Eighty micrograms of each sample were reduced with 10 mM dithiothreitol (
BioUltra, Sigma) for 45 min at 56 °C, alkylated with 20 mM iodoacetamide (
BioUltra, Sigma) for 30 min at room temperature in the dark, and then precipitated with acetone (
HPLC Plus, Sigma) overnight at −20 °C. The dried sample was resuspended in 50 mM ammonium bicarbonate (
BioUltra, Sigma) and digested overnight at 37 °C with trypsin (
Sequencing Grade Modified Trypsin, Promega) in a 1:50 trypsin:sample ratio. A second digestion was performed for 3 h at 37 °C, by adding trypsin in a 1:100 trypsin:sample ratio with 80% (v/v) acetonitrile (
Optima LC/MS grade, Fisher Scientific). The sample was dried on a SpeedVac (ThermoSavant Scientific) and resuspended in 5% Formic acid (
Optima LC/MS grade, Fisher Scientific) to perform peptide cleanup using C18 microcolumns (
OMIX C18 pipette tips, Agilent), and then dried again.
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