The mass spectrometry system used for the proteomic approach was a nanoAcquity UPLC-Xevo QTof MS system (Waters, Manchester, UK), using the Protein Lynx Global Server (PLGS) software, after downloading the Uniprot database. The difference in expression between the groups was analyzed by t-test (p < 0.05), using the PLGS software. After protein identification and categorization, Cytoscape 3.6.1 (Java®) software was used for bioinformatics analyses with the ClusterMarker plugin for protein-protein interaction networks and the ClueGO plugin for the determination of biological process groups (Bindea et al., 2009 (link)).
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