protein extraction and tryptic digestion were performed using the
filter-aid sample preparation method. After removing the supernatant,
the exosome pellet was lysed with 30 μL of lysis buffer composed
of 0.1 M Tris-HCl, 4% SDS, and 0.1 M 1,4-dithiothreitol at 99 °C
for 5 min. The extract was cooled down to room temperature, mixed
with 200 μL of 8 M urea, transferred to a centrifugal spin YM-30
filter (Millipore, Billerica, MA), and centrifuged at 14,000g for 20 min. Then, 100 μL of 50 mM iodoacetamide
in 8 M urea was added to the filter and incubated in the dark for
20 min. The filter was then subsequently washed with 8 M urea and
50 mM NH4HCO3, respectively, three times each.
Then, 400 ng of trypsin (Promega, Madison, MI) in 75 μL of 50
mM NH4HCO3 was added to the filter and incubated
at 37 °C overnight. The released peptides were collected by centrifugation
and desalted with a ZipTip C18 tip (Millipore, Billerica, MA). The
eluted peptides were dried down in a SpeedVac concentrator (Thermo)
for the following mass spectrometry analysis.