Fig. 3: Selected reaction monitoring chromatograms of SARS-CoV-2-positive clinical respiratory tract specimen showing targeted peptides.

a Qualitative (Tier 3) assay; b Quantitative (Tier 1) assay. The first three residues of each peptide are used to label peptide peaks: DGI (DGIIWVATEGALNTPK) and IGM (IGMEVTPSGTWLTYTGAIK) from nucleoprotein; HSG (HSGFEDELSEVLENQSSQAELK) from 15N-labeled surrogate standard chromogranin A (in Tier 3) and SYE (SYELPDGQVITIGNER) from human beta actin (in Tier 1).