Subcellular proteome niche discovery using semi-supervised functional clustering

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Autores principales: Zheng, Ziyue, Jabre, Loay J., McIlvin, Matthew, Saito, Mak A., Hyun, Sangwon
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author Zheng, Ziyue
Jabre, Loay J.
McIlvin, Matthew
Saito, Mak A.
Hyun, Sangwon
author_facet Zheng, Ziyue
Jabre, Loay J.
McIlvin, Matthew
Saito, Mak A.
Hyun, Sangwon
contents Intracellular compartmentalization of proteins underpins their function and the metabolic processes they sustain. Various mass spectrometry-based proteomics methods (subcellular spatial proteomics) now allow high throughput subcellular protein localization. Yet, the curation, analysis and interpretation of these data remain challenging, particularly in non-model organisms where establishing reliable marker proteins is difficult, and in contexts where experimental replication and subcellular fractionation are constrained. Here, we develop FSPmix, a semi-supervised functional clustering method implemented as an open-source R package, which leverages partial annotations from a subset of marker proteins to predict protein subcellular localization from subcellular spatial proteomics data. This method explicitly assumes that protein signatures vary smoothly across subcellular fractions, enabling more robust inference under low signal-to-noise data regimes. We applied FSPmix to a subcellular proteomics dataset from a marine diatom, allowing us to assign probabilistic localizations to proteins and uncover potentially new protein functions. Altogether, this work lays the foundation for more robust statistical analysis and interpretation of subcellular proteomics datasets, particularly in understudied organisms.
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spellingShingle Subcellular proteome niche discovery using semi-supervised functional clustering
Zheng, Ziyue
Jabre, Loay J.
McIlvin, Matthew
Saito, Mak A.
Hyun, Sangwon
Quantitative Methods
Subcellular Processes
Applications
Intracellular compartmentalization of proteins underpins their function and the metabolic processes they sustain. Various mass spectrometry-based proteomics methods (subcellular spatial proteomics) now allow high throughput subcellular protein localization. Yet, the curation, analysis and interpretation of these data remain challenging, particularly in non-model organisms where establishing reliable marker proteins is difficult, and in contexts where experimental replication and subcellular fractionation are constrained. Here, we develop FSPmix, a semi-supervised functional clustering method implemented as an open-source R package, which leverages partial annotations from a subset of marker proteins to predict protein subcellular localization from subcellular spatial proteomics data. This method explicitly assumes that protein signatures vary smoothly across subcellular fractions, enabling more robust inference under low signal-to-noise data regimes. We applied FSPmix to a subcellular proteomics dataset from a marine diatom, allowing us to assign probabilistic localizations to proteins and uncover potentially new protein functions. Altogether, this work lays the foundation for more robust statistical analysis and interpretation of subcellular proteomics datasets, particularly in understudied organisms.
title Subcellular proteome niche discovery using semi-supervised functional clustering
topic Quantitative Methods
Subcellular Processes
Applications
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08087