University of Ottawa

Zhibin Ning

David R Mack

Alain Christophe Stintzi

Joseph Michel Daniel Figeys

Xu Zhang

Daniel Figeys

Anna Sylvia Mierzwa

A method of isotope-labelling a microbiota sample. It involves providing a first microbiota sample that was obtained from a given source; exposing the first microbiota sample to an isotope enriched medium; and culturing the exposed first microbiota sample in the isotope enriched medium to obtain an isotope-labelled microbiota sample, wherein the isotope labelled metaproteome of the isotope-labelled microbiota sample is taxon specific for taxa present in the first microbiota sample when initially obtained from the given source.

Protein composition and methods for analysing microbiota

There is provided a method for identifying protein methylation on arginine and lysine residues. The method comprises obtaining a set of peptides; blocking un-methylated arginine and lysine residues and the free N-terminal amine of peptides in the set of peptides, so that un-methylated peptides are neutralized and only methylated peptides are positively charged at neutral or basic pH; isolating the methylated peptides based on charge; and performing mass spectrometry (MS) analysis on the isolated methylated peptides to detect methylated lysine and arginine residues. Methods provided herein can be used for large scale, high throughput profiling of protein methylation in a cell or tissue.

Method for profiling protein methylation

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