Welcome to the Turku Proteomics Facility

 

News


And the winner is....
Arttu Heinonen, our project engineer, won the PEAKS challenge organized by Bioinformatics Solutions and is now proud owner of an i Pad 2!

Recent publications:

Santos H, Kouvonen P, Capelo JL, Corthals GL. Isotopic labelling of peptides in tissues enhances mass spectrometric profiling. Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom. 2012, 26, 1–9 [in press]

Grouneva I, Rokka A, Aro EM. The thylakoid membrane proteome of two marine diatoms outlines both diatom-specific and species-specific features of the photosynthetic machinery. J Proteome Res. 2011 Dec 2;10(12):5338-53. Epub 2011 Nov 9. [PubMed]

Corthals GL, Dunn M, James P, Gil C, Penque D, Albar JP, Andrén P, Rabilloud T, Marko-Varga G. The transition of the European Proteomics Association into the future. J Proteomics. 2011 Jun 28. [PubMed]

Legrain P, Aebersold R, Archakov A, Bairoch A, Bala K, Beretta L, Bergeron J, Borchers C, Corthals GL et al. The human proteome project: Current state and future direction.Mol Cell Proteomics. 2011 Apr 29. [Epub ahead of print] [PubMed]

Leivonen SK, Rokka A, Ostling P, Kohonen P, Corthals GL, Kallioniemi O, Perälä M. Identification of miR-193b targets in breast cancer cells and systems biological analysis of their functional impact. Mol Cell Proteomics. 2011 Jul.  [PubMed]

Rokka A, Aro EM, Vener AV. Thylakoid phosphoproteins: identification of phosphorylation sites. Methods Mol Biol. 2011;684:171-86; [PubMed]

Kouvonen P,  Rainio EM, Suni V, Koskinen P, Corthals GL. Enrichment and sequencing of phosphopeptides on indium tin oxide coated glass slides. Mol. Biosyst. 2011 Jun [PubMed]

About the facility

The Turku Proteomics Facility is engaged in the development and application of proteomics and mass spectral methods in many areas of life science research. In doing so we have developed a wide basis of operation and expertise in Quantitative proteomics, Post-translational modification analysis, Imaging mass spectrometry, Biological mass spectrometry, Protein separation and Bioinformatics. We are a nationally funded technology platform supported by Biocentre Finland, spearheading mass spectrometric strategies for quantitative analysis of proteins and proteomes, and structural analysis of PTMs.

Our goals are to:

• Advance MS methods and instrumentation to meet the needs in molecular biotechnology and medicine
• Identify new areas appropriate for MS in biological sciences
• Develop new approaches involving MS
• Apply cutting-edge MS to tackle critical questions in biological sciences
• Train students, postdoctoral fellows and practicing scientists in the use of MS and encourage its wide and appropriate use

Quick Links

Contact details:
• tel +358 2 3338604
• fax +358 2 3338000
• proteomics_service (at) btk.fi

Address:
Centre for Biotechnology
BioCity, 5th floor
Tykistökatu 6
FI-20520, Turku, Finland

Affiliated local research groups:

Cell adhesion and Cancer, Cell fate, Cancer cell signalling, Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics, Integrative Photosynthesis and Biofuel Research Group, Molecular and Systems Immunology, PIM kinase signalling pathways, Systems Biology for cancer, Translational Proteomics