Proteogenomics ofPristionchus pacificusreveals distinct proteome structure of nematode models

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Pristionchus pacificusis a nematode model organism whose genome has recently been sequenced. To refine the genome annotation we performed transcriptome and proteome analysis and gathered comprehensive experimental information on gene expression. Transcriptome analysis on a 454 Life Sciences (Roche) FLX platform generated >700,000 expressed sequence tags (ESTs) from two normalized EST libraries, whereas proteome analysis on an LTQ-Orbitrap mass spectrometer detected >27,000 nonredundant peptide sequences from more than 4000 proteins at sub-parts-per-million (ppm) mass accuracy and a false discovery rate of 50% of all pioneer genes are transcribed under standard culture conditions and that pioneer proteins significantly contribute to a unimodal distribution of predicted protein sizes inP. pacificus, which has an unusually low median size of 240 amino acids (26.8 kDa). In contrast, the predicted proteome ofCaenorhabditis elegansfollows a distinct bimodal protein size distribution, with significant functional differences between small and large protein populations. Combined, these results provide the first catalog of the expressed genome ofP. pacificus, refinement of its genome annotation, and the first comparison of related nematode models at the proteome level.