Development of a non-destructive molecular extraction platform for quantitative p

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In this study, we propose a Non-Destructive Molecular Extraction (NDME) platform to perform quantitative proteomics analysis of FFPE specimens with SILAC cell dot controls. The NDME technique can directly extract proteins from a single fixed tissue section without destroying tissue morphology. The tissue section remaining after NDME will be used for histopathological analyses, such as HandE staining, multiplex immunohistochemistry staining, and in situ hybridization. TheSILAC dot control slides, which are prepared from cell cultures grown using stable isotope labeled amino acids (SILAC) which have undergone formalin fixation and paraffin embedding, will undergo NDME together with the tissue specimens. Since the SILAC cell dot control is present in equal quantity in all cases, the peptide fold change ratio between the tissue samples and the SILAC cell dot control can be used for quantitative analysis across a large number of samples. Thus, they can provide standardizati