Project description:The concentrations of twenty kinds of hormones in the follicular fluid were detected by high-performance liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS/MS). An Agilent 1200 series high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) instrument (Agilent, USA) was utilized. A PAL autosampler (CTC, Swiss) and a Gemini-NX-C18 column (2.0 mm×50 mm, 3 μm, Waters, USA) were used. The ion source was an API-4000 quadrupole electrostatic field orbit trap high-resolution mass spectrometer (Applied Biosystems, USA). The scanning mode was multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) (Agilent-1200 LC system coupled to an API400 mass spectrometer).
Project description:Protein samples were immunoprecipitated using anti-HA beads. Eluates were separated by SDS-PAGE and Coomassie-stained, and target bands were excised for in-gel tryptic digestion after destaining, reduction, and alkylation. The resulting peptides were lyophilized and analyzed by LC-MS/MS on a Q Exactive mass spectrometer (ThermoFisher) coupled to an Easy nLC 1200 system. Peptides were separated on a C18 column using a 120-minute gradient. MS data were acquired in data-dependent acquisition mode with two replicates per condition.
Project description:MIADB: a cumulative collection of 172 tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) of a vast array of monoterpene indole alkaloids. Samples were analyzed using an Agilent LC-MS system composed of an Agilent 1260 Infinity HPLC coupled to an Agilent 6530 ESI-Q-TOF-MS operating in positive mode. A Sunfire analytical C18 column (150 × 2.1 mm; i.d. 3.5 μm, Waters) was used, with a flow rate of 250 μL/min and a linear gradient from 5% B (A: H2O + 0.1% formic acid, B: MeOH) to 100% B over 30 min. ESI conditions were set with the capillary temperature at 320 °C, source voltage at 3.5 kV, and a sheath gas flow rate of 10 L/min. The divert valve was set to waste for the first 3 min. There were four scan events: positive MS, window from m/z 100−1200, then three data-dependent MS/MS scans of the first, second, and third most intense ions from the first scan event. MS/MS settings were three fixed collision energies (30, 50, and 70 eV), default charge of 1, minimum intensity of 5000 counts, and isolation width of m/z 2. In the positive-ion mode, purine C5H4N4 [M + H]+ ion (m/z 121.050873) and the hexakis(1H,1H,3H-tetrafluoropropoxy)-phosphazene C18H18F24N3O6P3 [M + H]+ ion (m/z 922.009 798) were used as internal lock masses. Full scans were acquired at a resolution of 11 000 (at m/z 922). A permanent MS/MS exclusion list criterion was set to prevent oversampling of the internal calibrant.
Project description:Samples were subjected to LC–MS analysis using a dual pressure LTQ-Orbitrap Elite mass spectrometer (Thermo Fisher Scientific) connected to an electrospray ion source (Thermo Fisher Scientific) as recently described (PMID: 23017020). Peptide separation was carried out on an EASY nLC-1000 system (Thermo Fisher Scientific) equipped with a RP-HPLC column (75 μm × 30 cm) packed in-house with C18 resin (ReproSil-Pur C18–AQ, 1.9 μm resin, Dr. Maisch GmbH). A step-wise gradient from 95% solvent A (0.1% formic acid) and 5% solvent B (80% acetonitrile, 0.1% formic acid) to 50% solvent B over 60 min at a flow rate of 0.2 μl/min was used. Data acquisition mode was set to obtain one high resolution MS scan in the FT part of the mass spectrometer at a resolution of 240,000 full width at half-maximum (at m/z 400) followed by 20 MS/MS scans (TOP20) in the linear ion trap of the most intense ions using rapid scan speed. Unassigned and singly charged ions were excluded from analysis. Dynamic exclusion duration was set to 30 seconds.
Project description:Data was collected on a LC-MS/MS system (c-18 column) positive mode. Data analyzing storage conditions of different storage collection devices for human fecal samples.
Project description:Bacteria were washed three times in NaCl (150 mM). Cells were resuspended in 1 ml TSU buffer (50 mM Tris pH 8.0, 0.1% SDS, 2.5 M urea) and lysed by two freeze-thaw cycles in liquid nitrogen. Lysate proteins (40 ug) were separated and digested. Digested peptides were separated by nano-LC using an Ultimate 3000 HPLC and autosampler system (Dionex; Amsterdam, Netherlands). Samples (1 ul) were concentrated and desalted onto a micro C18 pre-column (500 um×2 mm, Michrom Bioresources; Auburn, CA, USA) with H2O:CH3CN (98:2, 0.05% trifluoroacetic acid) at 15 ul min−1. After a 4 min wash the pre-column was switched (Valco 10 port valve; Dionex) into line with a fritless nano column (75 u×~10 cm) containing C18 media (5 u, 200 A Magic; Michrom) manufactured according to Gatlin. Peptides were eluted using a linear gradient of H2O:CH3CN (98:2, 0.1% formic acid) to H2O:CH3CN (64:36, 0.1% formic acid) at 250 nl min−1 over 30 min. High voltage (2000 V) was applied to low volume tee (Upchurch Scientific) and the column tip positioned ~0.5 cm from the heated capillary (T = 280 degrees C) of an Orbitrap Velos (Thermo Electron; Bremen, Germany) mass spectrometer. Positive ions were generated by electrospray and the Orbitrap operated in data dependent acquisition mode (DDA). A survey scan m/z 350–1750 was acquired in the Orbitrap (Resolution = 30,000 at m/z 400, with an accumulation target value of 1,000,000 ions) with lockmass enabled. Up to the 10 most abundant ions (>5,000 counts) with charge states >+2 were sequentially isolated and fragmented within the linear ion trap using collisionally induced dissociation with an activation q = 0.25 and activation time of 30 ms at a target value of 30,000 ions. M/z ratios selected for MS/MS were dynamically excluded for 30 s. Peak lists were generated using Mascot Daemon/extract_msn (Matrix Science, Thermo; London, England) using the default parameters, and submitted to the database search program Mascot (version 2.1, Matrix Science). Search parameters were: Precursor tolerance 4 ppm and product ion tolerances +/-0.4 Da; Oxidation (M) and Carbamidomethyl (C) specified as variable modifications, Enzyme specificity was trypsin, 1 missed cleavage was possible
Project description:Washed three times in NaCl (150 mM). Cells were resuspended in 1 ml TSU buffer (50 mM Tris pH 8.0, 0.1% SDS, 2.5 M urea) and lysed by two freeze-thaw cycles in liquid nitrogen. Lysate proteins (40 ug) were separated and digested. Digested peptides were separated by nano-LC using an Ultimate 3000 HPLC and autosampler system (Dionex; Amsterdam, Netherlands). Samples (1 ul) were concentrated and desalted onto a micro C18 pre-column (500 um×2 mm, Michrom Bioresources; Auburn, CA, USA) with H2O:CH3CN (98:2, 0.05% trifluoroacetic acid) at 15 ul min−1. After a 4 min wash the pre-column was switched (Valco 10 port valve; Dionex) into line with a fritless nano column (75 u×~10 cm) containing C18 media (5 u, 200 A Magic; Michrom) manufactured according to Gatlin. Peptides were eluted using a linear gradient of H2O:CH3CN (98:2, 0.1% formic acid) to H2O:CH3CN (64:36, 0.1% formic acid) at 250 nl min−1 over 30 min. High voltage (2000 V) was applied to low volume tee (Upchurch Scientific) and the column tip positioned ~0.5 cm from the heated capillary (T = 280 degrees C) of an Orbitrap Velos (Thermo Electron; Bremen, Germany) mass spectrometer. Positive ions were generated by electrospray and the Orbitrap operated in data dependent acquisition mode (DDA). A survey scan m/z 350–1750 was acquired in the Orbitrap (Resolution = 30,000 at m/z 400, with an accumulation target value of 1,000,000 ions) with lockmass enabled. Up to the 10 most abundant ions (>5,000 counts) with charge states >+2 were sequentially isolated and fragmented within the linear ion trap using collisionally induced dissociation with an activation q = 0.25 and activation time of 30 ms at a target value of 30,000 ions. M/z ratios selected for MS/MS were dynamically excluded for 30 s. Peak lists were generated using Mascot Daemon/extract_msn (Matrix Science, Thermo; London, England) using the default parameters, and submitted to the database search program Mascot (version 2.1, Matrix Science). Search parameters were: Precursor tolerance 4 ppm and product ion tolerances +/-0.4 Da Oxidation (M) and Carbamidomethyl (C) specified as variable modifications Enzyme specificity was trypsin, 1 missed cleavage was possible
Project description:Genome-wide mapping of gene-microbiome interaction: implication in behavior and effect on microbiome and metabolome. Data was generated on a Thermo Q Exactive and C18 RP UHPLC. Positive polarity acquisition on LC-MS/MS.