## Abstract Two types of gas‐phase proton transfer reactions were examined with electrospray ionization‐generated peptide and protein ions; (i) bases reacting with multiply protonated molecules and (ii) acids reacting with multiply deprotonated molecules. For reactions of type (i) with bases spanni
Proton transfer reactions for improved peptide characterisation
✍ Scribed by Marko Rožman; Andrea Schneider; Simon J. Gaskell
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 142 KB
- Volume
- 46
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1076-5174
- DOI
- 10.1002/jms.1920
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
The combination of deprotonation (via ion/molecule and ion/ion reactions) and low‐energy collision‐induced dissociation (CID) has been explored for the enhanced characterisation of tryptic peptides via access to different precursor charge states. This approach allows instant access to fragmentation properties of singly and doubly protonated precursors (arising from the availability of mobile protons) in a single experiment. Considering both charge states extended our base of structurally informative data (in comparison with considering just a single charge state) due to generation of additional sequence ions and by obtaining supplementary structural information derived from selective cleavages. Roughly 37% of combined data sets (CID spectra of doubly and singly charged precursor) showed a greater database identification confidence than each set alone. Moreover, comparison between a number of sequence ions of the singly charged precursor and the doubly charged precursor provided a mean of distinguishing the two classes of tryptic peptides (arginine or lysine containing). Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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