Table 1

Experimental conditions and statistics on database searches of four individual experiments using a single urine sample


In-gel 1
In-gel 2
In-solution 1
In-solution 2

Urinary protein
150 μg
150 μg
125 μg
125 μg
Albumin removal
-
-
+
+
Protein separation
Invitrogen NuPAGE 4-12% Bis-Tris 1D gel
Agilent mRP-C18 column
Number of fraction
14
10
22
22
Digestion
In-gel
In-gel
In-solution
In-solution
Denaturant


50% Trifluoroethanol
6 mol/l Urea + 2 mol/l thiourea
LC gradient time
100 min
140 min
100 min
100 min
Identified IT-MS2 spectra by Mascota
16,219
10,535
13,367
10,175
Number of unique peptidesa
4504
3853
3164
2637
Number of identified proteinsa
759
815
656
580
Total number of unique peptidesa
8041
Total number of identified proteinsa
1281

aApplied criteria are described in the Materials and methods section. 1D, one-dimensional; LC, liquid chromatography; MS, mass spectrometry.

Adachi et al. Genome Biology 2006 7:R80   doi:10.1186/gb-2006-7-9-r80