Narrow precursor window for DIA-MS enhances protein identification and quantification

Data independent acquistion (DIA) is becoming widely as a method of choice in quantitation proteomics due to its high reproducibility and quantitation accuracy at high-throughput fashion. In this project, we systematically evaluated the effect of the selected precursor mass range for DIA-MS on the protein identification and quantification. We show that a narrow precursor window (400-650 m/z) DIA could identify a 34.7% more proteins than a conventional DIA with a wide precursor window of 400-1200 m/z. When combining the three narrow precursor windows (400-650, 650-900, and 900-1200 m/z) DIA-MS analyses, we obtained a 59.4% increase in the number of proteins quantified than a conventional DIA-MS analysis.