Figure 4.
The whole plasma proteome differs from the plasma-derived EV proteome. Plasma was collected from non-diabetic NOD mice (n = 4). Abundant plasma proteins were removed using an affinity column. Samples (two technical replicates of each) were then subjected to HiRIEF-LC-MS/MS analysis. (A) Principal Component Analysis (PCA) of the proteome of whole plasma samples showing the clustering of the technical replicates (technical replicates are shown in the same color). (B) Venn Diagram of unique and overlapping proteins between whole plasma and qEV proteomes presented as percentages of the total number of proteins identified and absolute numbers. (C, D) Tissue enrichment analysis of both proteomes showing the top 10 most significant tissues in whole plasma and qEV samples, respectively. (E) Top 10 enriched GO terms for cellular components of the whole plasma proteome. The numbers in C-E represent the counts in each term and the enriched GO terms were scored according to a p-value <0.05.