IBAQ protein standards

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IBAQ protein standards mvm35  2025-03-26 09:04
 

Dear Skyline support.

we have 7 potential protein standards for IBAQ MS experiment.

Before I order in the protein standards I would like to check if the complete (no missed cleavages) in silico tryptic digest of the protein standards give over lapping peptide sequences to my in silico digest proteome.

Can Skyline be used to search this ?

Many thanks,
Mehul

 
 
Nick Shulman responded:  2025-03-26 09:30
One way to figure out whether the peptides in your Skyline document can be found in another proteome is to use the:
Refine > Associate Proteins
menu item and then provide the FASTA file of your other proteome and see whether any of the peptides got moved into a protein from the provide FASTA, or were moved into the "unmapped" peptide list.

The usual way to get the peptides from the 7 protein standards into the Skyline document is to create a FASTA file with those 7 protein sequences.
Then you can insert those into the document using the "File > Import > FASTA" menu item or "Edit > Insert > FASTA".

There is another way to check for protein uniqueness involving going to the "Digestion" tab at "Settings > Peptide Settings" and setting up a background proteome. Once you have a background proteome you can use the "Edit > Unique Peptides" menu item. However, "Refine > Associate Proteins" is probably easier.

By the way, I recommend using Skyline-daily instead of Skyline 24.1 for this because in Skyline-daily we changed it so Associate Proteins would find non-tryptic peptides in the provided FASTA file. In Skyline 24.1, a peptide that was present in the FASTA file but where one or both ends was not a tryptic cleavage site would end up being moved to the "unmapped" peptide list.

You can install Skyline-daily using the "Skyline-daily (beta)" button on the main Skyline page:
https://skyline.ms/project/home/software/Skyline/begin.view
-- Nick