Activity-based protein profiling for biochemical pathway discovery in cancer

作者:Nomura Daniel K; Dix Melissa M; Cravatt Benjamin F*
来源:Nature Reviews Cancer, 2010, 10(9): 630-638.
DOI:10.1038/nrc2901

摘要

Large-scale profiling methods have uncovered numerous gene and protein expression changes that correlate with tumorigenesis. However, determining the relevance of these expression changes and which biochemical pathways they affect has been hindered by our incomplete understanding of the proteome and its myriad functions and modes of regulation. Activity-based profiling platforms enable both the discovery of cancer-relevant enzymes and selective pharmacological probes to perturb and characterize these proteins in tumour cells. When integrated with other large-scale profiling methods, activity-based proteomics can provide insight into the metabolic and signalling pathways that support cancer pathogenesis and illuminate new strategies for disease diagnosis and treatment.

  • 出版日期2010-9