Protrusion vs Cell-body SILAC proteomics

Data from ProteomeXchange, PXD ID: PXD000914. File: 8484.mzml. From ProteomeXchange: {{i}} In mesenchymal-like cell migration, cells need to polarise into a protrusive front and a retracting cell body. To understand this process better, we set out to quantify the distribution of cellular proteins between protrusions and cell-body by proteomics, using MDA-MB-231 cells, a highly invasive breast cancer cell-line. We utilised a transwell filter based fractionation method in conjugation with SILAC proteomics. In this method, cells are seeded on top of 3μm transwell filters to enable protrusions to form through the pores of the filters but to prevent the cell-bodies passing through due to the small size of the pores, thus resulting in separation of protrusions and cell-bodies on opposite sides of the filter, which can then be lysed and prepared separately ... {{/i}}