The dried samples were dissolved in 0.1% formic acid to be analyzed in an Easy-nLC II system coupled to an ion trap LTQ-Orbitrap-Velos-Pro hybrid mass spectrometer (Thermo Scientific) [17 (link)].
The detection was performed with the following experimental conditions: survey scans from 400 to 1600 amu (1 μscan), twenty data dependent MS/MS scans, isolation width of 2u (in mass-to-charge ratio units), normalized collision energy of 35%, and dynamic exclusion applied for 30 s periods. Peptide identification from raw data was carried out using the SEQUEST algorithm (Proteome Discoverer 1.4, Thermo Scientific). A database search was performed against uniprot-Homo.fasta, uniprot-Bos.fasta and uniprot-Homo-Bos.fasta.
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