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Quantitative Proteomic Analysis of the Adipocyte Plasma Membrane
Matthew J. Prior,†,‡ Mark Larance,†,‡ Robert T. Lawrence,†,‡ Jamie Soul,† Sean Humphrey,†
James Burchfield,† Carol Kistler,§ Jonathon R. Davey,† Penelope J. La-Borde,† Michael Buckley,||
Hiroshi Kanazawa,^ Robert G. Parton,§ Michael Guilhaus,#,z and David E. James*,†
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Diabetes and Obesity Program, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia
Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Queensland 4072, Brisbane, Australia
CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics, Locked Bag 17, North Ryde, NSW 2113, Australia
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Department of Biological Science, Osaka University, Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
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Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry Facility, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
)
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bS Supporting Information
ABSTRACT: The adipocyte is a key regulator of mammalian
metabolism. To advance our understanding of this important cell,
we have used quantitative proteomics to define the protein composition of the adipocyte plasma membrane (PM) in the presence and
absence of insulin. Using this approach, we have identified a high
confidence list of 486 PM proteins, 52 of which potentially represent
novel cell surface proteins, including a member of the adiponectin
receptor family and an unusually high number of hydrolases with no
known function. Several novel insulin-responsive proteins including
the sodium/hydrogen exchanger, NHE6 and the collagens III and VI
were also identified, and we provide evidence of PM-ER association
suggestive of a unique functional association between these two
organelles in the adipocyte. Together these studies provide a wealth
of potential therapeutic targets for the manipulation of adipocyte function and a valuable resource for metabolic research and PM
biology.
KEYWORDS: proteomics, GLUT4, insulin action, NHE6, SILAC, plasma membrane, 3T3-L1 adipocyte
’ INTRODUCTION
The plasma membrane (PM) represents a selective filter for
the transmission of molecules and information between the internal
and external cellular environments. The PM achieves this through
the expression of a range of proteins with varying biological functions, including receptors that bind extracellular ligands and
transmit signals via signal transduction cascades, channels, and
transporters which physically move small molecules such as sugars
or ions across the membrane and structural proteins that regulate cell
shape, motility, or rigidity. While the functional identity of organelles
such as the PM can be defined by their protein composition, it has
become apparent that many proteins do not permanently reside in
such compartments. Instead, there is a dynamic flux of proteins
between organelles as the cell interacts with its surroundings.
The adipocyte plays a key role in insulin-regulated glucose and
lipid metabolism and thus has been implicated in the development of insulin resistance and metabolic disease.1 The actions
of insulin in the adipocyte are mediated through the insulin
receptor on the PM. Activation of the tyrosine kinase activity of
this receptor following insulin binding leads to the generation of
phosphatidylinositol-3,4,5-triphosphate in the PM inner leaflet
and the subsequent recruitment of various signaling molecules
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such as phosphoinositide-dependent protein kinases and Akt, to
the PM.2 Akt activation results in major modifications in the
composition of the PM exemplified by the transient increase in
the amount of the insulin-responsive glucose transporter, GLUT4
at the cell surface;3 a response that is impaired in patients with
Type 2 Diabetes.4,5 Thus, defining the protein composition of
the PM under a range of metabolic conditions and in response to
a range of external challenges will improve our understanding of
the functions mediated by a particular cell type and yield a list of
novel targets for the therapeutic manipulation of those functions.
To this end, we conducted a comprehensive global proteomic
analysis of the adipocyte PM both before and after acute insulin
stimulation. We used cationic colloidal silica to isolate the PM
from 3T3-L1 adipocytes combined with stable isotope labeling
with amino acids in cell culture (SILAC) for quantitative analysis
using mass spectrometry.6 We also combined these approaches
with the use of Gene Ontology (GO) cellular compartment
annotations to identify a high confidence list of adipocyte PM
proteins. Together, these studies provide a greater understanding
Received: May 15, 2011
Published: September 19, 2011
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of the signaling architecture within the adipocyte and provide
novel insights into the cell biology of the PM.
’ MATERIALS AND METHODS
Materials
3T3-L1 murine fibroblasts were purchased from the American
Type Culture Collection (ATCC, Rockville, MD). Dulbecco’s
Modified Eagle Medium (DMEM) was obtained from Invitrogen
(Carlsbad, CA) and myoclone-plus fetal calf serum (FCS) from
Trace Scientific (Melbourne, Australia). Bovine insulin was obtained
from Calbiochem (San Diego, CA) and bovine serum albumin
(BSA) from USB (Cleveland, OH). Bicinchoninic acid (BCA)
reagent, GF-2000 beads and Supersignal West Pico chemiluminescent substrate were from Pierce (Rockford, IL). C18 cartridges were from Michrom (Auburn, CA). Magic C18 material
was from Alltech (Deerfield, IL). Complete protease inhibitor
cocktail tablets were from Roche (Indianapolis, IN). Poly(acrylic
acid) partial sodium salt solution (average Mw approximately
240 000) and all other materials were obtained from Sigma
(St. Louis, MO). The KDEL-HRP construct was a kind gift from
Professor Colin Hopkins, Imperial College, London7 and antibodies were kindly provided by Dr. Wanjin Hong (Syntaxin 16,
IMCB, Singapore) and Professor Hiroshi Kanazawa (NHE6,
Osaka University, Japan). Antibodies were purchased from Santa
Cruz Biotechnology (Pan 14-3-3 and Col6aI), BD Biosciences
(Caveolin 1), Enzo Life Sciences (Calnexin), Cell Signaling (VDAC)
and Sigma-Aldrich (β-actin). Antibodies against GLUT4, IRAP
and Syntaxin-4 have been described previously.8 Cy5 and Cy3conjugated secondary antibodies were obtained from Jackson
ImmunoResearch (West Grove, PA). Alexa Fluor 680-conjugated secondary antibodies were obtained from Invitrogen. IrDye
800-conjugated secondary antibodies were obtained from Rockland
Immunochemicals (Gilbertsville, PA). HRP-conjugated secondary
antibodies were from GE Healthcare (Buckinghamshire, U.K.).
Cell Culture
3T3-L1 fibroblasts were cultured in Dulbecco’s modified
Eagle’s medium (DMEM) supplemented with 10% fetal calf
serum, 2 mM L-glutamine, 100 units/L penicillin, and 100 g/L
streptomycin at 37 C in 10% CO2. SILAC labeled and unlabeled
3T3-L1 fibroblasts were differentiated as previously described by
the addition of isobutyl-1-methyl-xanthine (IBMX, 500 μM),
dexamethasone (0.22 μM), insulin (0.35 μM) and biotin (409 nM)
to confluent cells for 3 days, followed by 3 days of post differentiation in growth media plus insulin (0.35 μM).9 Adipocytes were
maintained in growth media and used between days 8 and 10
postdifferentiation and between passages 10 and 20. For triple
and double SILAC labeling of 3T3-L1 adipocytes arginine and
lysine free DMEM (Sigma) was supplemented with either unlabeled
arginine (21 mg/L) and lysine (36.4 mg/L) (“light”), 13C6-arginine
(21.6 mg/L) and 2H4-lysine (44.5 mg/L) (“medium”) (Silantes,
GmbH) or 13C6-15N4-arginine (22.0 mg/L) and 13C6-15N2-lysine
(38.0 mg/L) (“heavy’) (Silantes, GmbH) as described previously.10
Cationic Colloidal Silica Isolation of Associated and Integral
PM Proteins
PM was purified as per Chaney and Jacobson with modifications.11
Briefly, 3 4 10 cm dishes of 3T3-L1 adipocytes per condition
were washed twice with ice-cold PBS and twice in ice-cold
coating buffer (20 mM MES, 150 mM NaCl, 280 mM sorbitol,
pH 5.0 5.5). Adipocytes were coated with 1% (w/v) cationic
colloidal silica (a kind gift from Associate Professor D. Beer Stolz,
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(University of Pittsburgh) and prepared as previously described11)
in coating buffer for 2 min on ice. Excess silica was removed by
washing once with ice-cold coating buffer. Poly(acrylic acid)
partial sodium salt (1 mg/mL, pH 6 6.5) was added to the cells
in coating buffer and incubated at 4 C for 2 min. Cells were
washed in ice-cold coating buffer, followed by modified HES
(20 mM HEPES, 250 mM sucrose, 1 mM dithiothreitol, 1 mM
magnesium acetate, 100 mM potassium acetate, 0.5 mM zinc
chloride, pH 7.4) at 4 C and lysed using 12 passes through a 22G needle followed by 6 passes through a 27-G needle in modified
HES buffer containing complete protease inhibitors (Roche) and
phosphatase inhibitors (2 mM sodium orthovanadate, 1 mM
pyrophosphate, 1 mM ammonium molybdate, 10 mM sodium
fluoride) at 4 C. Nycodenz (100%) in modified HES buffer was
added to a final concentration of 50% and layered onto 1.5 mL
70% Nycodenz in modified HES and centrifuged in a swing-out
rotor at 41 545 g for 20 min at 4 C. The supernatant was
discarded, and the pellet was washed several times in modified
HES buffer. To obtain the associated membrane fraction, the
pellet was resuspended in a high pH and high salt solution (1 M
NaCl and 100 mM Na2CO3, pH 11.0 11.5).12 This mixture was
centrifuged at 500 g for 5 min at 4 C and the supernatant was
collected and centrifuged at 100 000 g for 1 h at 4 C. The
supernatant from this spin was retained for SDS-PAGE analysis
and routinely contained between 50 and 100 μg protein per dish
used. The pellet from the high pH, high salt wash (approximately
75 μg/10 cm dish used), containing the integral membrane
proteins was resuspended in RIPA buffer (50 mM Tris-Cl pH 7.4,
150 mM NaCl, 1% NP-40, 0.5% sodium deoxycholate, 0.1%
SDS), containing protease and phosphatase inhibitors and
centrifuged at 500 g for 5 min at 4 C to remove the silica beads.
Insulin and Wortmannin Treatments
To establish basal conditions, SILAC or unlabeled adipocytes
were serum starved for 3 h at 37 C in 10% CO2. For SILAC
experiments, cationic silica PM fractions were isolated from 3T3L1 adipocytes, which were serum starved (light), stimulated with
100 nM insulin for 20 min (medium) or exposed to 100 nM
wortmannin for 20 min prior to insulin stimulation (heavy).
Lysate protein content was determined by BCA assay for each
SILAC label and lysates were mixed in a 1:1:1 ratio prior to the
addition of Nycodenz (100%) during PM isolation by cationic
colloidal silica.
Subcellular Fractionation of Adipocytes and SILAC PM Enrichment Analysis
3T3-L1 adipocyte fractionation and total cell membrane
preparations were carried out as described previously9 using
1 2 10 cm dishes of cells per condition. For SILAC, PM enrichment analysis, adipocytes were serum starved for 2 3 h prior to
fractionation or lysis and 10 μg of whole cell lysate in RIPA buffer
(3 mg protein/10 cm dish - medium) was combined with 10 μg
cationic silica associated PM (50 100 μg protein/10 cm dish light) or integral PM (50 100 μg protein/10 cm dish - light).
Total cell membrane (10 μg) in RIPA buffer (500 800 μg/
10 cm dish - light) was combined with 10 μg cationic silica PM
(100 200 μg/10 cm dish - medium). All protein mixtures were
resolved on 10% acrylamide gels prior to LC MS/MS analysis.
GLUT4 Vesicle Immunoadsorption
GLUT4 vesicles were immunoadsorbed from low density microsome (LDM) fractions using control mouse IgG or anti-GLUT4
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monoclonal 1F8 covalently coupled to GF-2000 beads, as previously described.8
Tissue Distribution and Lysate Preparation
Tissues were collected and processed as previously described13
with the approval of the Garvan Institute/St.Vincent’s Hospital
Animal Experimentation Ethics Committee following guidelines
issued by the National Health and Medical Research Council
(NHMRC) of Australia. Following homogenization, all tissue
and cell lysates were centrifuged at 16 000 g for 15 min at 4 C.
Supernatant protein concentration was determined by the BCA
assay.
SDS-PAGE and Immunoblotting
Samples (10 20 μg protein) were resolved by SDS-PAGE on
10% polyacrylamide gels for mass spectrometry and immunoblotting analysis. For mass spectrometry, gels were stained using
SYPRO Ruby (Molecular Probes). Western blotting was performed as previously described.8
In-gel Protein Tryptic Digestion, LC MS/MS, Identification
and Quantitation
In gel protein tryptic digestion was performed as described.14
For LC MS/MS analysis, peptide solutions (5 μL) were
separated on a 12 cm 75 μM ID analytical column pulled to an
internal diameter of 5 μM by a P-2000 laser puller (Sutter
Instruments Co) and packed with C18 Magic reverse phase
material using a Dionex Ultimate 3000 LC system. Peptides were
separated over a gradient of 1 3 h at a flow rate of 200 nL/min
and electrosprayed directly into the mass spectrometer using a
spray voltage of 1.8 kV. Mass spectrometry was performed using
a Thermo Fisher Scientific (San Jose, CA) LTQ-FT Ultra mass
spectrometer. The data-dependent acquisition method used was
the FT10 protocol, described previously.15 Data were processed,
searched and quantified using the MaxQuant software version
1.0.13.13 package as described previously16 using default settings, with the following variable modifications: oxidized methionine (M) and propionamide cysteine (C) as cysteine residues
were not blocked experimentally prior to SDS-PAGE analysis.
Searches were performed using Mascot server version 2.2 against
the mouse IPI database (version 3.71). Using the default MaxQuant
settings a false discovery rate (FDR) threshold of 1% is specified
at the peptide and protein level. Protein quantitation data was
always derived from two or more peptides per protein of which at
least one of which must be unique. For all SILAC experiments,
ratios were deemed significantly different from 1 when they
reached a significance level of (B) <0.05 using the MaxQuant
software.16 All raw mass spectrometry data from technical replicates
were combined and analyzed together using the MaxQuant
software. Biological replicates were analyzed separately and the
mean and standard deviation calculated for each protein identified from these replicates. The raw mass spectrometry data
associated with this manuscript may be downloaded from
ProteomeCommons.org Tranche using the following hash:
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Immunofluorescence and Electron Microscopy
For visualization of the ER in 3T3-L1 adipocytes by EM,
KDEL-HRP was expressed in differentiated 3T3-L1 adipocytes
by electroporation according to standard methods.17 Fixation,
visualization of the HRP reaction product, and further processing
for Epon embedding was according to standard procedures.
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Sections were cut parallel to the substratum. For immunofluorescence microscopy, cells were fixed with 3.8% paraformaldehyde in PBS, washed with PBS, quenched with 50 mM glycine in
PBS and permeabilised in PBS containing 0.1% saponin and 2%
BSA. Primary antibodies were detected with Cy3 or Cy2 conjugated secondary antibodies. Optical sections were analyzed by
epifluorescence microscopy on a Leica SP2 inverted confocal
microscope. Images were generated from a single slice of a z-stack
taken from the top to the bottom of the cell monolayer. Human
ASCT2 (SLC1A5) in pEGFP-N1 (Clontech) or human Rab35
in pTagRFP-C Gateway, constructed by inserting the Gateway
cassette B into the SmaI site of pTagRFP-C (Evrogen) was electroporated into differentiated 3T3-L1 adipocytes as described above.
Bioinformatic and Statistical Analysis
IPI identifiers were mapped to Gene Ontology Cellular
Components (GOCC) and to the Panther classification system
using the DAVID bioinformatics database.18 Analysis of statistical over- or under-representation of available ontologies was
performed using the algorithms provided in DAVID. For all
enrichment analysis, proteins were categorized as either PM, ER,
mitochondria, nuclear, cytoplasmic, golgi or other using GOCC
annotations. GOCC annotation strings were initially searched
for the terms “plasma membrane”, “extracellular matrix”, “extracellular region”, “extracellular space”, “cell periphery” and “cell
surface”. Proteins with one or more of these annotations were
classified as PM. Annotations for all remaining proteins were
searched for terms “endoplasmic reticulum”, “Golgi”, “mitochondrion” (or “mitochondrial”), and “nucleus” (or “nuclear”) and
the protein was classified accordingly if only one of these terms
matched. Remaining proteins were classified as cytoplasm if the
initial GOCC field was “cytoplasm”, or as “other”. PM protein
lists were manually curated using The Human Protein Atlas
(http://www.proteinatlas.org/) in combination with literature
searches using PubMed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed).
Only proteins exhibiting evidence of PM localization in both
were classified as bona fide PM proteins. The total mouse ER
data set was obtained from the GO database (http://www.
geneontology.org/) and transmembrane domains and secreted
proteins were predicted using the TMHMM algorithm,19 as
previously described.20 Protein sequence analysis was performed
using InterProScan Sequence Search using default settings21 and
functional annotations were assigned using literature searches of
the PubMed database. Statistical calculations were done using
the statistical environment, R.22 Mixture modeling was done
using the package “mclust”.23
’ RESULTS
Isolation of Adipocyte PM Fractions
To capture PM enriched proteins, several different subcellular
fractionation methods were trialed including differential centrifugation and cationic silica labeling as described previously.9,11
Consistent with our previous findings,8 the cationic silica method
was found to be optimal because it isolates a PM fraction more
highly enriched in PM markers such as caveolin 1 and syntaxin 4
but less enriched in the Golgi marker syntaxin 16 and the
mitochondrial marker VDAC (Figure 1A) than other traditional
methods. Furthermore, the procedure is rapid and of sufficiently
low stringency to preserve peripheral associations.8,11 Additional
reductions in sample complexity for LC MS/MS analysis were
attained through further fractionation of the cationic silica PM
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preparation into integral and associated proteins (Figure 1B;
Supplemental Figure S1A C, Supporting Information).
Identification of the Adipocyte PM Proteome
Figure 1. (A) Comparison of organelle constituents found in the
differential centrifugation and cationic colloidal silica PM fractions.
Equal amounts of 3T3-L1 protein lysate and PM were immunoblotted
using the PM, Golgi, ER and mitochondrial markers listed. The
experiment was performed two times and the images are from a
representative experiment. (B) Outline of the materials and methods
utilized to survey the 3T3-L1 PM proteome. PM protein fractions
obtained by cationic colloidal silica were subfractionated into integral
and associated PM proteins using a high salt, high pH wash. Proteins
were subjected to LC MS/MS and the output analyzed using MaxQuant software (Table S1, Supporting Information). See also Supplementaery Figure S1 (Supporting Information).
LC MS/MS analysis of the cationic silica fraction isolated
from adipocytes identified 2600 proteins (Supplemental Table
S1, Supporting Information). In combination with a previous
study describing MS analysis of the entire adipocyte,24 this
represents one of the largest and most comprehensive proteomic
analyses of this cell type. Further analysis of our data using the
GO database,25 however, revealed that many proteins found in
the cationic silica fraction were annotated as constituents of
alternate organelles, such as mitochondria (22.8%), endoplasmic
reticulum (ER) (12.3%) and Golgi (6.0%) (Supplemental Figure
S1D; Supplemental Table S1, Supporting Information). This
suggests that the proteins from these organelles can also be found
at the PM, or alternatively, that our PM cationic silica fraction
contains a large proportion of contaminating proteins from other
organelles.
The limitation of the GO analysis described above is that it
does not provide a quantitative assessment of the relative enrichment of different proteins in the PM fraction. To circumvent this
and refine the identification of PM proteins from our cationic
silica PM fraction, we employed SILAC to measure the relative
enrichment of proteins in the integral and associated cationic
silica PM fractions relative to the whole cell lysate (Figure 2).
Similar methods have been used to study the centrosomal,26
mitochondrial27 and peroxisome proteomes28 and the cells were
serum starved prior to lysis or fractionation for us to more easily
compare the resulting proteome with that from our insulin
treatments which were performed in the absence of serum. We
reasoned that this would enable us to distinguish bona fide PM
proteins from contaminants in that those proteins with a high
PM/whole cell lysate enrichment ratio, similar to that of a GO
annotated PM protein, are more likely to be associated with the
PM than those proteins with a lower ratio. This resulted in the
combined identification of 1528 proteins from the cationic silica
integral (Supplemental Table S2, Supporting Information) and
associated PM fractions (Supplemental Table S3, Supporting
Information).
A broad range of PM cationic silica:lysate Log2 ratios (7-fold
to 5-fold) was observed in both the integral and associated PM
fractions. We next wanted to determine if those proteins with the
highest ratio represented true PM proteins and if we could use
this method to begin to identify nonannotated PM proteins. This
proved to be the case for the cationic silica integral PM protein
fraction, with proteins predicted to be in the PM, based on GO
analysis, found in the rightward population of the frequency
distribution, while proteins of other origin, with the exception of
ER, were found in the population to the left of the distribution
(Figure 3A). Modeling of these data (Figure 3A) indicated that
the proteins identified, segregated into two distinct populations
with statistically different means, allowing us to separate the two
populations. Using a 1% false positive rate (FPR) cut off, 511
proteins were selected from the right-hand curve of the fitted mixture
in Figure 3A (Supplemental Table S2, Supporting Information).
This population was enriched in PM (1.7-fold) and ER (2.2-fold)
annotated proteins relative to the entire data set, but contained
73.5, 45.2, 92.0 and 91.2% fewer mitochondrial, Golgi, nuclear
and cytoplasmic-annotated proteins, respectively (Figure 3B).
A similar analysis was performed using the associated cationic
silica PM fraction, resulting in the selection of 473 proteins
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Characterization of the Adipocyte PM Proteome
Figure 2. Experimental scheme for double SILAC labeling of 3T3-L1
adipocytes for the relative enrichment analysis of the cationic silica PM
fraction from whole cell lysate and total cell membrane. Double SILAC
labeled 3T3-L1 fibroblasts were differentiated into adipocytes and
serum-starved for 2 3 h. Equal protein amounts of whole cell lysate
(medium label) was mixed with integral PM (light label) or associated
PM (light label). The protein mixtures were then subsequently separated by SDS-PAGE and the entire gel lane digested with trypsin and
analyzed by LC MS/MS. Raw mass spectrometry data was analyzed by
the MaxQuant software program. The isotopic labels were swapped for
the relative enrichment analysis of total PM (associated and integral)
(medium label) from total cell membrane (light label).
(Figure 2; Figure 3C; Supplemental Table S3, Supporting
Information). Despite an 86.7% reduction in the number of
mitochondrial proteins present in this population relative to the
entire data set, there was no enrichment of PM or ER proteins in
this data set but a reasonable enrichment of nuclear proteins was
observed (1.7-fold) (Figure 3D; Supplemental Table S3, Supporting Information). Given the enrichment of nuclear and ER
proteins in the associated and integral PM cationic silica fractions, respectively, we repeated the above analysis using a total
cell membrane fraction instead of whole cell lysate, to further
assess the purity of our cationic silica PM fraction (Figure 2).
Over 2100 proteins were quantitated in the cationic silica PM
and total cell membrane fractions (Supplemental Table S4,
Supporting Information). Again, the data segregated into two
statistically distinct populations (Figure 3E), which were separated by mixture modeling using a 1% FPR. This yielded a list of
549 proteins (Supplemental Table S4, Supporting Information)
enriched in PM (1.7-fold) and ER (2.8-fold) proteins relative
to the entire data set but reduced in the proportion of mitochondrial (97.7%), Golgi (87.3%) and cytoplasmic (83.7%) proteins
(Figure 3F), as previously observed. This indicates that our
cationic silica PM fraction is not simply a composite of whole
cell membranes further illustrating the use of this enrichment
procedure for the identification of high confidence PM
proteins.
We next manually curated the data to annotate the proteins
found in the upper population from each of the enrichment
experiments described above. This was an essential step as a
number of mis-annotations have previously been identified in
GO29 and it also enabled us to segregate ER proteins from the
list. Using this approach we generated a high confidence list of
adipocyte PM proteins comprising 486 proteins (Supplemental
Table S5, Supporting Information). This list contained many
bona fide PM proteins, including the Na+/K+ ATPase, Syntaxin 4
and the insulin receptor. Further analysis (see “Materials and
Methods”) of this compendium, lead to the identification of 191
proteins (39.3%) with at least one predicted transmembrane
(TM) domain and 24 (4.9%) predicted secreted proteins. After
filtering out secreted proteins, 34.4% (167 proteins) of remaining
proteins were predicted to be integral PM proteins. Of these,
10.7% (52 proteins) have no previous PM annotation and
include PAQR4, TMTC3, ATP13A and ABHD1 as well as a
suite of TMEM proteins. A further 0.6% (3 proteins) of these
TM proteins, including DCAKD and the protein homologues
C9orf5 and C6orf64, have no subcellular annotation at all and
thus potentially represent novel pharmacological targets. To
further validate this procedure we selected Rab35 and ASCT2
(SLC1A5), two proteins identified in our screen, and experimentally examined their localization. As shown in Supplemental
Figure S2 (Supporting Information), both RFP-Rab35 and
ASCT2-GFP were almost exclusively localized to the cell surface
of the adipocyte by immunofluoresence microscopy.
The adipocyte PM proteome identified here, comprises
proteins from several functional groups as determined by ontological classification (Table 1 and Supplemental Table S5, Supporting Information). As expected, a large number of cytoskeletal
proteins (47), transporters (38), membrane traffic proteins (36),
small GTPases (26) and cell adhesion molecules (23) were
observed and SNAREs (21%), G-proteins (15%) and in particular heterotrimeric G-proteins (27%), were significantly enriched in our adipocyte PM proteome, indicative of a generic role
in membrane function. A large number of receptors (32) and
kinases (23) were also observed in the adipocyte PM. In contrast
to that observed for many of the other protein families (see above),
this represents a relatively small proportion of the total cohort of
these kinds of proteins found in the genome, consistent with the
view that receptors and kinases play an important role in defining
cellular specificity. The proteome is also comprised of a large
number of proteins (24) with no functional or subcellular annotation, including FUNDC2, BZW1 and 2 and MIOS to name a few
and thus these findings, together with additional bioinformatic
analyses, provide vital functional information about each of these
uncharacterised proteins (Supplemental Table S6, Supporting
Information).
The PM-ER Axis
One of the intriguing findings from this analysis was the
apparent cosegregation of ER with the PM. This ER protein
population at the PM (Supplemental Table S7, Supporting Information) constitutes approximately 14% of all annotated mouse
ER proteins raising the possibility that this may represent a
unique subset of ER proteins. However, a comparison between
the PM-associated ER protein population and the total mouse
ER protein population by GO analysis revealed no evidence for
the selective enrichment of a particular subpopulation of the ER
(Supplemental Table S7, Supporting Information). To verify the
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Figure 3. Relative enrichment analysis of the cationic silica PM fraction from whole cell lysate and total cell membrane. Double SILAC labeled 3T3-L1
fibroblasts were differentiated into adipocytes and serum-starved for 2 3 h. Cationic silica PM fractions were mixed with whole cell lysate or total cell
membrane and the proteins analyzed by LC MS/MS (Figure 2). Raw mass spectrometry data was analyzed by the MaxQuant software program and all ratios
were calculated from the raw intensities. (A) Integral cationic silica PM/whole cell lysate ratios were converted to a binary logarithm and plotted against
frequency prior to mixture modeling. (B) Raw intensities for each protein from both the integral cationic silica PM fraction and the whole cell lysate were
converted to a binary logarithm and plotted against each other. Proteins were classified by subcellular location as described in the “Materials and Methods”. The
same analysis was performed for the associated cationic silica PM fraction combined with the whole cell lysate (B and C) and the total cationic silica PM fraction
(integral and associated) combined with total cell membrane (E and F). In each case, the dotted line represents a false positive rate (FPR) of 1% and proteins to
the right of this line (A, C, E) or above it (B, D, F) were classified as PM. See also Supplemental Tables S2, S3 and S4 (Supporting Information).
association between the ER and the PM in adipocytes, we
expressed an ER-directed HRP fusion protein (KDEL-HRP) in
adipocytes and used this to visualize the ER by electron microscopy (EM). Consistent with our prediction, ER elements close
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Table 1. Protein Functional Groups Enriched in the Adipocyte PM Proteomea
adipocyte PM
% ontology term
G-proteins
41
15
G-protein modulator
Large G-protein
22
14
6
27
Transporters
38
6
Cation
14
8
ATP-binding cassette
4
9
Amino acid
2
6
Carbohydrate
2
6
32
1
Tyrosine protein kinase
Immunoglobulin
7
2
9
2
Ion Channels
8
2
Voltage-gated
2
2
Receptors
Others
Regulatory molecules
69
6
Cytoskeletal protein
47
6
Membrane traffic proteins
36
11
Hydrolases
Small GTPase
28
26
4
13
Cell adhesion molecules
23
6
Kinases
23
3
SNAREs
8
21
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All unique proteins enriched from the whole cell lysate and total cell
membrane preparations were manually curated as described in Materials
and Methods, and the resulting list of proteins was subjected to gene set
enrichment analysis by Panther molecular function (Table S5, Supporting Information). A select number of functional groups are represented
and the number of proteins identified for each is shown on the left. On
the right this value is expressed as a percentage of all annotated proteins
in that functional group.
to the PM were very common in adipocytes, with numerous
putative ER-PM contacts, in which the ER was closely apposed to
the PM, evident by EM (Figure 4). These data likely explain the
observed cofractionation of ER with the PM and, more importantly, are suggestive of a unique functional association between
these two organelles in the adipocyte.
Survey of Insulin Action at the PM
One of the notable features of the adipocyte PM is its ability to
modulate its polypeptide composition under certain conditions.
For example, insulin stimulation rapidly increases the amount of
the glucose transporter GLUT4 found at the PM and this process
plays an important role in the postprandial disposal of glucose.
To further explore the adaptability of the adipocyte PM in response
to insulin stimulation we designed a SILAC based experiment,
using cationic silica, to identify insulin responsive PM proteins
from our adipocyte PM proteome (Figure 5A). Adipocytes were
stimulated with 100 nM insulin for 20 min to induce maximal
levels of cell surface GLUT430 maximizing the possibility for
identification of novel insulin responsive PM proteins. The
phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI3K) inhibitor, wortmannin was
utilized in the presence of insulin to identify insulin responsive
proteins downstream of PI3K.
Using a high stringency filter (p < 0.05, Significance level B)
for insulin responsive proteins detected in at least two independent experiments, we identified 30 proteins (Supplemental Tables
Figure 4. Ultrastructural characterization of the ER in differentiated
3T3-L1 adipocytes using an ER-directed HRP fusion protein (KDELHRP). The arrows mark regions of the ER labeled with the electron
dense HRP reaction product which are very closely apposed to the PM.
LD, lipid droplet.
S8 and S9, Supporting Information). Among these, 8 were
present in the PM proteome. All 8 proteins underwent an
insulin-dependent increase in PM association in a PI3K-dependent manner and included GLUT4, IRAP and the transferrin
receptor (TfR), all of which have previously been described as
insulin responsive proteins in the adipocyte8,31 (Figure 5B).
Among the novel insulin-responsive proteins were four collagen
isoforms, (Col3a1 and Col6a1, 2 and 3) as well as the sodium/
hydrogen exchanger, NHE6 (SLC9A6) (Figure 5B).
The Sodium/Hydrogen Exchanger, NHE6 is a Novel InsulinResponsive Protein
The insulin-dependent translocation of Collagen alpha-1(VI)
chain (Col6a1) and NHE6 to the PM was verified by immunoblotting using specific antibodies to each (Figure 6A). The
Col6a1 antibody labeled a band of the expected size at approximately 120 kDa. The NHE6 antibody labeled multiple bands
between 64 and 250 kDa, consistent with previous studies that
observed a mature, glycosylated form at 90 100 kDa and an
immature, less glycosylated form at approximately 64 kDa.32 The
more mature form of NHE6 at 98 kDa appeared to be the insulinresponsive form and thus was the focus of the remaining studies
(Figure 6A). It has also been suggested that NHE6 is subject to
aggregation as is the case for many polytopic membrane proteins32
and that this may account for the larger band observed at
250 kDa. NHE6 was selected for more detailed analysis and an
investigation of the expression of this transporter in a range of
tissues indicated that it is expressed at high levels in the brain as
well as in a number of insulin responsive tissues including the
liver, kidney and adipose tissue (Figure 6B). To further investigate the role of NHE6 in adipose tissue, we analyzed NHE6
protein levels during the adipocyte differentiation time course
(Figure 6C). NHE6 was expressed at low levels in preadipocytes
and its expression was markedly upregulated during adipocyte
differentiation with a similar time course to that observed for GLUT4
(not shown). Insulin stimulates GLUT4 translocation to the PM
via increased exocytosis of GLUT4 storage vesicles (GSV).3 To
determine if NHE6 is similarly regulated we first investigated the
subcellular distribution of NHE6 in 3T3-L1 adipocytes in the
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Figure 5. Insulin-responsive proteins at the adipocyte PM (A) 3T3-L1 fibroblasts were triple SILAC labeled as shown and differentiated into
adipocytes. Adipocytes were serum-starved for 3 h and then either left untreated (Basal) (light label), treated with insulin (100 nM, 20 min) (medium
label) or treated with wortmannin and insulin (100 nM wortmannin, 20 min prior to insulin stimulation) (heavy label). Following treatment, adipocyte
membranes were coated with silica, the cells lysed and mixed and the PM isolated and further fractionated using cationic colloidal silica combined with a
high salt, high pH wash. The isolated proteins were then separated by SDS-PAGE and the entire gel lane digested with trypsin and analyzed by LC MS/
MS. The raw mass spectrometry data was analyzed by the MaxQuant software program. (B) Relative abundance of insulin-responsive PM proteins
identified by SILAC analysis. SILAC labeled 3T3-L1 adipocytes were incubated with (medium) or without insulin (100 nM) for 20 min (light) in the
absence or presence of wortmannin (100 nM) (heavy) and peptides were analyzed as described above. Data represent mean ( SD of medium/light and
heavy/light ratios from three independent experiments. See also Supplemental Tables S8 and S9 (Supporting Information).
presence and absence of insulin. NHE6 displayed a similar
subcellular distribution to GLUT4 and another GSV component,
IRAP and it underwent insulin-dependent movement from the
low density microsome (LDM) fraction to the PM with insulin
(Figure 6D). This suggests that NHE6 may translocate together
with GLUT4 and IRAP and thus reside in the same compartment.
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Figure 6. NHE6 is a novel insulin-responsive PM protein. (A) NHE6 and Col6aI translocate to the PM in the presence of insulin. Cationic colloidal silica
integral PM fractions were obtained from serum starved 3T3-L1 adipocytes (3 h) which were either left untreated (basal), treated with insulin
(100 nM, 20 min) or treated with wortmannin and insulin (100 nM wortmannin, 20 min prior to insulin) and analyzed by Western blot with the use of
anti-NHE6, anti-Col6aI, anti-GLUT4, anti-IRAP and anti-Syntaxin 4 antibodies. The experiment was performed three times and images are from a
representative experiment. (B) Tissue distribution of NHE6 protein expression. Mouse tissues were collected and the lysates analyzed by Western blot with the
use of anti-NHE6 antibody. The experiment was performed twice and the images are from a representative experiment. (C) NHE6 protein expression during
3T3-L1 adipocyte differentiation. Lysates from differentiating 3T3-L1 fibroblasts were collected on the days indicated and analyzed by Western blot with the use
of anti-NHE6 and anti-Syntaxin 4 antibodies. A SYPRO ruby protein stain of the membrane was included as a loading control. The experiment was performed
twice and the images are from a representative experiment. (D) Subcellular distribution of NHE6 protein expression in the presence of insulin. Basal (3 h) and
insulin treated (100 nM, 20 min) 3T3-L1 adipocytes were fractionated into cytosol, high density microsomes (HDM), low density microsomes (LDM), plasma
membrane (PM) and mitochondria/nucleus. Equal amounts of protein for each fraction were analyzed by Western blot with the use of anti-NHE6, antiGLUT4, anti-IRAP, anti-Syntaxin 4 and anti-14-3-3 antibodies. The experiment was performed twice and the images are from a representative experiment.
(E) NHE6 associates with GLUT4 storage vesicles. The low density microsome fraction (LDM) was obtained from 3 h serum-starved 3T3-L1 adipocytes and
subjected to immunoprecipitation (IP) with anti-GLUT4 and irrelevant antibodies (IgG). Immunoprecipitates and LDM fractions were analyzed by Western
blot with the use of anti-NHE6, anti-GLUT4 and anti-IRAP antibodies. The experiment was performed two times and the images are from a representative experiment. (F) Immunofluorescence analysis of NHE6 and GLUT4 colocalization. Serum-starved (basal, 3 h) and insulin-stimulated (100 nM, 20 min)
3T3-L1 adipocytes were fixed, permeabilized and stained with anti-GLUT4 and anti-NHE6 antibodies. GLUT4 and NHE6 were detected using Cy3- (red) and
Cy2- (green) conjugated secondary antibodies, respectively and the amount of internal structure colocalization quantitated by IMARIS _64 v6.2.1 (Bitplane)
software. Images were pixel shifted by the equivalent of 200 nm and reanalyzed to validate the data. Data represent mean ( SEM of values from 3 4 cells from
two independent experiments. Bar, 15 μm.
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To test this, we immuno-isolated GSVs using a GLUT4-specific
antibody and found that both NHE6 and IRAP were enriched in
these vesicles (Figure 6E). Furthermore, we observed significant
colocalization between GLUT4 and NHE6 in adipocytes using
confocal immunofluorescence microscopy (Figure 6F). Following insulin stimulation, there was a marked translocation of both
NHE6 and GLUT4 to the PM (Figure 6F, panels ii and iv) and a
reduction in the intracellular colocalization between both proteins, indicating that around half of the colocalized NHE6
protein is present in insulin-responsive GSVs.
’ DISCUSSION
In this study we have used subcellular fractionation combined
with SILAC enrichment, LC MS/MS and statistical analysis to
dissect the polypeptide composition of the adipocyte PM. Similar
approaches have been developed for characterization of other
cellular organelles26 28 and here we have adapted these to
identify highly enriched proteins from a mixture of PM and
whole cell lysate or total cell membrane and eliminate, by an
unbiased means, a large number of contaminating proteins from
an already relatively pure cationic silica PM fraction. The power
of this analysis is demonstrated by the fact that the cationic silica
PM fraction is highly enriched in GO annotated PM proteins
relative to the whole cell lysate or total cell membrane fraction
but is not enriched in mitochondrial proteins despite the large
number of these proteins present. These analyses, combined with
the use of poly(acrylic acid) partial sodium salt solution to minimize
nonspecific protein:silica interactions11 and manual curation,
allowed us to produce a high confidence list of 486 bona fide
adipocyte PM proteins. This compendium comprises a relatively
restricted representation of certain protein families such as
receptor tyrosine kinases as well as 30 proteins with no known
subcellular location, providing scope for new insights into the
unique function of the adipocyte. Moreover, this analysis led us
to identify an enrichment of ER-PM contact sites in the adipocyte
that could well play a unique role in lipid metabolism in this cell.
Our studies of the adipocyte PM in the presence of insulin have
provided greater insight into the actions of this hormone leading
to the identification of the sodium/hydrogen exchanger, NHE6
as well as several other novel insulin-regulated proteins.
The compendium contains many of the components expected
of a generic PM including cytoskeleton, extracellular matrix,
vesicle transport proteins, proteins regulating endocytosis and
nutrient regulatory molecules such as transporters and channels.
There are several features of the resource that are noteworthy.
First, the fat cell expresses a limited repertoire of receptor proteins
and indeed this is considered to be a major factor that determines
cellular specificity. In regard to receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs),
the insulin receptor was the major member of this family found at
the fat cell PM. We also detected lower levels of the PDGFR
consistent with previous studies33 but no other members of the
RTK growth factor family were detected. Hence, this likely
provides key insight into the ability of the fat cell to maintain
inordinate specificity with respect to insulin regulation of glucose
metabolism because it would appear that there are few other
receptors on the surface of these cells capable of activating the
PI3K/Akt pathway. We did not detect the IGF-1 receptor despite
the fact that this protein has previously been observed in
adipocytes.34,35 This suggests that our compendium is not a
definitive list and that we are probably missing some of the low
abundance proteins. In terms of G-protein coupled receptors
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(GPCRs), which are high priority drug targets with numerous
family members, we only detected one of these proteins,
GPRC5B, an orphan receptor with no known function. However,
a large number of heterotrimeric G-proteins and G-protein
modulators known to act downstream of GPCRs were identified
among our PM compendium including Phospholipase C-beta-3,
several guanine nucleotide-binding subunits and adenylate cyclase-stimulating G alpha, suggesting that there are perhaps other,
low abundant GPCRs on the adipocyte PM, such as betaadrenergic receptors, that were not detected in this study.
Second, in as far as the trafficking of GLUT4 to the membrane,
in addition to known molecules such as Munc18c, Syntaxin4,
SNAP23, 6 subunits of the exocyst complex, Myosin 1c, Rab14,
Rab10, Rab8, VAMP2 and VAMP3 and extended synaptotagmin
1 (E-Syt1),36 we also identified a range of others including
dysferlin, the RabGAP TBC1D24, Rab21, Rab34, Rab35, Myosin-9, Sorting nexin9, 14, and 18 as well as a second member of
the synaptotagmin family, E-Syt2. Third, approximately 20% of
the adipocyte PM proteome was comprised of proteins with no
known cellular compartment. The identification of these proteins
as components of the fat cell PM provides important additional
information about these molecules. Many of these are transmembrane proteins and so they represent potential new adipocyte
specific targets worthy of future study. Progesterone and adipoQ
receptor 4 (PAQR4) is an example of such a protein. The PAQR
proteins which include the adiponectin receptors, AdipoR1
(PAQR1) and AdipoR2 (PAQR2) are highly homologous to
alkaline ceramidase and upon activation are associated with
increased ceramidase activity, reduced intracellular ceramide
levels and improved insulin sensitivity.37,38 It will be interesting
to determine whether PAQR4 also regulates ceramide levels and
insulin sensitivity in the adipocyte.
Other proteins identified at the adipocyte PM with potential
roles in the regulation of insulin sensitivity include Heme
oxygenase (HO)-1 and -2, Paraoxanase 2, Cathepsin L and Cystatin
C. HO preserves cell viability and function during increasing
levels of oxidative stress and hypoxia39 and regulates insulin
sensitivity in rodents.40 Paraoxanase 2 is another cellular antioxidant that also exerts a positive influence on insulin sensitivity.41
In contrast, Cathepsin L-deficient mice are lean and more insulin
sensitive than wild type littermates.42 Cathepsin L is a secreted,
cysteine protease involved in the regulation of ECM remodelling
while Cystatin C is an endogenous inhibitor of this protease
family, which is also associated with obesity.43 We identified a
number of other extracellular hydrolases at the adipocyte PM,
including MMP14, ATP13A and ABHD1,6 and 15. Similar to
Cathepsin L, MMP14 has been linked to the regulation of
adipogenesis,44 while ATP13A and ABHD1,6 and 15 currently
have no known function. Given the critical role played by the
ECM in adipocyte differentation and function, it will be important to identify and characterize these and other potential
ECM proteases in future studies.
We also utilized this methodology to interrogate changes in
the PM proteome in response to insulin. In addition to the
identification of a number of well described insulin-regulated
proteins including GLUT4 and IRAP, we also identified the
sodium/hydrogen exchanger, NHE6 as well as four insulin
responsive collagens, three of which (Col6A1 3) are known
to form a complex. Mutations in these three genes lead to unusual
forms of muscular dystrophy and recent studies indicate that
Collagen VI plays an important role in the regulation of insulin
sensitivity and Akt signaling.45 NHE6 functions as an antiporter
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to leak H+ from the lumen of vesicles/organelles into the cytosol
in exchange for Na+ and therefore plays an important role in
maintaining intracellular pH.46 Like other proteins that translocate to the PM upon insulin stimulation such as low density lipoprotein
receptor-related protein 1 (LRP1), IRAP and GLUT4,8,31 NHE6
is also found in GSVs. LRP1 was not detected in the present
study possibly because it is a large protein (∼500 kDa) and it may
not have entered the 10% acrylamide gel used during SDS-PAGE
analysis.31 Nevertheless, these findings suggest that the exocytosis of GSVs modulate a number of cellular actions including
glucose and lipid metabolism as well as pH. It is well established
that insulin and other growth factors induce cytosolic alkalinization and this is thought to play an essential role in the cellular
effects of hormones like insulin.47,48 A picture is now emerging
that this regulation is quite complex. It has been reported that
insulin stimulates phosphorylation of both NHE1 and NHE3
and that this results in an increase in their catalytic activity.49,50 In
addition, it has recently been shown that insulin induces the PM
translocation of NHE1 in cardiomyocytes;51 although we did not
observe this in the adipocyte. Therefore, the observation that
insulin also stimulates the translocation of NHE6 to the PM in
adipocytes adds to this growing list of pH regulators. It would be
of interest to determine whether both NHE1 and NHE6 can
translocate to the PM in primary adipocytes and other insulin
responsive tissues upon insulin stimulation.
Notably, few PM proteins, including alpha-actin-1 and keratin76 exhibited a significant decrease in PM association following
insulin stimulation. Interestingly both of these proteins are
associated with the cytoskeleton and are reduced in PM abundance in a PI3K-independent manner. Given the important role
of the cytoskeleton in the regulation of many insulin-dependent
processes such as GLUT4 trafficking and cell migration, this
finding warrants further investigation.
Contacts between the ER and PM were first described in yeast
as PM associated membrane (PAM) and have since been
reported in several cell types.52 54 PAM has a high phosphatidylserine, phosphatidylinositol and cholesterol synthesizing capacity and is associated with the regulation of capacitive calcium
influx.52,54 The proliferation of cortical ER attached to the PM in
the adipocyte may have important implications, in view of the key
role of the ER in lipid biosynthesis. Such an arrangement would
be particularly beneficial to a cell such as the adipocyte which
must constantly handle a large volume of lipid traffic. Notably,
there were a number of PAM-associated proteins enriched at the
adipocyte PM, including squalene synthase and epoxidase,
STIM1 and 2, PTP1B, Na+/K+-ATPase and SERCA.53 55 The
lipid transfer proteins NIR2, SCP2 and OSBP as well as the
OSBP- interacting partners VAP and ARF1 which are associated
with the non vesicular trafficking of sterol and phospholipids
between the ER and PM were also enriched at the PM.53 This
provides additional evidence of an association between these
organelles in the adipocyte. Although previous studies have not
reported an enrichment of ER together with the PM, this is likely
a reflection of the methodology used for fractionation of the cells
which may not have preserved these ER-PM contacts.
Together, these findings of the adipocyte PM have provided
greater insight into the proteomic architecture of this organelle
and its interactions with the intra- and extracellular environments. We have uncovered an association between the PM and
the ER in the adipocyte and have identified many novel PM
proteins, some with no known function and others with potential
roles in the regulation of insulin sensitivity and adipogenesis.
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This work has provided a snapshot of druggable molecules like
GPCRs, RTKs and channels that are found at the adipocyte PM
and is a rich resource for future studies on the adipocyte.
’ ASSOCIATED CONTENT
bS
Supporting Information
Supplemental figures and full analysis of LC MS/MS data as
Supplemental tables. This material is available free of charge via
the Internet at http://pubs.acs.org.
’ AUTHOR INFORMATION
Corresponding Author
*Tel. +61292958210; Fax. +61292958201, E-mail: d.james@
garvan.org.au.
Author Contributions
‡
These authors contributed equally to this work.
Notes
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Deceased, October, 2009.
’ ACKNOWLEDGMENT
We thank D. Beer Stolz (University of Pittsburgh) for
providing the cationic silica and A. Cooper, C. Schmitz-Peiffer,
D. Fazakerley and G. Cooney for critical review of the manuscript. The Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry Facility, UNSW,
was supported in part by grants from the Australian Government
Systemic Infrastructure Initiative and Major National Research
Facilities Program (UNSW node of the Australian Proteome
Analysis Facility) and by the UNSW Capital Grants Scheme. This
work was supported by grants from the NHMRC of Australia and
Diabetes Australia Research Trust (to D.E.J). The authors wish to
express their condolences to the friends and family of Michael
Guilhaus who sadly passed away in October, 2009.
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