Supporting Information Method 1
Sample Preparation for Proteomic Analysis
Protein reduction, alkylation, and digestion were carried out using a conventional
method previously published by the author [1]. Briefly, a 100 µg aliquot of protein
sample was placed in a 2 mL tube and dried by SpeedVac. The sample was
reconstituted by 100 µL of lysis buffer (8 M urea, 10 mM DTT solution freshly prepared)
and then adjusted to 200 µL by adding 100 µL of water. 200 µL of the
reduction/alkylation cocktail consisted of triethylphosphine and iodoethanol was added
to the protein solution. The sample was incubated at 35°C for 60 min, dried by
SpeedVac to remove the organic solvent before protein digestion, and reconstituted
with 100 µL of 100 mM NH4HCO3 at pH 8.0. A 150 µL aliquot of a 20 µg/mL trypsin
solution was added to the sample and incubated at 35°C for 3 h, after which another
150 µL of trypsin was added, and the solution incubated at 35°C for 3 h.
LC-MS/MS
The digested samples were analyzed using a Thermo-Finnigan linear ion-trap (LTQ)
mass spectrometer coupled with a Surveyor autosampler and MS HPLC system
(Thermo-Finnigan). Twenty µg of tryptic peptides were injected onto a C18 reversed
phase column (TSKgel ODS-100V, 3 µm, 1.0 mm x 150 mm) at a flow rate of 50
µL/min. The mobile phases A, B, and C were 0.1% formic acid in water, 50% ACN with
0.1% formic acid in water, and 80% ACN with 0.1% formic acid in water, respectively.
The gradient elution profile was as follows: 10% B (90% A) for 7 min, 10-67.1% B (9032.9% A) for 163 min, 67.1-100% B (32.9-0% A) for 10 min, and 100-50% B (0-50% C)
for 10 min. The data were collected in the “Data dependent MS/MS” mode with the ESI
interface using normalized collision energy of 35%. Dynamic exclusion settings were set
to repeat count 1, repeat duration 30 s, exclusion duration 120 s, and exclusion mass
width 0.60 m/z (low) and 1.60 m/z (high).
Protein Identification and Quantification
The acquired data were searched against UniProt protein sequence database
(released on April 3, 2013) using SEQUEST (v. 28 rev. 12) algorithms in Bioworks (v.
3.3). General parameters were set to: mass type set as “monoisotopic precursor and
fragments”, enzyme set as “trypsin(KR)”, enzyme limits set as “fully enzymatic - cleaves
at both ends”, missed cleavage sites set at 2, peptide tolerance 2.0 amu, fragment ion
tolerance 1.0 amu, fixed modification set as +44 Da on Cysteine, and no variable
modifications used. The searched peptides and proteins were validated by
PeptideProphet[2] and ProteinProphet[3] in the Trans-Proteomic Pipeline (TPP, v. 3.3.0)
(http://tools.proteomecenter.org/software.php). Only proteins and peptides with protein
probability ≥ 0.9000 and peptide probability ≥ 0.8000 were reported with FDR < 5%.
After TPP validation, proteins identified by one peptide were included. Protein
quantification was performed using a label-free quantification software package,
IdentiQuantXLTM.[4]
References
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