FYI I am running TPP V4.4 on Windows.

On Oct 22, 4:23 pm, Mike <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am having a problem with using ASAP ratio to quantify mTRAQ labeled
> samples.  Starting with .RAW files from Thermo, I convert to mzXML,
> and then convert to .mgf for database searching.  I search the samples
> using MASCOT with variable modifications on the n-Terminus and lysine
> residues for both light and heavy tags. I convert the resulting .dat
> files to pep.xml and then use PeptideProphet with XPRESS and ASAP
> ratio for quantification.  I set the parameters for XPRESS by changing
> the labeled residues to n and K and giving the mass difference between
> the light and heavy tagged residues (8 Da).  I set the parameters for
> ASAP by changing the labeled residues to n and K and setting the
> specified residue mass of n and K to the respective monoisotopic
> masses of the heavy labeled residues.  In the results, XPRESS works
> well.  Spectra have the correct m/z and the mass difference between
> the light and heavy labeled signal is correct.  For example, XPRESS
> associates a light labeled signal at m/z 763 with a heavy labeled
> signal at 767 for a peptide sequence tagged with the light mTRAQ
> reagent on the n-terminus with a mass ~1525 (m/z 763, z = 2, m =1525,
> Heavy - light = 4 m/z)  The results of the ASAP ratio are clearly not
> correct.  ASAP ratio returns the light labeled signal at 693 m/z and
> the heavy labeled signal at 763 m/z for the same peptide.  It appears
> to have switched the light and heavy label and to use a mass
> difference of heavy vs. light of 70 m/z.  ASAP ratio of other peptides
> are consistently nonsensical.
>
> It appears that I am entering the wrong parameters for the ASAP
> ratio.  I have tried a number of options with no success.  If only the
> mass of the heavy labeled residue is entered, how does the ASAP ratio
> program know the mass of the light labeled residue?  Similarly, if
> only the difference between light and heavy residues are entered for
> XPRESS, how does this program know the mass of the light and heavy
> tagged residues?

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