After the cell-surface associated protein fraction was separated by SDS-PAGE, protein bands were stained with Coomassie Brilliant Blue and excised. Peptides were prepared for LC-MS/MS analysis by in-gel digestion with trypsin. LC-MS/MS analysis was performed using a LTQ-orbitrap XL system (Thermo Scientific), as described by Tanaka et al. [68 (link)]. The MS/MS spectra of the identified peptides were searched against our own database, which contains SpaA, flagellin, and CmoA sequences, and against non-redundant protein sequences in the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) database, using a MASCOT server (Matrix Science).
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