HermoFinnegan LTQ Orbitrap tandem mass spectrometer with a nano-electrospray ion source

September 12, 2017

HermoFinnegan LTQ Orbitrap tandem mass spectrometer with a nano-electrospray ion source operated with a fragment-ion mass tolerance of 0.5 Daltons. Proteins in the sample were identified by matching the peptides predicted from the tandem mass spectra data against the complete L. Docosahexaenoyl ethanolamide chemical information monocytogenes non-redundant database of the National Centre for Biotechnology Institute (NCBI) using the Computational Proteomics Analysis System (CPAS) Version 8.1 (www.labkey.org). Searches were semi-tryptic, with fixed modifications (cysteine carbamidomethylation-57 Daltons) allowing no missed cleavages, and used the X!Tandem algorithm (www.thegpm.org/tandem/). Spectra counts within each sample were determined using TPP Xpress Quantitation software (Version 2.1) in conjunction with X!Tandem. Functional assignment of protein identifications was predicted manually using The Institute for Genomic ResearchComprehensive Microbial Resource (JCVI-CMR) (http://cmr.jcvi. org/tigr-scripts/CMR/GenomePage.cgi?org = ntlm01), GenoList L. monocytogenes serovar 1/2a EGD-e database (Version 3) (http:// genodb.pasteur.fr/cgi-bin/WebObjects/GenoList.woa/wa/ goToTaxoRank?level = Listeria monocytogenes 20EGD-e), and the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) (http://www.genome.jp/kegg/). All searches were run through the Trans Proteomic Pipeline (TPP; Version 3.4) for statistical purposes. The TPP analysis utilised the “Peptide Prophet” and “Protein Prophet” algorithms as previously described [14] to enable the level of false positive peptide and protein identifications to be estimated and to generate a peptide and protein error rate. Identifications with an average peptide prophet error rate (APPER) and protein error rate (PER) of .0.3/1, and protein identifications assigned based on a single unique peptide, were not considered for further analysis. Relative protein abundances between growth Linolenic acid methyl ester site conditions were determined using the spectra counting method [15]. Spectra counts were averaged between biological replicates and normalised to account for sampling depth [16]. Statistical significance of differences in spectra abundances for protein identifications between samples was assessed using a likelihood ratio test for independence (G-test) adjusted using the William’s correction (Gadj) to reduce false positive rates [17,18]. Significance was assigned at p#0.05 (Gadj 3.841). Only those protein identifications that met the filtering criteria (APPER and PER of .0.3/1) and that differed significantly from the control treatment are discussed.Uncoupling of Oxidative PhosphorylationOxidative phosphorylation was uncoupled in alkaline adapted L. monocytogenes EGD-e cells using the ionophore carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenyl hydrazone (CCCP; 23977191 Sigma-Aldrich, Australia) [6,19]. Cultures were adapted to growth at pH7.3 and 9.0 as described previously. Replicate 10 mL cultures of each pH condition were prepared, incubated at 37uC, and CCCP was added to give a final concentration of 5 uM at mid-exponential growth phase (OD <0.4). Growth was measured turbidimetrically at 600 nm using a Spectronic 20D spectrophotometer (Milton Roy, USA) until the optical density ceased to change.Lag phase Determination Following an Abrupt Shift to Low Oxygen TensionLow oxygen tension culture conditions were prepared using 500 mL of BHI broth in a jacketed New Brunswick BioFlo/CelliGen 115 benchtop fermentor/bioreactor (John Morris Scientific, Australia). A dissolved oxygen (DO) concentration of < 1 (60.5.HermoFinnegan LTQ Orbitrap tandem mass spectrometer with a nano-electrospray ion source operated with a fragment-ion mass tolerance of 0.5 Daltons. Proteins in the sample were identified by matching the peptides predicted from the tandem mass spectra data against the complete L. monocytogenes non-redundant database of the National Centre for Biotechnology Institute (NCBI) using the Computational Proteomics Analysis System (CPAS) Version 8.1 (www.labkey.org). Searches were semi-tryptic, with fixed modifications (cysteine carbamidomethylation-57 Daltons) allowing no missed cleavages, and used the X!Tandem algorithm (www.thegpm.org/tandem/). Spectra counts within each sample were determined using TPP Xpress Quantitation software (Version 2.1) in conjunction with X!Tandem. Functional assignment of protein identifications was predicted manually using The Institute for Genomic ResearchComprehensive Microbial Resource (JCVI-CMR) (http://cmr.jcvi. org/tigr-scripts/CMR/GenomePage.cgi?org = ntlm01), GenoList L. monocytogenes serovar 1/2a EGD-e database (Version 3) (http:// genodb.pasteur.fr/cgi-bin/WebObjects/GenoList.woa/wa/ goToTaxoRank?level = Listeria monocytogenes 20EGD-e), and the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) (http://www.genome.jp/kegg/). All searches were run through the Trans Proteomic Pipeline (TPP; Version 3.4) for statistical purposes. The TPP analysis utilised the ``Peptide Prophet'' and ``Protein Prophet'' algorithms as previously described [14] to enable the level of false positive peptide and protein identifications to be estimated and to generate a peptide and protein error rate. Identifications with an average peptide prophet error rate (APPER) and protein error rate (PER) of .0.3/1, and protein identifications assigned based on a single unique peptide, were not considered for further analysis. Relative protein abundances between growth conditions were determined using the spectra counting method [15]. Spectra counts were averaged between biological replicates and normalised to account for sampling depth [16]. Statistical significance of differences in spectra abundances for protein identifications between samples was assessed using a likelihood ratio test for independence (G-test) adjusted using the William's correction (Gadj) to reduce false positive rates [17,18]. Significance was assigned at p#0.05 (Gadj 3.841). Only those protein identifications that met the filtering criteria (APPER and PER of .0.3/1) and that differed significantly from the control treatment are discussed.Uncoupling of Oxidative PhosphorylationOxidative phosphorylation was uncoupled in alkaline adapted L. monocytogenes EGD-e cells using the ionophore carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenyl hydrazone (CCCP; 23977191 Sigma-Aldrich, Australia) [6,19]. Cultures were adapted to growth at pH7.3 and 9.0 as described previously. Replicate 10 mL cultures of each pH condition were prepared, incubated at 37uC, and CCCP was added to give a final concentration of 5 uM at mid-exponential growth phase (OD <0.4). Growth was measured turbidimetrically at 600 nm using a Spectronic 20D spectrophotometer (Milton Roy, USA) until the optical density ceased to change.Lag phase Determination Following an Abrupt Shift to Low Oxygen TensionLow oxygen tension culture conditions were prepared using 500 mL of BHI broth in a jacketed New Brunswick BioFlo/CelliGen 115 benchtop fermentor/bioreactor (John Morris Scientific, Australia). A dissolved oxygen (DO) concentration of < 1 (60.5.