Sweat glands from DC tissue samples (n = 9) and sweat glands isolated from normal palmar skin (n = 9) were denatured, alkylated, and digested as previously described [41 (link)]. Samples were injected into Thermo ScientificTM DionexTM UltimateTM 3000 RSLCnano systems equipped with NCS-3500RS (microflow) module and Q Exactive Plus—OrbitrapTM spectrometer (Thermo Fisher Scientific) operated in Data-Independent Acquisition (DIA) mode for peptide and protein quantification. Raw data was processed and analyzed by DIA-NN software [42 (link)] using default parameters. Q value (FDR) cut-off on precursor and protein level was applied 1%. All selected precursors that passed the filters were used for quantification. Proteomic data was analyzed using the Perseus software platform version 1.6.15.0 (www.perseus-framework.org (accessed on 10 November 2022) [43 (link)]). Samples with few data (names in manuscript: Control 7–9, DC 7–9; names in protein dataset: N1, N2 and N8, DD0, DD5 and DD7) as well as keratins, and immunoglobulins were removed. Data was filtered for at least 70% of the total valid values, and missing values were imputed from normal distribution width 0.3, down-shift 1.8. Up- or down-regulation was considered significant when p value < 0.05. The Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) mapper was used to visualize the signaling pathways involved, and enrichment analysis was performed using EnrichR tool (www.maayanlab.cloud/Enrichr/ (accessed on 10 November 2022)).
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