In-gel digestion,
nano-LC–MS/MS, and peptide identification was performed as
previously described with the following modifications.
45 (link) Protein digestion was performed using chymotrypsin.
Reverse phase chromatography was performed using an in-house packed
column (40 cm long × 75 μm ID × 360 OD, Dr. Maisch
GmbH
ReproSil-Pur 120 C18-AQ 1.9 μm beads) and a 120 min gradient.
Raw files were searched using the Mascot algorithm (version 2.5.1)
against a protein database constructed of combining the FASTA file
for CAT protein (modified to generate 20 versions each with a different
natural or modified amino acid at position 112) with a contaminant
database (cRAP, downloaded 11–21–16 from
http://www.thegpm.org)
via Proteome Discoverer 2.1. Variable modifications include
oxidation of Met, carboxyamidomethylation of Cys, and phosphorylation
of Ser, Thr, or Tyr. Only peptide spectral matches with an expectation
value of less than 0.01 (“High Confidence”) were used
(
Table S6). As a control, wild-type CAT
protein was translated
via wild-type EF-Tu and as
expected, only the wild-type amino acid, aspartic acid, was translated
at position 112 (
Table S7). CAT protein
translation mediated by variants EF-coli, EF-N63A, EF-K263A, and EF-N273A
were not analyzed using mass spectrometry because protein expression
levels were too low to isolate purified CAT protein.
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