SERPINs and proteases were stored on ice, mixed, and loaded into gold-coated needles prepared in-house and analyzed by native MS on a modified Orbitrap Eclipse Tribrid mass spectrometer in intact protein detection mode (Thermo Fisher Scientific).22 (link) Briefly, ion transmission was tuned for high m/z ions, higher-energy collisional dissociation (HCD) collision energies were optimized in the ion routing multipole for higher charge state species and the ion trap was optimized to trap, isolate and activate high m/z ions (up to 8,000 m/z). Typical MS settings were spray voltage 1.2 kV, and source temperature 150°C. The source fragmentation voltage was kept at 0–50 V to minimize in-source dissociation of glycoprotein complexes.50 (link)
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