Immunoprecipitation was performed on 3 mg of protein with RON c-terminal (E9, Santa Cruz) and RON N-terminal (RON8, Imclone) then beads were submitted and sample preparation performed as previously described 41 (link). Trypsin-digested peptides were analyzed by high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) coupled with tandem mass spectroscopy (LC-MS/MS) using nano-spray ionization 42 (link). The nanospray ionization experiments were performed using a TripleTof 5600 hybrid mass spectrometer (ABSCIEX) interfaced with nano-scale reversed-phase HPLC (Tempo). The collected data were analyzed using MASCOT® (Matrix Sciences) and Protein Pilot 4.0 (ABSCIEX) for peptide identifications. RON isoform protein sequences are not normally included in the Protein Pilot analysis software and were supplemented in order to determine their detection.