Ion mobility fractionation coupled to PASEF for enhanced proteome coverage

Data provided report the use of trapped ion mobility spectrometry (TIMS) to fractionate ions in the gas phase based on their ion mobility (V⋅s/cm2) followed by parallel accumulation serial fragmentation (PASEF) in a quadrupole time-of-flight instrument. TIMS fractionation coupled to DDA-PASEF allowed for the detection of approximately 7,000 proteins and over 70,000 peptides per overall run from 200ng of human (HeLa) cell lysate per injection using a commercial UPLC column with a 90-minute gradient. This project also explored the utility of TIMS fractionation to generate a DDA library for downstream DIA analysis using shorter LC gradients (20 minutes) as well as lower sample input. Using a 20min gradient, we identified 4,092 and 6,654 proteins on average per run, respectively, from 10ng and 200ng of human (HeLa) cell lysate input based on a TIMS-fractionated library consisting of 82,214 peptides derived from 7,615 proteins.