The procedure for LC-MS/MS was performed as described previously15 (link). The PAG1 immunoprecipitates were resolved by SDS-PAGE. Protein bands visible after coomassie blue R250 (Sigma, St. Louis, MO, USA) staining were subjected to in-gel reduction, carboxyamidomethylation and tryptic digestion. Digested peptides were measured on a Dionex Ultimate 3000 nano-LC system coupled to a linear quadrupole ion trap-Orbitrap mass spectrometer equipped with a nanoelectrospray ion source 16 (link). Protein identification was performed by searching the data against the databases using Mascot Deamon(Matrix Science, London, UK; version 2.3.01). Subcellular location of the identified proteins was determined using DAVID bioinformatics resources.