analysis for method evaluation was performed using an Orbitrap Eclipse
mass spectrometer (Thermo Scientific, San Jose, CA, USA) coupled to
an UltiMate 3000 LC system (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Germering, Germany).
For these short gradients (5, 10, and 15 min), a self-packed trap
column (XBridge Premier Peptide BEH C18, 2.5 μm, 150 μm
i.d., 3 cm length, 130 Å; Waters, Milford, MA, USA) and a self-packed
analytical column (XBridge Premier Peptide BEH C18, 2.5 μm,
75 μm i.d., 5 cm length, 130 Å; Waters, Milford, MA, USA)
were used. The mobile phases were as follows: for the (i) positive
ion mode, (A) 0.1% FA in H2O and (B) 0.1% FA and 95% ACN
in water and for the (ii) negative ion mode, (A) 2.5 mM imidazole
and 3% IPA in water and (B) 2.5 mM imidazole, 3% IPA, and 95% ACN
in water. The loading solvent was in both cases mobile phase A. The
gradient was from 2 to 40% B in the corresponding minutes of the gradient
(5, 10, or 15 min) at a flow rate of 1.5 μL/min. Full MS scans
were acquired with 240,000 resolution. For the Thermo Scientific Pierce
HeLa protein digest standard, 500 ng of the sample was injected. In
the case of the digestion with the different enzymes, 1 μg of
HeLa digest was loaded on the column. For each condition (positive
and negative), each chromatogram time (5, 10, and 15 min), and each
enzyme (trypsin, GluC, LysC, and AspN), the sample was injected in
quadruplicate.