RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 The Protein Profile of the Human Immature T-cell Line CCRF-CEM JF Cancer Genomics - Proteomics JO Cancer Genomics Proteomics FD International Institute of Anticancer Research SP 271 OP 299 VO 2 IS 5 A1 ATHANASIOS K. ANAGNOSTOPOULOS A1 KONSTANTINOS VOUGAS A1 AGELIKI KOLIALEXI A1 ARIADNI MAVROU A1 MICHAEL FOUNTOULAKIS A1 GEORGE T. TSANGARIS YR 2005 UL http://cgp.iiarjournals.org/content/2/5/271.abstract AB The human immature T-cell line CCRF-CEM is widely used for all kinds of in vitro studies in biochemistry, biology, toxicology and medicine. Knowledge about protein expression is limited and no comprehensive study on the proteome of this cell type has been reported to date. Proteomics technologies were applied in order to analyse the proteins of the CEM cell line. The proteins were separated by two-dimensional (2-D) gel electrophoresis and analysed by MALDI-MS and MALDI-MS-MS following in-gel digestion with trypsin and, finally, protein identification was carried out by peptide mass fingerprint (PMF) and post source decay (PSD), respectively. Approximately 4,500 spots, excised from four 2-D gels, were analysed. The analysis resulted in the identification of about 1,150 proteins, the products of 451 different genes. The majority of the identified proteins were enzymes, regulatory proteins and transporters, while leukocyte markers and oncogenes were also included. The CCRF-CEM cell database today represents one of the largest 2-D databases for eukaryotic proteomes, forming the basis for future expressional studies at the protein level.