Primary establishment of human uterine muscle proteomic profiling by two-dimensional electrophoresis and mass spectrometry

Objective:To establish the protein profiling of human uterine muscle by two-dimensional electrophoresis.Methods:Five patients who underwent trans-abdominal hysterectomy due to cervical carcinoma in situ were in-cluded in this study.Postoperative uterine muscles were normal histologically.The total protein extracts from uter-ine muscle were separated using two-dimensional electrophoresis(2DE).Protein spots were stained by silver and de-tected by image analysis software.Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time of flight mass spectrometry(MALDI-TOF-MS)and peptide mass fingerprint(PMF)were used to identify the selected protein spots.Results:Well-resolved,reproducible 2DE maps of human uterine muscle were obtained.Average protein spots were 468±52 and matching rate was 82.76%.Five protein spots were successfully identified by mass spectrome-try.Conclusions:2DE coupled with MALDI-TOF-MS and PMF is a useful approach for establishing human uterine muscle proteomic profiling.This data will be useful for establishing human uterine muscle proteome database.