from in-gel digestion
and bRPLC fractionation were analyzed on LTQ-Orbitrap Velos and LTQ-Orbitrap
Elite mass spectrometers (Thermo Electron, Bremen, Germany) interfaced
with an Easy-nLC II nanoflow liquid chromatography system (Thermo
Scientific, Odense, Southern Denmark). The peptide digests were reconstituted
in 0.1% formic acid and loaded onto a trap column (75 μm ×
2 cm) packed in-house with Magic C18 AQ (Michrom Bioresources,
Inc., Auburn, CA) at a flow rate of 5 μL/min with solvent A.
Peptides were resolved on an analytical column (75 μm ×
10 cm) at a flow rate of 350 nL/min using a linear gradient of 7–30%
solvent B (0.1% formic acid in 95% acetonitrile) over 60 min. Data-dependent
acquisition with full scans in the 350–1800 m/z range were carried out using an Orbitrap mass
analyzer at a mass resolution of 60 000 in Velos and 120 000
in Elite at 400 m/z, respectively.
Twenty of the most intense precursor ions from a survey scan were
selected for MS/MS and were fragmented using higher-energy collision dissociation
(HCD) with 35% normalized collision energy and detected at a mass
resolution of 15 000 and 30 000 at 400 m/z in Velos and Elite, respectively. Dynamic exclusion
was set for 30 s with a 10 ppm mass window.