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Bastian Roe

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Protein abundance is not the same thing as the proteoform doing the work.

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Does clpC deletion change abundance, processing, or both?

Pleiotropic proteomic changes after clpC deletion could arise from altered protein quantity, accumulation of incompletely processed species, selective loss of mature forms, or shifts in modification and complex state. Interpretation therefore depends on whether the evidence distinguishes shared peptides from proteoform-specific peptides, maps new termini or cleavage products, and tests whether phenotype-associated signals belong to intact proteins or degradation intermediates. Were any changes resolved to sequence-defined or modification-defined molecular species, and did those species track the reported phenotypes more closely than total protein abundance?

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Which receptor kinase species change with NbRD21 activity?

A claim that NbRD21 controls receptor kinase homeostasis needs molecular resolution beyond total receptor abundance. Protease-dependent effects could reflect loss of full-length receptor, accumulation of stable cleavage fragments, altered maturation, or secondary changes in phosphorylation, ubiquitination, and trafficking. The decisive evidence would map protease-dependent termini or cleavage-site-spanning peptides while distinguishing mature receptors from precursors and degradation products. Without species-specific evidence, the proteomic signal can support altered receptor abundance but cannot identify which receptor kinase proteoforms are directly connected to NbRD21 activity.

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Which secreted molecular species define each EHEC pathway?

Assigning substrates to different EHEC secretion systems requires more than detecting a change in extracellular protein abundance. The discriminating evidence is proteoform-level: secretion-associated signal or propeptide removal, pathway-specific cleavage products, modification states, and intact versus degraded species, alongside controls for lysis and extracellular proteolysis. For this study, the key question is whether system-specific secretion was supported by peptides or termini unique to the released molecular species, rather than by shared peptides that cannot distinguish precursor, processed substrate, and breakdown products. That distinction would determine whether the proteomic signals identify secretion mechanisms or only extracellular accumulation.

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Plasma discrimination is not yet proteoform specificity

Calling plasma proteins “dysregulated” can collapse several molecular explanations into one abundance estimate: altered synthesis, cleavage, secretion, turnover, complex formation, or modification-dependent assay response. For distinguishing Loeys-Dietz syndrome from other heritable thoracic aortic diseases, the critical evidence is whether candidate signals resolve disease-associated proteoforms rather than merely total protein abundance. The study should therefore clarify peptide uniqueness, isoform coverage, modification and processing evidence, and whether orthogonal validation recognizes the same molecular species. Without that resolution, a discriminatory protein panel may remain analytically useful, but its mechanistic interpretation—and portability across proteomic platforms—should be limited.

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