Quantitative timecourse proteomics analysis of oncogenic KRAS removal in mouse Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Cells

To reveal the impact of mutant KRAS on the proteome of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC) cells, we carried out a quantitative phospho-proteomic analysis of tumour cells isolated from an inducible mouse model of PDAC (iKras PDAC) (Ying et al., 2012). In this model, oncogenic Kras (G12D) expression can be controlled by administration of doxycycline (Dox). A timecourse Dox removal experiment was carried out in which cells with or without Dox removal at 12, 24, 36, and 48 hrs intervals were lysed and analysed by quantitative proteomics using Tandem Mass Tagging (TMT). Two independent biological replicate experiments were carried out, with timecourse samples in each replicate being barcoded and pooled together using TMT 10plex labelling kit (Thermo).