The ionic liquid-assisted sample preparation method pTRUST allows sensitive proteome characterization of a variety of bacterial endospores to aid in the search for protein biomarkers

• Masato Taoka ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ichimura@nda.ac.jp (TI); mango@tmu.ac.jp (MT)

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan

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• Ritsuko Kuwana,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Faculty of Pharmaceutical Science, Setsunan University, Osaka, Japan

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• Yoshinari Murakami,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Applied Chemistry, National Defense Academy, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Akiko Kashima,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Carriere Reseau Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, Japan

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• Yuko Nobe,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan

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• Takamasa Uekita,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Applied Chemistry, National Defense Academy, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Hiromu Takamatsu,

  Roles Resources, Validation

  Affiliation Faculty of Pharmaceutical Science, Setsunan University, Osaka, Japan

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• Tohru Ichimura

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ichimura@nda.ac.jp (TI); mango@tmu.ac.jp (MT)

  Affiliation Department of Applied Chemistry, National Defense Academy, Kanagawa, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1968-1091

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