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Stress impacts the regulation neuropeptides in the rat hippocampus and prefrontal cortex

Li, Wenxue ; Papilloud, Aurelie ; Lozano-Montes, Laura ; Zhao, Nan ; Ye, Xueting ; Zhang, Xiaozhe ; Sandi, Carmen ; Rainer, Gregor

In: PROTEOMICS, 2018, vol. 18, no. 7, p. 1700408

Adverse life experiences increase the lifetime risk to several stress‐related psychopathologies, such as anxiety or depressive‐like symptoms following stress in adulthood. However, the neurochemical modulations triggered by stress have not been fully characterized. Neuropeptides play an important role as signaling molecules that contribute to physiological regulation and have been linked...

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Separation and identification of mouse brain tissue microproteins using top‐down method with high resolution nanocapillary liquid chromatography mass spectrometry

Li, Wenxue ; Petruzziello, Filomena ; Zhao, Nan ; Zhao, Huiyuan ; Ye, Xueting ; Zhang, Xiaozhe ; Rainer, Gregor

In: PROTEOMICS, 2017, vol. 17, no. 12, p. -

Microproteins and endogenous peptides in the brain contain important substances that have critical roles in diverse biological processes, contributing to signal transduction and intercellular signaling. However, variability in their physical or chemical characteristics, such as molecule size, hydrophobicity, and charge states, complicate the simultaneous analysis of these compounds, although...

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High-efficiency recognition and identification of disulfide bonded peptides in rat neuropeptidome using targeted electron transfer dissociation tandem mass spectrometry

Yu, Xi ; Khani, Abbas ; Ye, Xueting ; Petruzziello, Filomena ; Gao, Huiyuan ; Zhang, Xiaozhe ; Rainer, Gregor

In: Analytical Chemistry, 2015, vol. 87, no. 23, p. 11646–11651

The main goal of the present study is to develop a method to recognize and identify endogenous intrachain disulfide bonded peptide, which are rarely sequenced in current peptidomics studies. In order to achieve highly efficient detection of these peptides in a neuropeptidome analysis, we alkylated the peptides, mined the raw mass spectrometry data, and then recognized the candidates of untreated...