Abstract
Through advances in molecular biology, comparative analysis of DNA sequences is currently the cornerstone in the study of molecular evolution and phylogenetics. Nevertheless, protein mass spectrometry offers some unique opportunities to enable phylogenetic analyses in organisms where DNA may be difficult or costly to obtain. To date, the methods of phylogenetic analysis using protein mass spectrometry can be classified into three categories: (1) de novo protein sequencing followed by classical phylogenetic reconstruction, (2) direct phylogenetic reconstruction using proteolytic peptide mass maps, and (3) map** of mass spectral data onto classical phylogenetic trees. In this chapter, we provide a brief description of the three methods and the protocol for each method along with relevant tools and algorithms.
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Part of the results presented and cited in this chapter were supported with funds from an Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grant (DP120101167) awarded to K.M.D. and J.W.H.W. S.M. is supported by a China Scholarship Council and UNSW Australia Tuition Fee scholarships. J.W.H.W. is supported by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (FT130100096).
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Ma, S., Downard, K.M., Wong, J.W.H. (2017). Phylogenetic Analysis Using Protein Mass Spectrometry. In: Keerthikumar, S., Mathivanan, S. (eds) Proteome Bioinformatics. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1549. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6740-7_11
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