Serum samples from volunteer donors were first enriched for 14 abundant serum proteins and digested with trypsin. Glycopeptides were enriched from the peptide mixture using either size exclusion chromatography or mixed-mode anion exchange cartridge (MAX), and analyzed by mass spectrometry (MS) in data dependent acquisition mode an Orbitrap Eclipse mass spectrometer (Thermo Fisher Scientific) [11 (link), 16 (link), 17 (link)]. Data was searched in pGlyco3 [18 (link)]. Commercial bovine (Thermo Scientific) and rabbit (Sigma) serum albumin were digested followed by glycopeptide enrichment using MAX. Details of sample preparation and MS analysis are provided in Additional file 1: Supplemental Methods.
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