Abstract
Neuropeptides are bioactive peptides that are synthesized and secreted by neurons in signaling pathways in the brain. Peptides and proteins are extremely vulnerable to proteolytic cleavage when their biological surrounding changes. This makes neuropeptidomics challenging due to the rapid alterations that occur to the peptidome after harvesting of brain tissue samples. For a successful neuropeptidomic study, the biological tissue sample analyzed should resemble the living state as much as possible. Heat stabilization has been proven to inhibit postmortem degradation by denaturing proteolytic enzymes, hence increasing identification rates of neuropeptides. Here, we describe two different stabilization protocols for rodent brain samples that increase the number of intact mature neuropeptides and minimize interference from degradation products of abundant proteins. Additionally, we present an extraction protocol that aims to extract a wide range of hydrophilic and hydrophobic neuropeptides by sequentially using an aqueous and an organic extraction medium.
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Fridjonsdottir, E., Nilsson, A., Fricker, L.D., Andrén, P.E. (2024). Two Different Strategies for Stabilization of Brain Tissue and Extraction of Neuropeptides. In: Schrader, M., Fricker, L.D. (eds) Peptidomics. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2758. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-3646-6_2
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