First-dimension analytical gel electrophoresis was performed, followed by second-dimension sodium dodecyl sulfate–polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) on 12.5% fixed concentration gels, as previously described [47 (link),48 (link)]. The gels were scanned with a Sapphire Biomolecular Imager (Azure Biosystems, Dublin, OH, USA) and digitalized via the image analysis software Sapphire Capture system (Azure Biosystems, Dublin, OH, USA). Spot volumes were log-transformed to generate normally distributed data, and log-normalized volume instead of spot intensities was used in statistical processing to quantify differential expression. All spots were pre-filtered and manually checked before applying the statistical criteria (ANOVA test, p ≤ 0.05 and fold ≥ 1.5). Independent direct comparisons were made between the protein spots related to the OB, OD, and ODM groups, and the fold differences and p-values were calculated using one-way ANOVA. Spots that fulfilled the above-mentioned statistical criteria were submitted for further mass spectrometric (MS) analysis.
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