The shell samples collected from sucrose fractions were washed with PBS buffer and were treated for mass spectrometry analysis24 (link). Data-dependent LC−MS/MS analysis was performed on a QExactive quadrupole-Orbitrap mass spectrometer coupled to a Dionex Ultimate 3000 RSLC nano-liquid chromatograph (Thermo Fisher, UK) installed with Xcalibur software version 4.1. A Mascot Generic File, created by Progenesis QI (Version 3.0, Nonlinear Dynamics, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK), was searched against the H. neapolitanus carboxysome protein database from UniProt.
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