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Fecal samples of mice exposed to heavy metals

ABSTRACT: Fecal samples of C57BL/6 mice exposed to relevant levels of cadmium and arsenic over two weeks in the drinking water. Sample types include controls, arsenic and cadmium groups. The samples were analyzed by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) and data was recorded in a data dependent manner, on a Q-Exactive (Thermo scientific, Bremen, Germany). An EASY nLC-1000 liquid chromatography system (Thermo scientific, Odense, Denmark) was coupled to the mass spectrometer through a 2 cm C18 pre-column (300 um inner diameter and 1.9 um particle size) and a self-packed 15 cm (Pico Frit columns from New Objective with a 75 um inner diameter, packed with ( 1.9um C18 Dr Maisch Mat. No. r119.a). Metabolites were eluted with a mobile phase consisting of solvent A (0.1% formic acid) and B (80% acetonitrile in 0.1% formic acid). The concentration of solvent B was linearly increased from 2-10% over 3 min and from 10-95% solution B over 15min. Solvent B was maintained at 95% for 2 min. Full scans were acquired in the Orbitrap with a resolution of 70000, maximum injection time of 20 ms and a scan range of 80-1200 m/z using a Top 10 method with an isolation window of 1.6 Da and a dynamic exclusion time of 15 sec. For the MS/MS scans the resolution was adjusted to 17500 and maximum injection time of 60 ms. Ions were fragmented in a higher-energy collision dissociation (HCD) cell with normalized collision energy (NCE) of 30%.

INSTRUMENT(S): Q-Exactive

ORGANISM(S): C57bl/6

SUBMITTER: Christopher Rensing

PROVIDER: MSV000082891 | MassIVE | Mon Sep 03 08:18:00 BST 2018

REPOSITORIES: MassIVE

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Project description:Abstract still has to be written. The obtained peptide mixtures were introduced into an LC-MS/MS system, the Ultimate 3000 (Dionex, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) in-line connected to an LTQ Orbitrap XL mass spectrometer (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Bremen, Germany). Samples were first loaded on a trapping column (made in-house, 100 um internal diameter (I.D.) x 20 mm, 5 um beads C18 Reprosil-HD, Dr. Maisch). After back-flushing from the trapping column, the sample was loaded on a reverse-phase column (made in-house, 75 um I.D. x 150 mm, 5 um beads C18 Reprosil-HD, Dr. Maisch). Peptides were loaded with solvent A (0.1% trifluoroacetic acid, 2% acetonitrile), and were separated with a linear gradient from 2% solvent A' (0.05% formic acid) to 55% solvent B' (0.05% formic acid and 80% acetonitrile) at a flow rate of 300 nL/min followed by a wash reaching 100% solvent B'. The mass spectrometer was operated in data-dependent mode, automatically switching between MS and MS/MS acquisition for the six most abundant peaks in a given MS spectrum. Full scan MS spectra were acquired in the Orbitrap at a target value of 1E6 with a resolution of 60,000. The six most intense ions were then isolated for fragmentation in the linear ion trap, with a dynamic exclusion of 60 s. Peptides were fragmented after filling the ion trap at a target value of 1E4 ion counts. From the MS/MS data in each LC run, Mascot Generic Files were created using the Mascot Distiller software (version 2.3.01, Matrix Science). While generating these peak lists, grouping of spectra was allowed with a maximum intermediate retention time of 30 s and a maximum intermediate scan count of 5 was used where possible. Grouping was done with 0.005 Da precursor tolerance. A peak list was only generated when the MS/MS spectrum contained more than 10 peaks. There was no de-isotoping and the relative signal to noise limit was set at 2. These peak lists were then searched with the Mascot search engine (Matrix Science) using the Mascot Daemon interface (version 2.3, Matrix Science). Spectra were searched against the human (H. sapiens) Swiss-Prot database. 13C2D3-acetylation of lysine side-chains, carbamidomethylation of cysteine and methionine oxidation to methionine-sulfoxide were set as fixed modifications for the N-terminal COFRADIC analyses. Variable modifications were 13C2D3-acetylation and acetylation of protein N-termini. Pyroglutamate formation of N-terminal glutamine was additionally set as a variable modification. Mass tolerance on precursor ions was set to 10 ppm (with Mascot's C13 option set to 1) and on fragment ions to 0.5 Da. Endoproteinase semi-Arg-C/P (Arg-C specificity with arginine-proline cleavage allowed) was set as enzyme allowing no missed cleavages. The peptide charge was set to 1+, 2+, 3+ and instrument setting was put to ESI-TRAP. Only peptides that were ranked one and scored above the threshold score, set at 99% confidence, were withheld. Quantification of the degree of Nt-Acetylation was performed as described previously (1). All data management was done in ms_lims (2).

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