Protein bands were stained using the ProteoSilver Plus Silver Stain Kit (Sigma, St. Louis, MO) according to the manufacturer’s protocol and excised from the polyacrylamide gel. After washing, the gels were digested by incubation in buffer with trypsin [32] (link). The tryptic digests were analyzed by an LC-MS/MS system as described previously [33] (link). Database search was performed using MASCOT software (version 2.2.1., Matrix Science Ltd., London) and the NCBI Refseq sequence database under the parameters as described previously [34] (link).
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