The protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi is the causative agent of the neglected infectious illness Chagas disease. During its life cycle it differentiates into replicative and non-replicative life stages. So far, T. cruzi cell division has been investigated by transcriptomics but not by proteomics approaches. Here we show the first quantitative proteome analysis of T. cruzi cell division. T. cruzi epimastigote cultures were subject to synchronization with hydroxyurea and harvested at different time points. Analysis by flow cytometry, bright field and fluorescence microscopy indicated that samples collected at 0 h, 2 h, 6 h and 14 h overrepresented G1, G1-S, S and M cell cycle phases, respectively. After trypsin digestion of these samples, the resulting peptides were labelled with iTRAQ and subjected to LC-MS/MS. Also, iTRAQ-labelled phosphopeptides were enriched with TiO to access the phosphoproteome. Overall, 597 protein groups and 94 phosphopeptides presented regulation with the most remarkable variation in abundance at 6 h (S-phase). Comparison of our proteomic data to previous transcriptome-wise analysis of epimastigote cell cycle showed 16 sequence entries in common, with the highest mRNA/protein correlation observed in transcripts with peak abundance in G1-phase. Our data revealed regulated proteins and phosphopeptides which play important roles in the control of cell division in other organisms and some of them were previously detected in the nucleus or associated with T. cruzi chromatin.
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