# Proteomics and Metabolomics Shared Resource

> **NIH NIH P30** · WISTAR INSTITUTE · 2022 · $206,619

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY – PROTEOMICS AND METABOLOMICS SHARED RESOURCE
The primary goal of the Proteomics and Metabolomics Shared Resource (PMSR) is to provide comprehensive
proteomics and metabolomics services to Cancer Center members as well as other regional NCI-designated
Cancer Centers (Fox Chase Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University Cancer Center), and secondarily to
investigators in other academic institutions. Prior to December 2017, major mass spectrometry (MS)
instruments in the PMSR included a Thermo Q Exactive HF, a Thermo Q Exactive Plus, and a Sciex QTRAP
5500 hybrid triple quadrupole mass spectrometer. These instruments have nano-UHPLCs (ultra-high pressure
liquid chromatography) with cooled-autosamplers on the front end for proteomic analyses. A conventional flow
UHPLC is used for metabolite analyses. These LC-MS systems represent some of the highest performing,
most sensitive instruments currently available. The PMSR will continue to offer routine proteomic services such
as LC-MS/MS protein identifications from gel bands or pull-down assays, and intact protein analysis by
electrospray ionization. Over the last budget cycle, the PMSR has increasingly engaged in more challenging
proteomics problems, particularly global quantitative comparisons of proteomes or sub-proteomes using label-
free quantitation (integrated MS ion currents), quantitation using stable isotopes such as SILAC or isobaric tags
(TMT or iTRAQ), and in-depth global analysis of phosphoproteome, ubiquitomes, and acetylomes. The PMSR
will continue to improve its analytical capabilities for in-depth comprehensive analysis of global proteome and
posttranslational modifications. The PMSR has also responded to the growing need of Cancer Center
members in the field of cancer metabolism by establishing targeted relative quantitation of approximately 180
polar metabolites. To further increase its capacity in metabolomics analysis, the PMSR applied for and was
recently awarded an S10 shared instrumentation grant (S10 OD023586). This grant together with Cancer
Center funds were used to purchase a high-resolution Thermo Q Exactive HF-X mass spectrometer and a
Vanquish UHPLC system. This instrument was installed in December 2017 and will be dedicated to untargeted
(global) metabolomics, targeted metabolomics, untargeted lipidomics, targeted lipidomics and metabolic flux
analysis using stable isotope tracers. The PMSR also recently purchased a Seahorse XFe96 Analyzer funded
by another S10 grant (S10 OD023658). This instrument can quantify mitochondrial respiration, glycolytic
activity, endogenous and exogenous fatty acid oxidation, substrate oxidation, and metabolic phenotype,
providing complementary analytical capacity to the new metabolomics LC-MS/MS system. The availability of
these new instruments will ensure that the PMSR remains state-of-the-art in providing proteomics,
metabolomics, and lipidomics services to Cancer Center members. The major emphasis of the PMSR will be to
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## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10360642
- **Project number:** 5P30CA010815-53
- **Recipient organization:** WISTAR INSTITUTE
- **Principal Investigator:** DAVID W. SPEICHER
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $206,619
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1997-04-01 → 2024-02-29

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10360642

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10360642, Proteomics and Metabolomics Shared Resource (5P30CA010815-53). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10360642. Licensed CC0.

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