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Alpha‐synuclein dopaminylation presented in plasma of both healthy subjects and parkinson’s disease patients

Zhao, Huiyuan ; Huang, Shuai ; Palanisamy, Sivakumar ; Wang, Cui ; Rainer, Gregor ; Zhang, Xiaozhe

In: PROTEOMICS – Clinical Applications, 2020, vol. 14, no. 5, p. 1900117

Alpha‐synuclein (α‐syn) dopaminylation can lead to the death of dopaminergic neurons in the brain and is a risk factor of Parkinson's disease (PD). This study aims to examine whether such a posttranslational modification (PTM) is presented in human blood plasma. Experimental Design: In vitro reaction simulation between α‐syn and dopamine (DA) is conducted to study the biochemical...

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Potential biomarkers of Parkinson’s disease revealed by plasma metabolic profiling

Zhao, Huiyuan ; Wang, Cui ; Zhao, Nan ; Li, Wenxue ; Yang, Zhaofei ; Liu, Xinxin ; Le, Weidong ; Zhang, Xiaozhe

In: Journal of Chromatography B, 2018, vol. 1081–1082, p. 101–108

The plasma of Parkinson's disease (PD) patients may contain various altered metabolites associated with the risk or progression of the disease. Characterization of the abnormal metabolic pattern in PD plasma is therefore critical for the search for potential PD biomarkers. We collected blood plasma samples from PD patients and used an LC-MS based metabolomics approach to identify 17...

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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...