June 2013
Volume 54, Issue 15
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ARVO Annual Meeting Abstract  |   June 2013
Identification of Peptides of αA- and αB-Crystallins that are Present in Cataractous Human Lenses but Not in Age-Matched Normal Lenses
Author Affiliations & Notes
  • Om Srivastava
    Vision Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
  • Kiran Srivastava
    Vision Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
  • Ekta Tiwary
    Vision Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
  • Footnotes
    Commercial Relationships Om Srivastava, None; Kiran Srivastava, None; Ekta Tiwary, None
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Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science June 2013, Vol.54, 2960. doi:
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      Om Srivastava, Kiran Srivastava, Ekta Tiwary, Lens; Identification of Peptides of αA- and αB-Crystallins that are Present in Cataractous Human Lenses but Not in Age-Matched Normal Lenses. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2013;54(15):2960.

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Abstract

Purpose: The purpose was to identify those peptides of αA- and αB-crystallins that only existed in water soluble (WS)- and water insoluble (WI)-protein fractions of cataractous human lenses but not in the age-matched normal lenses.

Methods: The polypeptides (molecular weight <5 kDa) were isolated from WS- and WI-proteins of 62-year-old cataractous (with nuclear cataracts) and age-matched normal human lenses by their solubilization in trichloroacetic acid (TCA). The TCA-precipitated crystallins were removed by centrifugation and the solubilized fractions were concentrated after extensive dialysis. The solubilized peptides from: (A) WS- and WI-proteins of normal lenses, and (B) WS- and WI-proteins of cataractous lenses were identically analyzed by nano-HPLC-tandom mass spectrometric method, and peptides were identified by Protein Pilot search engine (AB-Sciex) and spectra were compared using PeakView.

Results: The number of TCA-soluble peptides identified in WS-normal, WI-normal, WS-cataractous and WI-cataractous protein fractions matched to 75, 17, 15 and 22 different proteins, respectively. The crystallin peptides identified were: WS-normal: αA, αB, βA3, βS, γC and γD, WI-normal: αA, αB, βB1 and βS, WS-cataractous: αA, αB, βB1 and βS, and WI-cataractous: αA, αB, βB1 and βS. The following peptides were exclusively present in the cataractous lenses: (A) WS-fraction: αA: residue nos.23-33,104-112; αB: residue nos. 28-42, 29-44, 108-118, and 147-175 and (B) WI-fractions: αA: residue nos.24-32, 38-50 and 55-67; αB: residue no. 30-46.

Conclusions: The comparative study identified the αA- and αB-peptides that existed only in WS- and WI-protein fractions of cataractous lenses but were absent in normal lenses. These model peptides will help future identification of in vivo-existing proteases that are involved in their cleavage from crystallins, and also their potential roles in aggregation and cross-linking process during cataract development.

Keywords: 488 crystallins • 445 cataract • 663 proteomics  
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