Depletion-dependent activity-based protein profiling using SWATH/DIA-MS detects serine hydrolase lipid remodeling in lung adenocarcinoma progression

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Abstract
Systematic inference of enzyme activity in human tumors is key to understanding cancer progression and resistance to therapy. However, standard protein or transcript abundances are blind to the activity status of the measured enzymes, regulated, for example, by active-site amino acid mutations or post-translational protein modifications. Current methods for activity-based proteome profiling (ABPP), which combine mass spectrometry (MS) with chemical probes, quantify the fraction of enzymes that are catalytically active. Here, we describe depletion-dependent ABPP (dd-ABPP) combined with automated SWATH/DIA-MS, which simultaneously determines three molecular layers of studied enzymes: i) catalytically active enzyme fractions, ii) enzyme and background protein abundances, and iii) context-dependent enzyme-protein interactions. We demonstrate the utility of the method in advanced lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) by monitoring nearly 4000 protein groups and 200 serine hydrolases (SHs) in tumor and adjacent tissue sections routinely collected for patient histopathology. The activity profiles of 23 SHs and the abundance of 59 proteins associated with these enzymes retrospectively classified aggressive LUAD. The molecular signature revealed accelerated lipoprotein depalmitoylation via palmitoyl(protein)hydrolase activities, further confirmed by excess palmitate and its metabolites. The approach is universal and applicable to other enzyme families with available chemical probes, providing clinicians with a biochemical rationale for tumor sample classification.
Funding Information
  • Stiftung für angewandte Krebsforschung for the project “Biomarkers with enzymatic activities for improved risk stratification of lung cancer patients“.
  • Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (grant # SNSF 31003A_166435)
  • European Research Council

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