How to analyse RNA-based protein pulldown mass spectrometry data
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@183232d3
Last seen 17 months ago
Czechia

Hi to all,

I did the RNA-based protein pulldown IP's for the mass spectrometry (without TMT labelling). I got the peptide counts and lot of them were zero. So i did log2(x+1) to all the data. since i have huge number of zeros (25%), it is influencing my data. My volcano plot from limma kind of flattened. There is a one major point is, i have zero peptide count in control but some values in expriment (e.g count is 5). I have to consider such values, because it is RNA based protein pulldown. So i did not expect huge number of peptide counts. I have IBAQ values and RAW peptide count as well. What will be the better way to analyse such data. can you please help me with this.

(I asked the same question in Biostars but i did not get any answer so i posted here)

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@gordon-smyth
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WEHI, Melbourne, Australia

I am not at all famliar with RNA-based protein pulldown mass spectrometry, so I can't tell you how to analyse it. My first suggestion would be to try analysing it like RNA-seq, e.g., with edgeR::voomLmFit or edgeR::glmQLFit.

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First thanks for your suggestion. May i know the reason behind it. will it help in the normalization? Can you please explain me.

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I suggested RNA-seq pipelines simply because they are designed for counts and you have counts. The voomLmFit function is designed to be robust against lots of zeros. As I say, I am not familiar with the type of data you have so I cannot recommend anything with confidence.

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Oh nice. I will try for sure then i will get back to this.

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