Secretome of human aortic valves

Methods Mol Biol. 2013:1005:237-43. doi: 10.1007/978-1-62703-386-2_19.

Abstract

One of the major challenges in cardiovascular medicine is to identify candidate biomarker proteins. Between different proteomics studies, the secretome is a valuable tool in the search for biomarkers locally released by a studied tissue and remains particularly important while working with vascular tissues, since the secreted proteins would be probably shed to the blood. In this chapter, we described a method to validate the origin of secreted proteins in human aortic valves, demonstrating their synthesis and release by the tissue and ruling out blood origin.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Aortic Valve / metabolism*
  • Aortic Valve / pathology
  • Aortic Valve Stenosis / metabolism*
  • Aortic Valve Stenosis / pathology
  • Chromatography, Liquid
  • Culture Media, Conditioned / chemistry*
  • Humans
  • Peptide Fragments / chemistry*
  • Peptide Fragments / metabolism
  • Peptide Mapping
  • Proteolysis
  • Proteome / chemistry*
  • Proteome / metabolism
  • Tandem Mass Spectrometry
  • Tissue Culture Techniques
  • Trypsin

Substances

  • Culture Media, Conditioned
  • Peptide Fragments
  • Proteome
  • Trypsin