Gastric cancer ascites proteome

Gastric cancer is one of the most lethal malignancies with high mortality and gastric cancer-specific biomarker is need due to the lack of specific method for early screening, diagnosis, and prognosis of the patients with gastric cancer. Ascites is known for an important source for conducing biomarker discovery because it contains the secreted proteins from malignant cells, growth factors, and cytokines. In this study, we have conducted a comprehensive proteome study using ascites of patients with inflammatory diseases and gastric cancer. In the discovery stage, we have identified 2761 ascites-specific proteins, where 234 proteins were quantitated using the label free quantitation method, the normalized spectral abundance factor (NSAF); 152 and 82 proteins showed up and down-regulated pattern, respectively. Our ascites proteome can be used as baseline data for the discovery of novel biomarkers of the gastric cancer.