829) Essentiallyhighest signals were recorded from the digestion time of 10minutes Beyond 10 minutes the digestion appeared to becompleted and the opposing effect of peptide loss due tononspecific adsorption on surfaces was speculated
Using the optimal digestion time of 10 minutes forcytochrome c we subsequently optimized the trypsin con-centration for the adhered C albicans cells The trypsinconcentrations used for this experiment were 05 075 115 and 2120583gmL Five replicate digestion experiments wereconducted by depositing 3 120583L of trypsin solution at variousconcentrations on adhered cells as shown in Figure 1 Fromthe 25 resulting mass spectra peaks with SN above 10were extracted for their values of 119898119911 and peak heightBackground signals from trypsin and HSA were removedfrom the list and averages of peak intensities were takenfrom replicates The two lowest concentrations studied 05and 075 120583gmL resulted in noticeably fewer peaks andso only the results from the higher three concentrationswere shown in Table S1 (under Supporting Information)Based on the number of signals observed our results indi-cated that 15 120583gmL was the optimal In addition the peakintensities were also highest at this concentration in mostcases
Once again the optimal digestion time of 10min waspreviously determined using cytochrome c In case thisoptimal value is substrate-specific we reexamined the effectof digestion time for C albicans at a trypsin concentrationof 15 120583gmL Four digestion times 5 10 15 and 20 minutesin replicates of four were studied The results are presentedin Table S2 which confirmed that 10 minutes remainedto be optimal in yielding the highest number of signalsPrevious work performed the isolation of surface peptidesfrom C albicans in solution under digestion times from fiveto twenty minutes [28] They reported that five minutes wassufficient for the release of easily accessible surface peptidesand as the time was increased the number of resultingpeptides increased as well Our data generally agreed withtheir observations Even though the greatest number of peakswas observed at 10 minutes the peak intensities of somepeaks continued to increase beyond 10 minutes for example119898119911 of 6560 8514 11115 and 24470 However we havenot yet confirmed which of these signals originated fromC albicans and thus the comparison should not be basedon the intensities of selected peaks This led us back to theconclusion of 10 minutes being optimal based on the highestnumber of observed peaks
Most importantly the results demonstrated the successfultryptic digestion performed on C albicans adhered on glasswith as little as 3 120583L of trypsin solution Using the establishedoptimal reaction time of 10min and trypsin concentration of15 120583gmL digestions were performed finally on C albicanscells treated with HTN5 The resulting peptides were recov-ered for analysis by LC ESI MSMS for identification
33 Analyses of Peptides from C albicans by Nano-HPLCESI MSMS ESI MS and MSMS data were generated forsamples collected from the tryptic digestion of C albicanscells with and without HTN5 treatments The entire studywas performed in replicates of six for each of the two groupsand the results were searched against the C albicans databasefor protein identification It is noteworthy that the natureof our miniaturized assay while reducing the consumptionof reagents and cells also produces a limited quantity ofpeptides for protein identification It was estimated that lessthan 2 120583g of materials was injected for each LC MS analysisFor this reason we have taken a less stringent approachin setting our database search parameters and so we caninclude results with moderate to high levels of confidenceFurthermore instead of focusing only on peptides withsubstantial changes in abundance after exposure to HTN5we also take the inclusive approach and present the differentlevels of abundance changes resulting from the treatmentTo help readers distinguishing the peptides detected withincreased intensities from those with reduced intensitiesfollowing HTN5 treatment the results are divided into twotables Table 1 presents the precursor ions with averageintensities that were higher from the HTN5 treated samplescompared to the control whereas Table 2 shows the ionswith lower intensities from the treated group compared tothe control The 119901 values resulting from 119905-test are included inthe tables to illustrate the significance of the signal intensitychanges Entries with high119901 values (gt01) should be treated asstatistically indistinguishable The signal intensities of theseions were highly variable within the replicate measurementswhich resulted in large standard deviations and low statisticalconfidences
The confidences of protein assignments were also illus-trated in the tables as 119883Corr values 119883Corr values above 2 areusually indicative of a good correlation It is noteworthy thatsome observed precursor ions were matched with multipletheoretical precursor ions for example observed119898119911 129759was matched with theoretical 119898119911 129854 129749 129769129770 129775 and 129867 Readers should take into accountthe 119883Corr scores when interpreting the results as some ofthese protein assignments are only putative Finally theprotein entries were sorted according to their biologicalfunctions but these listed functions were taken straight outof the Uniprot database based on the accession numbersresulting from the search (listed next to the protein names inTables 1 and 2) Further experimental verifications were notconducted in this work
In the previous study of peptides resulting from cellshaving of C albicans in solution [28] the authors reportedthe detection of proteins with the following functionsmetabolism cell defense and virulence transport and pro-tein fate Likewise the profiling ofC albicans surface proteinswas reported by two other groups in different analyticalapproaches [29 32] Broadly speaking similar functions wereobserved in Tables 1 and 2 While these previous reportsoffered more comprehensive listings of proteins with cellwall functions our work focused on the changes in surfaceproteins upon HTN5 treatment
6 International Journal of ProteomicsTa
ble1Proteins
identifi
edfro
mam
iniaturiz
edassayof
HTN
5tre
atmento
fCalbica
nswith
decreasedMSsig
nals
AverageM
Ssig
nalsandtheirstand
arddeviations
werec
alculatedbased
onsix
replicatesProteinsind
icated
with
anasteris
k(lowast)h
aveb
eendeterm
ined
usingtheirassociated
proteinfamiliesLow
ercaselette
rsin
aminoacidsequ
encesind
icated
mod
ified
resid
ues
Blankspaces
indicatedproteins
unidentifi
edby
thed
atabases
Biological
functio
n
Observed
precursor
mz
Theoretic
alprecursor
mz
MSsig
nal
intensities
119901values
Aminoacid
sequ
ence
Proteinname
(UniProt
AccessionNum
ber)
Charges119883
Corr
Con
trol
HTN
5tre
ated
Virulence
128483
128665
2700
0plusmn
9500
1400
0plusmn
2800
0016
KsLYT
ISPN
KGKR
Transcrip
tionalregulator
STP3
(A0A
0A6LWB8
)3
252
128369
KSK
YNLP
FAMKE
Cand
idapepsin
-7(A
0A0A
4B714)
375
129587
129570
6600
0plusmn
1100
1900
0plusmn
7000
000
0013
RtKKW
GLG
WIK
NIntegrasefam
ilylowast
(A0A
0A3B
ML7
)1
161
357979
358147
4000
0plusmn
5000
3100
0plusmn
3600
0030
HPQ
YsEA
CsAV
mVVTY
SSGSG
EHIH
TTDIK
Kexin
(A0A
0A6IYX
0)3
333
389536
389280
3600
0plusmn
4100
2600
0plusmn
3100
00037
ELKT
TVIV
TSCF
NNVC
SETsITTPK
tAVtAT
tSK
Flocculinlowast
(A0A
0A3C
M71)
3310
465996
465822
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
KHLT
LKSSTP
AST
LEYS
TSIPPA
LATT
SSSLStES
TtLttIS
RS
325
411551
411594
5100
0plusmn
1200
02400
0plusmn
1700
00017
VTF
VEK
AtST
STTN
tTttT
TTTT
TTTT
TTT
TIPV
KR120573-Lactamasefam
ilylowast
(A0A
0A6K
6B3)
3323
412103
412205
3100
0plusmn
2300
01700
0plusmn
7200
013
KNVKV
ITTT
TTtSPS
SFSSSSSLMsPITPQ
TPN
IPKT
PKT
PXdo
mainlowast
(A0A
0A3C
BE8)
3394
Surfa
ce-
associated
117588
117366
6400
0plusmn
3900
2200
0plusmn
1100lt000
001
RtIN
LDsQ
VKY
31015840(21015840 )51015840-Bisp
hosphate
nucle
otidase2
(A0A
0A6N
TV1)
1316
465996
465987
6600
0plusmn
1100
2000
0plusmn
7000
000
001
mQTS
ISttT
IEDHLH
HYsPE
ESQKL
LSRE
SSIN
TDLF
KE
Budsites
electionprotein
BUD4
(A0A
0A3D
IG6)
3313
Mito
chon
drial-
associated
117588
117515
6400
0plusmn
3900
2200
0plusmn
1100lt000
001
KYM
LLTL
LtKL
YAP-bd
ALF
4glom
ulin
familylowast
(A0A
0A3C
AC1)
1296
129587
129768
6600
0plusmn
1100
1900
0plusmn
7000
000
001
KLT
tLISSIEN
KI
296
137401
137670
1600
0plusmn
1300
1000
0plusmn
3000
000
47RTA
SGNIIPS
STGAAKA
Glyceraldehyde-3-ph
osph
ate
dehydrogenase
(Q92211)
1286
465996
466023
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
KStIV
EEIYsN
ARS
HLV
QGNKE
mGmALF
NE
LLAIN
ESIYGKV
Clusteredmito
chon
dria
proteinho
molog
(A0A
0A4C
6G1)
3337
DNAbind
ing
80477
80444
4200
0plusmn
2200
01900
0plusmn
3100
0034
KQPA
VFSRI
DNApo
lymerase
(Q5A
4E5)
1256
128483
128353
2700
0plusmn
9500
1400
0plusmn
2800
0016
RVA
SHsLsTsR
RMinichrom
osom
emaintenance
protein10
(A0A
0A3C
IN8)
1267
333128
333142
6300
0plusmn
1200
1400
0plusmn
1400lt000
001
KGFT
NTM
ISHIG
FDPT
GtsL
NQNsTS
LGsK
S3
321
280676
280620
4700
0plusmn
3600
03000
0plusmn
2300
0021
RTT
PPTV
sITG
PNPsSSPA
sAST
NtSKS
Phosph
atasefam
ilylowast
(A0A
0A3B
QA3)
3360
International Journal of Proteomics 7Ta
ble1Con
tinued
Biological
functio
n
Observed
precursor
mz
Theoretic
alprecursor
mz
MSsig
nal
intensities
119901values
Aminoacid
sequ
ence
Proteinname
(UniProt
AccessionNum
ber)
Charges119883
Corr
Con
trol
HTN
5tre
ated
337660
337698
4300
0plusmn
1200
03200
0plusmn
2800
0023
KSSPT
SsAT
TTAT
tSVsISSLSLtMGKP
KNSK
LMediatorc
omplexlowast
(A0A
0A3C
P70)
3315
349815
350080
3400
0plusmn
8900
1800
0plusmn
1600
00054
KLG
SVLT
tRSQ
LIEY
ELtTRtIFIN
CSA
ALK
ISpt6
(D3IZV
2)3
311
350340
350474
4300
0plusmn
8300
3100
0plusmn
2500
0014
REV
IIKL
SITR
tHtPPP
DST
tTTT
PTTS
IEKT
Znfin
gerd
omainlowast
(A0A
0A6J6A
5)3
357
393914
394046
3600
0plusmn
4000
1700
0plusmn
8000
00026
VSSY
ILDGNNST
KLPsPV
LtHtTF
DSR
sDEG
QR
Basic
leucinez
ipperd
omainlowast
(A0A
0A3D
LJ5)
3399
411551
411695
5100
0plusmn
1200
02400
0plusmn
1700
00017
RAPQ
sIQLP
PIQsFtKsQ
AVFP
QSV
RDSA
PAANFN
RY
Transcrip
tionfactor
andDNA
bind
ingproteinfamilieslowast
(A0A
0A6ITE
8)3
312
465996
465915
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
MKImmIPTH
HQtYNIN
THQPP
QQHQYL
PPPG
tSY
TSPR
A312
411551
411487
5100
0plusmn
1200
02400
0plusmn
1700
00017
KsStQ
MSSCtNsV
TQTL
DRL
PKIV
STQQNNL
TPTS
KI
Zn(2)-DNAbind
ingdo
mainlowast
(A0A
0A6K
Y81)
3303
465996
466019
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
RRS
VSYS
PGPsSIKS
QLP
HLT
SSST
TtssVQ
SPP
PPPP
SQPP
RG
361
417360
417373
2400
0plusmn
1200
1300
0plusmn
1200
000
0014
KtV
TsIN
GSP
PPLE
tAPsSH
HNVPIDFIHFK
KESD
RT
Uncharacterized
protein
(A0A
0A3E
PD4)
3312
436859
436789
3300
0plusmn
2100
07100plusmn
1300
0020
KNMQFP
PYQVS
sHNsSEtSQ
sIPN
TPSITR
QVE
SNTR
S
Transcrip
tionalregulatory
proteinLE
U3
(A0A
0A3B
TY8)
3354
436790
KtPTT
TTTT
TTtANGNTS
NGNTS
NGNsTGKT
ATA
ATAT
KSNtK
Transcrip
tionproteinfamilylowast
(A0A
0A3C
3Y1)
319
Protein
synthesis
80477
80541
4200
0plusmn
2200
01900
0plusmn
3100
0034
KQTS
LNDKC
Manno
syltransfe
rase
familylowast
(A0A
0A3C
UB4
)1
254
80445
RVKI
DSD
KS
ProteintransporterS
EC24
(A0A
0A3E
HG4)
151
117588
117398
6400
0plusmn
3900
2200
0plusmn
1100lt000
001
KTK
QFN
DsK
KK
Vesic
letetheringprotein
familylowast
(A0A
0A6K
IG6)
1201
128483
128372
2700
0plusmn
9500
1400
0plusmn
2800
0016
KtAGsN
HNsEKK
Ribo
somalRN
A-processin
gprotein12
(A0A
0A4B
GJ7)
1251
412103
411993
3100
0plusmn
2300
01700
0plusmn
7200
013
KFF
sDNIANDLA
tTTT
TTTT
TNTG
AtSV
HPIL
QVDAIK
YCA
SCS
Eproteinfamilylowast
(A0A
0A6L
8P2)
3324
436859
437093
3300
0plusmn
2100
07100plusmn
1300
0020
KES
SSTA
DQPS
VVPP
QES
HKD
TVET
PKPE
VtEtsV
EAtKE
Transla
tioninitiationfactor
4G(A
0A0A
4CDK4
)3
299
436703
KNPT
PTPT
PTPT
PTPN
NLA
QGVDsSST
LDV
EtTL
tGLtRR
I
Imidazoleglycerolpho
sphate
synthase
cycla
sesubu
nit
(A0A
0A6I238)
321
8 International Journal of Proteomics
Table1Con
tinued
Biological
functio
n
Observed
precursor
mz
Theoretic
alprecursor
mz
MSsig
nal
intensities
119901values
Aminoacid
sequ
ence
Proteinname
(UniProt
AccessionNum
ber)
Charges119883
Corr
Con
trol
HTN
5tre
ated
Sign
allin
g
350340
350460
4300
0plusmn
8300
3100
0plusmn
2500
0013
KRS
SITtPtPP
LTTT
HSSNGNGNGNV
NVNVNsK
R
Peroxisometransmem
brane
receptorlowast
(A0A
0A3Z
WC2
)3
330
411551
411676
3100
0plusmn
2000
01700
0plusmn
7200
0017
KQST
TNTsTL
ssTtAAST
LATS
NNTQ
PDTY
TSTS
TSIRG
Pleckstrin
homologydo
mainlowast
(A0A
0A6L
5L9)
3333
441651
441487
2900
0plusmn
2700
01600
0plusmn
1100
010
RQHPD
PLSN
QsN
FNsN
TINNYS
NYR
SsTRS
GLD
PsQRH
RhoGTP
asea
ctivating
proteindo
mainlowast
(A0A
0A3B
MU5)
3412
465996
466032
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
KDLP
IGYILH
mIN
LcPN
IVsLNLG
NLSLsTD
YEISRS
TIHKY
F-bo
xproteinCO
S111
(A0A
0A3C
YY6)
3368
465821
KWNKE
KIEL
DsPLIVS
YVSSLC
NGGGGGIIT
NsTNST
ttNSK
Pentatric
opeptid
erepeat
(PPR
)protein
familylowast
(A0A
0A3C
GE7
)111
Misc
ellaneou
s
128483
128542
2700
0plusmn
9500
1400
0plusmn
2800
0016
RNDsD
tsLsK
EInsulin
indu
cedprotein
familylowast
(A0A
0A3C
RM0)
116
6RYtmNEV
FKV
GYF
domainlowast
(A0A
0A3C
0N8)
333128
333159
6300
0plusmn
1200
1400
0plusmn
1400lt000
001
ETsQ
FMGNAES
EDLtGNGLL
TSTL
AVLS
SIS
Orfin
Calbicans
major
repeat
sequ
enceR
B2region
(Q5A
475)
3315
333128
333244
6300
0plusmn
1200
1400
0plusmn
1400
023
KLS
SLGNHGTtTT
SSLS
SSsSsSIsNNT
SIAKI
CBSdo
mainlowast
(A0A
0A6JTB
4)3
346
337660
337659
4300
0plusmn
1200
03300
0plusmn
2800
0RKQ
QDQNEV
AGAAAAT
TTTA
tAtAT
AAT
NWKP
KN
321
349815
349857
3400
0plusmn
8900
1800
0plusmn
1600
00054
KSSsLIK
NsTsSNQSsPA
TSTN
TSIV
DVPIEK
SWDrepeatproteinlowast
(A0A
0A3C
A48)
3321
417360
417295
2400
0plusmn
1200
1300
0plusmn
1200
000
0014
RIN
NNNDKs
sILsNITTT
NTT
TGTG
TTNTtT
VPS
IKTK
R(A
0A0A
6IY5
3)424
349815
349948
3400
0plusmn
8900
1800
0plusmn
1600
00054
KAFS
SsKL
TSDSA
NStNStNsTSM
SILG
NDKD
CDKinhibitorP
HO81
(A0A
0A6M
Y31)
3316
389536
389486
3600
0plusmn
4100
2600
0plusmn
3100
00037
RISRP
NGVG
GISTS
GSSSP
TTEF
VTP
QAs
KsSV
DQNKK
RUbiqu
itininteractingmotiflowast
(C4Y
NW3)
3329
442103
442109
3200
0plusmn
1900
01700
0plusmn
7200
0080
RHLILG
YKItV
VtDHQSLTsVMTS
SSRP
ENNRM
IRW
Aspartic
peptidasefam
ilylowast
(A0A
0A4C
VF8
)3
383
393914
394016
3600
0plusmn
2400
01700
0plusmn
1800
000026
RNVNGSG
StNtN
TMtRLD
sTTIASSLF
CRQLY
FNLL
SKD
Globinfamilylowast
(A0A
0A4C
D75)
3311
437257
437390
9600plusmn
4600
5400plusmn
1800
0058
RNNsT
VSST
NSL
mSN
NsD
TNtAAT
AAT
AAT
SGS
TTNNVKR
M(A
0A0A
3XE4
6)338
International Journal of Proteomics 9
Table1Con
tinued
Biological
functio
n
Observed
precursor
mz
Theoretic
alprecursor
mz
MSsig
nal
intensities
119901values
Aminoacid
sequ
ence
Proteinname
(UniProt
AccessionNum
ber)
Charges119883
Corr
Con
trol
HTN
5tre
ated
441615
441482
2900
0plusmn
2700
01600
0plusmn
1100
010
RNGtYSSsStSSSsTSSVS
SSSA
TTANGES
LNST
THNIQ
LERT
Sec2plowast
(A0A
0A6JGN5)
3289
465996
466133
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
KQNYV
DPG
QIAIKGLK
GFV
NLG
AtCF
MssILQtLIH
NPL
IKY
Ubiqu
itincarboxyl-te
rminal
hydrolase
(C4Y
KS7)
3369
466093
KYD
KPmED
TEEIDDVtSISK
sINEQ
IDDPF
sQFN
SVTL
RY
Protein-serin
ethreon
ine
kinase
(A0A
0A4A
NB2
)35
1
Uncharacterized
117588
117373
6400
0plusmn
4000
2200
0plusmn
1100lt000
001
KtIm
tItIK
I(Q
59T3
9)1
207
333128
333260
6300
0plusmn
1200
1400
0plusmn
1400lt000
001
RIsNIITL
NSSLS
SSsSsSSSsSSLLL
LTL
KS
(Q5A
AP9
)3
311
389536
389370
3600
0plusmn
4100
2600
0plusmn
3100
00034
KTT
PVMGNSStPST
VtANtN
tGAY
STSSDTA
AKP
TKKA
(A0A
0A6JKT
0)3
314
393914
394074
3600
0plusmn
2400
01700
0plusmn
1800
000026
KTT
PVMGNSStPST
VtANtN
tGAY
STSSDTA
AKP
TKKA
(A0A
0A6JKT
0)3
346
411551
411679
3100
0plusmn
2000
01700
0plusmn
7200
0017
KTV
CNWQtLGHTD
EFEE
stQFA
RGVS
DtAL
VGGITKL
(Q59K0
1)
3
218
411482
TCG
KSCF
INSttANKL
IsYN
LFQSStEVDS
IGPT
GSK
T(Q
59KZ
4)386
41162
KTT
PVMGNSsTP
STVTA
NTN
TGAY
STSsDt
AAKP
TKKA
TKR
(A0A
0A6JKT
0)391
411504
RILLL
LPLL
GVtILTS
KSSLES
ISLN
sPSD
SIALssSKS
(Q5A
H83)
234
441651
441518
2900
0plusmn
2700
01600
0plusmn
1100
010
KST
SSANIKtKPK
PNTA
TtAT
TPTA
tTAT
TtA
TTSSID
PTEK
D(A
0A0A
4CH02)
3259
442103
441999
3200
0plusmn
1900
01700
0plusmn
7200
0080
RLS
GtN
NPG
sGsG
sGGGGGGGANNNSLPG
YSV
GSSIG
RGRG
LGRG
(A0A
0A6LWB8
)3
189
436859
436693
3300
0plusmn
2100
07100plusmn
1300
0020
KNYN
QFK
LIEL
DDSM
NTT
TTTT
TTTT
tTttT
tTST
IGKF
(A0A
0A6M
D82)
3376
436787
KSK
sTTIHNQSN
IHSE
QISIN
DEN
NNKS
tstS
TSTD
TKK
(A0A
0A3E
QM3)
132
437257
437082
9600plusmn
4600
5400plusmn1800
0058
KSSGGSSDTK
SVWIAtTGSD
FASQ
SNSD
SsStASR
NSSSSASR
Q(A
0A0A
3BP13)
3246
437317
KEsEG
VWGWsLQCL
LLLF
TKVNLR
scDQL
LICA
LVIRE
(Q5A
KS1)
299
465996
466136
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
KVILIG
NSM
TsRT
TsSV
RFFSIM
LTVS
LPItN
ILVsSEL
SKV
(A0A
0A3B
Z01)
3311
10 International Journal of Proteomics
Table 2 Proteins identified from a miniaturized assay of HTN5 treatment of C albicans with increased MS signals Average MS signalsand their standard deviations were calculated based on six replicates Proteins indicated with an asterisk (lowast) have been determined usingtheir associated protein families Lower case letters in amino acid sequences indicated modified residues Blank spaces indicated proteinsunidentified by the databases
Biologicalfunction
Observedprecursor119898119911
Theoreticalprecursor119898119911
Ion counts119901 values Amino acid sequence Protein name Charges 119883CorrBefore After
Surface-associated 129759 129854 18000 plusmn
880051000 plusmn5400 000042 KKPsTEDtFSKY
Peroxisomal proteinfamilylowast
(A0A0A6JC81)1 182
Mitochondrial-associated 129759 129749 18000 plusmn
880051000 plusmn5400 000042 RNsIttEsVKA
Aldehyde hydrogenasefamilylowast
(A0A0A3BNV6)1 203
DNA binding
57544 57645 9700 plusmn1000
28000 plusmn6200 000055 KSLLSRI
Telomerase reversetranscriptase familylowast
(C4YDL3)1 154
129759
12977518000 plusmn8800
51000 plusmn5400 000042
KNVIPAtItKV Spt6(D3IZV2)
1
154
129867 KEFTIGPFKcIKW
Transcriptionalregulatory protein
familylowast(A0A0A3CXJ5)
156
Miscellaneous57544 57631 9700 plusmn
110028000 plusmn6200 000055 RSLNSRI ATPase familylowast
(A0A0A4CD62) 1 315
190171 190374 7800 plusmn3900
13000 plusmn2300 0025 KNKATssSSStsRDTRW Leucine rich repeatslowast
(C4YMX3) 2 319
Uncharacterized 129759 129769 18000 plusmn8800
51000 plusmn5400 000042 RNNTtVSKGRIKV (A0A0A6M207) 1 151
129770 KKHQtHILNVKS (A0A0A6HZ28) 160
In another previous study quantitative LC MS wasperformed to characterize changes in the mitochondrialproteome of C albicans upon HTN5 treatments [33] Theauthors reported an upregulation of mitochondrial proteinsmainly involved in genomemaintenance and gene expressionand a downregulation for respiratory enzyme complexesIn our work the MS analysis was performed on samplesresulted from the tryptic shaving of adhered intact cellsGiven that the two approaches focused on different parts ofthe proteome we should not directly compare the proteinsidentified from these studies It suffices to conclude that ageneral decrease in MS signals was observed in our workfor many virulence- and surface-associated proteins afterHTN5 treatment as onewould expect Finally readers shouldbe reminded that the peptide sample quantity producedfrom our miniaturized technique was substantially lowerthan that typically used in previous studies due to thelower amount of starting materials in our work Neverthe-less one could alleviate this limitation by increasing thedensity of adhered cells on glass with a cell suspension ofhigher concentration andor by increasing the surface areaused of each assay which is defined by the hydrophobicboundary made by the user An increase in cell numberper assay will directly increase the quantity of peptidesproduced for LC MS analysis and subsequently improve thenumber of proteins identified andor the confidence of theidentification
4 Conclusions
This paper reported successful miniaturization of the trypticdigestion of surface proteins performed on whole cellsIn particular C albicans were adhered on glass surfacewhere introduction and removal of reagent solutions wereconveniently conducted with a micropipette Compared tothe use of cells suspended in solutions our treatment ofadhered cells also better resembles the antifungal treat-ment of C albicans cells adhered on tissues in the oralcavity Importantly the reduction in reagent volumes frommL to 120583L levels will allow users to perform many morereplicate assays while keeping an overall low consump-tion of reagents and cells Nevertheless the downside ofthe miniaturization is the reduced peptide sample quantityresulting from the LC MS analysis which could reducethe confidence of the protein identification Ultimatelyresearchers should select methods based on their purposesIn this case the miniaturized approach with adhered cellsis more effective for high-throughput screenings of celltypes or fungicides while the batch mode with suspendedcells is more suitable for a comprehensive profiling of theproteome
Disclosure
The paper is a part of MS thesis work of S Fan [34] WalterL Siqueira andKenK-C Yeung areCoprincipal Investigators
International Journal of Proteomics 11
Competing Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests
Acknowledgments
The work was funded by the University of Western Ontariothe Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council ofCanada (NSERC) and the Canadian Institutes of HealthResearch (CIHR) Walter L Siqueira is recipient of CIHRNew Investigator Salary Award The authors acknowledgeMs Kristina Jurcic for assistance in MALDI MS data acqui-sition and processing and Ms Tayebeh Basiri for insightfuladvices in fungal culturing Permission to access the Univer-sity of Western Ontario MALDI Mass Spectrometry Facilityis also acknowledged
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129672 145481 149570 159878 and 163382) The changesin peak intensities of these eight peptides between digestionperiods of 5 to 15 minutes are shown in Figure S1 (seeSupporting Information in Supplementary Material availableonline at httpdxdoiorg10115520169812829) Essentiallyhighest signals were recorded from the digestion time of 10minutes Beyond 10 minutes the digestion appeared to becompleted and the opposing effect of peptide loss due tononspecific adsorption on surfaces was speculated
Using the optimal digestion time of 10 minutes forcytochrome c we subsequently optimized the trypsin con-centration for the adhered C albicans cells The trypsinconcentrations used for this experiment were 05 075 115 and 2120583gmL Five replicate digestion experiments wereconducted by depositing 3 120583L of trypsin solution at variousconcentrations on adhered cells as shown in Figure 1 Fromthe 25 resulting mass spectra peaks with SN above 10were extracted for their values of 119898119911 and peak heightBackground signals from trypsin and HSA were removedfrom the list and averages of peak intensities were takenfrom replicates The two lowest concentrations studied 05and 075 120583gmL resulted in noticeably fewer peaks andso only the results from the higher three concentrationswere shown in Table S1 (under Supporting Information)Based on the number of signals observed our results indi-cated that 15 120583gmL was the optimal In addition the peakintensities were also highest at this concentration in mostcases
Once again the optimal digestion time of 10min waspreviously determined using cytochrome c In case thisoptimal value is substrate-specific we reexamined the effectof digestion time for C albicans at a trypsin concentrationof 15 120583gmL Four digestion times 5 10 15 and 20 minutesin replicates of four were studied The results are presentedin Table S2 which confirmed that 10 minutes remainedto be optimal in yielding the highest number of signalsPrevious work performed the isolation of surface peptidesfrom C albicans in solution under digestion times from fiveto twenty minutes [28] They reported that five minutes wassufficient for the release of easily accessible surface peptidesand as the time was increased the number of resultingpeptides increased as well Our data generally agreed withtheir observations Even though the greatest number of peakswas observed at 10 minutes the peak intensities of somepeaks continued to increase beyond 10 minutes for example119898119911 of 6560 8514 11115 and 24470 However we havenot yet confirmed which of these signals originated fromC albicans and thus the comparison should not be basedon the intensities of selected peaks This led us back to theconclusion of 10 minutes being optimal based on the highestnumber of observed peaks
Most importantly the results demonstrated the successfultryptic digestion performed on C albicans adhered on glasswith as little as 3 120583L of trypsin solution Using the establishedoptimal reaction time of 10min and trypsin concentration of15 120583gmL digestions were performed finally on C albicanscells treated with HTN5 The resulting peptides were recov-ered for analysis by LC ESI MSMS for identification
33 Analyses of Peptides from C albicans by Nano-HPLCESI MSMS ESI MS and MSMS data were generated forsamples collected from the tryptic digestion of C albicanscells with and without HTN5 treatments The entire studywas performed in replicates of six for each of the two groupsand the results were searched against the C albicans databasefor protein identification It is noteworthy that the natureof our miniaturized assay while reducing the consumptionof reagents and cells also produces a limited quantity ofpeptides for protein identification It was estimated that lessthan 2 120583g of materials was injected for each LC MS analysisFor this reason we have taken a less stringent approachin setting our database search parameters and so we caninclude results with moderate to high levels of confidenceFurthermore instead of focusing only on peptides withsubstantial changes in abundance after exposure to HTN5we also take the inclusive approach and present the differentlevels of abundance changes resulting from the treatmentTo help readers distinguishing the peptides detected withincreased intensities from those with reduced intensitiesfollowing HTN5 treatment the results are divided into twotables Table 1 presents the precursor ions with averageintensities that were higher from the HTN5 treated samplescompared to the control whereas Table 2 shows the ionswith lower intensities from the treated group compared tothe control The 119901 values resulting from 119905-test are included inthe tables to illustrate the significance of the signal intensitychanges Entries with high119901 values (gt01) should be treated asstatistically indistinguishable The signal intensities of theseions were highly variable within the replicate measurementswhich resulted in large standard deviations and low statisticalconfidences
The confidences of protein assignments were also illus-trated in the tables as 119883Corr values 119883Corr values above 2 areusually indicative of a good correlation It is noteworthy thatsome observed precursor ions were matched with multipletheoretical precursor ions for example observed119898119911 129759was matched with theoretical 119898119911 129854 129749 129769129770 129775 and 129867 Readers should take into accountthe 119883Corr scores when interpreting the results as some ofthese protein assignments are only putative Finally theprotein entries were sorted according to their biologicalfunctions but these listed functions were taken straight outof the Uniprot database based on the accession numbersresulting from the search (listed next to the protein names inTables 1 and 2) Further experimental verifications were notconducted in this work
In the previous study of peptides resulting from cellshaving of C albicans in solution [28] the authors reportedthe detection of proteins with the following functionsmetabolism cell defense and virulence transport and pro-tein fate Likewise the profiling ofC albicans surface proteinswas reported by two other groups in different analyticalapproaches [29 32] Broadly speaking similar functions wereobserved in Tables 1 and 2 While these previous reportsoffered more comprehensive listings of proteins with cellwall functions our work focused on the changes in surfaceproteins upon HTN5 treatment
6 International Journal of ProteomicsTa
ble1Proteins
identifi
edfro
mam
iniaturiz
edassayof
HTN
5tre
atmento
fCalbica
nswith
decreasedMSsig
nals
AverageM
Ssig
nalsandtheirstand
arddeviations
werec
alculatedbased
onsix
replicatesProteinsind
icated
with
anasteris
k(lowast)h
aveb
eendeterm
ined
usingtheirassociated
proteinfamiliesLow
ercaselette
rsin
aminoacidsequ
encesind
icated
mod
ified
resid
ues
Blankspaces
indicatedproteins
unidentifi
edby
thed
atabases
Biological
functio
n
Observed
precursor
mz
Theoretic
alprecursor
mz
MSsig
nal
intensities
119901values
Aminoacid
sequ
ence
Proteinname
(UniProt
AccessionNum
ber)
Charges119883
Corr
Con
trol
HTN
5tre
ated
Virulence
128483
128665
2700
0plusmn
9500
1400
0plusmn
2800
0016
KsLYT
ISPN
KGKR
Transcrip
tionalregulator
STP3
(A0A
0A6LWB8
)3
252
128369
KSK
YNLP
FAMKE
Cand
idapepsin
-7(A
0A0A
4B714)
375
129587
129570
6600
0plusmn
1100
1900
0plusmn
7000
000
0013
RtKKW
GLG
WIK
NIntegrasefam
ilylowast
(A0A
0A3B
ML7
)1
161
357979
358147
4000
0plusmn
5000
3100
0plusmn
3600
0030
HPQ
YsEA
CsAV
mVVTY
SSGSG
EHIH
TTDIK
Kexin
(A0A
0A6IYX
0)3
333
389536
389280
3600
0plusmn
4100
2600
0plusmn
3100
00037
ELKT
TVIV
TSCF
NNVC
SETsITTPK
tAVtAT
tSK
Flocculinlowast
(A0A
0A3C
M71)
3310
465996
465822
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
KHLT
LKSSTP
AST
LEYS
TSIPPA
LATT
SSSLStES
TtLttIS
RS
325
411551
411594
5100
0plusmn
1200
02400
0plusmn
1700
00017
VTF
VEK
AtST
STTN
tTttT
TTTT
TTTT
TTT
TIPV
KR120573-Lactamasefam
ilylowast
(A0A
0A6K
6B3)
3323
412103
412205
3100
0plusmn
2300
01700
0plusmn
7200
013
KNVKV
ITTT
TTtSPS
SFSSSSSLMsPITPQ
TPN
IPKT
PKT
PXdo
mainlowast
(A0A
0A3C
BE8)
3394
Surfa
ce-
associated
117588
117366
6400
0plusmn
3900
2200
0plusmn
1100lt000
001
RtIN
LDsQ
VKY
31015840(21015840 )51015840-Bisp
hosphate
nucle
otidase2
(A0A
0A6N
TV1)
1316
465996
465987
6600
0plusmn
1100
2000
0plusmn
7000
000
001
mQTS
ISttT
IEDHLH
HYsPE
ESQKL
LSRE
SSIN
TDLF
KE
Budsites
electionprotein
BUD4
(A0A
0A3D
IG6)
3313
Mito
chon
drial-
associated
117588
117515
6400
0plusmn
3900
2200
0plusmn
1100lt000
001
KYM
LLTL
LtKL
YAP-bd
ALF
4glom
ulin
familylowast
(A0A
0A3C
AC1)
1296
129587
129768
6600
0plusmn
1100
1900
0plusmn
7000
000
001
KLT
tLISSIEN
KI
296
137401
137670
1600
0plusmn
1300
1000
0plusmn
3000
000
47RTA
SGNIIPS
STGAAKA
Glyceraldehyde-3-ph
osph
ate
dehydrogenase
(Q92211)
1286
465996
466023
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
KStIV
EEIYsN
ARS
HLV
QGNKE
mGmALF
NE
LLAIN
ESIYGKV
Clusteredmito
chon
dria
proteinho
molog
(A0A
0A4C
6G1)
3337
DNAbind
ing
80477
80444
4200
0plusmn
2200
01900
0plusmn
3100
0034
KQPA
VFSRI
DNApo
lymerase
(Q5A
4E5)
1256
128483
128353
2700
0plusmn
9500
1400
0plusmn
2800
0016
RVA
SHsLsTsR
RMinichrom
osom
emaintenance
protein10
(A0A
0A3C
IN8)
1267
333128
333142
6300
0plusmn
1200
1400
0plusmn
1400lt000
001
KGFT
NTM
ISHIG
FDPT
GtsL
NQNsTS
LGsK
S3
321
280676
280620
4700
0plusmn
3600
03000
0plusmn
2300
0021
RTT
PPTV
sITG
PNPsSSPA
sAST
NtSKS
Phosph
atasefam
ilylowast
(A0A
0A3B
QA3)
3360
International Journal of Proteomics 7Ta
ble1Con
tinued
Biological
functio
n
Observed
precursor
mz
Theoretic
alprecursor
mz
MSsig
nal
intensities
119901values
Aminoacid
sequ
ence
Proteinname
(UniProt
AccessionNum
ber)
Charges119883
Corr
Con
trol
HTN
5tre
ated
337660
337698
4300
0plusmn
1200
03200
0plusmn
2800
0023
KSSPT
SsAT
TTAT
tSVsISSLSLtMGKP
KNSK
LMediatorc
omplexlowast
(A0A
0A3C
P70)
3315
349815
350080
3400
0plusmn
8900
1800
0plusmn
1600
00054
KLG
SVLT
tRSQ
LIEY
ELtTRtIFIN
CSA
ALK
ISpt6
(D3IZV
2)3
311
350340
350474
4300
0plusmn
8300
3100
0plusmn
2500
0014
REV
IIKL
SITR
tHtPPP
DST
tTTT
PTTS
IEKT
Znfin
gerd
omainlowast
(A0A
0A6J6A
5)3
357
393914
394046
3600
0plusmn
4000
1700
0plusmn
8000
00026
VSSY
ILDGNNST
KLPsPV
LtHtTF
DSR
sDEG
QR
Basic
leucinez
ipperd
omainlowast
(A0A
0A3D
LJ5)
3399
411551
411695
5100
0plusmn
1200
02400
0plusmn
1700
00017
RAPQ
sIQLP
PIQsFtKsQ
AVFP
QSV
RDSA
PAANFN
RY
Transcrip
tionfactor
andDNA
bind
ingproteinfamilieslowast
(A0A
0A6ITE
8)3
312
465996
465915
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
MKImmIPTH
HQtYNIN
THQPP
QQHQYL
PPPG
tSY
TSPR
A312
411551
411487
5100
0plusmn
1200
02400
0plusmn
1700
00017
KsStQ
MSSCtNsV
TQTL
DRL
PKIV
STQQNNL
TPTS
KI
Zn(2)-DNAbind
ingdo
mainlowast
(A0A
0A6K
Y81)
3303
465996
466019
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
RRS
VSYS
PGPsSIKS
QLP
HLT
SSST
TtssVQ
SPP
PPPP
SQPP
RG
361
417360
417373
2400
0plusmn
1200
1300
0plusmn
1200
000
0014
KtV
TsIN
GSP
PPLE
tAPsSH
HNVPIDFIHFK
KESD
RT
Uncharacterized
protein
(A0A
0A3E
PD4)
3312
436859
436789
3300
0plusmn
2100
07100plusmn
1300
0020
KNMQFP
PYQVS
sHNsSEtSQ
sIPN
TPSITR
QVE
SNTR
S
Transcrip
tionalregulatory
proteinLE
U3
(A0A
0A3B
TY8)
3354
436790
KtPTT
TTTT
TTtANGNTS
NGNTS
NGNsTGKT
ATA
ATAT
KSNtK
Transcrip
tionproteinfamilylowast
(A0A
0A3C
3Y1)
319
Protein
synthesis
80477
80541
4200
0plusmn
2200
01900
0plusmn
3100
0034
KQTS
LNDKC
Manno
syltransfe
rase
familylowast
(A0A
0A3C
UB4
)1
254
80445
RVKI
DSD
KS
ProteintransporterS
EC24
(A0A
0A3E
HG4)
151
117588
117398
6400
0plusmn
3900
2200
0plusmn
1100lt000
001
KTK
QFN
DsK
KK
Vesic
letetheringprotein
familylowast
(A0A
0A6K
IG6)
1201
128483
128372
2700
0plusmn
9500
1400
0plusmn
2800
0016
KtAGsN
HNsEKK
Ribo
somalRN
A-processin
gprotein12
(A0A
0A4B
GJ7)
1251
412103
411993
3100
0plusmn
2300
01700
0plusmn
7200
013
KFF
sDNIANDLA
tTTT
TTTT
TNTG
AtSV
HPIL
QVDAIK
YCA
SCS
Eproteinfamilylowast
(A0A
0A6L
8P2)
3324
436859
437093
3300
0plusmn
2100
07100plusmn
1300
0020
KES
SSTA
DQPS
VVPP
QES
HKD
TVET
PKPE
VtEtsV
EAtKE
Transla
tioninitiationfactor
4G(A
0A0A
4CDK4
)3
299
436703
KNPT
PTPT
PTPT
PTPN
NLA
QGVDsSST
LDV
EtTL
tGLtRR
I
Imidazoleglycerolpho
sphate
synthase
cycla
sesubu
nit
(A0A
0A6I238)
321
8 International Journal of Proteomics
Table1Con
tinued
Biological
functio
n
Observed
precursor
mz
Theoretic
alprecursor
mz
MSsig
nal
intensities
119901values
Aminoacid
sequ
ence
Proteinname
(UniProt
AccessionNum
ber)
Charges119883
Corr
Con
trol
HTN
5tre
ated
Sign
allin
g
350340
350460
4300
0plusmn
8300
3100
0plusmn
2500
0013
KRS
SITtPtPP
LTTT
HSSNGNGNGNV
NVNVNsK
R
Peroxisometransmem
brane
receptorlowast
(A0A
0A3Z
WC2
)3
330
411551
411676
3100
0plusmn
2000
01700
0plusmn
7200
0017
KQST
TNTsTL
ssTtAAST
LATS
NNTQ
PDTY
TSTS
TSIRG
Pleckstrin
homologydo
mainlowast
(A0A
0A6L
5L9)
3333
441651
441487
2900
0plusmn
2700
01600
0plusmn
1100
010
RQHPD
PLSN
QsN
FNsN
TINNYS
NYR
SsTRS
GLD
PsQRH
RhoGTP
asea
ctivating
proteindo
mainlowast
(A0A
0A3B
MU5)
3412
465996
466032
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
KDLP
IGYILH
mIN
LcPN
IVsLNLG
NLSLsTD
YEISRS
TIHKY
F-bo
xproteinCO
S111
(A0A
0A3C
YY6)
3368
465821
KWNKE
KIEL
DsPLIVS
YVSSLC
NGGGGGIIT
NsTNST
ttNSK
Pentatric
opeptid
erepeat
(PPR
)protein
familylowast
(A0A
0A3C
GE7
)111
Misc
ellaneou
s
128483
128542
2700
0plusmn
9500
1400
0plusmn
2800
0016
RNDsD
tsLsK
EInsulin
indu
cedprotein
familylowast
(A0A
0A3C
RM0)
116
6RYtmNEV
FKV
GYF
domainlowast
(A0A
0A3C
0N8)
333128
333159
6300
0plusmn
1200
1400
0plusmn
1400lt000
001
ETsQ
FMGNAES
EDLtGNGLL
TSTL
AVLS
SIS
Orfin
Calbicans
major
repeat
sequ
enceR
B2region
(Q5A
475)
3315
333128
333244
6300
0plusmn
1200
1400
0plusmn
1400
023
KLS
SLGNHGTtTT
SSLS
SSsSsSIsNNT
SIAKI
CBSdo
mainlowast
(A0A
0A6JTB
4)3
346
337660
337659
4300
0plusmn
1200
03300
0plusmn
2800
0RKQ
QDQNEV
AGAAAAT
TTTA
tAtAT
AAT
NWKP
KN
321
349815
349857
3400
0plusmn
8900
1800
0plusmn
1600
00054
KSSsLIK
NsTsSNQSsPA
TSTN
TSIV
DVPIEK
SWDrepeatproteinlowast
(A0A
0A3C
A48)
3321
417360
417295
2400
0plusmn
1200
1300
0plusmn
1200
000
0014
RIN
NNNDKs
sILsNITTT
NTT
TGTG
TTNTtT
VPS
IKTK
R(A
0A0A
6IY5
3)424
349815
349948
3400
0plusmn
8900
1800
0plusmn
1600
00054
KAFS
SsKL
TSDSA
NStNStNsTSM
SILG
NDKD
CDKinhibitorP
HO81
(A0A
0A6M
Y31)
3316
389536
389486
3600
0plusmn
4100
2600
0plusmn
3100
00037
RISRP
NGVG
GISTS
GSSSP
TTEF
VTP
QAs
KsSV
DQNKK
RUbiqu
itininteractingmotiflowast
(C4Y
NW3)
3329
442103
442109
3200
0plusmn
1900
01700
0plusmn
7200
0080
RHLILG
YKItV
VtDHQSLTsVMTS
SSRP
ENNRM
IRW
Aspartic
peptidasefam
ilylowast
(A0A
0A4C
VF8
)3
383
393914
394016
3600
0plusmn
2400
01700
0plusmn
1800
000026
RNVNGSG
StNtN
TMtRLD
sTTIASSLF
CRQLY
FNLL
SKD
Globinfamilylowast
(A0A
0A4C
D75)
3311
437257
437390
9600plusmn
4600
5400plusmn
1800
0058
RNNsT
VSST
NSL
mSN
NsD
TNtAAT
AAT
AAT
SGS
TTNNVKR
M(A
0A0A
3XE4
6)338
International Journal of Proteomics 9
Table1Con
tinued
Biological
functio
n
Observed
precursor
mz
Theoretic
alprecursor
mz
MSsig
nal
intensities
119901values
Aminoacid
sequ
ence
Proteinname
(UniProt
AccessionNum
ber)
Charges119883
Corr
Con
trol
HTN
5tre
ated
441615
441482
2900
0plusmn
2700
01600
0plusmn
1100
010
RNGtYSSsStSSSsTSSVS
SSSA
TTANGES
LNST
THNIQ
LERT
Sec2plowast
(A0A
0A6JGN5)
3289
465996
466133
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
KQNYV
DPG
QIAIKGLK
GFV
NLG
AtCF
MssILQtLIH
NPL
IKY
Ubiqu
itincarboxyl-te
rminal
hydrolase
(C4Y
KS7)
3369
466093
KYD
KPmED
TEEIDDVtSISK
sINEQ
IDDPF
sQFN
SVTL
RY
Protein-serin
ethreon
ine
kinase
(A0A
0A4A
NB2
)35
1
Uncharacterized
117588
117373
6400
0plusmn
4000
2200
0plusmn
1100lt000
001
KtIm
tItIK
I(Q
59T3
9)1
207
333128
333260
6300
0plusmn
1200
1400
0plusmn
1400lt000
001
RIsNIITL
NSSLS
SSsSsSSSsSSLLL
LTL
KS
(Q5A
AP9
)3
311
389536
389370
3600
0plusmn
4100
2600
0plusmn
3100
00034
KTT
PVMGNSStPST
VtANtN
tGAY
STSSDTA
AKP
TKKA
(A0A
0A6JKT
0)3
314
393914
394074
3600
0plusmn
2400
01700
0plusmn
1800
000026
KTT
PVMGNSStPST
VtANtN
tGAY
STSSDTA
AKP
TKKA
(A0A
0A6JKT
0)3
346
411551
411679
3100
0plusmn
2000
01700
0plusmn
7200
0017
KTV
CNWQtLGHTD
EFEE
stQFA
RGVS
DtAL
VGGITKL
(Q59K0
1)
3
218
411482
TCG
KSCF
INSttANKL
IsYN
LFQSStEVDS
IGPT
GSK
T(Q
59KZ
4)386
41162
KTT
PVMGNSsTP
STVTA
NTN
TGAY
STSsDt
AAKP
TKKA
TKR
(A0A
0A6JKT
0)391
411504
RILLL
LPLL
GVtILTS
KSSLES
ISLN
sPSD
SIALssSKS
(Q5A
H83)
234
441651
441518
2900
0plusmn
2700
01600
0plusmn
1100
010
KST
SSANIKtKPK
PNTA
TtAT
TPTA
tTAT
TtA
TTSSID
PTEK
D(A
0A0A
4CH02)
3259
442103
441999
3200
0plusmn
1900
01700
0plusmn
7200
0080
RLS
GtN
NPG
sGsG
sGGGGGGGANNNSLPG
YSV
GSSIG
RGRG
LGRG
(A0A
0A6LWB8
)3
189
436859
436693
3300
0plusmn
2100
07100plusmn
1300
0020
KNYN
QFK
LIEL
DDSM
NTT
TTTT
TTTT
tTttT
tTST
IGKF
(A0A
0A6M
D82)
3376
436787
KSK
sTTIHNQSN
IHSE
QISIN
DEN
NNKS
tstS
TSTD
TKK
(A0A
0A3E
QM3)
132
437257
437082
9600plusmn
4600
5400plusmn1800
0058
KSSGGSSDTK
SVWIAtTGSD
FASQ
SNSD
SsStASR
NSSSSASR
Q(A
0A0A
3BP13)
3246
437317
KEsEG
VWGWsLQCL
LLLF
TKVNLR
scDQL
LICA
LVIRE
(Q5A
KS1)
299
465996
466136
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
KVILIG
NSM
TsRT
TsSV
RFFSIM
LTVS
LPItN
ILVsSEL
SKV
(A0A
0A3B
Z01)
3311
10 International Journal of Proteomics
Table 2 Proteins identified from a miniaturized assay of HTN5 treatment of C albicans with increased MS signals Average MS signalsand their standard deviations were calculated based on six replicates Proteins indicated with an asterisk (lowast) have been determined usingtheir associated protein families Lower case letters in amino acid sequences indicated modified residues Blank spaces indicated proteinsunidentified by the databases
Biologicalfunction
Observedprecursor119898119911
Theoreticalprecursor119898119911
Ion counts119901 values Amino acid sequence Protein name Charges 119883CorrBefore After
Surface-associated 129759 129854 18000 plusmn
880051000 plusmn5400 000042 KKPsTEDtFSKY
Peroxisomal proteinfamilylowast
(A0A0A6JC81)1 182
Mitochondrial-associated 129759 129749 18000 plusmn
880051000 plusmn5400 000042 RNsIttEsVKA
Aldehyde hydrogenasefamilylowast
(A0A0A3BNV6)1 203
DNA binding
57544 57645 9700 plusmn1000
28000 plusmn6200 000055 KSLLSRI
Telomerase reversetranscriptase familylowast
(C4YDL3)1 154
129759
12977518000 plusmn8800
51000 plusmn5400 000042
KNVIPAtItKV Spt6(D3IZV2)
1
154
129867 KEFTIGPFKcIKW
Transcriptionalregulatory protein
familylowast(A0A0A3CXJ5)
156
Miscellaneous57544 57631 9700 plusmn
110028000 plusmn6200 000055 RSLNSRI ATPase familylowast
(A0A0A4CD62) 1 315
190171 190374 7800 plusmn3900
13000 plusmn2300 0025 KNKATssSSStsRDTRW Leucine rich repeatslowast
(C4YMX3) 2 319
Uncharacterized 129759 129769 18000 plusmn8800
51000 plusmn5400 000042 RNNTtVSKGRIKV (A0A0A6M207) 1 151
129770 KKHQtHILNVKS (A0A0A6HZ28) 160
In another previous study quantitative LC MS wasperformed to characterize changes in the mitochondrialproteome of C albicans upon HTN5 treatments [33] Theauthors reported an upregulation of mitochondrial proteinsmainly involved in genomemaintenance and gene expressionand a downregulation for respiratory enzyme complexesIn our work the MS analysis was performed on samplesresulted from the tryptic shaving of adhered intact cellsGiven that the two approaches focused on different parts ofthe proteome we should not directly compare the proteinsidentified from these studies It suffices to conclude that ageneral decrease in MS signals was observed in our workfor many virulence- and surface-associated proteins afterHTN5 treatment as onewould expect Finally readers shouldbe reminded that the peptide sample quantity producedfrom our miniaturized technique was substantially lowerthan that typically used in previous studies due to thelower amount of starting materials in our work Neverthe-less one could alleviate this limitation by increasing thedensity of adhered cells on glass with a cell suspension ofhigher concentration andor by increasing the surface areaused of each assay which is defined by the hydrophobicboundary made by the user An increase in cell numberper assay will directly increase the quantity of peptidesproduced for LC MS analysis and subsequently improve thenumber of proteins identified andor the confidence of theidentification
4 Conclusions
This paper reported successful miniaturization of the trypticdigestion of surface proteins performed on whole cellsIn particular C albicans were adhered on glass surfacewhere introduction and removal of reagent solutions wereconveniently conducted with a micropipette Compared tothe use of cells suspended in solutions our treatment ofadhered cells also better resembles the antifungal treat-ment of C albicans cells adhered on tissues in the oralcavity Importantly the reduction in reagent volumes frommL to 120583L levels will allow users to perform many morereplicate assays while keeping an overall low consump-tion of reagents and cells Nevertheless the downside ofthe miniaturization is the reduced peptide sample quantityresulting from the LC MS analysis which could reducethe confidence of the protein identification Ultimatelyresearchers should select methods based on their purposesIn this case the miniaturized approach with adhered cellsis more effective for high-throughput screenings of celltypes or fungicides while the batch mode with suspendedcells is more suitable for a comprehensive profiling of theproteome
Disclosure
The paper is a part of MS thesis work of S Fan [34] WalterL Siqueira andKenK-C Yeung areCoprincipal Investigators
International Journal of Proteomics 11
Competing Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests
Acknowledgments
The work was funded by the University of Western Ontariothe Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council ofCanada (NSERC) and the Canadian Institutes of HealthResearch (CIHR) Walter L Siqueira is recipient of CIHRNew Investigator Salary Award The authors acknowledgeMs Kristina Jurcic for assistance in MALDI MS data acqui-sition and processing and Ms Tayebeh Basiri for insightfuladvices in fungal culturing Permission to access the Univer-sity of Western Ontario MALDI Mass Spectrometry Facilityis also acknowledged
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Microbiology
6 International Journal of ProteomicsTa
ble1Proteins
identifi
edfro
mam
iniaturiz
edassayof
HTN
5tre
atmento
fCalbica
nswith
decreasedMSsig
nals
AverageM
Ssig
nalsandtheirstand
arddeviations
werec
alculatedbased
onsix
replicatesProteinsind
icated
with
anasteris
k(lowast)h
aveb
eendeterm
ined
usingtheirassociated
proteinfamiliesLow
ercaselette
rsin
aminoacidsequ
encesind
icated
mod
ified
resid
ues
Blankspaces
indicatedproteins
unidentifi
edby
thed
atabases
Biological
functio
n
Observed
precursor
mz
Theoretic
alprecursor
mz
MSsig
nal
intensities
119901values
Aminoacid
sequ
ence
Proteinname
(UniProt
AccessionNum
ber)
Charges119883
Corr
Con
trol
HTN
5tre
ated
Virulence
128483
128665
2700
0plusmn
9500
1400
0plusmn
2800
0016
KsLYT
ISPN
KGKR
Transcrip
tionalregulator
STP3
(A0A
0A6LWB8
)3
252
128369
KSK
YNLP
FAMKE
Cand
idapepsin
-7(A
0A0A
4B714)
375
129587
129570
6600
0plusmn
1100
1900
0plusmn
7000
000
0013
RtKKW
GLG
WIK
NIntegrasefam
ilylowast
(A0A
0A3B
ML7
)1
161
357979
358147
4000
0plusmn
5000
3100
0plusmn
3600
0030
HPQ
YsEA
CsAV
mVVTY
SSGSG
EHIH
TTDIK
Kexin
(A0A
0A6IYX
0)3
333
389536
389280
3600
0plusmn
4100
2600
0plusmn
3100
00037
ELKT
TVIV
TSCF
NNVC
SETsITTPK
tAVtAT
tSK
Flocculinlowast
(A0A
0A3C
M71)
3310
465996
465822
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
KHLT
LKSSTP
AST
LEYS
TSIPPA
LATT
SSSLStES
TtLttIS
RS
325
411551
411594
5100
0plusmn
1200
02400
0plusmn
1700
00017
VTF
VEK
AtST
STTN
tTttT
TTTT
TTTT
TTT
TIPV
KR120573-Lactamasefam
ilylowast
(A0A
0A6K
6B3)
3323
412103
412205
3100
0plusmn
2300
01700
0plusmn
7200
013
KNVKV
ITTT
TTtSPS
SFSSSSSLMsPITPQ
TPN
IPKT
PKT
PXdo
mainlowast
(A0A
0A3C
BE8)
3394
Surfa
ce-
associated
117588
117366
6400
0plusmn
3900
2200
0plusmn
1100lt000
001
RtIN
LDsQ
VKY
31015840(21015840 )51015840-Bisp
hosphate
nucle
otidase2
(A0A
0A6N
TV1)
1316
465996
465987
6600
0plusmn
1100
2000
0plusmn
7000
000
001
mQTS
ISttT
IEDHLH
HYsPE
ESQKL
LSRE
SSIN
TDLF
KE
Budsites
electionprotein
BUD4
(A0A
0A3D
IG6)
3313
Mito
chon
drial-
associated
117588
117515
6400
0plusmn
3900
2200
0plusmn
1100lt000
001
KYM
LLTL
LtKL
YAP-bd
ALF
4glom
ulin
familylowast
(A0A
0A3C
AC1)
1296
129587
129768
6600
0plusmn
1100
1900
0plusmn
7000
000
001
KLT
tLISSIEN
KI
296
137401
137670
1600
0plusmn
1300
1000
0plusmn
3000
000
47RTA
SGNIIPS
STGAAKA
Glyceraldehyde-3-ph
osph
ate
dehydrogenase
(Q92211)
1286
465996
466023
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
KStIV
EEIYsN
ARS
HLV
QGNKE
mGmALF
NE
LLAIN
ESIYGKV
Clusteredmito
chon
dria
proteinho
molog
(A0A
0A4C
6G1)
3337
DNAbind
ing
80477
80444
4200
0plusmn
2200
01900
0plusmn
3100
0034
KQPA
VFSRI
DNApo
lymerase
(Q5A
4E5)
1256
128483
128353
2700
0plusmn
9500
1400
0plusmn
2800
0016
RVA
SHsLsTsR
RMinichrom
osom
emaintenance
protein10
(A0A
0A3C
IN8)
1267
333128
333142
6300
0plusmn
1200
1400
0plusmn
1400lt000
001
KGFT
NTM
ISHIG
FDPT
GtsL
NQNsTS
LGsK
S3
321
280676
280620
4700
0plusmn
3600
03000
0plusmn
2300
0021
RTT
PPTV
sITG
PNPsSSPA
sAST
NtSKS
Phosph
atasefam
ilylowast
(A0A
0A3B
QA3)
3360
International Journal of Proteomics 7Ta
ble1Con
tinued
Biological
functio
n
Observed
precursor
mz
Theoretic
alprecursor
mz
MSsig
nal
intensities
119901values
Aminoacid
sequ
ence
Proteinname
(UniProt
AccessionNum
ber)
Charges119883
Corr
Con
trol
HTN
5tre
ated
337660
337698
4300
0plusmn
1200
03200
0plusmn
2800
0023
KSSPT
SsAT
TTAT
tSVsISSLSLtMGKP
KNSK
LMediatorc
omplexlowast
(A0A
0A3C
P70)
3315
349815
350080
3400
0plusmn
8900
1800
0plusmn
1600
00054
KLG
SVLT
tRSQ
LIEY
ELtTRtIFIN
CSA
ALK
ISpt6
(D3IZV
2)3
311
350340
350474
4300
0plusmn
8300
3100
0plusmn
2500
0014
REV
IIKL
SITR
tHtPPP
DST
tTTT
PTTS
IEKT
Znfin
gerd
omainlowast
(A0A
0A6J6A
5)3
357
393914
394046
3600
0plusmn
4000
1700
0plusmn
8000
00026
VSSY
ILDGNNST
KLPsPV
LtHtTF
DSR
sDEG
QR
Basic
leucinez
ipperd
omainlowast
(A0A
0A3D
LJ5)
3399
411551
411695
5100
0plusmn
1200
02400
0plusmn
1700
00017
RAPQ
sIQLP
PIQsFtKsQ
AVFP
QSV
RDSA
PAANFN
RY
Transcrip
tionfactor
andDNA
bind
ingproteinfamilieslowast
(A0A
0A6ITE
8)3
312
465996
465915
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
MKImmIPTH
HQtYNIN
THQPP
QQHQYL
PPPG
tSY
TSPR
A312
411551
411487
5100
0plusmn
1200
02400
0plusmn
1700
00017
KsStQ
MSSCtNsV
TQTL
DRL
PKIV
STQQNNL
TPTS
KI
Zn(2)-DNAbind
ingdo
mainlowast
(A0A
0A6K
Y81)
3303
465996
466019
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
RRS
VSYS
PGPsSIKS
QLP
HLT
SSST
TtssVQ
SPP
PPPP
SQPP
RG
361
417360
417373
2400
0plusmn
1200
1300
0plusmn
1200
000
0014
KtV
TsIN
GSP
PPLE
tAPsSH
HNVPIDFIHFK
KESD
RT
Uncharacterized
protein
(A0A
0A3E
PD4)
3312
436859
436789
3300
0plusmn
2100
07100plusmn
1300
0020
KNMQFP
PYQVS
sHNsSEtSQ
sIPN
TPSITR
QVE
SNTR
S
Transcrip
tionalregulatory
proteinLE
U3
(A0A
0A3B
TY8)
3354
436790
KtPTT
TTTT
TTtANGNTS
NGNTS
NGNsTGKT
ATA
ATAT
KSNtK
Transcrip
tionproteinfamilylowast
(A0A
0A3C
3Y1)
319
Protein
synthesis
80477
80541
4200
0plusmn
2200
01900
0plusmn
3100
0034
KQTS
LNDKC
Manno
syltransfe
rase
familylowast
(A0A
0A3C
UB4
)1
254
80445
RVKI
DSD
KS
ProteintransporterS
EC24
(A0A
0A3E
HG4)
151
117588
117398
6400
0plusmn
3900
2200
0plusmn
1100lt000
001
KTK
QFN
DsK
KK
Vesic
letetheringprotein
familylowast
(A0A
0A6K
IG6)
1201
128483
128372
2700
0plusmn
9500
1400
0plusmn
2800
0016
KtAGsN
HNsEKK
Ribo
somalRN
A-processin
gprotein12
(A0A
0A4B
GJ7)
1251
412103
411993
3100
0plusmn
2300
01700
0plusmn
7200
013
KFF
sDNIANDLA
tTTT
TTTT
TNTG
AtSV
HPIL
QVDAIK
YCA
SCS
Eproteinfamilylowast
(A0A
0A6L
8P2)
3324
436859
437093
3300
0plusmn
2100
07100plusmn
1300
0020
KES
SSTA
DQPS
VVPP
QES
HKD
TVET
PKPE
VtEtsV
EAtKE
Transla
tioninitiationfactor
4G(A
0A0A
4CDK4
)3
299
436703
KNPT
PTPT
PTPT
PTPN
NLA
QGVDsSST
LDV
EtTL
tGLtRR
I
Imidazoleglycerolpho
sphate
synthase
cycla
sesubu
nit
(A0A
0A6I238)
321
8 International Journal of Proteomics
Table1Con
tinued
Biological
functio
n
Observed
precursor
mz
Theoretic
alprecursor
mz
MSsig
nal
intensities
119901values
Aminoacid
sequ
ence
Proteinname
(UniProt
AccessionNum
ber)
Charges119883
Corr
Con
trol
HTN
5tre
ated
Sign
allin
g
350340
350460
4300
0plusmn
8300
3100
0plusmn
2500
0013
KRS
SITtPtPP
LTTT
HSSNGNGNGNV
NVNVNsK
R
Peroxisometransmem
brane
receptorlowast
(A0A
0A3Z
WC2
)3
330
411551
411676
3100
0plusmn
2000
01700
0plusmn
7200
0017
KQST
TNTsTL
ssTtAAST
LATS
NNTQ
PDTY
TSTS
TSIRG
Pleckstrin
homologydo
mainlowast
(A0A
0A6L
5L9)
3333
441651
441487
2900
0plusmn
2700
01600
0plusmn
1100
010
RQHPD
PLSN
QsN
FNsN
TINNYS
NYR
SsTRS
GLD
PsQRH
RhoGTP
asea
ctivating
proteindo
mainlowast
(A0A
0A3B
MU5)
3412
465996
466032
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
KDLP
IGYILH
mIN
LcPN
IVsLNLG
NLSLsTD
YEISRS
TIHKY
F-bo
xproteinCO
S111
(A0A
0A3C
YY6)
3368
465821
KWNKE
KIEL
DsPLIVS
YVSSLC
NGGGGGIIT
NsTNST
ttNSK
Pentatric
opeptid
erepeat
(PPR
)protein
familylowast
(A0A
0A3C
GE7
)111
Misc
ellaneou
s
128483
128542
2700
0plusmn
9500
1400
0plusmn
2800
0016
RNDsD
tsLsK
EInsulin
indu
cedprotein
familylowast
(A0A
0A3C
RM0)
116
6RYtmNEV
FKV
GYF
domainlowast
(A0A
0A3C
0N8)
333128
333159
6300
0plusmn
1200
1400
0plusmn
1400lt000
001
ETsQ
FMGNAES
EDLtGNGLL
TSTL
AVLS
SIS
Orfin
Calbicans
major
repeat
sequ
enceR
B2region
(Q5A
475)
3315
333128
333244
6300
0plusmn
1200
1400
0plusmn
1400
023
KLS
SLGNHGTtTT
SSLS
SSsSsSIsNNT
SIAKI
CBSdo
mainlowast
(A0A
0A6JTB
4)3
346
337660
337659
4300
0plusmn
1200
03300
0plusmn
2800
0RKQ
QDQNEV
AGAAAAT
TTTA
tAtAT
AAT
NWKP
KN
321
349815
349857
3400
0plusmn
8900
1800
0plusmn
1600
00054
KSSsLIK
NsTsSNQSsPA
TSTN
TSIV
DVPIEK
SWDrepeatproteinlowast
(A0A
0A3C
A48)
3321
417360
417295
2400
0plusmn
1200
1300
0plusmn
1200
000
0014
RIN
NNNDKs
sILsNITTT
NTT
TGTG
TTNTtT
VPS
IKTK
R(A
0A0A
6IY5
3)424
349815
349948
3400
0plusmn
8900
1800
0plusmn
1600
00054
KAFS
SsKL
TSDSA
NStNStNsTSM
SILG
NDKD
CDKinhibitorP
HO81
(A0A
0A6M
Y31)
3316
389536
389486
3600
0plusmn
4100
2600
0plusmn
3100
00037
RISRP
NGVG
GISTS
GSSSP
TTEF
VTP
QAs
KsSV
DQNKK
RUbiqu
itininteractingmotiflowast
(C4Y
NW3)
3329
442103
442109
3200
0plusmn
1900
01700
0plusmn
7200
0080
RHLILG
YKItV
VtDHQSLTsVMTS
SSRP
ENNRM
IRW
Aspartic
peptidasefam
ilylowast
(A0A
0A4C
VF8
)3
383
393914
394016
3600
0plusmn
2400
01700
0plusmn
1800
000026
RNVNGSG
StNtN
TMtRLD
sTTIASSLF
CRQLY
FNLL
SKD
Globinfamilylowast
(A0A
0A4C
D75)
3311
437257
437390
9600plusmn
4600
5400plusmn
1800
0058
RNNsT
VSST
NSL
mSN
NsD
TNtAAT
AAT
AAT
SGS
TTNNVKR
M(A
0A0A
3XE4
6)338
International Journal of Proteomics 9
Table1Con
tinued
Biological
functio
n
Observed
precursor
mz
Theoretic
alprecursor
mz
MSsig
nal
intensities
119901values
Aminoacid
sequ
ence
Proteinname
(UniProt
AccessionNum
ber)
Charges119883
Corr
Con
trol
HTN
5tre
ated
441615
441482
2900
0plusmn
2700
01600
0plusmn
1100
010
RNGtYSSsStSSSsTSSVS
SSSA
TTANGES
LNST
THNIQ
LERT
Sec2plowast
(A0A
0A6JGN5)
3289
465996
466133
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
KQNYV
DPG
QIAIKGLK
GFV
NLG
AtCF
MssILQtLIH
NPL
IKY
Ubiqu
itincarboxyl-te
rminal
hydrolase
(C4Y
KS7)
3369
466093
KYD
KPmED
TEEIDDVtSISK
sINEQ
IDDPF
sQFN
SVTL
RY
Protein-serin
ethreon
ine
kinase
(A0A
0A4A
NB2
)35
1
Uncharacterized
117588
117373
6400
0plusmn
4000
2200
0plusmn
1100lt000
001
KtIm
tItIK
I(Q
59T3
9)1
207
333128
333260
6300
0plusmn
1200
1400
0plusmn
1400lt000
001
RIsNIITL
NSSLS
SSsSsSSSsSSLLL
LTL
KS
(Q5A
AP9
)3
311
389536
389370
3600
0plusmn
4100
2600
0plusmn
3100
00034
KTT
PVMGNSStPST
VtANtN
tGAY
STSSDTA
AKP
TKKA
(A0A
0A6JKT
0)3
314
393914
394074
3600
0plusmn
2400
01700
0plusmn
1800
000026
KTT
PVMGNSStPST
VtANtN
tGAY
STSSDTA
AKP
TKKA
(A0A
0A6JKT
0)3
346
411551
411679
3100
0plusmn
2000
01700
0plusmn
7200
0017
KTV
CNWQtLGHTD
EFEE
stQFA
RGVS
DtAL
VGGITKL
(Q59K0
1)
3
218
411482
TCG
KSCF
INSttANKL
IsYN
LFQSStEVDS
IGPT
GSK
T(Q
59KZ
4)386
41162
KTT
PVMGNSsTP
STVTA
NTN
TGAY
STSsDt
AAKP
TKKA
TKR
(A0A
0A6JKT
0)391
411504
RILLL
LPLL
GVtILTS
KSSLES
ISLN
sPSD
SIALssSKS
(Q5A
H83)
234
441651
441518
2900
0plusmn
2700
01600
0plusmn
1100
010
KST
SSANIKtKPK
PNTA
TtAT
TPTA
tTAT
TtA
TTSSID
PTEK
D(A
0A0A
4CH02)
3259
442103
441999
3200
0plusmn
1900
01700
0plusmn
7200
0080
RLS
GtN
NPG
sGsG
sGGGGGGGANNNSLPG
YSV
GSSIG
RGRG
LGRG
(A0A
0A6LWB8
)3
189
436859
436693
3300
0plusmn
2100
07100plusmn
1300
0020
KNYN
QFK
LIEL
DDSM
NTT
TTTT
TTTT
tTttT
tTST
IGKF
(A0A
0A6M
D82)
3376
436787
KSK
sTTIHNQSN
IHSE
QISIN
DEN
NNKS
tstS
TSTD
TKK
(A0A
0A3E
QM3)
132
437257
437082
9600plusmn
4600
5400plusmn1800
0058
KSSGGSSDTK
SVWIAtTGSD
FASQ
SNSD
SsStASR
NSSSSASR
Q(A
0A0A
3BP13)
3246
437317
KEsEG
VWGWsLQCL
LLLF
TKVNLR
scDQL
LICA
LVIRE
(Q5A
KS1)
299
465996
466136
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
KVILIG
NSM
TsRT
TsSV
RFFSIM
LTVS
LPItN
ILVsSEL
SKV
(A0A
0A3B
Z01)
3311
10 International Journal of Proteomics
Table 2 Proteins identified from a miniaturized assay of HTN5 treatment of C albicans with increased MS signals Average MS signalsand their standard deviations were calculated based on six replicates Proteins indicated with an asterisk (lowast) have been determined usingtheir associated protein families Lower case letters in amino acid sequences indicated modified residues Blank spaces indicated proteinsunidentified by the databases
Biologicalfunction
Observedprecursor119898119911
Theoreticalprecursor119898119911
Ion counts119901 values Amino acid sequence Protein name Charges 119883CorrBefore After
Surface-associated 129759 129854 18000 plusmn
880051000 plusmn5400 000042 KKPsTEDtFSKY
Peroxisomal proteinfamilylowast
(A0A0A6JC81)1 182
Mitochondrial-associated 129759 129749 18000 plusmn
880051000 plusmn5400 000042 RNsIttEsVKA
Aldehyde hydrogenasefamilylowast
(A0A0A3BNV6)1 203
DNA binding
57544 57645 9700 plusmn1000
28000 plusmn6200 000055 KSLLSRI
Telomerase reversetranscriptase familylowast
(C4YDL3)1 154
129759
12977518000 plusmn8800
51000 plusmn5400 000042
KNVIPAtItKV Spt6(D3IZV2)
1
154
129867 KEFTIGPFKcIKW
Transcriptionalregulatory protein
familylowast(A0A0A3CXJ5)
156
Miscellaneous57544 57631 9700 plusmn
110028000 plusmn6200 000055 RSLNSRI ATPase familylowast
(A0A0A4CD62) 1 315
190171 190374 7800 plusmn3900
13000 plusmn2300 0025 KNKATssSSStsRDTRW Leucine rich repeatslowast
(C4YMX3) 2 319
Uncharacterized 129759 129769 18000 plusmn8800
51000 plusmn5400 000042 RNNTtVSKGRIKV (A0A0A6M207) 1 151
129770 KKHQtHILNVKS (A0A0A6HZ28) 160
In another previous study quantitative LC MS wasperformed to characterize changes in the mitochondrialproteome of C albicans upon HTN5 treatments [33] Theauthors reported an upregulation of mitochondrial proteinsmainly involved in genomemaintenance and gene expressionand a downregulation for respiratory enzyme complexesIn our work the MS analysis was performed on samplesresulted from the tryptic shaving of adhered intact cellsGiven that the two approaches focused on different parts ofthe proteome we should not directly compare the proteinsidentified from these studies It suffices to conclude that ageneral decrease in MS signals was observed in our workfor many virulence- and surface-associated proteins afterHTN5 treatment as onewould expect Finally readers shouldbe reminded that the peptide sample quantity producedfrom our miniaturized technique was substantially lowerthan that typically used in previous studies due to thelower amount of starting materials in our work Neverthe-less one could alleviate this limitation by increasing thedensity of adhered cells on glass with a cell suspension ofhigher concentration andor by increasing the surface areaused of each assay which is defined by the hydrophobicboundary made by the user An increase in cell numberper assay will directly increase the quantity of peptidesproduced for LC MS analysis and subsequently improve thenumber of proteins identified andor the confidence of theidentification
4 Conclusions
This paper reported successful miniaturization of the trypticdigestion of surface proteins performed on whole cellsIn particular C albicans were adhered on glass surfacewhere introduction and removal of reagent solutions wereconveniently conducted with a micropipette Compared tothe use of cells suspended in solutions our treatment ofadhered cells also better resembles the antifungal treat-ment of C albicans cells adhered on tissues in the oralcavity Importantly the reduction in reagent volumes frommL to 120583L levels will allow users to perform many morereplicate assays while keeping an overall low consump-tion of reagents and cells Nevertheless the downside ofthe miniaturization is the reduced peptide sample quantityresulting from the LC MS analysis which could reducethe confidence of the protein identification Ultimatelyresearchers should select methods based on their purposesIn this case the miniaturized approach with adhered cellsis more effective for high-throughput screenings of celltypes or fungicides while the batch mode with suspendedcells is more suitable for a comprehensive profiling of theproteome
Disclosure
The paper is a part of MS thesis work of S Fan [34] WalterL Siqueira andKenK-C Yeung areCoprincipal Investigators
International Journal of Proteomics 11
Competing Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests
Acknowledgments
The work was funded by the University of Western Ontariothe Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council ofCanada (NSERC) and the Canadian Institutes of HealthResearch (CIHR) Walter L Siqueira is recipient of CIHRNew Investigator Salary Award The authors acknowledgeMs Kristina Jurcic for assistance in MALDI MS data acqui-sition and processing and Ms Tayebeh Basiri for insightfuladvices in fungal culturing Permission to access the Univer-sity of Western Ontario MALDI Mass Spectrometry Facilityis also acknowledged
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International Journal of
Microbiology
International Journal of Proteomics 7Ta
ble1Con
tinued
Biological
functio
n
Observed
precursor
mz
Theoretic
alprecursor
mz
MSsig
nal
intensities
119901values
Aminoacid
sequ
ence
Proteinname
(UniProt
AccessionNum
ber)
Charges119883
Corr
Con
trol
HTN
5tre
ated
337660
337698
4300
0plusmn
1200
03200
0plusmn
2800
0023
KSSPT
SsAT
TTAT
tSVsISSLSLtMGKP
KNSK
LMediatorc
omplexlowast
(A0A
0A3C
P70)
3315
349815
350080
3400
0plusmn
8900
1800
0plusmn
1600
00054
KLG
SVLT
tRSQ
LIEY
ELtTRtIFIN
CSA
ALK
ISpt6
(D3IZV
2)3
311
350340
350474
4300
0plusmn
8300
3100
0plusmn
2500
0014
REV
IIKL
SITR
tHtPPP
DST
tTTT
PTTS
IEKT
Znfin
gerd
omainlowast
(A0A
0A6J6A
5)3
357
393914
394046
3600
0plusmn
4000
1700
0plusmn
8000
00026
VSSY
ILDGNNST
KLPsPV
LtHtTF
DSR
sDEG
QR
Basic
leucinez
ipperd
omainlowast
(A0A
0A3D
LJ5)
3399
411551
411695
5100
0plusmn
1200
02400
0plusmn
1700
00017
RAPQ
sIQLP
PIQsFtKsQ
AVFP
QSV
RDSA
PAANFN
RY
Transcrip
tionfactor
andDNA
bind
ingproteinfamilieslowast
(A0A
0A6ITE
8)3
312
465996
465915
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
MKImmIPTH
HQtYNIN
THQPP
QQHQYL
PPPG
tSY
TSPR
A312
411551
411487
5100
0plusmn
1200
02400
0plusmn
1700
00017
KsStQ
MSSCtNsV
TQTL
DRL
PKIV
STQQNNL
TPTS
KI
Zn(2)-DNAbind
ingdo
mainlowast
(A0A
0A6K
Y81)
3303
465996
466019
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
RRS
VSYS
PGPsSIKS
QLP
HLT
SSST
TtssVQ
SPP
PPPP
SQPP
RG
361
417360
417373
2400
0plusmn
1200
1300
0plusmn
1200
000
0014
KtV
TsIN
GSP
PPLE
tAPsSH
HNVPIDFIHFK
KESD
RT
Uncharacterized
protein
(A0A
0A3E
PD4)
3312
436859
436789
3300
0plusmn
2100
07100plusmn
1300
0020
KNMQFP
PYQVS
sHNsSEtSQ
sIPN
TPSITR
QVE
SNTR
S
Transcrip
tionalregulatory
proteinLE
U3
(A0A
0A3B
TY8)
3354
436790
KtPTT
TTTT
TTtANGNTS
NGNTS
NGNsTGKT
ATA
ATAT
KSNtK
Transcrip
tionproteinfamilylowast
(A0A
0A3C
3Y1)
319
Protein
synthesis
80477
80541
4200
0plusmn
2200
01900
0plusmn
3100
0034
KQTS
LNDKC
Manno
syltransfe
rase
familylowast
(A0A
0A3C
UB4
)1
254
80445
RVKI
DSD
KS
ProteintransporterS
EC24
(A0A
0A3E
HG4)
151
117588
117398
6400
0plusmn
3900
2200
0plusmn
1100lt000
001
KTK
QFN
DsK
KK
Vesic
letetheringprotein
familylowast
(A0A
0A6K
IG6)
1201
128483
128372
2700
0plusmn
9500
1400
0plusmn
2800
0016
KtAGsN
HNsEKK
Ribo
somalRN
A-processin
gprotein12
(A0A
0A4B
GJ7)
1251
412103
411993
3100
0plusmn
2300
01700
0plusmn
7200
013
KFF
sDNIANDLA
tTTT
TTTT
TNTG
AtSV
HPIL
QVDAIK
YCA
SCS
Eproteinfamilylowast
(A0A
0A6L
8P2)
3324
436859
437093
3300
0plusmn
2100
07100plusmn
1300
0020
KES
SSTA
DQPS
VVPP
QES
HKD
TVET
PKPE
VtEtsV
EAtKE
Transla
tioninitiationfactor
4G(A
0A0A
4CDK4
)3
299
436703
KNPT
PTPT
PTPT
PTPN
NLA
QGVDsSST
LDV
EtTL
tGLtRR
I
Imidazoleglycerolpho
sphate
synthase
cycla
sesubu
nit
(A0A
0A6I238)
321
8 International Journal of Proteomics
Table1Con
tinued
Biological
functio
n
Observed
precursor
mz
Theoretic
alprecursor
mz
MSsig
nal
intensities
119901values
Aminoacid
sequ
ence
Proteinname
(UniProt
AccessionNum
ber)
Charges119883
Corr
Con
trol
HTN
5tre
ated
Sign
allin
g
350340
350460
4300
0plusmn
8300
3100
0plusmn
2500
0013
KRS
SITtPtPP
LTTT
HSSNGNGNGNV
NVNVNsK
R
Peroxisometransmem
brane
receptorlowast
(A0A
0A3Z
WC2
)3
330
411551
411676
3100
0plusmn
2000
01700
0plusmn
7200
0017
KQST
TNTsTL
ssTtAAST
LATS
NNTQ
PDTY
TSTS
TSIRG
Pleckstrin
homologydo
mainlowast
(A0A
0A6L
5L9)
3333
441651
441487
2900
0plusmn
2700
01600
0plusmn
1100
010
RQHPD
PLSN
QsN
FNsN
TINNYS
NYR
SsTRS
GLD
PsQRH
RhoGTP
asea
ctivating
proteindo
mainlowast
(A0A
0A3B
MU5)
3412
465996
466032
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
KDLP
IGYILH
mIN
LcPN
IVsLNLG
NLSLsTD
YEISRS
TIHKY
F-bo
xproteinCO
S111
(A0A
0A3C
YY6)
3368
465821
KWNKE
KIEL
DsPLIVS
YVSSLC
NGGGGGIIT
NsTNST
ttNSK
Pentatric
opeptid
erepeat
(PPR
)protein
familylowast
(A0A
0A3C
GE7
)111
Misc
ellaneou
s
128483
128542
2700
0plusmn
9500
1400
0plusmn
2800
0016
RNDsD
tsLsK
EInsulin
indu
cedprotein
familylowast
(A0A
0A3C
RM0)
116
6RYtmNEV
FKV
GYF
domainlowast
(A0A
0A3C
0N8)
333128
333159
6300
0plusmn
1200
1400
0plusmn
1400lt000
001
ETsQ
FMGNAES
EDLtGNGLL
TSTL
AVLS
SIS
Orfin
Calbicans
major
repeat
sequ
enceR
B2region
(Q5A
475)
3315
333128
333244
6300
0plusmn
1200
1400
0plusmn
1400
023
KLS
SLGNHGTtTT
SSLS
SSsSsSIsNNT
SIAKI
CBSdo
mainlowast
(A0A
0A6JTB
4)3
346
337660
337659
4300
0plusmn
1200
03300
0plusmn
2800
0RKQ
QDQNEV
AGAAAAT
TTTA
tAtAT
AAT
NWKP
KN
321
349815
349857
3400
0plusmn
8900
1800
0plusmn
1600
00054
KSSsLIK
NsTsSNQSsPA
TSTN
TSIV
DVPIEK
SWDrepeatproteinlowast
(A0A
0A3C
A48)
3321
417360
417295
2400
0plusmn
1200
1300
0plusmn
1200
000
0014
RIN
NNNDKs
sILsNITTT
NTT
TGTG
TTNTtT
VPS
IKTK
R(A
0A0A
6IY5
3)424
349815
349948
3400
0plusmn
8900
1800
0plusmn
1600
00054
KAFS
SsKL
TSDSA
NStNStNsTSM
SILG
NDKD
CDKinhibitorP
HO81
(A0A
0A6M
Y31)
3316
389536
389486
3600
0plusmn
4100
2600
0plusmn
3100
00037
RISRP
NGVG
GISTS
GSSSP
TTEF
VTP
QAs
KsSV
DQNKK
RUbiqu
itininteractingmotiflowast
(C4Y
NW3)
3329
442103
442109
3200
0plusmn
1900
01700
0plusmn
7200
0080
RHLILG
YKItV
VtDHQSLTsVMTS
SSRP
ENNRM
IRW
Aspartic
peptidasefam
ilylowast
(A0A
0A4C
VF8
)3
383
393914
394016
3600
0plusmn
2400
01700
0plusmn
1800
000026
RNVNGSG
StNtN
TMtRLD
sTTIASSLF
CRQLY
FNLL
SKD
Globinfamilylowast
(A0A
0A4C
D75)
3311
437257
437390
9600plusmn
4600
5400plusmn
1800
0058
RNNsT
VSST
NSL
mSN
NsD
TNtAAT
AAT
AAT
SGS
TTNNVKR
M(A
0A0A
3XE4
6)338
International Journal of Proteomics 9
Table1Con
tinued
Biological
functio
n
Observed
precursor
mz
Theoretic
alprecursor
mz
MSsig
nal
intensities
119901values
Aminoacid
sequ
ence
Proteinname
(UniProt
AccessionNum
ber)
Charges119883
Corr
Con
trol
HTN
5tre
ated
441615
441482
2900
0plusmn
2700
01600
0plusmn
1100
010
RNGtYSSsStSSSsTSSVS
SSSA
TTANGES
LNST
THNIQ
LERT
Sec2plowast
(A0A
0A6JGN5)
3289
465996
466133
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
KQNYV
DPG
QIAIKGLK
GFV
NLG
AtCF
MssILQtLIH
NPL
IKY
Ubiqu
itincarboxyl-te
rminal
hydrolase
(C4Y
KS7)
3369
466093
KYD
KPmED
TEEIDDVtSISK
sINEQ
IDDPF
sQFN
SVTL
RY
Protein-serin
ethreon
ine
kinase
(A0A
0A4A
NB2
)35
1
Uncharacterized
117588
117373
6400
0plusmn
4000
2200
0plusmn
1100lt000
001
KtIm
tItIK
I(Q
59T3
9)1
207
333128
333260
6300
0plusmn
1200
1400
0plusmn
1400lt000
001
RIsNIITL
NSSLS
SSsSsSSSsSSLLL
LTL
KS
(Q5A
AP9
)3
311
389536
389370
3600
0plusmn
4100
2600
0plusmn
3100
00034
KTT
PVMGNSStPST
VtANtN
tGAY
STSSDTA
AKP
TKKA
(A0A
0A6JKT
0)3
314
393914
394074
3600
0plusmn
2400
01700
0plusmn
1800
000026
KTT
PVMGNSStPST
VtANtN
tGAY
STSSDTA
AKP
TKKA
(A0A
0A6JKT
0)3
346
411551
411679
3100
0plusmn
2000
01700
0plusmn
7200
0017
KTV
CNWQtLGHTD
EFEE
stQFA
RGVS
DtAL
VGGITKL
(Q59K0
1)
3
218
411482
TCG
KSCF
INSttANKL
IsYN
LFQSStEVDS
IGPT
GSK
T(Q
59KZ
4)386
41162
KTT
PVMGNSsTP
STVTA
NTN
TGAY
STSsDt
AAKP
TKKA
TKR
(A0A
0A6JKT
0)391
411504
RILLL
LPLL
GVtILTS
KSSLES
ISLN
sPSD
SIALssSKS
(Q5A
H83)
234
441651
441518
2900
0plusmn
2700
01600
0plusmn
1100
010
KST
SSANIKtKPK
PNTA
TtAT
TPTA
tTAT
TtA
TTSSID
PTEK
D(A
0A0A
4CH02)
3259
442103
441999
3200
0plusmn
1900
01700
0plusmn
7200
0080
RLS
GtN
NPG
sGsG
sGGGGGGGANNNSLPG
YSV
GSSIG
RGRG
LGRG
(A0A
0A6LWB8
)3
189
436859
436693
3300
0plusmn
2100
07100plusmn
1300
0020
KNYN
QFK
LIEL
DDSM
NTT
TTTT
TTTT
tTttT
tTST
IGKF
(A0A
0A6M
D82)
3376
436787
KSK
sTTIHNQSN
IHSE
QISIN
DEN
NNKS
tstS
TSTD
TKK
(A0A
0A3E
QM3)
132
437257
437082
9600plusmn
4600
5400plusmn1800
0058
KSSGGSSDTK
SVWIAtTGSD
FASQ
SNSD
SsStASR
NSSSSASR
Q(A
0A0A
3BP13)
3246
437317
KEsEG
VWGWsLQCL
LLLF
TKVNLR
scDQL
LICA
LVIRE
(Q5A
KS1)
299
465996
466136
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
KVILIG
NSM
TsRT
TsSV
RFFSIM
LTVS
LPItN
ILVsSEL
SKV
(A0A
0A3B
Z01)
3311
10 International Journal of Proteomics
Table 2 Proteins identified from a miniaturized assay of HTN5 treatment of C albicans with increased MS signals Average MS signalsand their standard deviations were calculated based on six replicates Proteins indicated with an asterisk (lowast) have been determined usingtheir associated protein families Lower case letters in amino acid sequences indicated modified residues Blank spaces indicated proteinsunidentified by the databases
Biologicalfunction
Observedprecursor119898119911
Theoreticalprecursor119898119911
Ion counts119901 values Amino acid sequence Protein name Charges 119883CorrBefore After
Surface-associated 129759 129854 18000 plusmn
880051000 plusmn5400 000042 KKPsTEDtFSKY
Peroxisomal proteinfamilylowast
(A0A0A6JC81)1 182
Mitochondrial-associated 129759 129749 18000 plusmn
880051000 plusmn5400 000042 RNsIttEsVKA
Aldehyde hydrogenasefamilylowast
(A0A0A3BNV6)1 203
DNA binding
57544 57645 9700 plusmn1000
28000 plusmn6200 000055 KSLLSRI
Telomerase reversetranscriptase familylowast
(C4YDL3)1 154
129759
12977518000 plusmn8800
51000 plusmn5400 000042
KNVIPAtItKV Spt6(D3IZV2)
1
154
129867 KEFTIGPFKcIKW
Transcriptionalregulatory protein
familylowast(A0A0A3CXJ5)
156
Miscellaneous57544 57631 9700 plusmn
110028000 plusmn6200 000055 RSLNSRI ATPase familylowast
(A0A0A4CD62) 1 315
190171 190374 7800 plusmn3900
13000 plusmn2300 0025 KNKATssSSStsRDTRW Leucine rich repeatslowast
(C4YMX3) 2 319
Uncharacterized 129759 129769 18000 plusmn8800
51000 plusmn5400 000042 RNNTtVSKGRIKV (A0A0A6M207) 1 151
129770 KKHQtHILNVKS (A0A0A6HZ28) 160
In another previous study quantitative LC MS wasperformed to characterize changes in the mitochondrialproteome of C albicans upon HTN5 treatments [33] Theauthors reported an upregulation of mitochondrial proteinsmainly involved in genomemaintenance and gene expressionand a downregulation for respiratory enzyme complexesIn our work the MS analysis was performed on samplesresulted from the tryptic shaving of adhered intact cellsGiven that the two approaches focused on different parts ofthe proteome we should not directly compare the proteinsidentified from these studies It suffices to conclude that ageneral decrease in MS signals was observed in our workfor many virulence- and surface-associated proteins afterHTN5 treatment as onewould expect Finally readers shouldbe reminded that the peptide sample quantity producedfrom our miniaturized technique was substantially lowerthan that typically used in previous studies due to thelower amount of starting materials in our work Neverthe-less one could alleviate this limitation by increasing thedensity of adhered cells on glass with a cell suspension ofhigher concentration andor by increasing the surface areaused of each assay which is defined by the hydrophobicboundary made by the user An increase in cell numberper assay will directly increase the quantity of peptidesproduced for LC MS analysis and subsequently improve thenumber of proteins identified andor the confidence of theidentification
4 Conclusions
This paper reported successful miniaturization of the trypticdigestion of surface proteins performed on whole cellsIn particular C albicans were adhered on glass surfacewhere introduction and removal of reagent solutions wereconveniently conducted with a micropipette Compared tothe use of cells suspended in solutions our treatment ofadhered cells also better resembles the antifungal treat-ment of C albicans cells adhered on tissues in the oralcavity Importantly the reduction in reagent volumes frommL to 120583L levels will allow users to perform many morereplicate assays while keeping an overall low consump-tion of reagents and cells Nevertheless the downside ofthe miniaturization is the reduced peptide sample quantityresulting from the LC MS analysis which could reducethe confidence of the protein identification Ultimatelyresearchers should select methods based on their purposesIn this case the miniaturized approach with adhered cellsis more effective for high-throughput screenings of celltypes or fungicides while the batch mode with suspendedcells is more suitable for a comprehensive profiling of theproteome
Disclosure
The paper is a part of MS thesis work of S Fan [34] WalterL Siqueira andKenK-C Yeung areCoprincipal Investigators
International Journal of Proteomics 11
Competing Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests
Acknowledgments
The work was funded by the University of Western Ontariothe Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council ofCanada (NSERC) and the Canadian Institutes of HealthResearch (CIHR) Walter L Siqueira is recipient of CIHRNew Investigator Salary Award The authors acknowledgeMs Kristina Jurcic for assistance in MALDI MS data acqui-sition and processing and Ms Tayebeh Basiri for insightfuladvices in fungal culturing Permission to access the Univer-sity of Western Ontario MALDI Mass Spectrometry Facilityis also acknowledged
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[2] D W Williams T Kuriyama S Silva S Malic and M A OLewis ldquoCandida biofilms and oral candidosis treatment andpreventionrdquo Periodontology 2000 vol 55 no 1 pp 250ndash2652011
[3] C J Seneviratne L Jin and L P Samaranayake ldquoBiofilmlifestyle of Candida a mini reviewrdquo Oral Diseases vol 14 no7 pp 582ndash590 2008
[4] A Sanguineti J K Carmichael andK Campbell ldquoFluconazole-resistant Candida albicans after long-term suppressive therapyrdquoArchives of Internal Medicine vol 153 no 9 pp 1122ndash1124 1993
[5] D Vukosavljevic W Custodio A A Del Bel Cury and W LSiqueira ldquoThe effect of histatin 5 adsorbed on PMMA andhydroxyapatite on Candida albicans colonizationrdquo Yeast vol29 no 11 pp 459ndash466 2012
[6] W L Siqueira W Zhang E J Helmerhorst S P Gygi and F GOppenheim ldquoIdentification of protein components in in vivohuman acquired enamel pellicle using LC-ESI-MSMSrdquo Journalof Proteome Research vol 6 no 6 pp 2152ndash2160 2007
[7] D Vukosavljevic W Custodio and W L Siqueira ldquoSalivaryproteins as predictors and controls for oral healthrdquo Journal ofCell Communication and Signaling vol 5 no 4 pp 271ndash2752011
[8] J M Laudenbach and J B Epstein ldquoTreatment strategies fororopharyngeal candidiasisrdquo Expert Opinion on Pharmacother-apy vol 10 no 9 pp 1413ndash1421 2009
[9] F G Oppenheim Y C Yang R D Diamond D Hyslop G DOffner and R F Troxler ldquoThe primary structure and functionalcharacterization of the neutral histidine-rich polypeptide fromhuman parotid secretionrdquo The Journal of Biological Chemistryvol 261 no 3 pp 1177ndash1182 1986
[10] J O TenovuoHuman Saliva Clinical Chemistry andMicrobiol-ogy CRC Press 1989
[11] F G Oppenheim T Xu F M McMillian et al ldquoHistatinsa novel family of histidine-rich proteins in human parotidsecretion Isolation characterization primary structure andfungistatic effects onCandida albicansrdquoThe Journal of BiologicalChemistry vol 263 no 16 pp 7472ndash7477 1988
[12] E J Helmerhorst P Breeuwer W Van rsquot Hof et al ldquoThecellular target of histatin 5 on Candida albicans is the energized
mitochondrionrdquo The Journal of Biological Chemistry vol 274no 11 pp 7286ndash7291 1999
[13] A Freiwald and S Sauer ldquoPhylogenetic classification and iden-tification of bacteria by mass spectrometryrdquo Nature protocolsvol 4 no 5 pp 732ndash742 2009
[14] G Marklein M Josten U Klanke et al ldquoMatrix-assisted laserdesorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry for fastand reliable identification of clinical yeast isolatesrdquo Journal ofClinical Microbiology vol 47 no 9 pp 2912ndash2917 2009
[15] S Sauer and M Kliem ldquoMass spectrometry tools for theclassification and identification of bacteriardquo Nature ReviewsMicrobiology vol 8 no 1 pp 74ndash82 2010
[16] C Liu S A Hofstadler J A Bresson et al ldquoOn-line dualmicro-dialysis with ESI-MS for direct analysis of complex biologicalsamples and microorganism lysatesrdquo Analytical Chemistry vol70 no 9 pp 1797ndash1801 1998
[17] T C Cain D M Lubman and W J Weber ldquoDifferentiationof bacteria using protein profiles from matrix-assisted laserdesorptionionization time-of-flight mass spectrometryrdquo RapidCommunications in Mass Spectrometry vol 8 no 12 pp 1026ndash1030 1994
[18] Y-P Ho and P M Reddy ldquoIdentification of pathogens by massspectrometryrdquo Clinical Chemistry vol 56 no 4 pp 525ndash5362010
[19] P A Demirev N S Hagan M D Antoine J S Lin and A BFeldman ldquoEstablishing drug resistance in microorganisms bymass spectrometryrdquo Journal of the American Society for MassSpectrometry vol 24 no 8 pp 1194ndash1201 2013
[20] J P Anhalt and C Fenselau ldquoIdentification of bacteria usingmass spectrometryrdquoAnalytical Chemistry vol 47 no 2 pp 219ndash225 1975
[21] S Vaidyanathan J J Rowland D B Kell and R GoodacreldquoDiscrimination of aerobic endospore-forming bacteria viaelectrospray-ionization mass spectrometry of whole cell sus-pensionsrdquo Analytical Chemistry vol 73 no 17 pp 4134ndash41442001
[22] M Welker ldquoProteomics for routine identification of microor-ganismsrdquo Proteomics vol 11 no 15 pp 3143ndash3153 2011
[23] R DHolland J GWilkes F Rafii et al ldquoRapid identification ofintact whole bacteria based on spectral patterns using matrix-assisted laser desorptionionization with time-of- flight massspectrometryrdquo Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometryvol 10 no 10 pp 1227ndash1232 1996
[24] E B Moffa M C M Mussi Y Xiao et al ldquoHistatin 5inhibits adhesion of C albicans to reconstructed human oralepitheliumrdquo Frontiers inMicrobiology vol 6 article 885 pp 1ndash72015
[25] M J Rodrıguez-Ortega N Norais G Bensi et al ldquoCharacteri-zation and identification of vaccine candidate proteins throughanalysis of the group A Streptococcus surface proteomerdquoNatureBiotechnology vol 24 no 2 pp 191ndash197 2006
[26] F Doro S Liberatori M J Rodrıguez-Ortega et al ldquoSurfomeanalysis as a fast track to vaccine discovery identification of anovel protective antigen for group B Streptococcus hyperviru-lent strain COH1rdquoMolecular and Cellular Proteomics vol 8 no7 pp 1728ndash1737 2009
[27] A Gil-Bona C M Parra-Giraldo M L Hernaez et al ldquoCan-dida albicans cell shaving uncovers new proteins involved incell wall integrity yeast to hypha transition stress response andhost-pathogen interactionrdquo Journal of Proteomics vol 127 pp340ndash351 2015
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[28] M L Hernaez P Ximenez-Embun M Martınez-Gomariz MD Gutierrez-Blazquez C Nombela and C Gil ldquoIdentificationof Candida albicans exposed surface proteins in vivo by a rapidproteomic approachrdquo Journal of Proteomics vol 73 no 7 pp1404ndash1409 2010
[29] V Vialas P Perumal D Gutierrez et al ldquoCell surface shavingof Candida albicans biofilms hyphae and yeast form cellsrdquoProteomics vol 12 no 14 pp 2331ndash2339 2012
[30] M R Insenser M L Hernaez C Nombela M Molina GMolero and C Gil ldquoGel and gel-free proteomics to identifySaccharomyces cerevisiae cell surface proteinsrdquo Journal of Pro-teomics vol 73 no 6 pp 1183ndash1195 2010
[31] C Gyurko U Lendenmann E J Helmerhorst R F Troxlerand F GOppenheim ldquoKilling of Candida albicans by histatin 5cellular uptake and energy requirementrdquoAntonie van Leeuwen-hoek vol 79 no 3-4 pp 297ndash309 2001
[32] A Pitarch M Sanchez C Nombela and C Gil ldquoSequentialfractionation and two-dimensional gel analysis unravels thecomplexity of the dimorphic fungus Candida albicans cell wallproteomerdquo Molecular amp Cellular Proteomics vol 1 no 12 pp967ndash982 2002
[33] T Komatsu E Salih E J Helmerhorst G D Offner and FG Oppenheim ldquoInfluence of histatin 5 on Candida albicansmitochondrial protein expression assessed by quantitative massspectrometryrdquo Journal of Proteome Research vol 10 no 2 pp646ndash655 2011
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8 International Journal of Proteomics
Table1Con
tinued
Biological
functio
n
Observed
precursor
mz
Theoretic
alprecursor
mz
MSsig
nal
intensities
119901values
Aminoacid
sequ
ence
Proteinname
(UniProt
AccessionNum
ber)
Charges119883
Corr
Con
trol
HTN
5tre
ated
Sign
allin
g
350340
350460
4300
0plusmn
8300
3100
0plusmn
2500
0013
KRS
SITtPtPP
LTTT
HSSNGNGNGNV
NVNVNsK
R
Peroxisometransmem
brane
receptorlowast
(A0A
0A3Z
WC2
)3
330
411551
411676
3100
0plusmn
2000
01700
0plusmn
7200
0017
KQST
TNTsTL
ssTtAAST
LATS
NNTQ
PDTY
TSTS
TSIRG
Pleckstrin
homologydo
mainlowast
(A0A
0A6L
5L9)
3333
441651
441487
2900
0plusmn
2700
01600
0plusmn
1100
010
RQHPD
PLSN
QsN
FNsN
TINNYS
NYR
SsTRS
GLD
PsQRH
RhoGTP
asea
ctivating
proteindo
mainlowast
(A0A
0A3B
MU5)
3412
465996
466032
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
KDLP
IGYILH
mIN
LcPN
IVsLNLG
NLSLsTD
YEISRS
TIHKY
F-bo
xproteinCO
S111
(A0A
0A3C
YY6)
3368
465821
KWNKE
KIEL
DsPLIVS
YVSSLC
NGGGGGIIT
NsTNST
ttNSK
Pentatric
opeptid
erepeat
(PPR
)protein
familylowast
(A0A
0A3C
GE7
)111
Misc
ellaneou
s
128483
128542
2700
0plusmn
9500
1400
0plusmn
2800
0016
RNDsD
tsLsK
EInsulin
indu
cedprotein
familylowast
(A0A
0A3C
RM0)
116
6RYtmNEV
FKV
GYF
domainlowast
(A0A
0A3C
0N8)
333128
333159
6300
0plusmn
1200
1400
0plusmn
1400lt000
001
ETsQ
FMGNAES
EDLtGNGLL
TSTL
AVLS
SIS
Orfin
Calbicans
major
repeat
sequ
enceR
B2region
(Q5A
475)
3315
333128
333244
6300
0plusmn
1200
1400
0plusmn
1400
023
KLS
SLGNHGTtTT
SSLS
SSsSsSIsNNT
SIAKI
CBSdo
mainlowast
(A0A
0A6JTB
4)3
346
337660
337659
4300
0plusmn
1200
03300
0plusmn
2800
0RKQ
QDQNEV
AGAAAAT
TTTA
tAtAT
AAT
NWKP
KN
321
349815
349857
3400
0plusmn
8900
1800
0plusmn
1600
00054
KSSsLIK
NsTsSNQSsPA
TSTN
TSIV
DVPIEK
SWDrepeatproteinlowast
(A0A
0A3C
A48)
3321
417360
417295
2400
0plusmn
1200
1300
0plusmn
1200
000
0014
RIN
NNNDKs
sILsNITTT
NTT
TGTG
TTNTtT
VPS
IKTK
R(A
0A0A
6IY5
3)424
349815
349948
3400
0plusmn
8900
1800
0plusmn
1600
00054
KAFS
SsKL
TSDSA
NStNStNsTSM
SILG
NDKD
CDKinhibitorP
HO81
(A0A
0A6M
Y31)
3316
389536
389486
3600
0plusmn
4100
2600
0plusmn
3100
00037
RISRP
NGVG
GISTS
GSSSP
TTEF
VTP
QAs
KsSV
DQNKK
RUbiqu
itininteractingmotiflowast
(C4Y
NW3)
3329
442103
442109
3200
0plusmn
1900
01700
0plusmn
7200
0080
RHLILG
YKItV
VtDHQSLTsVMTS
SSRP
ENNRM
IRW
Aspartic
peptidasefam
ilylowast
(A0A
0A4C
VF8
)3
383
393914
394016
3600
0plusmn
2400
01700
0plusmn
1800
000026
RNVNGSG
StNtN
TMtRLD
sTTIASSLF
CRQLY
FNLL
SKD
Globinfamilylowast
(A0A
0A4C
D75)
3311
437257
437390
9600plusmn
4600
5400plusmn
1800
0058
RNNsT
VSST
NSL
mSN
NsD
TNtAAT
AAT
AAT
SGS
TTNNVKR
M(A
0A0A
3XE4
6)338
International Journal of Proteomics 9
Table1Con
tinued
Biological
functio
n
Observed
precursor
mz
Theoretic
alprecursor
mz
MSsig
nal
intensities
119901values
Aminoacid
sequ
ence
Proteinname
(UniProt
AccessionNum
ber)
Charges119883
Corr
Con
trol
HTN
5tre
ated
441615
441482
2900
0plusmn
2700
01600
0plusmn
1100
010
RNGtYSSsStSSSsTSSVS
SSSA
TTANGES
LNST
THNIQ
LERT
Sec2plowast
(A0A
0A6JGN5)
3289
465996
466133
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
KQNYV
DPG
QIAIKGLK
GFV
NLG
AtCF
MssILQtLIH
NPL
IKY
Ubiqu
itincarboxyl-te
rminal
hydrolase
(C4Y
KS7)
3369
466093
KYD
KPmED
TEEIDDVtSISK
sINEQ
IDDPF
sQFN
SVTL
RY
Protein-serin
ethreon
ine
kinase
(A0A
0A4A
NB2
)35
1
Uncharacterized
117588
117373
6400
0plusmn
4000
2200
0plusmn
1100lt000
001
KtIm
tItIK
I(Q
59T3
9)1
207
333128
333260
6300
0plusmn
1200
1400
0plusmn
1400lt000
001
RIsNIITL
NSSLS
SSsSsSSSsSSLLL
LTL
KS
(Q5A
AP9
)3
311
389536
389370
3600
0plusmn
4100
2600
0plusmn
3100
00034
KTT
PVMGNSStPST
VtANtN
tGAY
STSSDTA
AKP
TKKA
(A0A
0A6JKT
0)3
314
393914
394074
3600
0plusmn
2400
01700
0plusmn
1800
000026
KTT
PVMGNSStPST
VtANtN
tGAY
STSSDTA
AKP
TKKA
(A0A
0A6JKT
0)3
346
411551
411679
3100
0plusmn
2000
01700
0plusmn
7200
0017
KTV
CNWQtLGHTD
EFEE
stQFA
RGVS
DtAL
VGGITKL
(Q59K0
1)
3
218
411482
TCG
KSCF
INSttANKL
IsYN
LFQSStEVDS
IGPT
GSK
T(Q
59KZ
4)386
41162
KTT
PVMGNSsTP
STVTA
NTN
TGAY
STSsDt
AAKP
TKKA
TKR
(A0A
0A6JKT
0)391
411504
RILLL
LPLL
GVtILTS
KSSLES
ISLN
sPSD
SIALssSKS
(Q5A
H83)
234
441651
441518
2900
0plusmn
2700
01600
0plusmn
1100
010
KST
SSANIKtKPK
PNTA
TtAT
TPTA
tTAT
TtA
TTSSID
PTEK
D(A
0A0A
4CH02)
3259
442103
441999
3200
0plusmn
1900
01700
0plusmn
7200
0080
RLS
GtN
NPG
sGsG
sGGGGGGGANNNSLPG
YSV
GSSIG
RGRG
LGRG
(A0A
0A6LWB8
)3
189
436859
436693
3300
0plusmn
2100
07100plusmn
1300
0020
KNYN
QFK
LIEL
DDSM
NTT
TTTT
TTTT
tTttT
tTST
IGKF
(A0A
0A6M
D82)
3376
436787
KSK
sTTIHNQSN
IHSE
QISIN
DEN
NNKS
tstS
TSTD
TKK
(A0A
0A3E
QM3)
132
437257
437082
9600plusmn
4600
5400plusmn1800
0058
KSSGGSSDTK
SVWIAtTGSD
FASQ
SNSD
SsStASR
NSSSSASR
Q(A
0A0A
3BP13)
3246
437317
KEsEG
VWGWsLQCL
LLLF
TKVNLR
scDQL
LICA
LVIRE
(Q5A
KS1)
299
465996
466136
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
KVILIG
NSM
TsRT
TsSV
RFFSIM
LTVS
LPItN
ILVsSEL
SKV
(A0A
0A3B
Z01)
3311
10 International Journal of Proteomics
Table 2 Proteins identified from a miniaturized assay of HTN5 treatment of C albicans with increased MS signals Average MS signalsand their standard deviations were calculated based on six replicates Proteins indicated with an asterisk (lowast) have been determined usingtheir associated protein families Lower case letters in amino acid sequences indicated modified residues Blank spaces indicated proteinsunidentified by the databases
Biologicalfunction
Observedprecursor119898119911
Theoreticalprecursor119898119911
Ion counts119901 values Amino acid sequence Protein name Charges 119883CorrBefore After
Surface-associated 129759 129854 18000 plusmn
880051000 plusmn5400 000042 KKPsTEDtFSKY
Peroxisomal proteinfamilylowast
(A0A0A6JC81)1 182
Mitochondrial-associated 129759 129749 18000 plusmn
880051000 plusmn5400 000042 RNsIttEsVKA
Aldehyde hydrogenasefamilylowast
(A0A0A3BNV6)1 203
DNA binding
57544 57645 9700 plusmn1000
28000 plusmn6200 000055 KSLLSRI
Telomerase reversetranscriptase familylowast
(C4YDL3)1 154
129759
12977518000 plusmn8800
51000 plusmn5400 000042
KNVIPAtItKV Spt6(D3IZV2)
1
154
129867 KEFTIGPFKcIKW
Transcriptionalregulatory protein
familylowast(A0A0A3CXJ5)
156
Miscellaneous57544 57631 9700 plusmn
110028000 plusmn6200 000055 RSLNSRI ATPase familylowast
(A0A0A4CD62) 1 315
190171 190374 7800 plusmn3900
13000 plusmn2300 0025 KNKATssSSStsRDTRW Leucine rich repeatslowast
(C4YMX3) 2 319
Uncharacterized 129759 129769 18000 plusmn8800
51000 plusmn5400 000042 RNNTtVSKGRIKV (A0A0A6M207) 1 151
129770 KKHQtHILNVKS (A0A0A6HZ28) 160
In another previous study quantitative LC MS wasperformed to characterize changes in the mitochondrialproteome of C albicans upon HTN5 treatments [33] Theauthors reported an upregulation of mitochondrial proteinsmainly involved in genomemaintenance and gene expressionand a downregulation for respiratory enzyme complexesIn our work the MS analysis was performed on samplesresulted from the tryptic shaving of adhered intact cellsGiven that the two approaches focused on different parts ofthe proteome we should not directly compare the proteinsidentified from these studies It suffices to conclude that ageneral decrease in MS signals was observed in our workfor many virulence- and surface-associated proteins afterHTN5 treatment as onewould expect Finally readers shouldbe reminded that the peptide sample quantity producedfrom our miniaturized technique was substantially lowerthan that typically used in previous studies due to thelower amount of starting materials in our work Neverthe-less one could alleviate this limitation by increasing thedensity of adhered cells on glass with a cell suspension ofhigher concentration andor by increasing the surface areaused of each assay which is defined by the hydrophobicboundary made by the user An increase in cell numberper assay will directly increase the quantity of peptidesproduced for LC MS analysis and subsequently improve thenumber of proteins identified andor the confidence of theidentification
4 Conclusions
This paper reported successful miniaturization of the trypticdigestion of surface proteins performed on whole cellsIn particular C albicans were adhered on glass surfacewhere introduction and removal of reagent solutions wereconveniently conducted with a micropipette Compared tothe use of cells suspended in solutions our treatment ofadhered cells also better resembles the antifungal treat-ment of C albicans cells adhered on tissues in the oralcavity Importantly the reduction in reagent volumes frommL to 120583L levels will allow users to perform many morereplicate assays while keeping an overall low consump-tion of reagents and cells Nevertheless the downside ofthe miniaturization is the reduced peptide sample quantityresulting from the LC MS analysis which could reducethe confidence of the protein identification Ultimatelyresearchers should select methods based on their purposesIn this case the miniaturized approach with adhered cellsis more effective for high-throughput screenings of celltypes or fungicides while the batch mode with suspendedcells is more suitable for a comprehensive profiling of theproteome
Disclosure
The paper is a part of MS thesis work of S Fan [34] WalterL Siqueira andKenK-C Yeung areCoprincipal Investigators
International Journal of Proteomics 11
Competing Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests
Acknowledgments
The work was funded by the University of Western Ontariothe Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council ofCanada (NSERC) and the Canadian Institutes of HealthResearch (CIHR) Walter L Siqueira is recipient of CIHRNew Investigator Salary Award The authors acknowledgeMs Kristina Jurcic for assistance in MALDI MS data acqui-sition and processing and Ms Tayebeh Basiri for insightfuladvices in fungal culturing Permission to access the Univer-sity of Western Ontario MALDI Mass Spectrometry Facilityis also acknowledged
References
[1] P Sudbery N Gow and J Berman ldquoThe distinct morphogenicstates of Candida albicansrdquo Trends in Microbiology vol 12 no7 pp 317ndash324 2004
[2] D W Williams T Kuriyama S Silva S Malic and M A OLewis ldquoCandida biofilms and oral candidosis treatment andpreventionrdquo Periodontology 2000 vol 55 no 1 pp 250ndash2652011
[3] C J Seneviratne L Jin and L P Samaranayake ldquoBiofilmlifestyle of Candida a mini reviewrdquo Oral Diseases vol 14 no7 pp 582ndash590 2008
[4] A Sanguineti J K Carmichael andK Campbell ldquoFluconazole-resistant Candida albicans after long-term suppressive therapyrdquoArchives of Internal Medicine vol 153 no 9 pp 1122ndash1124 1993
[5] D Vukosavljevic W Custodio A A Del Bel Cury and W LSiqueira ldquoThe effect of histatin 5 adsorbed on PMMA andhydroxyapatite on Candida albicans colonizationrdquo Yeast vol29 no 11 pp 459ndash466 2012
[6] W L Siqueira W Zhang E J Helmerhorst S P Gygi and F GOppenheim ldquoIdentification of protein components in in vivohuman acquired enamel pellicle using LC-ESI-MSMSrdquo Journalof Proteome Research vol 6 no 6 pp 2152ndash2160 2007
[7] D Vukosavljevic W Custodio and W L Siqueira ldquoSalivaryproteins as predictors and controls for oral healthrdquo Journal ofCell Communication and Signaling vol 5 no 4 pp 271ndash2752011
[8] J M Laudenbach and J B Epstein ldquoTreatment strategies fororopharyngeal candidiasisrdquo Expert Opinion on Pharmacother-apy vol 10 no 9 pp 1413ndash1421 2009
[9] F G Oppenheim Y C Yang R D Diamond D Hyslop G DOffner and R F Troxler ldquoThe primary structure and functionalcharacterization of the neutral histidine-rich polypeptide fromhuman parotid secretionrdquo The Journal of Biological Chemistryvol 261 no 3 pp 1177ndash1182 1986
[10] J O TenovuoHuman Saliva Clinical Chemistry andMicrobiol-ogy CRC Press 1989
[11] F G Oppenheim T Xu F M McMillian et al ldquoHistatinsa novel family of histidine-rich proteins in human parotidsecretion Isolation characterization primary structure andfungistatic effects onCandida albicansrdquoThe Journal of BiologicalChemistry vol 263 no 16 pp 7472ndash7477 1988
[12] E J Helmerhorst P Breeuwer W Van rsquot Hof et al ldquoThecellular target of histatin 5 on Candida albicans is the energized
mitochondrionrdquo The Journal of Biological Chemistry vol 274no 11 pp 7286ndash7291 1999
[13] A Freiwald and S Sauer ldquoPhylogenetic classification and iden-tification of bacteria by mass spectrometryrdquo Nature protocolsvol 4 no 5 pp 732ndash742 2009
[14] G Marklein M Josten U Klanke et al ldquoMatrix-assisted laserdesorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry for fastand reliable identification of clinical yeast isolatesrdquo Journal ofClinical Microbiology vol 47 no 9 pp 2912ndash2917 2009
[15] S Sauer and M Kliem ldquoMass spectrometry tools for theclassification and identification of bacteriardquo Nature ReviewsMicrobiology vol 8 no 1 pp 74ndash82 2010
[16] C Liu S A Hofstadler J A Bresson et al ldquoOn-line dualmicro-dialysis with ESI-MS for direct analysis of complex biologicalsamples and microorganism lysatesrdquo Analytical Chemistry vol70 no 9 pp 1797ndash1801 1998
[17] T C Cain D M Lubman and W J Weber ldquoDifferentiationof bacteria using protein profiles from matrix-assisted laserdesorptionionization time-of-flight mass spectrometryrdquo RapidCommunications in Mass Spectrometry vol 8 no 12 pp 1026ndash1030 1994
[18] Y-P Ho and P M Reddy ldquoIdentification of pathogens by massspectrometryrdquo Clinical Chemistry vol 56 no 4 pp 525ndash5362010
[19] P A Demirev N S Hagan M D Antoine J S Lin and A BFeldman ldquoEstablishing drug resistance in microorganisms bymass spectrometryrdquo Journal of the American Society for MassSpectrometry vol 24 no 8 pp 1194ndash1201 2013
[20] J P Anhalt and C Fenselau ldquoIdentification of bacteria usingmass spectrometryrdquoAnalytical Chemistry vol 47 no 2 pp 219ndash225 1975
[21] S Vaidyanathan J J Rowland D B Kell and R GoodacreldquoDiscrimination of aerobic endospore-forming bacteria viaelectrospray-ionization mass spectrometry of whole cell sus-pensionsrdquo Analytical Chemistry vol 73 no 17 pp 4134ndash41442001
[22] M Welker ldquoProteomics for routine identification of microor-ganismsrdquo Proteomics vol 11 no 15 pp 3143ndash3153 2011
[23] R DHolland J GWilkes F Rafii et al ldquoRapid identification ofintact whole bacteria based on spectral patterns using matrix-assisted laser desorptionionization with time-of- flight massspectrometryrdquo Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometryvol 10 no 10 pp 1227ndash1232 1996
[24] E B Moffa M C M Mussi Y Xiao et al ldquoHistatin 5inhibits adhesion of C albicans to reconstructed human oralepitheliumrdquo Frontiers inMicrobiology vol 6 article 885 pp 1ndash72015
[25] M J Rodrıguez-Ortega N Norais G Bensi et al ldquoCharacteri-zation and identification of vaccine candidate proteins throughanalysis of the group A Streptococcus surface proteomerdquoNatureBiotechnology vol 24 no 2 pp 191ndash197 2006
[26] F Doro S Liberatori M J Rodrıguez-Ortega et al ldquoSurfomeanalysis as a fast track to vaccine discovery identification of anovel protective antigen for group B Streptococcus hyperviru-lent strain COH1rdquoMolecular and Cellular Proteomics vol 8 no7 pp 1728ndash1737 2009
[27] A Gil-Bona C M Parra-Giraldo M L Hernaez et al ldquoCan-dida albicans cell shaving uncovers new proteins involved incell wall integrity yeast to hypha transition stress response andhost-pathogen interactionrdquo Journal of Proteomics vol 127 pp340ndash351 2015
12 International Journal of Proteomics
[28] M L Hernaez P Ximenez-Embun M Martınez-Gomariz MD Gutierrez-Blazquez C Nombela and C Gil ldquoIdentificationof Candida albicans exposed surface proteins in vivo by a rapidproteomic approachrdquo Journal of Proteomics vol 73 no 7 pp1404ndash1409 2010
[29] V Vialas P Perumal D Gutierrez et al ldquoCell surface shavingof Candida albicans biofilms hyphae and yeast form cellsrdquoProteomics vol 12 no 14 pp 2331ndash2339 2012
[30] M R Insenser M L Hernaez C Nombela M Molina GMolero and C Gil ldquoGel and gel-free proteomics to identifySaccharomyces cerevisiae cell surface proteinsrdquo Journal of Pro-teomics vol 73 no 6 pp 1183ndash1195 2010
[31] C Gyurko U Lendenmann E J Helmerhorst R F Troxlerand F GOppenheim ldquoKilling of Candida albicans by histatin 5cellular uptake and energy requirementrdquoAntonie van Leeuwen-hoek vol 79 no 3-4 pp 297ndash309 2001
[32] A Pitarch M Sanchez C Nombela and C Gil ldquoSequentialfractionation and two-dimensional gel analysis unravels thecomplexity of the dimorphic fungus Candida albicans cell wallproteomerdquo Molecular amp Cellular Proteomics vol 1 no 12 pp967ndash982 2002
[33] T Komatsu E Salih E J Helmerhorst G D Offner and FG Oppenheim ldquoInfluence of histatin 5 on Candida albicansmitochondrial protein expression assessed by quantitative massspectrometryrdquo Journal of Proteome Research vol 10 no 2 pp646ndash655 2011
[34] httpirlibuwocaetd3243
Submit your manuscripts athttpwwwhindawicom
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
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International Journal of
Volume 2014
Zoology
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GenomicsInternational Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
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Signal TransductionJournal of
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BioMed Research International
Evolutionary BiologyInternational Journal of
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Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Biochemistry Research International
ArchaeaHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
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Genetics Research International
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Advances in
Virolog y
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom
Nucleic AcidsJournal of
Volume 2014
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Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Enzyme Research
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International Journal of
Microbiology
International Journal of Proteomics 9
Table1Con
tinued
Biological
functio
n
Observed
precursor
mz
Theoretic
alprecursor
mz
MSsig
nal
intensities
119901values
Aminoacid
sequ
ence
Proteinname
(UniProt
AccessionNum
ber)
Charges119883
Corr
Con
trol
HTN
5tre
ated
441615
441482
2900
0plusmn
2700
01600
0plusmn
1100
010
RNGtYSSsStSSSsTSSVS
SSSA
TTANGES
LNST
THNIQ
LERT
Sec2plowast
(A0A
0A6JGN5)
3289
465996
466133
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
KQNYV
DPG
QIAIKGLK
GFV
NLG
AtCF
MssILQtLIH
NPL
IKY
Ubiqu
itincarboxyl-te
rminal
hydrolase
(C4Y
KS7)
3369
466093
KYD
KPmED
TEEIDDVtSISK
sINEQ
IDDPF
sQFN
SVTL
RY
Protein-serin
ethreon
ine
kinase
(A0A
0A4A
NB2
)35
1
Uncharacterized
117588
117373
6400
0plusmn
4000
2200
0plusmn
1100lt000
001
KtIm
tItIK
I(Q
59T3
9)1
207
333128
333260
6300
0plusmn
1200
1400
0plusmn
1400lt000
001
RIsNIITL
NSSLS
SSsSsSSSsSSLLL
LTL
KS
(Q5A
AP9
)3
311
389536
389370
3600
0plusmn
4100
2600
0plusmn
3100
00034
KTT
PVMGNSStPST
VtANtN
tGAY
STSSDTA
AKP
TKKA
(A0A
0A6JKT
0)3
314
393914
394074
3600
0plusmn
2400
01700
0plusmn
1800
000026
KTT
PVMGNSStPST
VtANtN
tGAY
STSSDTA
AKP
TKKA
(A0A
0A6JKT
0)3
346
411551
411679
3100
0plusmn
2000
01700
0plusmn
7200
0017
KTV
CNWQtLGHTD
EFEE
stQFA
RGVS
DtAL
VGGITKL
(Q59K0
1)
3
218
411482
TCG
KSCF
INSttANKL
IsYN
LFQSStEVDS
IGPT
GSK
T(Q
59KZ
4)386
41162
KTT
PVMGNSsTP
STVTA
NTN
TGAY
STSsDt
AAKP
TKKA
TKR
(A0A
0A6JKT
0)391
411504
RILLL
LPLL
GVtILTS
KSSLES
ISLN
sPSD
SIALssSKS
(Q5A
H83)
234
441651
441518
2900
0plusmn
2700
01600
0plusmn
1100
010
KST
SSANIKtKPK
PNTA
TtAT
TPTA
tTAT
TtA
TTSSID
PTEK
D(A
0A0A
4CH02)
3259
442103
441999
3200
0plusmn
1900
01700
0plusmn
7200
0080
RLS
GtN
NPG
sGsG
sGGGGGGGANNNSLPG
YSV
GSSIG
RGRG
LGRG
(A0A
0A6LWB8
)3
189
436859
436693
3300
0plusmn
2100
07100plusmn
1300
0020
KNYN
QFK
LIEL
DDSM
NTT
TTTT
TTTT
tTttT
tTST
IGKF
(A0A
0A6M
D82)
3376
436787
KSK
sTTIHNQSN
IHSE
QISIN
DEN
NNKS
tstS
TSTD
TKK
(A0A
0A3E
QM3)
132
437257
437082
9600plusmn
4600
5400plusmn1800
0058
KSSGGSSDTK
SVWIAtTGSD
FASQ
SNSD
SsStASR
NSSSSASR
Q(A
0A0A
3BP13)
3246
437317
KEsEG
VWGWsLQCL
LLLF
TKVNLR
scDQL
LICA
LVIRE
(Q5A
KS1)
299
465996
466136
1500
0plusmn
1100
3200plusmn
2700
000
014
KVILIG
NSM
TsRT
TsSV
RFFSIM
LTVS
LPItN
ILVsSEL
SKV
(A0A
0A3B
Z01)
3311
10 International Journal of Proteomics
Table 2 Proteins identified from a miniaturized assay of HTN5 treatment of C albicans with increased MS signals Average MS signalsand their standard deviations were calculated based on six replicates Proteins indicated with an asterisk (lowast) have been determined usingtheir associated protein families Lower case letters in amino acid sequences indicated modified residues Blank spaces indicated proteinsunidentified by the databases
Biologicalfunction
Observedprecursor119898119911
Theoreticalprecursor119898119911
Ion counts119901 values Amino acid sequence Protein name Charges 119883CorrBefore After
Surface-associated 129759 129854 18000 plusmn
880051000 plusmn5400 000042 KKPsTEDtFSKY
Peroxisomal proteinfamilylowast
(A0A0A6JC81)1 182
Mitochondrial-associated 129759 129749 18000 plusmn
880051000 plusmn5400 000042 RNsIttEsVKA
Aldehyde hydrogenasefamilylowast
(A0A0A3BNV6)1 203
DNA binding
57544 57645 9700 plusmn1000
28000 plusmn6200 000055 KSLLSRI
Telomerase reversetranscriptase familylowast
(C4YDL3)1 154
129759
12977518000 plusmn8800
51000 plusmn5400 000042
KNVIPAtItKV Spt6(D3IZV2)
1
154
129867 KEFTIGPFKcIKW
Transcriptionalregulatory protein
familylowast(A0A0A3CXJ5)
156
Miscellaneous57544 57631 9700 plusmn
110028000 plusmn6200 000055 RSLNSRI ATPase familylowast
(A0A0A4CD62) 1 315
190171 190374 7800 plusmn3900
13000 plusmn2300 0025 KNKATssSSStsRDTRW Leucine rich repeatslowast
(C4YMX3) 2 319
Uncharacterized 129759 129769 18000 plusmn8800
51000 plusmn5400 000042 RNNTtVSKGRIKV (A0A0A6M207) 1 151
129770 KKHQtHILNVKS (A0A0A6HZ28) 160
In another previous study quantitative LC MS wasperformed to characterize changes in the mitochondrialproteome of C albicans upon HTN5 treatments [33] Theauthors reported an upregulation of mitochondrial proteinsmainly involved in genomemaintenance and gene expressionand a downregulation for respiratory enzyme complexesIn our work the MS analysis was performed on samplesresulted from the tryptic shaving of adhered intact cellsGiven that the two approaches focused on different parts ofthe proteome we should not directly compare the proteinsidentified from these studies It suffices to conclude that ageneral decrease in MS signals was observed in our workfor many virulence- and surface-associated proteins afterHTN5 treatment as onewould expect Finally readers shouldbe reminded that the peptide sample quantity producedfrom our miniaturized technique was substantially lowerthan that typically used in previous studies due to thelower amount of starting materials in our work Neverthe-less one could alleviate this limitation by increasing thedensity of adhered cells on glass with a cell suspension ofhigher concentration andor by increasing the surface areaused of each assay which is defined by the hydrophobicboundary made by the user An increase in cell numberper assay will directly increase the quantity of peptidesproduced for LC MS analysis and subsequently improve thenumber of proteins identified andor the confidence of theidentification
4 Conclusions
This paper reported successful miniaturization of the trypticdigestion of surface proteins performed on whole cellsIn particular C albicans were adhered on glass surfacewhere introduction and removal of reagent solutions wereconveniently conducted with a micropipette Compared tothe use of cells suspended in solutions our treatment ofadhered cells also better resembles the antifungal treat-ment of C albicans cells adhered on tissues in the oralcavity Importantly the reduction in reagent volumes frommL to 120583L levels will allow users to perform many morereplicate assays while keeping an overall low consump-tion of reagents and cells Nevertheless the downside ofthe miniaturization is the reduced peptide sample quantityresulting from the LC MS analysis which could reducethe confidence of the protein identification Ultimatelyresearchers should select methods based on their purposesIn this case the miniaturized approach with adhered cellsis more effective for high-throughput screenings of celltypes or fungicides while the batch mode with suspendedcells is more suitable for a comprehensive profiling of theproteome
Disclosure
The paper is a part of MS thesis work of S Fan [34] WalterL Siqueira andKenK-C Yeung areCoprincipal Investigators
International Journal of Proteomics 11
Competing Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests
Acknowledgments
The work was funded by the University of Western Ontariothe Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council ofCanada (NSERC) and the Canadian Institutes of HealthResearch (CIHR) Walter L Siqueira is recipient of CIHRNew Investigator Salary Award The authors acknowledgeMs Kristina Jurcic for assistance in MALDI MS data acqui-sition and processing and Ms Tayebeh Basiri for insightfuladvices in fungal culturing Permission to access the Univer-sity of Western Ontario MALDI Mass Spectrometry Facilityis also acknowledged
References
[1] P Sudbery N Gow and J Berman ldquoThe distinct morphogenicstates of Candida albicansrdquo Trends in Microbiology vol 12 no7 pp 317ndash324 2004
[2] D W Williams T Kuriyama S Silva S Malic and M A OLewis ldquoCandida biofilms and oral candidosis treatment andpreventionrdquo Periodontology 2000 vol 55 no 1 pp 250ndash2652011
[3] C J Seneviratne L Jin and L P Samaranayake ldquoBiofilmlifestyle of Candida a mini reviewrdquo Oral Diseases vol 14 no7 pp 582ndash590 2008
[4] A Sanguineti J K Carmichael andK Campbell ldquoFluconazole-resistant Candida albicans after long-term suppressive therapyrdquoArchives of Internal Medicine vol 153 no 9 pp 1122ndash1124 1993
[5] D Vukosavljevic W Custodio A A Del Bel Cury and W LSiqueira ldquoThe effect of histatin 5 adsorbed on PMMA andhydroxyapatite on Candida albicans colonizationrdquo Yeast vol29 no 11 pp 459ndash466 2012
[6] W L Siqueira W Zhang E J Helmerhorst S P Gygi and F GOppenheim ldquoIdentification of protein components in in vivohuman acquired enamel pellicle using LC-ESI-MSMSrdquo Journalof Proteome Research vol 6 no 6 pp 2152ndash2160 2007
[7] D Vukosavljevic W Custodio and W L Siqueira ldquoSalivaryproteins as predictors and controls for oral healthrdquo Journal ofCell Communication and Signaling vol 5 no 4 pp 271ndash2752011
[8] J M Laudenbach and J B Epstein ldquoTreatment strategies fororopharyngeal candidiasisrdquo Expert Opinion on Pharmacother-apy vol 10 no 9 pp 1413ndash1421 2009
[9] F G Oppenheim Y C Yang R D Diamond D Hyslop G DOffner and R F Troxler ldquoThe primary structure and functionalcharacterization of the neutral histidine-rich polypeptide fromhuman parotid secretionrdquo The Journal of Biological Chemistryvol 261 no 3 pp 1177ndash1182 1986
[10] J O TenovuoHuman Saliva Clinical Chemistry andMicrobiol-ogy CRC Press 1989
[11] F G Oppenheim T Xu F M McMillian et al ldquoHistatinsa novel family of histidine-rich proteins in human parotidsecretion Isolation characterization primary structure andfungistatic effects onCandida albicansrdquoThe Journal of BiologicalChemistry vol 263 no 16 pp 7472ndash7477 1988
[12] E J Helmerhorst P Breeuwer W Van rsquot Hof et al ldquoThecellular target of histatin 5 on Candida albicans is the energized
mitochondrionrdquo The Journal of Biological Chemistry vol 274no 11 pp 7286ndash7291 1999
[13] A Freiwald and S Sauer ldquoPhylogenetic classification and iden-tification of bacteria by mass spectrometryrdquo Nature protocolsvol 4 no 5 pp 732ndash742 2009
[14] G Marklein M Josten U Klanke et al ldquoMatrix-assisted laserdesorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry for fastand reliable identification of clinical yeast isolatesrdquo Journal ofClinical Microbiology vol 47 no 9 pp 2912ndash2917 2009
[15] S Sauer and M Kliem ldquoMass spectrometry tools for theclassification and identification of bacteriardquo Nature ReviewsMicrobiology vol 8 no 1 pp 74ndash82 2010
[16] C Liu S A Hofstadler J A Bresson et al ldquoOn-line dualmicro-dialysis with ESI-MS for direct analysis of complex biologicalsamples and microorganism lysatesrdquo Analytical Chemistry vol70 no 9 pp 1797ndash1801 1998
[17] T C Cain D M Lubman and W J Weber ldquoDifferentiationof bacteria using protein profiles from matrix-assisted laserdesorptionionization time-of-flight mass spectrometryrdquo RapidCommunications in Mass Spectrometry vol 8 no 12 pp 1026ndash1030 1994
[18] Y-P Ho and P M Reddy ldquoIdentification of pathogens by massspectrometryrdquo Clinical Chemistry vol 56 no 4 pp 525ndash5362010
[19] P A Demirev N S Hagan M D Antoine J S Lin and A BFeldman ldquoEstablishing drug resistance in microorganisms bymass spectrometryrdquo Journal of the American Society for MassSpectrometry vol 24 no 8 pp 1194ndash1201 2013
[20] J P Anhalt and C Fenselau ldquoIdentification of bacteria usingmass spectrometryrdquoAnalytical Chemistry vol 47 no 2 pp 219ndash225 1975
[21] S Vaidyanathan J J Rowland D B Kell and R GoodacreldquoDiscrimination of aerobic endospore-forming bacteria viaelectrospray-ionization mass spectrometry of whole cell sus-pensionsrdquo Analytical Chemistry vol 73 no 17 pp 4134ndash41442001
[22] M Welker ldquoProteomics for routine identification of microor-ganismsrdquo Proteomics vol 11 no 15 pp 3143ndash3153 2011
[23] R DHolland J GWilkes F Rafii et al ldquoRapid identification ofintact whole bacteria based on spectral patterns using matrix-assisted laser desorptionionization with time-of- flight massspectrometryrdquo Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometryvol 10 no 10 pp 1227ndash1232 1996
[24] E B Moffa M C M Mussi Y Xiao et al ldquoHistatin 5inhibits adhesion of C albicans to reconstructed human oralepitheliumrdquo Frontiers inMicrobiology vol 6 article 885 pp 1ndash72015
[25] M J Rodrıguez-Ortega N Norais G Bensi et al ldquoCharacteri-zation and identification of vaccine candidate proteins throughanalysis of the group A Streptococcus surface proteomerdquoNatureBiotechnology vol 24 no 2 pp 191ndash197 2006
[26] F Doro S Liberatori M J Rodrıguez-Ortega et al ldquoSurfomeanalysis as a fast track to vaccine discovery identification of anovel protective antigen for group B Streptococcus hyperviru-lent strain COH1rdquoMolecular and Cellular Proteomics vol 8 no7 pp 1728ndash1737 2009
[27] A Gil-Bona C M Parra-Giraldo M L Hernaez et al ldquoCan-dida albicans cell shaving uncovers new proteins involved incell wall integrity yeast to hypha transition stress response andhost-pathogen interactionrdquo Journal of Proteomics vol 127 pp340ndash351 2015
12 International Journal of Proteomics
[28] M L Hernaez P Ximenez-Embun M Martınez-Gomariz MD Gutierrez-Blazquez C Nombela and C Gil ldquoIdentificationof Candida albicans exposed surface proteins in vivo by a rapidproteomic approachrdquo Journal of Proteomics vol 73 no 7 pp1404ndash1409 2010
[29] V Vialas P Perumal D Gutierrez et al ldquoCell surface shavingof Candida albicans biofilms hyphae and yeast form cellsrdquoProteomics vol 12 no 14 pp 2331ndash2339 2012
[30] M R Insenser M L Hernaez C Nombela M Molina GMolero and C Gil ldquoGel and gel-free proteomics to identifySaccharomyces cerevisiae cell surface proteinsrdquo Journal of Pro-teomics vol 73 no 6 pp 1183ndash1195 2010
[31] C Gyurko U Lendenmann E J Helmerhorst R F Troxlerand F GOppenheim ldquoKilling of Candida albicans by histatin 5cellular uptake and energy requirementrdquoAntonie van Leeuwen-hoek vol 79 no 3-4 pp 297ndash309 2001
[32] A Pitarch M Sanchez C Nombela and C Gil ldquoSequentialfractionation and two-dimensional gel analysis unravels thecomplexity of the dimorphic fungus Candida albicans cell wallproteomerdquo Molecular amp Cellular Proteomics vol 1 no 12 pp967ndash982 2002
[33] T Komatsu E Salih E J Helmerhorst G D Offner and FG Oppenheim ldquoInfluence of histatin 5 on Candida albicansmitochondrial protein expression assessed by quantitative massspectrometryrdquo Journal of Proteome Research vol 10 no 2 pp646ndash655 2011
[34] httpirlibuwocaetd3243
Submit your manuscripts athttpwwwhindawicom
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Anatomy Research International
PeptidesInternational Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom
International Journal of
Volume 2014
Zoology
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Molecular Biology International
GenomicsInternational Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
The Scientific World JournalHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
BioinformaticsAdvances in
Marine BiologyJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Signal TransductionJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
BioMed Research International
Evolutionary BiologyInternational Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Biochemistry Research International
ArchaeaHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Genetics Research International
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Advances in
Virolog y
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom
Nucleic AcidsJournal of
Volume 2014
Stem CellsInternational
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Enzyme Research
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of
Microbiology
10 International Journal of Proteomics
Table 2 Proteins identified from a miniaturized assay of HTN5 treatment of C albicans with increased MS signals Average MS signalsand their standard deviations were calculated based on six replicates Proteins indicated with an asterisk (lowast) have been determined usingtheir associated protein families Lower case letters in amino acid sequences indicated modified residues Blank spaces indicated proteinsunidentified by the databases
Biologicalfunction
Observedprecursor119898119911
Theoreticalprecursor119898119911
Ion counts119901 values Amino acid sequence Protein name Charges 119883CorrBefore After
Surface-associated 129759 129854 18000 plusmn
880051000 plusmn5400 000042 KKPsTEDtFSKY
Peroxisomal proteinfamilylowast
(A0A0A6JC81)1 182
Mitochondrial-associated 129759 129749 18000 plusmn
880051000 plusmn5400 000042 RNsIttEsVKA
Aldehyde hydrogenasefamilylowast
(A0A0A3BNV6)1 203
DNA binding
57544 57645 9700 plusmn1000
28000 plusmn6200 000055 KSLLSRI
Telomerase reversetranscriptase familylowast
(C4YDL3)1 154
129759
12977518000 plusmn8800
51000 plusmn5400 000042
KNVIPAtItKV Spt6(D3IZV2)
1
154
129867 KEFTIGPFKcIKW
Transcriptionalregulatory protein
familylowast(A0A0A3CXJ5)
156
Miscellaneous57544 57631 9700 plusmn
110028000 plusmn6200 000055 RSLNSRI ATPase familylowast
(A0A0A4CD62) 1 315
190171 190374 7800 plusmn3900
13000 plusmn2300 0025 KNKATssSSStsRDTRW Leucine rich repeatslowast
(C4YMX3) 2 319
Uncharacterized 129759 129769 18000 plusmn8800
51000 plusmn5400 000042 RNNTtVSKGRIKV (A0A0A6M207) 1 151
129770 KKHQtHILNVKS (A0A0A6HZ28) 160
In another previous study quantitative LC MS wasperformed to characterize changes in the mitochondrialproteome of C albicans upon HTN5 treatments [33] Theauthors reported an upregulation of mitochondrial proteinsmainly involved in genomemaintenance and gene expressionand a downregulation for respiratory enzyme complexesIn our work the MS analysis was performed on samplesresulted from the tryptic shaving of adhered intact cellsGiven that the two approaches focused on different parts ofthe proteome we should not directly compare the proteinsidentified from these studies It suffices to conclude that ageneral decrease in MS signals was observed in our workfor many virulence- and surface-associated proteins afterHTN5 treatment as onewould expect Finally readers shouldbe reminded that the peptide sample quantity producedfrom our miniaturized technique was substantially lowerthan that typically used in previous studies due to thelower amount of starting materials in our work Neverthe-less one could alleviate this limitation by increasing thedensity of adhered cells on glass with a cell suspension ofhigher concentration andor by increasing the surface areaused of each assay which is defined by the hydrophobicboundary made by the user An increase in cell numberper assay will directly increase the quantity of peptidesproduced for LC MS analysis and subsequently improve thenumber of proteins identified andor the confidence of theidentification
4 Conclusions
This paper reported successful miniaturization of the trypticdigestion of surface proteins performed on whole cellsIn particular C albicans were adhered on glass surfacewhere introduction and removal of reagent solutions wereconveniently conducted with a micropipette Compared tothe use of cells suspended in solutions our treatment ofadhered cells also better resembles the antifungal treat-ment of C albicans cells adhered on tissues in the oralcavity Importantly the reduction in reagent volumes frommL to 120583L levels will allow users to perform many morereplicate assays while keeping an overall low consump-tion of reagents and cells Nevertheless the downside ofthe miniaturization is the reduced peptide sample quantityresulting from the LC MS analysis which could reducethe confidence of the protein identification Ultimatelyresearchers should select methods based on their purposesIn this case the miniaturized approach with adhered cellsis more effective for high-throughput screenings of celltypes or fungicides while the batch mode with suspendedcells is more suitable for a comprehensive profiling of theproteome
Disclosure
The paper is a part of MS thesis work of S Fan [34] WalterL Siqueira andKenK-C Yeung areCoprincipal Investigators
International Journal of Proteomics 11
Competing Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests
Acknowledgments
The work was funded by the University of Western Ontariothe Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council ofCanada (NSERC) and the Canadian Institutes of HealthResearch (CIHR) Walter L Siqueira is recipient of CIHRNew Investigator Salary Award The authors acknowledgeMs Kristina Jurcic for assistance in MALDI MS data acqui-sition and processing and Ms Tayebeh Basiri for insightfuladvices in fungal culturing Permission to access the Univer-sity of Western Ontario MALDI Mass Spectrometry Facilityis also acknowledged
References
[1] P Sudbery N Gow and J Berman ldquoThe distinct morphogenicstates of Candida albicansrdquo Trends in Microbiology vol 12 no7 pp 317ndash324 2004
[2] D W Williams T Kuriyama S Silva S Malic and M A OLewis ldquoCandida biofilms and oral candidosis treatment andpreventionrdquo Periodontology 2000 vol 55 no 1 pp 250ndash2652011
[3] C J Seneviratne L Jin and L P Samaranayake ldquoBiofilmlifestyle of Candida a mini reviewrdquo Oral Diseases vol 14 no7 pp 582ndash590 2008
[4] A Sanguineti J K Carmichael andK Campbell ldquoFluconazole-resistant Candida albicans after long-term suppressive therapyrdquoArchives of Internal Medicine vol 153 no 9 pp 1122ndash1124 1993
[5] D Vukosavljevic W Custodio A A Del Bel Cury and W LSiqueira ldquoThe effect of histatin 5 adsorbed on PMMA andhydroxyapatite on Candida albicans colonizationrdquo Yeast vol29 no 11 pp 459ndash466 2012
[6] W L Siqueira W Zhang E J Helmerhorst S P Gygi and F GOppenheim ldquoIdentification of protein components in in vivohuman acquired enamel pellicle using LC-ESI-MSMSrdquo Journalof Proteome Research vol 6 no 6 pp 2152ndash2160 2007
[7] D Vukosavljevic W Custodio and W L Siqueira ldquoSalivaryproteins as predictors and controls for oral healthrdquo Journal ofCell Communication and Signaling vol 5 no 4 pp 271ndash2752011
[8] J M Laudenbach and J B Epstein ldquoTreatment strategies fororopharyngeal candidiasisrdquo Expert Opinion on Pharmacother-apy vol 10 no 9 pp 1413ndash1421 2009
[9] F G Oppenheim Y C Yang R D Diamond D Hyslop G DOffner and R F Troxler ldquoThe primary structure and functionalcharacterization of the neutral histidine-rich polypeptide fromhuman parotid secretionrdquo The Journal of Biological Chemistryvol 261 no 3 pp 1177ndash1182 1986
[10] J O TenovuoHuman Saliva Clinical Chemistry andMicrobiol-ogy CRC Press 1989
[11] F G Oppenheim T Xu F M McMillian et al ldquoHistatinsa novel family of histidine-rich proteins in human parotidsecretion Isolation characterization primary structure andfungistatic effects onCandida albicansrdquoThe Journal of BiologicalChemistry vol 263 no 16 pp 7472ndash7477 1988
[12] E J Helmerhorst P Breeuwer W Van rsquot Hof et al ldquoThecellular target of histatin 5 on Candida albicans is the energized
mitochondrionrdquo The Journal of Biological Chemistry vol 274no 11 pp 7286ndash7291 1999
[13] A Freiwald and S Sauer ldquoPhylogenetic classification and iden-tification of bacteria by mass spectrometryrdquo Nature protocolsvol 4 no 5 pp 732ndash742 2009
[14] G Marklein M Josten U Klanke et al ldquoMatrix-assisted laserdesorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry for fastand reliable identification of clinical yeast isolatesrdquo Journal ofClinical Microbiology vol 47 no 9 pp 2912ndash2917 2009
[15] S Sauer and M Kliem ldquoMass spectrometry tools for theclassification and identification of bacteriardquo Nature ReviewsMicrobiology vol 8 no 1 pp 74ndash82 2010
[16] C Liu S A Hofstadler J A Bresson et al ldquoOn-line dualmicro-dialysis with ESI-MS for direct analysis of complex biologicalsamples and microorganism lysatesrdquo Analytical Chemistry vol70 no 9 pp 1797ndash1801 1998
[17] T C Cain D M Lubman and W J Weber ldquoDifferentiationof bacteria using protein profiles from matrix-assisted laserdesorptionionization time-of-flight mass spectrometryrdquo RapidCommunications in Mass Spectrometry vol 8 no 12 pp 1026ndash1030 1994
[18] Y-P Ho and P M Reddy ldquoIdentification of pathogens by massspectrometryrdquo Clinical Chemistry vol 56 no 4 pp 525ndash5362010
[19] P A Demirev N S Hagan M D Antoine J S Lin and A BFeldman ldquoEstablishing drug resistance in microorganisms bymass spectrometryrdquo Journal of the American Society for MassSpectrometry vol 24 no 8 pp 1194ndash1201 2013
[20] J P Anhalt and C Fenselau ldquoIdentification of bacteria usingmass spectrometryrdquoAnalytical Chemistry vol 47 no 2 pp 219ndash225 1975
[21] S Vaidyanathan J J Rowland D B Kell and R GoodacreldquoDiscrimination of aerobic endospore-forming bacteria viaelectrospray-ionization mass spectrometry of whole cell sus-pensionsrdquo Analytical Chemistry vol 73 no 17 pp 4134ndash41442001
[22] M Welker ldquoProteomics for routine identification of microor-ganismsrdquo Proteomics vol 11 no 15 pp 3143ndash3153 2011
[23] R DHolland J GWilkes F Rafii et al ldquoRapid identification ofintact whole bacteria based on spectral patterns using matrix-assisted laser desorptionionization with time-of- flight massspectrometryrdquo Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometryvol 10 no 10 pp 1227ndash1232 1996
[24] E B Moffa M C M Mussi Y Xiao et al ldquoHistatin 5inhibits adhesion of C albicans to reconstructed human oralepitheliumrdquo Frontiers inMicrobiology vol 6 article 885 pp 1ndash72015
[25] M J Rodrıguez-Ortega N Norais G Bensi et al ldquoCharacteri-zation and identification of vaccine candidate proteins throughanalysis of the group A Streptococcus surface proteomerdquoNatureBiotechnology vol 24 no 2 pp 191ndash197 2006
[26] F Doro S Liberatori M J Rodrıguez-Ortega et al ldquoSurfomeanalysis as a fast track to vaccine discovery identification of anovel protective antigen for group B Streptococcus hyperviru-lent strain COH1rdquoMolecular and Cellular Proteomics vol 8 no7 pp 1728ndash1737 2009
[27] A Gil-Bona C M Parra-Giraldo M L Hernaez et al ldquoCan-dida albicans cell shaving uncovers new proteins involved incell wall integrity yeast to hypha transition stress response andhost-pathogen interactionrdquo Journal of Proteomics vol 127 pp340ndash351 2015
12 International Journal of Proteomics
[28] M L Hernaez P Ximenez-Embun M Martınez-Gomariz MD Gutierrez-Blazquez C Nombela and C Gil ldquoIdentificationof Candida albicans exposed surface proteins in vivo by a rapidproteomic approachrdquo Journal of Proteomics vol 73 no 7 pp1404ndash1409 2010
[29] V Vialas P Perumal D Gutierrez et al ldquoCell surface shavingof Candida albicans biofilms hyphae and yeast form cellsrdquoProteomics vol 12 no 14 pp 2331ndash2339 2012
[30] M R Insenser M L Hernaez C Nombela M Molina GMolero and C Gil ldquoGel and gel-free proteomics to identifySaccharomyces cerevisiae cell surface proteinsrdquo Journal of Pro-teomics vol 73 no 6 pp 1183ndash1195 2010
[31] C Gyurko U Lendenmann E J Helmerhorst R F Troxlerand F GOppenheim ldquoKilling of Candida albicans by histatin 5cellular uptake and energy requirementrdquoAntonie van Leeuwen-hoek vol 79 no 3-4 pp 297ndash309 2001
[32] A Pitarch M Sanchez C Nombela and C Gil ldquoSequentialfractionation and two-dimensional gel analysis unravels thecomplexity of the dimorphic fungus Candida albicans cell wallproteomerdquo Molecular amp Cellular Proteomics vol 1 no 12 pp967ndash982 2002
[33] T Komatsu E Salih E J Helmerhorst G D Offner and FG Oppenheim ldquoInfluence of histatin 5 on Candida albicansmitochondrial protein expression assessed by quantitative massspectrometryrdquo Journal of Proteome Research vol 10 no 2 pp646ndash655 2011
[34] httpirlibuwocaetd3243
Submit your manuscripts athttpwwwhindawicom
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Anatomy Research International
PeptidesInternational Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom
International Journal of
Volume 2014
Zoology
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Molecular Biology International
GenomicsInternational Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
The Scientific World JournalHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
BioinformaticsAdvances in
Marine BiologyJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Signal TransductionJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
BioMed Research International
Evolutionary BiologyInternational Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Biochemistry Research International
ArchaeaHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Genetics Research International
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Advances in
Virolog y
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom
Nucleic AcidsJournal of
Volume 2014
Stem CellsInternational
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Enzyme Research
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of
Microbiology
International Journal of Proteomics 11
Competing Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests
Acknowledgments
The work was funded by the University of Western Ontariothe Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council ofCanada (NSERC) and the Canadian Institutes of HealthResearch (CIHR) Walter L Siqueira is recipient of CIHRNew Investigator Salary Award The authors acknowledgeMs Kristina Jurcic for assistance in MALDI MS data acqui-sition and processing and Ms Tayebeh Basiri for insightfuladvices in fungal culturing Permission to access the Univer-sity of Western Ontario MALDI Mass Spectrometry Facilityis also acknowledged
References
[1] P Sudbery N Gow and J Berman ldquoThe distinct morphogenicstates of Candida albicansrdquo Trends in Microbiology vol 12 no7 pp 317ndash324 2004
[2] D W Williams T Kuriyama S Silva S Malic and M A OLewis ldquoCandida biofilms and oral candidosis treatment andpreventionrdquo Periodontology 2000 vol 55 no 1 pp 250ndash2652011
[3] C J Seneviratne L Jin and L P Samaranayake ldquoBiofilmlifestyle of Candida a mini reviewrdquo Oral Diseases vol 14 no7 pp 582ndash590 2008
[4] A Sanguineti J K Carmichael andK Campbell ldquoFluconazole-resistant Candida albicans after long-term suppressive therapyrdquoArchives of Internal Medicine vol 153 no 9 pp 1122ndash1124 1993
[5] D Vukosavljevic W Custodio A A Del Bel Cury and W LSiqueira ldquoThe effect of histatin 5 adsorbed on PMMA andhydroxyapatite on Candida albicans colonizationrdquo Yeast vol29 no 11 pp 459ndash466 2012
[6] W L Siqueira W Zhang E J Helmerhorst S P Gygi and F GOppenheim ldquoIdentification of protein components in in vivohuman acquired enamel pellicle using LC-ESI-MSMSrdquo Journalof Proteome Research vol 6 no 6 pp 2152ndash2160 2007
[7] D Vukosavljevic W Custodio and W L Siqueira ldquoSalivaryproteins as predictors and controls for oral healthrdquo Journal ofCell Communication and Signaling vol 5 no 4 pp 271ndash2752011
[8] J M Laudenbach and J B Epstein ldquoTreatment strategies fororopharyngeal candidiasisrdquo Expert Opinion on Pharmacother-apy vol 10 no 9 pp 1413ndash1421 2009
[9] F G Oppenheim Y C Yang R D Diamond D Hyslop G DOffner and R F Troxler ldquoThe primary structure and functionalcharacterization of the neutral histidine-rich polypeptide fromhuman parotid secretionrdquo The Journal of Biological Chemistryvol 261 no 3 pp 1177ndash1182 1986
[10] J O TenovuoHuman Saliva Clinical Chemistry andMicrobiol-ogy CRC Press 1989
[11] F G Oppenheim T Xu F M McMillian et al ldquoHistatinsa novel family of histidine-rich proteins in human parotidsecretion Isolation characterization primary structure andfungistatic effects onCandida albicansrdquoThe Journal of BiologicalChemistry vol 263 no 16 pp 7472ndash7477 1988
[12] E J Helmerhorst P Breeuwer W Van rsquot Hof et al ldquoThecellular target of histatin 5 on Candida albicans is the energized
mitochondrionrdquo The Journal of Biological Chemistry vol 274no 11 pp 7286ndash7291 1999
[13] A Freiwald and S Sauer ldquoPhylogenetic classification and iden-tification of bacteria by mass spectrometryrdquo Nature protocolsvol 4 no 5 pp 732ndash742 2009
[14] G Marklein M Josten U Klanke et al ldquoMatrix-assisted laserdesorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry for fastand reliable identification of clinical yeast isolatesrdquo Journal ofClinical Microbiology vol 47 no 9 pp 2912ndash2917 2009
[15] S Sauer and M Kliem ldquoMass spectrometry tools for theclassification and identification of bacteriardquo Nature ReviewsMicrobiology vol 8 no 1 pp 74ndash82 2010
[16] C Liu S A Hofstadler J A Bresson et al ldquoOn-line dualmicro-dialysis with ESI-MS for direct analysis of complex biologicalsamples and microorganism lysatesrdquo Analytical Chemistry vol70 no 9 pp 1797ndash1801 1998
[17] T C Cain D M Lubman and W J Weber ldquoDifferentiationof bacteria using protein profiles from matrix-assisted laserdesorptionionization time-of-flight mass spectrometryrdquo RapidCommunications in Mass Spectrometry vol 8 no 12 pp 1026ndash1030 1994
[18] Y-P Ho and P M Reddy ldquoIdentification of pathogens by massspectrometryrdquo Clinical Chemistry vol 56 no 4 pp 525ndash5362010
[19] P A Demirev N S Hagan M D Antoine J S Lin and A BFeldman ldquoEstablishing drug resistance in microorganisms bymass spectrometryrdquo Journal of the American Society for MassSpectrometry vol 24 no 8 pp 1194ndash1201 2013
[20] J P Anhalt and C Fenselau ldquoIdentification of bacteria usingmass spectrometryrdquoAnalytical Chemistry vol 47 no 2 pp 219ndash225 1975
[21] S Vaidyanathan J J Rowland D B Kell and R GoodacreldquoDiscrimination of aerobic endospore-forming bacteria viaelectrospray-ionization mass spectrometry of whole cell sus-pensionsrdquo Analytical Chemistry vol 73 no 17 pp 4134ndash41442001
[22] M Welker ldquoProteomics for routine identification of microor-ganismsrdquo Proteomics vol 11 no 15 pp 3143ndash3153 2011
[23] R DHolland J GWilkes F Rafii et al ldquoRapid identification ofintact whole bacteria based on spectral patterns using matrix-assisted laser desorptionionization with time-of- flight massspectrometryrdquo Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometryvol 10 no 10 pp 1227ndash1232 1996
[24] E B Moffa M C M Mussi Y Xiao et al ldquoHistatin 5inhibits adhesion of C albicans to reconstructed human oralepitheliumrdquo Frontiers inMicrobiology vol 6 article 885 pp 1ndash72015
[25] M J Rodrıguez-Ortega N Norais G Bensi et al ldquoCharacteri-zation and identification of vaccine candidate proteins throughanalysis of the group A Streptococcus surface proteomerdquoNatureBiotechnology vol 24 no 2 pp 191ndash197 2006
[26] F Doro S Liberatori M J Rodrıguez-Ortega et al ldquoSurfomeanalysis as a fast track to vaccine discovery identification of anovel protective antigen for group B Streptococcus hyperviru-lent strain COH1rdquoMolecular and Cellular Proteomics vol 8 no7 pp 1728ndash1737 2009
[27] A Gil-Bona C M Parra-Giraldo M L Hernaez et al ldquoCan-dida albicans cell shaving uncovers new proteins involved incell wall integrity yeast to hypha transition stress response andhost-pathogen interactionrdquo Journal of Proteomics vol 127 pp340ndash351 2015
12 International Journal of Proteomics
[28] M L Hernaez P Ximenez-Embun M Martınez-Gomariz MD Gutierrez-Blazquez C Nombela and C Gil ldquoIdentificationof Candida albicans exposed surface proteins in vivo by a rapidproteomic approachrdquo Journal of Proteomics vol 73 no 7 pp1404ndash1409 2010
[29] V Vialas P Perumal D Gutierrez et al ldquoCell surface shavingof Candida albicans biofilms hyphae and yeast form cellsrdquoProteomics vol 12 no 14 pp 2331ndash2339 2012
[30] M R Insenser M L Hernaez C Nombela M Molina GMolero and C Gil ldquoGel and gel-free proteomics to identifySaccharomyces cerevisiae cell surface proteinsrdquo Journal of Pro-teomics vol 73 no 6 pp 1183ndash1195 2010
[31] C Gyurko U Lendenmann E J Helmerhorst R F Troxlerand F GOppenheim ldquoKilling of Candida albicans by histatin 5cellular uptake and energy requirementrdquoAntonie van Leeuwen-hoek vol 79 no 3-4 pp 297ndash309 2001
[32] A Pitarch M Sanchez C Nombela and C Gil ldquoSequentialfractionation and two-dimensional gel analysis unravels thecomplexity of the dimorphic fungus Candida albicans cell wallproteomerdquo Molecular amp Cellular Proteomics vol 1 no 12 pp967ndash982 2002
[33] T Komatsu E Salih E J Helmerhorst G D Offner and FG Oppenheim ldquoInfluence of histatin 5 on Candida albicansmitochondrial protein expression assessed by quantitative massspectrometryrdquo Journal of Proteome Research vol 10 no 2 pp646ndash655 2011
[34] httpirlibuwocaetd3243
Submit your manuscripts athttpwwwhindawicom
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Anatomy Research International
PeptidesInternational Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom
International Journal of
Volume 2014
Zoology
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Molecular Biology International
GenomicsInternational Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
The Scientific World JournalHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
BioinformaticsAdvances in
Marine BiologyJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Signal TransductionJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
BioMed Research International
Evolutionary BiologyInternational Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Biochemistry Research International
ArchaeaHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Genetics Research International
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Advances in
Virolog y
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom
Nucleic AcidsJournal of
Volume 2014
Stem CellsInternational
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Enzyme Research
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of
Microbiology
12 International Journal of Proteomics
[28] M L Hernaez P Ximenez-Embun M Martınez-Gomariz MD Gutierrez-Blazquez C Nombela and C Gil ldquoIdentificationof Candida albicans exposed surface proteins in vivo by a rapidproteomic approachrdquo Journal of Proteomics vol 73 no 7 pp1404ndash1409 2010
[29] V Vialas P Perumal D Gutierrez et al ldquoCell surface shavingof Candida albicans biofilms hyphae and yeast form cellsrdquoProteomics vol 12 no 14 pp 2331ndash2339 2012
[30] M R Insenser M L Hernaez C Nombela M Molina GMolero and C Gil ldquoGel and gel-free proteomics to identifySaccharomyces cerevisiae cell surface proteinsrdquo Journal of Pro-teomics vol 73 no 6 pp 1183ndash1195 2010
[31] C Gyurko U Lendenmann E J Helmerhorst R F Troxlerand F GOppenheim ldquoKilling of Candida albicans by histatin 5cellular uptake and energy requirementrdquoAntonie van Leeuwen-hoek vol 79 no 3-4 pp 297ndash309 2001
[32] A Pitarch M Sanchez C Nombela and C Gil ldquoSequentialfractionation and two-dimensional gel analysis unravels thecomplexity of the dimorphic fungus Candida albicans cell wallproteomerdquo Molecular amp Cellular Proteomics vol 1 no 12 pp967ndash982 2002
[33] T Komatsu E Salih E J Helmerhorst G D Offner and FG Oppenheim ldquoInfluence of histatin 5 on Candida albicansmitochondrial protein expression assessed by quantitative massspectrometryrdquo Journal of Proteome Research vol 10 no 2 pp646ndash655 2011
[34] httpirlibuwocaetd3243
Submit your manuscripts athttpwwwhindawicom
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Anatomy Research International
PeptidesInternational Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom
International Journal of
Volume 2014
Zoology
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Molecular Biology International
GenomicsInternational Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
The Scientific World JournalHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
BioinformaticsAdvances in
Marine BiologyJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Signal TransductionJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
BioMed Research International
Evolutionary BiologyInternational Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Biochemistry Research International
ArchaeaHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Genetics Research International
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Advances in
Virolog y
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom
Nucleic AcidsJournal of
Volume 2014
Stem CellsInternational
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Enzyme Research
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of
Microbiology
Submit your manuscripts athttpwwwhindawicom
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Anatomy Research International
PeptidesInternational Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom
International Journal of
Volume 2014
Zoology
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Molecular Biology International
GenomicsInternational Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
The Scientific World JournalHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
BioinformaticsAdvances in
Marine BiologyJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Signal TransductionJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
BioMed Research International
Evolutionary BiologyInternational Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Biochemistry Research International
ArchaeaHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Genetics Research International
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Advances in
Virolog y
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom
Nucleic AcidsJournal of
Volume 2014
Stem CellsInternational
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Enzyme Research
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of
Microbiology