Stereochemical effects on the mass spectrometric behavior of native and derivatized trisaccharide isomers: comparisons with results from molecular modeling
✍ Scribed by Perreault, Hélène; Costello, Catherine E.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 266 KB
- Volume
- 34
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1076-5174
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✦ Synopsis
Di †erentiation of oligosaccharide isomers by mass spectrometry (MS) is a challenging task. For native, permethylated and peracetylated trisaccharides, matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-Ñight (MALDI/TOF) MS and liquid secondary ionization (LSI) MS experiments can produce complementary results that are useful for molecular mass and sugar sequence determination and isomer di †erentiation. Linear MALDI/TOF-MS analysis of native and derivatized oligosaccharides usually produces cationized molecular ions. Characterization by LSI-MS and tandem mass spectrometry (LSI-MS/MS) typically may yield only lowabundance protonated molecular ions but produces dominant B-type ions by elimination of ROH (R = Me, Ac) from the C-1 position at the reducing end and distinctive sequence-related fragments. Results for four milk trisaccharides, two neutral (fucosyllactoses) and two sialylated (sialyllactoses), are presented to demonstrate the utility of microscale permethylation and gas-to-solid phase peracetylation for high sensitivity structural elucidation. For the pairs of carbohydrates investigated in this study by LSI-MS, LSI-MS/MS and linear MALDI/TOF-MS, the fragmentation patterns of the native, permethylated and peracetylated isomer pairs are shown to di †er markedly as a consequence of their limited dissimilarities. In addition, the tendency of sialylated carbohydrates to form lactones upon peracetylation has been exploited to take advantage of the variation in the extent of lactonization with orientation of the sialic acid moiety relative to the adjacent sugar rings. Lactone formation is favored for 3º-sialyllactose compared with its 6º-isomer ; Hyperchem was employed to indicate the relative stabilities of the molecular and fragment ions and to visualize the molecules in 3D (rather than to obtain absolute conformational energy values). The relative conformational energies of lactonized and non-lactonized ions were calculated using the Hyperchem software ; their values support the trends observed by MS.