Designing better ALACATs and QconCATs

Rusilowicz M, Newman DW, Creamer DR, Johnson J, Adair K, Harman VM, Grant CM, Beynon RJ, Hubbard SJ. (2023) AlacatDesigner─Computational Design of Peptide Concatamers for Protein Quantitation. [PUBMED] [Abstract...]

Proteomics of thylakoid biogenesis and dynamics

Tuomas Huokko, Tao Ni, Gregory F Dykes, Deborah M Simpson, Philip Brownridge, Fabian D Conradi, Robert J Beynon, Peter J Nixon, Conrad W Mullineaux, Peijun Zhang, Lu-Ning Liu (2021) Probing the biogenesis pathway and dynamics of thylakoid membranes. [Pubmed] [PDF] [Abstract...]

March of the acronyms.. ALACATs (a la carte proteomics)

James Johnson, Victoria M Harman, Catarina Franco, Edward Emmott, Nichola Rockliffe, Yaqi Sun, Lu-Ning Liu, Ayako Takemori, Nobuaki Takemori, Robert J Beynon (2021) Construction of à la carte QconCAT protein standards for multiplexed quantification of user-specified target proteins (2021) [PDF] [PUBMED] [DOI] [Abstract...]

Using QconCATs to establish protein complex stoichiometry

Mengru Yang, Deborah M Simpson, Nicolas Wenner, Philip Brownridge, Victoria M Harman, Jay C D Hinton, Robert J Beynon, Lu-Ning Liu (2020) Decoding the stoichiometric composition and organisation of bacterial metabolosomes [PDF] [PUBMED] [DOI] [Abstract...]

Using proteomics to identify targets for schistosomiasis

Leandro X Neves, R Alan Wilson, Philip Brownridge, Victoria M Harman, Stephen W Holman, Robert J Beynon, Claire E Eyers, Ricardo DeMarco, William Castro-Borges (2020) Quantitative Proteomics of Enriched Esophageal and Gut Tissues from the Human Blood Fluke Schistosoma mansoni Pinpoints Secreted Proteins for Vaccine Development. [PDF] [PUBMED] [DOI] [Abstract...]

REIMS for the analysis of bacterial protein production

Joscelyn Sarsby, Lynn McLean, Victoria M Harman, Robert J Beynon (2019) Monitoring recombinant protein expression in bacteria by rapid evaporative ionisation mass spectrometry. [PDF] [PUBMED] [DOI] [Abstract...]

Nextgen QconCATs - MEERCAT!

Takemori N, Takemori A, Tanaka Y, Endo Y, Hurst JL, Gómez-Baena G, Harman VM, Beynon RJ. (2017) MEERCAT: Multiplexed Efficient Cell Free Expression of Recombinant QconCATs For Large Scale Absolute Proteome Quantification. [PDF] [PUBMED] [Abstract...]

Double standards in proteomics

Richard J. Bennett, Deborah M. Simpson, Stephen W. Holman, Sheila Ryan, Philip Brownridge, Claire E. Eyers, John Colyer, Robert J. Beynon (2017) DOSCATs: Double standards for protein quantification [PDF] [PUBMED] [Abstract...]

Quantitative analysis of the yeast 'chaperome'

Rebecca J. Mackenzie, Craig Lawless [2], Stephen W. Holman, Karin Lanthaler, Robert J. Beynon, Chris M. Grant, Simon J. Hubbard and Claire E. Eyers (2106) Absolute protein quantification of the yeast chaperome under conditions of heat shock [PDF] [PUBMED] [Abstract...]

QconCATs in equine wound healing

Bundgaard L, Bendixen E, Sørensen MA, Harman VM, Beynon RJ, Petersen LJ, Jacobsen S. (2016) A selected reaction monitoring based analysis of acute phase proteins in interstitial fluids from experimental equine wounds healing by secondary intention. [PUBMED] [PDF] [Abstract...]

The biggest absolute quantification study ever! A tale of 100 QconCATs for nearly 2,000 proteins

Lawless C, Holman SW, Brownridge P, Lanthaler K, Harman VM, Watkins R, Hammond DE, Miller RL, Sims PF, Grant CM, Eyers CE, Beynon RJ, Hubbard SJ. (2016) Direct and Absolute Quantification of over 1800 Yeast Proteins via Selected Reaction Monitoring. [Abstract...]

Of mice, mups and mass spectrometry

Robert J. Beynon, Stuart D. Armstrong, Amy J. Claydon, Amanda J. Davidson, Claire E. Eyers, James I. Langridge, Guadalupe Gómez-Baena, Victoria M. Harman, Jane L. Hurst, Victoria Lee, Lynn McLean, Rebecca Pattison, Sarah A. Roberts, Deborah M. Simpson, Jenny Unsworth, Matthias Vonderach, Jonathan Williams and Yvonne E. Woolerton (2015) Mass spectrometry for structural analysis and quantification of the Major Urinary Proteins of the house mouse. [PDF] [NotEvenIndexedInPubmed?] [Abstract...]

QconCAT compared to label-free for plasma proteins

Kramer G, Woolerton , van Straalen JP, Vissers JP, Dekker N, Langridge JI, Beynon RJ, Speijer D, Sturk A, Aerts JM. (2015) Accuracy and Reproducibility in Quantification of Plasma Protein Concentrations by Mass Spectrometry without the Use of Isotopic Standards. [PUBMED][PDF] [Abstract...]

QconCAT for equine acute phase proteins

Bundgaard L, Jacobsen S, Dyrlund TF, Sørensen MA, Harman VM, Beynon RJ, Brownridge PJ, Petersen LJ, Bendixen E. (2014) Development of a method for absolute quantification of equine acute phase proteins using concatenated peptide standards and selected reaction monitoring. [PUBMED][PDF]
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MUP complexity and analytical challenges

Beynon RJ, Armstrong SD, Gómez-Baena G, Lee V, Simpson D, Unsworth J, Hurst JL. (2014) The complexity of protein semiochemistry in mammals. [PUBMED][PDF] [Abstract...]

Quantification of proteins in the human osteoarthritic secretome

Peffers MJ, Beynon RJ, Clegg PD. (2013) Absolute quantification of selected proteins in the human osteoarthritic secretome. [PDF][PUBMED] [Abstract...]

Quantitative proteomics in systems biology

Firczuk, H., Kannambath, S; Pahle, J; Claydon, Amy; Beynon, Robert, Duncan, John; Westerhoff, Hans; Mendes, Pedro & McCarthy, John (2013) An in vivo control map for the eukaryotic mRNA translation machinery. [PDF] [PUBMED] [Abstract...]

Who's got the biggest workload? Analysis of chaperone abundance and workload

Brownridge P, Lawless C, Payapilly AB, Lanthaler K, Holman SW, Harman VM, Grant CM, Beynon RJ, Hubbard SJ. Quantitative analysis of chaperone network throughput in budding yeast (2012). [PUBMED][PDF] [Abstract...]

QconCATs for mastitis research

Bislev SL, Kusebauch U, Codrea MC, Beynon RJ, Harman VM, Røntved CM, Aebersold R, Moritz RL, Bendixen E. (2012) Quantotypic properties of QconCAT peptides targeting bovine host response to Streptococcus uberis. [PUBMED][PDF] [Abstract...]

Designing QconCATs for a mammalian pathway

Simpson, D.M. & Beynon, R.J. (2012) QconCATs: design and expression of concatenated protein standards for multiplexed protein quantification. [PUBMED][PDF] [Abstract...]

Quantification of a metabolic pathway

Carroll KM, Simpson DM, Eyers CE, Knight CG, Brownridge P, Dunn W, Winder CL, Lanthaler K, Pir P, Malys N, Kell DB, Oliver SG, Gaskell SJ, Beynon RJ. (2011) Absolute quantification of a metabolic pathway in yeast: deployment of a complete QconCAT approach. [PUBMED][PDF] [Abstract...]

Schistosome parasite QconCAT

Castro-Borgesa, W., Simpson, D.M., Dowlea, A., Curwen, R.S., Thomas-Oates, J., Beynon, R.J. & Wilson, A. R. (2011) Abundance of tegument surface proteins in the human blood fluke Schistosoma mansoni determined by QconCAT proteomics. [PUBMED][PDF] [Abstract...]

Unkind cuts - proteolysis and proteomics

Brownridge, P. & Beynon, R.J. (2011) The importance of the digest: proteolysis and absolute quantification in proteomics. [PUBMED] [PDF] [Abstract...]

Global proteome quantification: dreams or reality?

Brownridge, P., Holman, S.W., Gaskell, S.J., Grant, C., Harman, V.M., Lanthaler, K., Lawless, C., O’cualain, R., Sims, P., Watkins, R & Beynon, R.J. (2011) Global absolute quantification of a proteome: Challenges in the deployment of a QconCAT strategy. Proteomics, 11, 2957-2970 [PUBMED][PDF] [Abstract...]

Designer genes for mass spectrometry

Eyers CE, Simpson DM, Wong SC, Beynon RJ, Gaskell SJ. (2008) QCAL-a Novel Standard for Assessing Instrument Conditions for Proteome Analysis. J Am Soc Mass Spectrom. 19, 1275-1280 [PUBMED][PDF] [Abstract...]

FTICR based quantification

Johnson, H., Wong, S C C, D M Simpson, R J Beynon, and S J Gaskell (2008) . Protein quantification by selective isolation and fragmentation of isotopic pairs using FT-ICR MS. J Am Soc Mass Spectrom 19, 973-977 [PUBMED][PDF] [Abstract...]

Absolute quantification by QconCAT

Rivers J, Simpson DM, Robertson DH, Gaskell SJ, Beynon RJ.(2007) Absolute multiplexed quantitative analysis of protein expression during muscle development using QconCAT. Mol Cell Proteomics. 6, 1416-1427. [PUBMED][PDF] [Abstract...]

QconCAT protocols defined

Pratt, J.M., Simpson, D.M., Doherty, M.K., Rivers, J, Gaskell, S.J. Beynon , R.J. (2006) Multiplexed absolute quantification for proteomics using concatenated signature peptides encoded by QconCAT genes. Nature Protocols 1, 1029 - 1043 [PUBMED][PDF] [Abstract...]

First paper describing QconCAT

Beynon, R.J., Doherty, M.K., Pratt, J.M. & Gaskell, S.J. (2005) Multiplexed absolute quantification in proteomics using artificial QCAT proteins of concatenated signature peptides rates. Nature Methods 2, 587-589 [PUBMED] [PDF [Abstract...]