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Whole Serum 3D LC-nESI-FTMS Quantitative Proteomics Reveals Sexual Dimorphism in the Milieu Intérieur of Overweight and Obese Adults

Biomarkers Research Program, Biochemistry Department, College of Science, Prince Mutaib Chair for Biomarkers of Osteoporosis, Biochemistry Department, College of Science, §Center of Excellence in Biotechnology Research, and #Department of Clinical Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh 12372, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Cancer Sciences and Clinical Experimental Sciences (CES) Units, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
Institute for Life Sciences, Centre for Proteomic Research, University of Southampton, Highfield Campus, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
Institute of Cancer Sciences, Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
First Department of Pediatrics, University of Athens, Athens 106 79, Greece
J. Proteome Res., 2014, 13 (11), pp 5094–5105
DOI: 10.1021/pr5003406
Publication Date (Web): July 15, 2014
Copyright © 2014 American Chemical Society
*N. M. Al-Daghri. E-mail: ndaghri@ksu.edu.sa. Tel.: 00 96 61 467 5939. Fax: 00 96 61 467 5931. Address: Biochemistry Department, College of Science, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2455, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia. , *S. D. Garbis. E-mail: s.d.garbis@soton.ac.uk. Tel: 00 44 023 8059 3483. Address: Cancer Sciences and CES Units, Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton 3001, Life Sciences Building 85, Highfield Campus Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom.

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Linking gender-specific differences to the molecular etiology of obesity has been largely based on genomic and transcriptomic evidence lacking endophenotypic insight and is not applicable to the extracellular fluid compartments, or the milieu intérieur, of the human body. To address this need, this study profiled the whole serum proteomes of age-matched nondiabetic overweight and obese females (n = 28) and males (n = 31) using a multiplex design with pooled biological and technical replicates. To bypass basic limitations of immunodepletion-based strategies, subproteome enrichment by size-exclusion chromatography (SuPrE-SEC) followed by iTRAQ 2D-LC-nESI-FTMS analysis was used. The study resulted in the reproducible analysis of 2472 proteins (peptide FDR < 5%, q < 0.05). A total of 248 proteins exhibited significant modulation between men and women (p < 0.05) that mapped to pathways associated with β-estradiol, lipid and prostanoid metabolism, vitamin D function, immunity/inflammation, and the complement and coagulation cascades. This novel endophenotypic signature of gender-specific differences in whole serum confirmed and expanded the results of previous physiologic and pharmacologic studies exploring sexual dimorphism at the genomic and transcriptomic level in tissues and cells. Conclusively, the multifactorial and pleiotropic nature of human obesity exhibits sexual dimorphism in the circulating proteome of importance to clinical study design.

Figure S1: Metacore reference guide. Figure S2: Direct protein interaction network (PIN). Figure S3: Coagulation system protein network Figure S4. Figure S5: Cell adhesion, platelet, endothelium and leucocyte system protein network. Figure S6: Inflammation-complement system protein network. Table S1: Inflammation-kallikrein-kinin system protein network. Table S2: Total serum proteome. Table S3: Tryptic peptide list. Table S4: Modulated serum proteome. Direct Protein Interaction Network (PIN) Report. This material is available free of charge via the Internet at http://pubs.acs.org.

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