For liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) analysis, proteins were separated by 10% SDS-PAGE under reducing conditions. Proteins were visualised by silver staining with ProteoSilver Plus (Sigma), bands were excised from both the OPTN-IP and control-IP gel lanes and processed for in-gel digestion and LC-MS/MS with the LTQ-Orbitrap mass spectrometer (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Loughborough, UK), as previously described (Mulvey et al., 2013 (link)). Raw MS files were analysed by the Mascot search engine 2.3.02 (Matrix Science, London, UK) and searched against a SwissProt human database 2013_10 (containing 39,696 entries including common contaminants). Mascot search analysis parameters included: trypsin enzyme specificity, allowance for 2 missed cleavages, peptide mass tolerance of 20 ppm for precursor ions and fragment mass tolerance of 0.8 Da. Oxidation (M) was selected as a variable modification and carbamidomethyl (C) was selected as a fixed modification.
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