Prostate psa test preparation

J Proteome Res ; 20 1 :01 Confidence in a peptide-spectrum match can be characterized by a score value given by the database search engines, and it depends on the information content and the quality of the spectrum.

The latter are influenced by experimental parameters, of which the collision energy is the most important one in the case prostate psa test preparation collision-induced dissociation. We examined how the identification score of the Byonic and Andromeda MaxQuant engines varies with collision energy for more than a thousand individual peptides from a HeLa tryptic digest on a QTof instrument.

We thereby extended our earlier study on Mascot scores and corroborated its findings on the potential bimodal nature of this energy dependence.

Best performing methods differ for the three engines, suggesting that the experimental parameters should be fine-tuned to the choice of the engine.

We also recommend a simple approach and provide reference data to ease the transfer of the optimized methods to other mass spectrometers relevant for proteomics.

We demonstrate the utility of this approach on an Orbitrap instrument.