Glioma tumors arise from normal glial cells (astrocytes). Gliomas are morphologically and clinically classified into four malignancy grades as Grade I, II, III and IV. Grade I and II comprise low grade gliomas that grow slowly, are well differentiated and have a better prognosis and survival compared to grades III and IV. In contrast, grade III-IV lack endothelial proliferation and are highly vascular with a tendency to infiltrate and have areas of extensive necrosis and hypoxia. In the present study, we used iTRAQ (isobaric tags for relative and absolute quantitation) - based quantitative proteomic approach followed by online liquid chromatography and high resolution tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) to identify differential nuclear proteins enriched with transcriptional regulatory function from three different grades of astrocytoma tumors (WHO Grade II, III and IV) compared to control.