Establishing personalized blood protein reference ranges using non-invasive microsampling and targeted proteomics: Implications for anti-doping strategies
Richard VR, Mitsa G, Eshghi A, Chaplygina D, Mohammed Y, Goodlett DR, Zahedi RP, Thevis M, Borchers CH. Establishing Personalized Blood Protein Reference Ranges Using Noninvasive Microsampling and Targeted Proteomics: Implications for Antidoping Strategies. J Proteome Res. 2024 May 3;23(5):1779-1787. doi: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.4c00020. Epub 2024 Apr 24. PMID: 38655860; PMCID: PMC11077581.
- Organism: Homo sapiens
- Instrument: 6495A Triple Quadrupole LC/MS
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Yes
- Keywords:
DBS, targeted proteomics, longitudinal blood profiling, athletes, doping
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Lab head: Christoph Borchers
Submitter: Vincent Richard
To prevent doping practices in sports, the World Anti-Doping Agency implemented the Athlete Biological Passport (ABP) program, monitoring biological variables over time to indirectly reveal effects of doping rather than detect the doping substance or method itself.
In the context of this program and as part of the Partnership for Clean Competition, we developed a highly multiplexed mass spectrometry-based proteomics assay for 319 peptides corresponding to 250 proteins, including proteins associated with blood doping practices. We determined the ‘baseline’ expression profiles of these potential biomarkers in capillary blood (dried blood spots, DBS) using multiple reaction monitoring (MRM). Combining DBS micro-sampling with highly multiplexed MRM assays is the best suited technology to enhance the effectiveness of the ABP program, as it represents a cost-effective and robust alternative analytical method with high specificity and selectivity of targets in the attomole range. DBS were collected from 10 healthy athletes over a period of 140 days (28 time points per participant). These comprehensive findings provide a personalized blood proteome "fingerprint" showcasing that the proteome is unique to an individual, and likely comparable to a DNA-fingerprint. The results can serve as a baseline for future studies investigating doping-related perturbations.
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