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[Research Article] Systems proteomics of liver mitochondria function

ScienceNOW - Fetched: June 9th, 2016, 5:00pm UTC

Recent improvements in quantitative proteomics approaches, including Sequential Window Acquisition of all Theoretical Mass Spectra (SWATH-MS), permit reproducible large-scale protein measurements across diverse cohorts. Together with genomics, transcriptomics, and other technologies, transomic data sets can be generated that permit detailed analyses across broad molecular interaction networks. Here, we examine mitochondrial links to liver metabolism through the genome, transcriptome, proteome, and metabolome of 386 individuals in the BXD mouse reference population. Several links were validated between genetic variants toward transcripts, proteins, metabolites, and phenotypes. Among these, sequence variants in Cox7a2l alter its protein’s activity, which in turn leads to downstream differences in mitochondrial supercomplex formation. This data set demonstrates that the proteome can now be quantified comprehensively, serving as a key complement to transcriptomics, genomics, and metabolomics—a combination moving us forward in complex trait analysis. Authors: Evan G. Williams, Yibo Wu, Pooja Jha, Sébastien Dubuis, Peter Blattmann, Carmen A. Argmann, Sander M. Houten, Tiffany Amariuta, Witold Wolski, Nicola Zamboni, Ruedi Aebersold, Johan Auwerx

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