Liquid chromatography was performed on an
Agilent 1290 Infinity II LC system (Agilent Technologies, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.) equipped with a diode array detector (DAD), binary pump, multicolumn thermostat, and autosampler. The mobile phases used for the separation were MS-grade water with 0.1% formic acid (solvent A) and MS-grade acetonitrile with 0.1% formic acid (solvent B). Gradient elution of proteins from the analytical column was performed using a gradient starting at 15% B at a flow rate of 0.6 mL/min. The mobile phase was then 15–95% B for 3.5 min, and maintained at 95% B for 0.5 min, followed by 15% B for 0.5 min and re-equilibration of column with 15% B for 1.5 min. Separations were performed at a column temperature of 50 °C with a total run time of 6 min. A varying volume of sample was injected onto the column for each experimental run.
The MS experiment was conducted on an
Agilent 6230 TOF system (Agilent Technologies, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.), equipped with a DUAL AJS ESI source operating in positive ion mode. MS spectra were acquired from
m/z 600 to 5000 at a scan rate of 1 spectrum per second with Profile format. The electrospray ionization (ESI) source parameters were used as follows: gas temperature, 290 °C; gas flow, 13 L/min; nebulizer, 25 psi; sheath gas temperature: 375 °C; Vcap, 4500 V; nozzle, 1000 V; fragmentor, 175 V.
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