Proteomic overview of hepatocellular carcinoma cell lines and generation of the spectral library

Abstract

Cell lines are extensively used tools, therefore a comprehensive proteomic overview of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cell lines and an extensive spectral library for data independent acquisition (DIA) quantification are necessary. Here, we present the proteome of nine commonly used HCC cell lines covering 9,208 protein groups, and the HCC spectral library containing 253,921 precursors, 168,811 peptides and 10,098 protein groups. The proteomic overview reveals the heterogeneity between different cell lines, and the similarity in proliferation and metastasis characteristics and drug targets-expression with tumour tissues. The HCC spectral library generating consumed 108 hours’ runtime for data dependent acquisition (DDA) of 48 runs, 24 hours’ runtime for database searching by MaxQuant version 2.0.3.0, and 1 hour’ runtime for processing by SpectronautTM version 15.2. The HCC spectral library supports quantification of 7,637 protein groups of triples 2-hour DIA analysis of HepG2 and discovering biological alteration. This study provides valuable resources for HCC cell lines and efficient DIA quantification on LC-Orbitrap platform, further help to explore the molecular mechanism and candidate therapeutic targets.