Each membrane protein fraction isolated from the indicated lung cancer cell lines by the membrane protein enrichment kit was separated by SDS-PAGE and then subjected to in-gel enzymatic digestion. The tryptic peptides were identified by the linear ion trap-Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer (LTQ-FTICR MS, Thermo Electron) independently in duplicate 15 (link). Identification of protein and label-free quantitative analysis were performed using MaxQuant 16 (link) and MaxLFQ 17 (link) software, respectively. A total of 233 proteins that exhibited at least a 2-fold increase in brain-metastatic cancer cells (Bm7 vs. F4) were identified.
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