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Selected reaction monitoring (SRM) uses sensitive and specific mass spectrometric assays to measure target analytes across multiple samples, but it has not been broadly applied in proteomics owing to the tedious assay development process for each protein. We describe a method based on crude synthetic peptide libraries for the high-throughput development of SRM assays. We illustrate the power of the approach by generating and applying validated SRM assays for all Saccharomyces cerevisiae kinases and phosphatases.
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We acknowledge A. Wepf for assistance with the shotgun measurements on an Orbitrap instrument. We thank R. Volkmer, T. Meyer and M. Teruel for insightful discussions. This project was funded in part by ETH Zurich, the Swiss National Science Foundation, US National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health (N01-HV-28179) and by SystemsX.ch, the Swiss initiative for systems biology. F.D. was supported by the Helmholtz Alliance on Systems Biology. P.P. is the recipient of a Marie Curie Intra-European fellowship.
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P.P. and R.A. designed the experiments and the method workflow and wrote the paper. O.R. conceived the data analysis pipeline and performed part of the data analysis. P.P., R.S. and F.D. performed the experiments and analyzed data. T.F. compared results with those of ref. 15. H.W. supervised optimization of the SPOT-synthesis technology for producing small-scale, unpurified peptides to be used in SRM or multiple reaction monitoring assays; B.D. contributed to technical aspects of the SRM or MRM approach development. R.A. supervised the project.
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A patent application protecting the technology described in this paper has been filed by P.P., R.A. and O.R. (EP 08 009454.3, PCT/EP09/03611). O.R. is affiliated with Biognosys AG (Zurich, Switzerland). H.W. is an employee of JPT Peptide Technologies GmbH (Berlin, Germany).
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Picotti, P., Rinner, O., Stallmach, R. et al. High-throughput generation of selected reaction-monitoring assays for proteins and proteomes. Nat Methods 7, 43–46 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.1408
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