Joining Two Perspectives of the Proteome with the Trypsin+HTA Protease Workflow.

Authors

Mario M Alba, Ajay Bharadwaj, Lindsey Becker, Ethan J Canfield, Jonathan E Katz, Jennifer E Van Eyk, Simion Kreimer

Published in

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology. Oct 06, 2026. Epub Oct 06, 2026.

Abstract

Proteolysis can be completed in a single-step, rapid (5-30 minutes) reaction using hyperthermoacidic archaeal (HTA) proteases Protocol simplicity and stability of HTA proteases in ambient storage conditions removes many logistical barriers to widespread deployment of proteomic analysis. HTA protease cleavage selectivity is complicated but quantitatively reproducible and generates peptides that negligibly overlap with trypsin. Tryptic and HTA protease peptides emphasize different proteins and provide complementary coverage of amino acid sequence and post-translational modification (PTM) sites. Digestion of a sample's separate aliquot with HTA protease is a minor addition to trypsin-based workflows, but LC-MS analysis of both sets of peptides is not practical for large cohorts. This manuscript evaluates the identifications and reproducibility of LC-MS analysis of tryptic and HTA protease peptide mixtures. Adding HTA protease peptides to 20% increased total protein identifications by 24% on average in neat plasma and identified 216 additional non-artifact modifications compared to conventional trypsin-only bottom-up proteomic analysis. This approach is reproducible and does not increase sample preparation or analysis time. Peptides from each protease present independent opportunities to quantify overlapping proteins and a quantification model was developed in which, for each protein, the most complete protease data is selected as the primary quantitation and data from the second protease is used to infer missing values. This cross-protease inference is more accurate than the alternative minimum, mean, or nearest neighbo imputations. Finally, biomarkers discovered through HTA protease peptides are amenable to rapid HTA protease only proteomic workflows thus streamlining translation from discovery to fieldable applications.

PMID:
42926820
Bibliographic data and abstract were imported from PubMed on 25 Oct 2026.

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