Using ProPhosSI

ProPhosSI takes a putative peptide match and the associated MS/MS spectrum and provides an analysis of the match. In order to do this it requires information about the peptide and the MS/MS spectrum. Explanatory information for each field in the form is given below.
Report details:
Search title
Enter a title for this particular peptide spectrum match
Ion match tolerance
The maximum delta mass to call an observed and theoretical ion pair a match.
Ion intensity threshold
Minimum relative intensity of an ion to be considered signal rather than noise. Ions below this level are ignored in the analysis (though matches are reported).
Ion series to annotate
Select the ion series you wish to be shown on the spectrum plot
Spectrum image width
Size of the spectrum image embedded int he HTML report
Peptide details:
Protein name
Name/identifier for the protein containing the matched peptide
Match score
Score given by the search engine identifying this peptide hit (not essential)
Missed cleavages
Number of missed digestion sites in the peptide (not essential)
Peptide sequence
Amino acid sequence in single letter code. This may be surrounded by the previous and following amino acids in X.YYYYYYY.Z format
Protein start/end
Start and end amino acid positions for the peptide in the protein
Cysteine modification
Cysteine residues are typically alkylated prior to digestion and subsequent analysis. Select the appropriate method to ensure that the correct mass is used for the cysteine derivative.
SILAC delta mass
For peptides grown in isotopically labelled media, enter the delta mass for the lysine and/or arginine residues
Post-translational modifications
Enter post-translational modifications, one per line in the following form:
position modification
For example, for a phosphopeptide with a phosphate on position 16, enter
16 Phospho (STY)
The modification must be one of the types known to ProPhosSI (UniMod names, not hidden plus several related to Ubiquitination)
  • Acetyl (K)
  • Acetyl (N-term)
  • Acetyl (Protein N-term)
  • Biotin (K)
  • Biotin (N-term)
  • Carbamidomethyl (C)
  • Carbamyl (K)
  • Carbamyl (N-term)
  • Carboxymethyl (C)
  • Cation:Na (DE)
  • Deamidated (NQ)
  • Dehydro (C)
  • Dioxidation (M)
  • Ethanolyl (C)
  • ExacTagAmine (K)
  • ExacTagThiol (C)
  • Formyl (N-term)
  • Formyl (Protein N-term)
  • Guanidinyl (K)
  • ICAT-C:13C(9) (C)
  • ICPL (K)
  • ICPL (Protein N-term)
  • ICPL:13C(6) (K)
  • ICPL:13C(6) (Protein N-term)
  • ICPL:13C(6)2H(4) (K)
  • ICPL:13C(6)2H(4) (Protein N-term)
  • ICPL:13C(6)2H(4) (N-term)
  • ICPL:2H(4) (K)
  • ICPL:2H(4) (Protein N-term)
  • iTRAQ4plex (K)
  • iTRAQ4plex (N-term)
  • iTRAQ4plex (Y)
  • iTRAQ8plex (K)
  • iTRAQ8plex (N-term)
  • iTRAQ8plex (Y)
  • Methyl (DE)
  • Methyl (DE)
  • Methylthio (C)
  • mTRAQ (K)
  • mTRAQ (N-term)
  • mTRAQ (Y)
  • mTRAQ:13C(3)15N(1) (K)
  • mTRAQ:13C(3)15N(1) (N-term)
  • mTRAQ:13C(3)15N(1) (Y)
  • NIPCAM (C)
  • Oxidation (M)
  • Oxidation (HW)
  • Oxidation (HW)
  • Phospho (ST)
  • Phospho (ST)
  • Phospho (Y)
  • Propionamide (C)
  • Pyridylethyl (C)
  • Sulfo (S)
  • Sulfo (T)
  • Sulfo (Y)
  • TMT (K)
  • TMT (N-term)
  • TMT2plex (K)
  • TMT2plex (N-term)
  • TMT6plex (K)
  • TMT6plex (N-term)
  • Pyro-glu (N-term E)
  • Phospho (STY)
  • N-Acetyl (Protein)
  • Sulphone (M)
  • Pyro-glu (N-term Q)
  • Pyro-glu (N-term Q)
  • Gln->pyro-Glu (N-term Q)
  • HexNAc (N)
  • GlyGly (K)
  • LeuArgGlyGly (K)
  • GlyGly (N-term)
Spectrum details:
Parent ion m/z
The observed parent ion m/z in the primary scan
Charge
The calculated charge for the observed parent ion m/z
Ion list:
The ions should be listed one per line with the m/z followed by the intensity
Example:
643.25 1034.5