diluted 2-fold followed by precipitation overnight in 6 volumes ice cold
acetone. Precipitates were dissolved and chemically reduced in 35uL 8M Urea/70mM
ammonium bicarbionate/20mM Dithiothreitol followed by alkylation (50mM
iodoacetamide). Samples were diluted and digested using Endopeptidase LysC (Wako
Chemicals) followed by additional dilution and trypsinization (Promega).
Acidified tryptic peptides were desalted53 (link) and analyzed using nano-LC-MS/MS (EasyLC1200 and Fusion
Lumos operated in High-High mode, ThermoFisher). Data were queried against
UniProt human database (March 2016) concatenated with common contaminants and
quantitated using MaxQuant v. 1.6.0.13 54 (link). False discovery rates of 2% and 1% was applied to
peptide and protein identification. The iBAQ55 (link) values obtained from MaxQuant, were filtered, using
Perseus software56 (link), and the
following filters; 80% of replicates must contain a valid value in either the
‘experiment’ (n=6) and/or ‘control’ (n=2) groups,
protein must be matched to a minimum of 3 razor/unique peptides. Missing values
in the ‘control’ samples were imputed (Perseus) from a normal
distribution. For visualization only, a t-test was performed (