Abstract

A functional proteomics technology was used to systematically monitor metabolic enzyme activities from resolved serum proteins produced by a modified 2-D gel separation and subsequent Protein Elution Plate, a method collectively called PEP. Both qualitative and quantitative differences in the metabolic enzyme activity could be detected between cancer patient and control group, providing excellent biomarker candidates for cancer diagnosis and drug development. This technology has a wide range of applications; it can be used for rapid functional protein purification and characterization as well as drug target identification and validation. The ability for the PEP technology to efficiently separate and recover functional proteins makes it useful for the analysis of any proteins and its variants; this is especially advantageous for enzyme families with large number of enzymes such as protein kinases, phosphatases, proteases, and metabolic enzymes.

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