Work flow for the LAXIC strategy to quantify the phosphorylation change in response to osmotic stress. Work flow for the LAXIC strategy to quantify the phosphorylation change in response to osmotic stress.A, Schematic representation of the LAXIC algorithm. First, all the chromatographic peaks were aligned and the ratios were calculated. Second, the normalization factors which equal to ratios of library peptide peaks between MS runs were chosen to construct normalization curve. Third, sample peptide peak ratios were normalized against predicted normalization factor corresponding to certain retention time. B, Schematic representation of quantitative phosphoproteomics. Plants either treated with mannitol or PBS were lysed and mixed proportionally at first. Following peptide digestion and enrichment, phosphopeptides were identified and further quantified through LAXIC incorporated with self-validating process using thelinear regression model to analyze the fold change (fold), linearity (R2) and accuracy (%Acc). Liang Xue et al. Mol Cell Proteomics 2013;12:2354-2369 © 2013 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.