AUTHOR=Pertl-Obermeyer Heidi , Trentmann Oliver , Duscha Kerstin , Neuhaus H. Ekkehard , Schulze Waltraud X. TITLE=Quantitation of Vacuolar Sugar Transporter Abundance Changes Using QconCAT Synthtetic Peptides JOURNAL=Frontiers in Plant Science VOLUME=Volume 7 - 2016 YEAR=2016 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/articles/10.3389/fpls.2016.00411 DOI=10.3389/fpls.2016.00411 ISSN=1664-462X ABSTRACT=

Measurements of protein abundance changes are important for biological conclusions on protein-related processes such as activity or complex formation. Proteomic analyses in general are almost routine tasks in many laboratories, but a precise and quantitative description of (absolute) protein abundance changes require careful experimental design and precise data quality. Today, a vast choice of metabolic labeling and label-free quantitation protocols are available, but the trade-off between quantitative precision and proteome coverage of quantified proteins including missing value problems remain. Here, we provide an example of a targeted proteomic approach using artificial standard proteins consisting of concatenated peptides of interest (QconCAT) to specifically quantify abiotic stress-induced abundance changes in low abundant vacuolar transporters. An advantage of this approach is the reliable quantitation of alimited set of low-abundant target proteins throughout different conditions. We show that vacuolar ATPase AVP1 and sugar transporters of the ERDL (early responsive to dehydration-like) family and TMT2 (tonoplast monosaccharide transporter 2) showed increased abundance upon salt stress.