Title :

Extinct species identification from late middle Pleistocene and earlier Upper Pleistocene bone fragments and tools not recognizable from their osteomorphological study by an enhanced proteomics protocol

Author(s) :

Bray, Fabrice [Auteur correspondant]
Miniaturisation pour la Synthèse, l’Analyse et la Protéomique - UAR 3290 [MSAP]
Flament, Stéphanie [Auteur]
Miniaturisation pour la Synthèse, l’Analyse et la Protéomique - UAR 3290 [MSAP]
Abrams, Grégory [Auteur]
Universiteit Leiden = Leiden University
Bonjean, Dominique [Auteur]
Centre de recherches de la grotte Scladina
Rolando, Christian [Auteur]
Miniaturisation pour la Synthèse, l’Analyse et la Protéomique - UAR 3290 [MSAP]
Tokarski, Caroline [Auteur]
Chimie et Biologie des Membranes et des Nanoobjets [CBMN]
Auguste, Patrick [Auteur]
Évolution, Écologie et Paléontologie (Evo-Eco-Paleo) - UMR 8198 [Evo-Eco-Paléo (EEP)]

Journal title :

Archaeometry

Pages :

196-212

Publisher :

Wiley

Publication date :

2023-02

ISSN :

0003-813X

English keyword(s) :

amino acids substitution
mammalian bones
mass spectrometry
palaeoproteomics
peptides modifications
pleistocene
scladina cave
taxonomy

HAL domain(s) :

Planète et Univers [physics]/Sciences de la Terre/Paléontologie
Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]/Biochimie, Biologie Moléculaire/Génomique, Transcriptomique et Protéomique [q-bio.GN]
Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]/Biodiversité/Systématique, phylogénie et taxonomie

English abstract : [en]

Ancient preserved molecules offer the opportunity of gaining a deeper knowledge on their biological past. However, the development of a proteomic workflow remains a challenge. The analysis of fossils must involve a low ...
Show more >Ancient preserved molecules offer the opportunity of gaining a deeper knowledge on their biological past. However, the development of a proteomic workflow remains a challenge. The analysis of fossils must involve a low quantity of material to avoid damaging the samples. In this study an enhanced proteomic protocol was applied to 5-milligram samples of about 130,000-year-old mammalian bones ranging from the end of the Middle Pleistocene up to the earlier Upper Pleistocene, excavated from Scladina Cave (Sclayn, Belgium). Using sequence homology with modern sequences, a biological classification was successfully achieved and the associated taxonomic ranks to each bone were identified consistently with the information gained from osteomorphological studies and palaeoenvironmental and palaeodietary data. Amino acid substitutions on collagens were identified, thus providing new information on extinct species sequences and helping in taxonomy-based clustering. Considering samples with no osteomorphological information, such as two fragments of bone retouchers, proteomics successfully identified the families providing paleontologists new information on these objects. Combining osteomorphology studies and amino acid variations identified by proteomics, one of the retouchers was potentially identified as belonging to the Ursus spelaeus species.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

• Miniaturisation pour la Synthèse, l'Analyse et la Protéomique (MSAP) - USR 3290

Source :

Harvested from HAL