Proteogenomic studies aimed at understanding ovarian tumor responses to agents targeting the DNA damage response and translating this knowledge into clinical benefit

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle WA

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ABSTRACT We will provide the Alzheimer?s disease (AD) community with a novel assay resource based on advanced methodology that enables precise, highly specific, standardizable, multiplex quantification of the innate immunity- complement protein network in AD brain tissues. The innate immune response and its ties to inflammation are important to the pathophysiology of AD and represents a viable therapeutic target. Regulation of the immune system is the result of interplay amongst many 100s of proteins, and conventional protein quantification approaches (e.g. immunoassays) typically target one analyte at a time, which is not adequate for studying the behavior of a complex and robust signaling network such as innate immunity. We will develop multiplex assays to quantify proteins in the innate immune network, using a NextGen protein quantification platform based on a targeted form of mass spectrometry called multiple reaction monitoring (MRM). All assay protocols and validation data will be made publicly available as a novel resource to the community via the established, open-source NCI Assay Portal (assays.cancer.gov). We believe that this work is likely to stimulate additional work leading to progress on AD by providing the AD community with a novel assay resource based on advanced methodology that enables precise, highly specific, standardizable, multiplex quantification of the inflammation / innate immunity protein network in AD brains.