Identifying secretomes in people, pufferfish and pigs

Eric W. Klee, Daniel F. Carlson, Scott C. Fahrenkrug, Stephen C. Ekker, Lynda B Ellis

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Abstract

The proteins processed by the secretory pathway (secretome) are critical players in the development of multi-cellular eukaryotic organisms but have yet to be comprehensively studied at the genomic level. In this study, we use the Target P algorithm to predict human (13-20% of proteins found in individual datasets) and Fugu (14%) secretomes based on analysis of their nearly complete proteomes. We combine internal processing with prediction software to automate secreted protein identification and overcome one of the major challenges associated with EST data: identification of the minority of clones that encode N-terminally-complete proteins. We discuss the use of these methods to predict secreted proteins in EST-based consensus sequence sets, and we validate these predictions using an assay for cell-free cotranslational translocation. Analysis of TIGR Porcine Gene Index 4.0 as a test dataset resulted in the identification of 352 N-terminally-complete, putative secreted proteins. In functional agreement with our predictions, 34 of 40 (85%) of these cDNAs were verified to be cotranslationally translocated in an in vitro translation system. The methods developed here are specifically designed to accept partial open reading frames and improve secreted protein predictions in eukaryotic transcriptomes, and are valuable for the analysis and annotation of eukaryotic EST databases.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1414-1421
Number of pages8
JournalNucleic acids research
Volume32
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2004

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Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (RO1-GM63904), an NLM Predoctoral Training Fellowship (NLM-0704) to E.K., and the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for Transposon Research at the University of Minnesota.

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