Hi there,
I am trying to do run a quantitative analysis of dimethylated samples 
labelled on N-term and lysine (using either trypsin or ArgC) using TPP ver5 
on Windows.
I ran X!Tandem or Comet searches using fixed light di-Met modification of 
Lys and N-term (+28.03) and the Heavy-Light delta (6.031) as variable 
modifications as explained here, and I used successfully before. 
Quantification with XPRESS run without any error but the ratio calculation 
seems to be correct only for peptides that contain a lysine (regardless if 
they were heavy or light). The ratio calculated for peptides that do not 
contain lysines is correct only for the light labelled ones but for the 
heavy ones the program seems to consider them as light peptides and 
searches for peaks that are +6 heavier in order to calculate the ratio.
For example if we got the peptide AAAHTSPR  that was identified in the 
light dimethylation on the N-term, MH= 838.4530) the program will look for 
the heavy couple at the right place (MH=844.4848) but if the same peptide 
was identified in its heavy form (MH 838.4530) it seems like the program is 
looking for the heavy partner at 844.4848.
Another minor (?) comment is that running such searches with X!tandem seems 
to mark the heavy N-term dimethylation in a different way than it used to 
before (and currently appear in Comet pepxml) add looks like this:n7.04A
99.07TAGDTHLGGEDFDNR (instead of n35.07 
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/Blast.cgi?CMD=Web&LAYOUT=TwoWindows&AUTO_FORMAT=Semiauto&ALIGNMENTS=50&ALIGNMENT_VIEW=Pairwise&CDD_SEARCH=on&CLIENT=web&COMPOSITION_BASED_STATISTICS=on&DATABASE=nr&DESCRIPTIONS=100&ENTREZ_QUERY=%28none%29&EXPECT=1000&FILTER=L&FORMAT_OBJECT=Alignment&FORMAT_TYPE=HTML&I_THRESH=0.005&MATRIX_NAME=BLOSUM62&NCBI_GI=on&PAGE=Proteins&PROGRAM=blastp&SERVICE=plain&SET_DEFAULTS.x=41&SET_DEFAULTS.y=5&SHOW_OVERVIEW=on&END_OF_HTTPGET=Yes&SHOW_LINKOUT=yes&QUERY=ATAGDTHLGGEDFDNR>
ATAGDTHLGGEDFDNR. 
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/Blast.cgi?CMD=Web&LAYOUT=TwoWindows&AUTO_FORMAT=Semiauto&ALIGNMENTS=50&ALIGNMENT_VIEW=Pairwise&CDD_SEARCH=on&CLIENT=web&COMPOSITION_BASED_STATISTICS=on&DATABASE=nr&DESCRIPTIONS=100&ENTREZ_QUERY=%28none%29&EXPECT=1000&FILTER=L&FORMAT_OBJECT=Alignment&FORMAT_TYPE=HTML&I_THRESH=0.005&MATRIX_NAME=BLOSUM62&NCBI_GI=on&PAGE=Proteins&PROGRAM=blastp&SERVICE=plain&SET_DEFAULTS.x=41&SET_DEFAULTS.y=5&SHOW_OVERVIEW=on&END_OF_HTTPGET=Yes&SHOW_LINKOUT=yes&QUERY=ATAGDTHLGGEDFDNR>
I hope you can advise.
Thanks
Oded

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