Product Ion Selection Without Spectral Library | sa825 | 2019-08-29 05:10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Good afternoon, I wanted to ask how I can select the best product ion for a peptide in Skyline? I have been trying to detect heavy labelled peptides using PRM on a Thermo Q Exacitive. These peptides have already been detected using DDA on the same instrument but when I run PRM, I don't get detection of all the peptides and they are sometimes detected at different retention times to what is expected. To overcome this issue, I considered that there were possibly too many precursors being viewed within the same time window on the Thermo so I have selected 1 precursor per peptide per protein. However, this has only yielded a slight improvement in detection. I am now considering reducing the number of product ions per precursor to just 1 per precursor. What do you think of this and if so how do I select the best product ion? I have done the Method Editing Tutorial so I know I can rank the product ions using a spectral library but I didn't use one when I created my peptide list as I was trying to do a targeted approach so using one here doesn't seem the right option? I really hope all of that makes sense? Thanks, Shimon |
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