was injected for analysis using a Thermo Fisher Easy nLC 1200 nanoflow
liquid chromatography system coupled to a Thermo Fisher Q-Exactive
high-resolution Orbitrap mass spectrometer. The sample was separated
on a Thermo Scientific Easy-Spray C18 Column (2 μm pore size,
150 mm long, 0.050 mm internal diameter) equipped with a trap column
(Acclaim PepMap 100 C18 LC column with a 3 μm particle size,
150 mm long, 0.075 mm internal diameter). Samples were separated using
water with 0.1% formic acid (solvent A) and 80% acetonitrile with
0.1% formic acid (solvent B), using a gradient of solvents flowing
at 300 nL/min during which the concentration of B increased from 2%
to 24% over 60 min, 24% to 36% over 10 min, and 36% to 98% over 1
min and then held at 98% for 15 min. Samples were ionized at 300 °C
and 200 V with an S-lens RF level of 80. A full scan (resolution of
70 000, automatic gain control target of 3 × 106, maximum injection time of 40 ms, and scan range of 400 to 1600 m/z) coupled to a data-dependent MS-2 top
10 scan (resolution of 17 500, automatic gain control target
of 5 × 104, maximum injection time of 150 ms, 0.8 m/z isolation window, normalized collision
energy of 27, and dynamic exclusion period of 10 s) was performed
to generate high-resolution parent and fragment masses of ionized
peptides.