Using average mass for intact proteins

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Using average mass for intact proteins soren  2025-10-16 11:14
 

Dear Skyline Support Team,

I am trying to build a quantitation workflow for intact proteins, where I wish to obtain XICs for my "naked" protein, and the protein with a glycosylation.
My protein has an average mass of 76132 Da, and the most abundant charge states are between 50-55+. Following some other helpful advice, I defined my protein as a long peptide and created a modified and nonmodified version. My issue is, that I record the data with a Q-TOF and since I do not have isotopic resolution, I need to use the average mass to get Skyline to pick the correct peaks. However, when I navigate to Settings>Transition settings>Prediction and switch 'Precursor mass' to Average I am met with the following message: "High resolution MS1 filtering requires use of monoisotopic precursor masses". Does anybody know how to select average masses for this type of analysis? Thank for your help! Version is Skyline-daily (64-bit) 25.1.1.206
Best
Soren

 
 
Nick Shulman responded:  2025-10-16 11:23
I believe you just need to go to the "Full Scan" tab at "Settings > Transition Settings" and change the "Precursor mass analyzer" to "QIT".

When the precursor mass analyzer is QIT, Skyline will not calculate the precursor isotope distribution but will instead use the type of mass specified by the "Precursor mass" choice on the "Prediction" tab.
-- Nick