The application of proteomics to blood banking

Schubert, Peter; Devine, Dana V.

doi:10.1111/j.1751-2824.2008.00142.x

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“…Unravelling the plasma proteome represents a major challenge in proteomics since the beginning. Surprisingly, the use of the proteomic approach in transfusion medicine is quite recent [3–27]. Red blood cells [28] and platelets [29] were the first to be studied by this methodology as they are enucleate species for which only very partial genomic study is possible based on transcriptomics investigations of remaining RNA such as of the megakaryocyte‐derived RNA present in platelets [30].…”

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Proteomics applied to transfusion plasma: the beginning of the story

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'Safe blood' is and has always been the major concern in transfusion medicine. Plasma can undergo virus inactivation treatments based on physicochemical, photochemical or thermal methodologies for pathogen inactivation. The validation of these treatments is essentially based on clottability assays and clotting factors' titration; however, their impact on plasma proteins at the molecular level has not yet been evaluated. Proteomics appears as particularly adapted to identify, to localize and, consequently, to correlate these modifications to the biological activity change. At the crossroads of biology and analytical sciences, proteomics is the large-scale study of proteins in tissues, physiological fluids or cells at a given moment and in a precise environment. The proteomic strategy is based on a set of methodologies involving separative techniques like mono- and bidimensional gel electrophoresis and chromatography, analytical techniques, especially mass spectrometry, and bioinformatics. Even if plasma has been extensively studied since the very beginning of proteomics, its application to transfusion medicine has just begun. In the first part of this review, we present the principles of proteomics analysis. Then, we propose a state of the art of proteomics applied to plasma analysis. Finally, the use of proteomics for the evaluation of the impact of storage conditions and pathogen inactivation treatments applied to transfusion plasma and for the evaluation of therapeutic protein fractionated is discussed.

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