Table 1

Notable experimental studies in the determination of the secretome

Year
Approach
Organelle
Number of proteins
Comment
Reference

1980
Mutagenesis
Cell-wide
23
First attempt to systematically identify secretory machinery (S. cerevisiae)
[27]
2000
Proteomics
Golgi
93 (588)*
First concerted effort to analyze the Golgi proteome. Cycloheximide treatment used to enrich for Golgi residents
[7]
2003
GFP-tagging
ER
296
Subcellular localization of more than 75% of the yeast proteome was determined using GFP fusions (S. cerevisiae)
[3]


Golgi/TGN
118


2004
Proteomics
Golgi
151 (421)
Improved proteomics technologies allowed more comprehensive identification of proteins
[9]
2006
Functional assay
Cell-wide
130
First genome-wide RNAi screen to search for proteins with a functional involvement in secretion (Drosophila S2 cells)
[26]
2006
Proteomics
ER
229
Proteomics and protein correlation profiling of multiple organelles separated by gradient centrifugation
[14]


ER-Golgi vesicles
220




Golgi
67


2006
GFP-tagging
ER
382 (68)
Subcellular localization of 90% of the yeast proteome was determined using GFP fusions (S. pombe)
[4]


Golgi
156 (68)


2006
Proteomics
ER
832 (405)§
Most quantitative proteomic characterization of the ER, Golgi and COPI vesicles reported to date
[13]


Golgi
193 (405)§



*Mass spectrometry was used to identify only 93 of the 588 unique spots observed on two-dimensional gels. From 421 identified proteins, only 151 were annotated as being either unknown or bona fide Golgi residents. An additional 68 proteins localized to the ER and Golgi. §An additional 405 proteins were identified in both ER and Golgi fractions.

Simpson et al. Genome Biology 2007 8:211   doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-4-211