HPLC-UV clean-up and enrichment of the enzyme free samples were performed on a 4.6 mm × 150 mm Atlantis® dC18 100 Å column (5 μm particle size, Waters, Milford, MA, USA), loaded with a 4.6 mm × 20 mm Guard Column 2 pK (Atlantis® dC18 5 μm) on a Waters Alliance® HPLC System (Waters e2695Separations Module, including a Waters 2998 Photodiode Array (PDA) detector as previously described [22 (link)]. The gradient program used an eluent composed by 2 mM ammonium formate, acetonitrile and methanol, while the fractions containing the lesions were collected, freeze-dried, pooled, freeze-dried again, and redissolved in Milli-Q water before been injected for LC-MS/MS analysis [21 (link),67 (link),68 (link)].
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