Mass spectrometry

QconCAT for equine acute phase proteins

Bundgaard L, Jacobsen S, Dyrlund TF, Sørensen MA, Harman VM, Beynon RJ, Brownridge PJ, Petersen LJ, Bendixen E. (2014) Development of a method for absolute quantification of equine acute phase proteins using concatenated peptide standards and selected reaction monitoring. J Proteome Res. 2014 Sep 24. [Epub ahead of print]
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MUP complexity and analytical challenges

Beynon RJ, Armstrong SD, Gómez-Baena G, Lee V, Simpson D, Unsworth J, Hurst JL. (2014) The complexity of protein semiochemistry in mammals. Biochem Soc Trans. 2014 Aug 42:837-845 [PUBMED][PDF] [Abstract...]

Rats have MUPs too - but different!

Gómez-Baena G, Armstrong SD, Phelan MM, Hurst JL, Beynon RJ. (2014). The major urinary protein system in the rat. Biochem Soc. Trans. 42: 886-892 [PUBMED][PDF] [Abstract...]

Proteomics of myofibroblasts

Balabanova S, Holmberg C, Steele I, Ebrahimi B, Rainbow L, Burdyga T, McCaig C, Tiszlavicz L, Lertkowit N, Giger OT, Oliver S, Prior I, Dimaline R, Simpson D, Beynon R, Hegyi P, Wang TC, Dockray GJ, Varro A. (2014) The neuroendocrine phenotype of gastric myofibroblasts and its loss with cancer progression. Carcinogenesis (in press) [Abstract...]

Ion mobility review

Lanucara F, Holman SW, Gray CJ, Eyers CE. (2014) The power of ion mobility-mass spectrometry for structural characterization and the study of conformational dynamics. Nat Chem. 2014 Mar 21;6(4):281-94. doi: 10.1038/nchem.1889. [PDF] [PUBMED] [Abstract...]

Unblocking the sink

Lanucara F, Chi Hoo Lee D, Eyers CE. (2013) J Am Soc Mass Spectrom. 2013 Dec 3. [Epub ahead of print] Unblocking the Sink: Improved CID-Based Analysis of Phosphorylated Peptides by Enzymatic Removal of the Basic C-Terminal Residue. [PDF][PUBMED] [Abstract...]

Who's got the biggest workload? Analysis of chaperone abundance and workload

Brownridge P, Lawless C, Payapilly AB, Lanthaler K, Holman SW, Harman VM, Grant CM, Beynon RJ, Hubbard SJ. Quantitative analysis of chaperone network throughput in budding yeast (2012). Proteomics. 13(8) 1276-1291 [PUBMED][PDF] [Abstract...]

A degrading synthesis of proteome turnover research!

Claydon, A.C. & Beynon, R.J. (2012) Proteome dynamics: revisiting turnover with a global perspective. Mol. Cell Proteomics 11:1551-1565. [PUBMED][PDF] [Abstract...]

Designing QconCATs for a mammalian pathway

Simpson, D.M. & Beynon, R.J. (2012) QconCATs: design and expression of concatenated protein standards for multiplexed protein quantification. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 404: 977-989 [PUBMED][PDF] [Abstract...]

Asymetric equalisation with combinatorial beads

Jenny Rivers, Chris Hughes, Thérèse McKenna, Yvonne Woolerton, Johannes P. C. Vissers, James I. Langridge and Robert J. Beynon (2011) Asymmetric proteome equalization of the skeletal muscle proteome using a combinatorial hexapeptide library PLOS One (in press)
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Quantification of a metabolic pathway

Carroll KM, Simpson DM, Eyers CE, Knight CG, Brownridge P, Dunn W, Winder CL, Lanthaler K, Pir P, Malys N, Kell DB, Oliver SG, Gaskell SJ, Beynon RJ. (2011) Absolute quantification of a metabolic pathway in yeast: deployment of a complete QconCAT approach. Mol Cell Proteomics. 2011 Sep 19. [PUBMED][PDF] [Abstract...]

Yeast complex proteomics

Drummond, S., Hildyard, J., Firczuk, H., Reamtong, O., Li, N.,Kannambath, S., Claydon, A., Beynon, R., Eyers, C.E. McCarthy, J.E.G (2011) Diauxic shift-dependent relocalization of decapping activators Dhh1 and Pat1 to polysomal complexes. Nucl Acid Res. [PUBMED][PDF] [Abstract...]

Schistosome parasite QconCAT

Castro-Borgesa, W., Simpson, D.M., Dowlea, A., Curwen, R.S., Thomas-Oates, J., Beynon, R.J. & Wilson, A. R. (2011) Abundance of tegument surface proteins in the human blood fluke Schistosoma mansoni determined by QconCAT proteomics. J Proteomics [PUBMED][PDF] [Abstract...]

Strategies for dynamic SILAC

Claydon, A & Beynon R (2011) Methods Mol Biol. 759, 179-195. Protein Turnover Methods in Single-Celled Organisms: Dynamic SILAC [Abstract...]

The end of proteomics

Davidson GR, Armstrong SD, Beynon R (2011) Methods Mol Biol. 753:229-242. Positional proteomics at the N-terminus as a means of proteome simplification. [PUBMED][PDF]
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Proteomics of HGF/EGF signalling

Hammond DE, Hyde R, Kratchmarova I, Beynon RJ, Blagoev B, Clague MJ. (2010) J Proteome Res. 9(5):2734-2742. Quantitative analysis of HGF and EGF-dependent phosphotyrosine signaling networks.[PUBMED][PDF] [Abstract...]

Acetone modifies peptides! Be careful if you're using acetone precipitation.

Simpson DM, Beynon RJ. (2010) Acetone precipitation of proteins and the modification of peptides. J Proteome Res. 9, 444-450 [PUBMED][PDF] [Abstract...]

Cross-species proteomics

Wright JC, Beynon RJ, Hubbard SJ. Cross species proteomics. (2010) Methods Mol Biol. 604:123-135 [PUBMED][PDF] [Abstract...]

Hardware accelerated proteomics

Coca D, Bogdan I, Beynon RJ. A high-performance reconfigurable computing solution for peptide mass fingerprinting. (2010) Methods Mol Biol. 604:163-185 [PUBMED][PDF] [Abstract...]

Parasite proteomics

Smith, S.K., Nisbet, A.J., Meikle, L.I., Inglis, N.F., Sales, J., Beynon, R.J. & Matthews, J.B. (2010) Proteomic analysis of excretory/secretory products released by Teladorsagia circumcincta larvae early post-infection. Parasite Immunology 31, 10-19 [PUBMED][PDF] [Abstract...]

Phosphorylation stoichiometry

Rigorous determination of the stoichiometry of protein phosphorylation using mass spectrometry (2009) Johnson H, Eyers CE, Eyers PA, Beynon RJ, Gaskell SJ. J Am Soc Mass Spectrom. 20, 2211-2220 [PUBMED][PDF] [Abstract...]

Proteomics and genome annotation

Wright, J.C., Sugden, D., Francis-McIntyre, S., Riba-Gacia, I., Gaskell, S.J., Grigoriev, I V., Baker, S.E., Beynon, R.J. & Hubbard, S.J. (2009)Exploiting proteomic data for genome annotation and gene model validation in Aspergillus niger. BMC Genomics. 10, 61 [PUBMED][PDF] [Abstract...]

Seminal vesicle protein evolution

Ramm, S.A., McDonald, L.M., Hurst, JL., Beynon, R.J. & Stockley, P.S. (2009) Comparative Proteomics Reveals Evidence for Evolutionary Diversification of Rodent Seminal Fluid and Its Functional Significance in Sperm Competition. Mol. Biol. Evol. 26, 189-198 [PUBMED] [PDF] [Abstract...]

Genentic programming for peptide 'flyability'

Wedge, David C., Gaskell, Simon J., Hubbard, Simon J., Kell, Douglas B., Lau, King Wai, Eyers, Claire. 2007. Peptide detectability following ESI mass spectrometry: prediction using genetic programming. Presented at Proceedings of the 9th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation [Abstract...]

Lysine acetylation of histones

Fraga, Mario F., Ballestar, Esteban, Villar-Garea, Ana, Boix-Chornet, Manuel, Espada, Jesus, Schotta, Gunnar, Bonaldi, Tiziana, Haydon, Claire, Ropero, Santiago, Petrie, Kevin. 2005. Loss of acetylation at Lys16 and trimethylation at Lys20 of histone H4 is a common hallmark of human cancer. Nature genetics 37: 391-400. [PUBMED] [Abstract...]

PTM's by MS

Schweppe, Rebecca E., Haydon, Claire E., Lewis, Timothy S., Resing, Katheryn A., Ahn, Natalie G. 2003. The characterization of protein post-translational modifications by mass spectrometry. Accounts of chemical research 36: 453-461. [PUBMED] [Abstract...]

EF2 kinase regulation

Knebel, Axel, Haydon, Claire E., Morrice, Nick, Cohen, Philip. 2002. Stress-induced regulation of eukaryotic elongation factor 2 kinase by SB 203580-sensitive and-insensitive pathways. Biochemical Journal 367: 525. [PUBMED] [Abstract...]