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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jan 10.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Protoc Protein Sci. 2016 Nov 1;86:24.8.1–24.8.19. doi: 10.1002/cpps.16

Table 3.

Mass spectrometry parameter settings on Q Exactive for acquiring LC-MS/MS data.

MS parameter Value
Full MS
Microscans 1
Resolution (at m/z 200) 70,000
Automatic gain control target 1.00E+06
Maximum ion time 50 ms
Scan range 350–1600
dd-MS2
Microscans 1
Resolution (at m/z 200) 17,500
Automatic gain control target 1.00E+05
Maximum ion time 250 ms
Loop count 12
Isolation window 3 m/z
Fixed first mass 100 m/z
Normalized collision energy 24
dd settings
Underfill ratio 5%
Intensity threshold 1.00E+04
Charge exclusion Unassigned, 1, ≥5
Peptide match on
Exclude isotopes on
Dynamic exclusion 20 s