Discovery and identification of potential biomarkers of papillary thyroid carcinoma

Fan, Yuxia; Shi, Linan; Liu, Qiuliang; Dong, Rui; Zhang, Qian; Yang, Shaobo; Fan, Yingzhong; Yang, Heying; Wu, Peng; Yu, Jiekai; Zheng, Shu; Yang, Fuquan; Wang, Jiaxiang

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Discovery and identification of potential biomarkers of papillary thyroid carcinoma

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Yuxia Fan¹,
Linan Shi²,
Qiuliang Liu¹,
Rui Dong¹,
Qian Zhang¹,
Shaobo Yang¹,
Yingzhong Fan¹,
Heying Yang¹,
Peng Wu²,
Jiekai Yu³,
Shu Zheng³,
Fuquan Yang² &
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Jiaxiang Wang¹

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Abstract

Background

Thyroid carcinoma is the most common endocrine malignancy and a common cancer among the malignancies of head and neck. Noninvasive and convenient biomarkers for diagnosis of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) as early as possible remain an urgent need. The aim of this study was to discover and identify potential protein biomarkers for PTC specifically.

Methods

Two hundred and twenty four (224) serum samples with 108 PTC and 116 controls were randomly divided into a training set and a blind testing set. Serum proteomic profiles were analyzed using SELDI-TOF-MS. Candidate biomarkers were purified by HPLC, identified by LC-MS/MS and validated using ProteinChip immunoassays.

Results

A total of 3 peaks (m/z with 9190, 6631 and 8697 Da) were screened out by support vector machine (SVM) to construct the classification model with high discriminatory power in the training set. The sensitivity and specificity of the model were 95.15% and 93.97% respectively in the blind testing set. The candidate biomarker with m/z of 9190 Da was found to be up-regulated in PTC patients, and was identified as haptoglobin alpha-1 chain. Another two candidate biomarkers (6631, 8697 Da) were found down-regulated in PTC and identified as apolipoprotein C-I and apolipoprotein C-III, respectively. In addition, the level of haptoglobin alpha-1 chain (9190 Da) progressively increased with the clinical stage I, II, III and IV, and the expression of apolipoprotein C-I and apolipoprotein C-III (6631, 8697 Da) gradually decreased in higher stages.

Conclusion

We have identified a set of biomarkers that could discriminate PTC from non-cancer controls. An efficient strategy, including SELDI-TOF-MS analysis, HPLC purification, MALDI-TOF-MS trace and LC-MS/MS identification, has been proved successful.

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Background

Thyroid carcinoma is the most common endocrine malignancy and a common cancer among the malignancies of head and neck. It comprises 91.5% of all endocrine malignancies and 1% of all malignant diseases [1]. An estimated 33550 new cases are diagnosed annually in the United States and recent statistics shows the incidence of thyroid carcinoma has increased, especially in papillary thyroid carcinomas (PTC) [2]. PTC is the most common type, which accounts for 80% of all thyroid cancers [3]. Early accurate diagnosis and timely treatment are critical for improving long-term survival of PTC patients. Many diagnostic tools have been used for thyroid carcinoma, such as sonography, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, cytological examination and fine-needle aspiration. Currently, although ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy is considered as the most effective test for distinguishing malignant from benign thyroid nodules, its sensitivity is approximately 93% and its specificity is 75% [4]. At the same time, researchers have been seeking valuable biomarkers for thyroid carcinoma diagnosis, such as galectin-3, fibronectin-1, CITED-1, HBME1, cytokeratin-19 and TPO, and so on. What is disappointing is that all these biomarkers either are lacking specificity to some degree, or have a poor positive predictive value [5–9]. To distinguish a malignant thyroid nodule from a benign lesion more accurately, the diagnostic test, however, still needs to be improved. Moreover, a noninvasive screening method for thyroid malignancy remains unavailable.

Recent advances in the proteomics study have introduced novel techniques for the screening of cancer biomarkers and improved early and accurate diagnosis of cancer diseases to a new horizon [10]. Surfaced enhanced laser desorption/ionization time of flight mass spectroscopy (SELDI-TOF-MS), which generates the protein fingerprint by MS, has been proved a powerful tool for potential biomarker discovery [11, Full size image

Protein peak validation

The remaining 48 PTC and 76 control serum samples (20 healthy controls and 56 patients with benign thyroid node) as a blind testing set, were analyzed to validate the accuracy and validity of the classification model derived from the training set. The descriptive statistics of the three markers in 48 PTC patients and 76 non-cancer controls are shown in Table 2. The classification model distinguished the PTC samples from controls with a sensitivity of 95.15%, specificity of 93.97%, and positive predictive value of 96.0%, respectively. The area under the receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curve of this model was 0.971.

Table 2 The descriptive statistics of these 3 markers in the blind testing set.

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Purification and identification of candidate protein biomarkers

Serum samples from PTC patients were used for the purification of the up-regulated candidate protein biomarker (9190 Da), and serum samples from healthy controls were used for the purification of the two down-regulate proteins (6631, 8697 Da) using WCX SPE and C18 HPLC. Figure 3 shows the results of MALDI-TOF-MS analysis of the three purified candidate protein biomarkers.

After digestion with modified trypsin, the peptide mixture was analyzed by nano-LC-MS/MS. Figure 4 shows the results of the LC-MS/MS chromatogram (A) and MS/MS spectrum of one identified peptide (B) from protein (8697 Da). Table 3 shows the results of identification of the three candidate protein biomarkers. They were haptoglobin alpha-1 chain (9190 Da) [NCBI:P00738], apolipoprotein C-I (6631 Da) [NCBI:P02654] and apolipoprotein C-III (8697 Da) [NCBI:CAA25233]. The whole sequence of the three candidate protein markers is given by combination of high sequence coverage and accurate molecular weight (MW) measurement using MALDI-TOF-MS.

Table 3 Identification of the three potential protein biomarkers with identified peptides and covered sequence.

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Validation of three candidate protein biomarkers

A ProteinChip-array-based immunoassay (Ciphergen Biosystems) was used to specifically capture haptoglobin alpha-1 chain, apolipoprotein C-I and apolipoprotein C-III from crude serum samples and to confirm the significance of each marker. The anti-haptoglobin alpha-chain antibody specifically captured the previously identified 9190 Da protein. The anti-apolipoprotein C-I array was developed to capture apolipoprotein C-I (6631 Da) and the apolipoprotein C-III antibody against specifically captured apolipoprotein C-III (8697 Da). (Figure 5)

Discussions

In this study, we obtained serum protein mass spectra from PTC patients and controls using SELDI-TOF-MS. Based on the serum proteomic profiles, we constructed a classification model to discriminate PTC patients from non-cancer controls. One of the challenges in the analysis of SELDI-TOF-MS-generated data is to reduce the false protein peaks, in which the discriminatory power is due to random variation [20]. To solve this problem in the data processing of this experiment, we eliminated noise by discrete wavelength, identified mass-charge peaks of specimens using the method of local extremum, and clustered mass-charge peaks by setting 10% as the minimum threshold. Wilcoxon rank sum test analysis assessed the relative importance of each peak in the discrimination of 2 kinds of specimen according to P values. Furthermore, SVM was employed in our experiment, which is a kind of classification technology proposed by Vapnik and others. In the model discrimination, the popularization, model selection, overfitting, latitude disaster, and other problems of the small specimen model have been solved successfully in SVM [21–23]. The procedures included randomly combining the remarkably different mass-charge peaks and inputting them into SVM, screening out the markers, building the discrimination model, and then using the method of leave one out to assess the model by means of cross verification. By combination among these procedures mentioned above, the popularization of the model building and the accuracy of the prediction were ensured. The classification model could discriminate patients with PTC from non-cancer controls with a sensitivity of 95.15% and a specificity of 93.97% in the blind testing set. The up-regulated candidate protein biomarker was identified as haptoglobin alpha-1 chain (9190 Da). Another two down-regulated candidate protein biomarkers (6631 and 8697 Da) were identified as apolipoprotein C-I and apolipoprotein C-III.

Among the proteins identified by LC-MS/MS, haptoglobin alpha-1 chain was significantly elevated in PTC patients and this protein may play a critical role in the development of PTC. Intact haptoglobin, composed of two different polypeptides (alpha and beta-chains), is an acute phase protein capable of binding haemoglobin and preventing iron loss [24]. It was reported that body iron could promote neoplastic cell growth and accumulate in cancer cells more than in normal cells [25]. Furthermore, a few other studies have demonstrated that there is a higher cancer risk in patients with larger iron stores than those with small iron stores [26]. Collectively, highly expressed haptoglobin results in a high hemoglobin/iron existence and raises the possibility of a causative involvement of iron-derived oxidative stress in the tumour development. Recently, there are several reports in the literature showing increased expression of haptoglobin in ovarian cancer, prostatic carcinoma and pancreatic cancer [27–29], and the level of haptoglobin alpha chain up-regulated in serum of breast cancer [30]. However, it is necessary to understand more clearly of the role of haptoglobin alpha-1 chain in the development of PTC through further studies of biological mechanisms of thyroid carcinoma.

Apolipoproteins (APOs) are lipid carriers and previous studies about APO mainly focused on lipoprotein metabolism. Recently, APOs have been reported to regulate many cellular function. For example, the protein kinase Akt can be elicited by APO C-I, which in turn promotes growth factor-mediated cell survival and block apoptosis [31]. In this study, the APO C-I is down-regulated in the serum of PTC patients, which indicates that APO C-I may be related to PTC. Thus, besides the function of APO C-I in lipid metabolism, additional function of APO C-I in cancerogenesis may also exist. However, the mechanism of how APO C-I is degraded in PTC is not very clear, and further research is required. APO C-III is primarily synthesized in the liver and in a minor degree in the small intestine. The regulatory elements that control both hepatic and intestinal transcription of the human APO C-III gene are localized between nucleotides -792 and -25 of the APO C-III promoter. The mechanism of why APO C-III was decreased in PTC may be as follows. Orphan members of the nuclear hormone receptor superfamily can bind to the hormone response elements (HREs), and strongly enhance or repress APO C-III promoter's activity. It was reported that a combination of RXRalpha and T3Rbeta could repress the APO C-III promoter's activity in the presence of T3 [32]. In addition, the thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) level was significantly higher in PTC than in non-cancer control [33], correspondingly, T3 increased, thus the expression of APO C-III was possibly inhibited in PTC patients.

Conclusion

In summary, we have identified a set of protein peaks that could discriminate PTC from non-cancer controls. From the protein peaks specific for PTC disease, we identified haptoglobin alpha-1 chain, apolipoprotein C-I and apolipoprotein C-III as potential proteomic biomarkers of PTC. Further studies with larger sample sizes will be needed to verify the specific protein markers. An efficient strategy, composed of SELDI-TOF-MS analysis, HPLC purification, MALDI-TOF-MS trace and LC-MS/MS identification has been proved very successful.

Materials and methods

Patients and serum samples

Serum samples were obtained from 224 individuals with informed consent in the Department of General Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University. These 224 individuals included 108 patients with PTC, 56 patients with benign thyroid node, and 60 healthy individuals. Patients with PTC had a median age of 43 years (ranging from 23 to 75 years, 27 men and 81 women), and the sera was obtained at the time of diagnosis. All 108 patients were distributed in 4 stages according to UICC. In stage I there were 85 patients, stage II, III & IV consisted of 12, 8 & 3 patients respectively. The diagnosis, stage and other information about these patients are listed in Table 4 and Table 5. Inclusion criteria for the study were patients with a confirmed diagnosis of PTC, the ability to provide written, informed consent, and without any previous treatment. Patients with benign thyroid node and healthy donors were defined as controls in this study. The benign thyroid node group and the healthy individual group were age- and gender-matched with the PTC group. Pathological diagnosis of all the PTC and benign thyroid nodes were confirmed independently by two pathologists. All serum samples were collected preoperatively in the morning before breakfast. The sera were left at room temperature for 1 h, centrifuged at 3000 rpm for 10 min, and then stored at -80°C.

Table 4 The diagnosis, staging and other information about PTC patients in the training set.

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Table 5 The diagnosis, staging and other information about PTC patients in the blind testing set.

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Reagents and instruments

Sinapinic acid (SA) was purchased from Fluka (USA). ProteinChip Biosystems (Ciphergen PBS II plus SELDI-TOFMS) and WCX2 chip were purchased from Ciphergen Biosystems (USA). All other SELDI-TOF-MS related reagents were acquired from Sigma (USA). Ziptip C18 was purchased from Millipore (USA). Trypsase was purchased from Promega (USA). IAM was purchased from AppliChem (GER). DTT was purchased from BIO-RAD (GER). MALDI-TOF-MS was purchased from Kratos Analytical Co (UK) and HPLC was purchased from Shimadzu (JPN). LC-MS/MS was purchased from Thermo Electron Corporation (USA).

SELDI-TOF-MS analysis of serum protein profiles

Protein profiling of serum samples was determined by SELDI-TOF-MS using the WCX2 (weak cation exchange) Proteinchip arrays (Ciphergen Biosystems, USA). Frozen serum samples were defrosted on ice and spun at 10 000 rpm for 5 min at 4°C. Each serum sample (10 μl) was denatured by addition of 20 μl of U9 buffer (9 M urea, 2% CHAPS, 50 mM Tris-HCI, 1% DTT, PH 9.0) and vortexed at 4°C for 30 min. Each sample was then diluted in 108 μl of low stringency buffer (0.1 M sodium acetate, PH 4.0) and 100 μl of each diluted serum sample was hybridized with WCX2 proteinchip arrays, which was held by a bioprocessor (Ciphergen Biosystems) and preactivated twice with 150 μl low stringency buffer at room temperature for 5 min. The diluted serum sample was added on the surface of the WCX2 chip for 60 min at room temperature. Each spot was then washed three times with appropriate buffers of various PHs and ionic strengths to eliminate non-adsorbed proteins. After drying the array surface in the air, 1 μl saturated sinapinic acid (SA) matrix in 50% ACN and 0.5% TFA was applied and allowed to dry. MS analysis was performed on a PBS-II ProteinChip reader (Ciphergen Biosystems). Mass peak detection was analyzed using ProteinChip Biomarker Software version 3.1 (Ciphergen Biosystems). The mass spectra of the proteins were generated using an average of 140 laser shots at a laser intensity of 170 arbitrary units and detector sensitivity was set at 6. For data acquisition of low-molecular- weight proteins, the optimize detection mass range was set from 2 to 20 kDa for all study sample profiles. The instrument was calibrated by the All-in-one peptide molecular mass standard (Ciphergen Biosystems).

Bioinformatics and biostatistics

Patients with PTC were split into a training set and a blind testing set. Sixty samples of PTC patients (45 stage I, 8 stage II, 4 stage III, 3 stage IV) and 40 healthy controls were selected for a training sample set randomly. To evaluate the accuracy and validity of the classification model, the remaining 48 samples of PTC patients (40 stage I, 4 stage II, 4 stage III) and 76 controls (20 healthy controls and 56 patients with benign thyroid node) were selected for a blind testing set. (Table 6).

Table 6 Study population used in SELDI experiment

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The first step of data analysis was to use the undecimated discrete wavelet transform (UDWT) method to denoise the signals. Secondly, the spectra were subjected to baseline correction by aliging with a monotone local minimum curve and mass calibration. The proteomic peaks were detected and quantified by an algorithm that takes the maximal height of every denoised, baseline-corrected, and calibrated mass spectrum into account. Thirdly, the peaks were filtered to maintain a S/N of more than three. The S/N of a peak is the ratio of the height of the peak above the baseline to the wavelet-defined noise. Finally, to match peaks across spectra, we pooled the detected peaks if the relative difference in their mass sizes was not more than 0.3%. The minimal percentage of each peak, appearing in all the spectra, is specified to ten. The matched peak across spectra is defined as a peak cluster. If a spectrum does not have a peak within a given cluster, the maximal height within the cluster will be assigned to its peak value. The normalization was performed only with the identified peak clusters.

To distinguish between data of different groups, we used a nonlinear SVM classifier, originally developed by Vladimir Vapnik, with a radial-based function kernel, a parameter Gamma of 0.6, and a cost of the constrain violation of 19. The leave-one-out crossing validation approach was applied to estimate the accuracy of this classifier. The capability of each peak in distinguishing data of different groups was estimated by the p value of Wilcoxson T-test. The p value was set at 0.01 to be statistically significant. The remaining 48 samples of PTC patients and 76 controls (20 healthy controls and 56 patients with benign thyroid node), were analyzed to test the classification model. PTC and control samples were then discriminated based on their proteomic profile characteristics. The sensitivity was defined as the probability of predicting PTC cases, the specificity was defined as the probability of predicting control samples. The positive predictive value was defined as the probability of PTC if a test result was positive.

Serum fractionation

Serum samples both from healthy controls and PTC patients were selected for the purification of the three candidate protein biomarkers. The serum sample was mixed with U9 buffer (1:2, v/v) and incubated for 30 min at room temperature. The sample was then diluted in 5 mL WCX binding buffer (50 mM NaAc, pH 4.0) and loaded to the CM Ceramic Hyper D WCX SPE column (6 × 10 mm, Pall Life science, USA). After washing with 2 mL of WCX binding buffer, the column was eluted with 5 ml of eluting buffer (2 M NaCl, 50 mM NaAc, pH 4.0) at a flow rate of 0.5 ml/min. The eluted fraction was further purified using HPLC.

Purification of candidate protein markers using HPLC

HPLC separation was performed using SCL-10AVP (Shimadzu, Japan) with a Sunchrom C18 column (250 × 4.6 mm, 5 μm particle size, 300 Å) (The Great Eur-Asia Sci-Tech Development Co. Ltd, Bei**g, China) and a C18 guard column (10 × 3 mm, Shimadzu, Japan). The mobile phase consisted of solvent A (5% ACN, 0.1% TFA) and solvent B (90% ACN, 0.1% TFA). The HPLC separation was achieved with a linear solvent gradient: 100% A (0 min)-15% B (15 min)-65% B (65 min)-100% B (100 min) at a flow-rate of 0.5 ml/min. The eluate was detected at multiple wavelengths of 214, 254, 280 nm. Each peak fraction was collected and concentrated using SpeedVac, and then analyzed using AXIMA-CFRTM plus MALDI-TOF mass spectrometer (Shimadzu/Kratos, Manchester, UK) in linear mode to trace the candidate protein biomarkers with α-cyano-4-hydrorycinnamic acid (CHCA) as matrix.

Identification of candidate protein biomarkers by LC-MS/MS

In-solution digestion of each concentrated fraction, which contains one candidate protein biomarker, was performed with a standard protocol. Briefly, each fraction was dissolved in 25 mM NH₄HCO₃, and reduced with 10 mM DTT for 1 hour, alkylated by 40 mM iodoacetamide in the dark for 45 min at room temperature, and then 40 mM DTT was added to quench the iodoacetamide for 30 min at room temperature. Then proteins were proteolysed with 20 ng of modified trypsin (Promega, Madison, WI) in 25 mM NH₄HCO₃ overnight at 37°C. The supernatant was collected and peptides were further extracted in 0.1% acetic acid and 60% acetonitrile. Peptide extracts were vacuumdried and resuspended in 20 μl of water for mass analysis. Protein digests obtained above were loaded onto a home-made C18 column (100 mm × 100 μm) packed with Sunchron packing material (SP-120-3-ODS-A, 3 μm) and followed with nano-LC-ESI-MS/MS analysis. The LTQ mass spectrometer was operated in a data-dependent mode, in which the initial MS scan recorded the m/z ratios of ions over the mass range from 400-2000 Da firstly, and then the five most abundant ions were automatically selected for subsequent collision-activated dissociation. All MS/MS data were searched against a human protein database downloaded from NCBI using the SEQUEST program (Thermo, USA).

Confirmation of candidate protein biomarkers using ProteinChip Immunoassays

To confirm the identity of the candidate protein biomarkers, all samples from the initial experiments were reanalyzed by using ProteinChip immunoassays (Ciphergen Biosystems). Specific antibody arrays were prepared by covalently coupling the appropriate antibodies to preactivated ProteinChip arrays (Ciphergen Biosystems). Antibodies (anti-human haptoglobin alpha-chain, ms1750rb-h; anti-human apolipoprotein C-I, ab9106; anti-human apolipoprotein C-III, mab002-74/3) were covalently coupled to PS20 arrays, respectively. After blocking with BSA and washing to remove uncoupled antibodies, antibody-coated spots were incubated with 1.5 μL of serum samples and 3 μL of binding buffer (0.1 M Na₃PO₄, 0.5 M urea, 0.5% CHAPS, pH 7.2) for 90 min. Spots were then washed with PBST (0.5% Triton X-100), PBS and deionized water twice respectively before drying. SELDI-TOF-MS analysis was performed on a PBS-II ProteinChip reader with CHCA as matrix.

Abbreviations

PTC :: papillary thyroid carcinoma
SELDI-TOF-MS :: surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectroscopy
m/z :: mass to charge
HPLC :: high Performance Liquid Chromatography
LC-MS/MS :: liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry
MALDI-TOF-MS :: matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectroscopy
WCX :: weak cation exchange
SVM :: support vector machine
S/N :: signal to noise ratio
NCBI :: national center for biotechnology information.

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This work was supported by the National natural science foundation of China (30772273). The authors wish to thank Dr. Liwei Mi and Dr. Shutang Wen for the preparation of this manuscript.

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Department of Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450052, PR China
Yuxia Fan, Qiuliang Liu, Rui Dong, Qian Zhang, Shaobo Yang, Yingzhong Fan, Heying Yang & Jiaxiang Wang
Proteomic Platform, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Bei**g, 100101, PR China
Linan Shi, Peng Wu & Fuquan Yang
Institute of Cancer, the Second Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310009, PR China
Jiekai Yu & Shu Zheng

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WJX and YFQ designed the study. FYX was responsible for laboratory studies and drafted the manuscript. LQL, DR and ZQ carried out the SELDI-TOF experiments. SLN, WP and YSB participated in the purification and identification of all the biomarkers. YJK carried out the SELDI-TOF data analysis. FYZ and YHY participated in data analysis. ZS participated in the design of the study and helped to draft the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Fan, Y., Shi, L., Liu, Q. et al. Discovery and identification of potential biomarkers of papillary thyroid carcinoma. Mol Cancer 8, 79 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1186/1476-4598-8-79

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1476-4598-8-79

Discovery and identification of potential biomarkers of papillary thyroid carcinoma

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Protein peak validation

Purification and identification of candidate protein biomarkers

Validation of three candidate protein biomarkers

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Patients and serum samples

Reagents and instruments

SELDI-TOF-MS analysis of serum protein profiles

Bioinformatics and biostatistics

Serum fractionation

Purification of candidate protein markers using HPLC

Identification of candidate protein biomarkers by LC-MS/MS

Confirmation of candidate protein biomarkers using ProteinChip Immunoassays

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