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Electron Transfer Dissociation and Collision-Induced Dissociation of Underivatized Metallated Oligosaccharides
10.1007/s13361-018-1906-1 2018-02-28 Electron transfer dissociation (ETD) and collision-induced dissociation (CID) were used to investigate underivatized, metal-cationized oligosaccharides formed via electrospray ionization (ESI). Reducing and non-reducing sugars were studied including the tetra... |
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Identification of ortho -Substituted Benzoic Acid/Ester Derivatives via the Gas-Phase Neighboring Group Participation Effect in (+)-ESI High Resolution Mass Spectrometry
10.1007/s13361-017-1884-8 2018-02-27 Benzoic acid/ester/amide derivatives are common moieties in pharmaceutical compounds and present a challenge in positional isomer identification by traditional tandem mass spectrometric analysis. A method is presented for exploiting the gas-phase neighboring ... |
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Resolution and Assignment of Differential Ion Mobility Spectra of Sarcosine and Isomers
10.1007/s13361-018-1902-5 2018-02-21 Due to their central role in biochemical processes, fast separation and identification of amino acids (AA) is of importance in many areas of the biomedical field including the diagnosis and monitoring of inborn errors of metabolism and biomarker discovery. Du... |
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SIMS of Organic Materials—Interface Location in Argon Gas Cluster Depth Profiles Using Negative Secondary Ions
10.1007/s13361-018-1905-2 2018-02-21 A procedure has been established to define the interface position in depth profiles accurately when using secondary ion mass spectrometry and the negative secondary ions. The interface position varies strongly with the extent of the matrix effect and so depen... |
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Gas Flow and Ion Transfer in Heated ESI Capillary Interfaces
10.1007/s13361-018-1895-0 2018-02-21 Transfer capillaries are the preferred means to transport ions, generated by electrospray ionization, from ambient conditions to vacuum. During the transfer of ions through the narrow, long tubes into vacuum, substantial losses are typical. However, recently ... |
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Top Down Tandem Mass Spectrometric Analysis of a Chemically Modified Rough-Type Lipopolysaccharide Vaccine Candidate
10.1007/s13361-018-1897-y 2018-02-20 Recent advances in lipopolysaccharide (LPS) biology have led to its use in drug discovery pipelines, including vaccine and vaccine adjuvant discovery. Desirable characteristics for LPS vaccine candidates include both the ability to produce a specific antibody... |
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Detection of Amyloid Beta (Aβ) Oligomeric Composition Using Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Mass Spectrometry (MALDI MS)
10.1007/s13361-018-1896-z 2018-02-20 The use of MALDI MS as a fast and direct method to detect the Aβ oligomers of different masses is examined in this paper. Experimental results suggest that Aβ oligomers are ionized and detected as singly charged ions, and thus, the resulting mass spectrum dir... |
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In-Source Reduction of Disulfide-Bonded Peptides Monitored by Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry
10.1007/s13361-018-1894-1 2018-02-15 Many peptides with antimicrobial activity and/or therapeutic potential contain disulfide bonds as a means to enhance stability, and their quantitation is often performed using electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS). Disulfides can be reduced durin... |
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A Multifaceted Mass Spectrometric Method to Probe Feeding Related Neuropeptide Changes in Callinectes sapidus and Carcinus maenas
10.1007/s13361-017-1888-4 2018-02-12 Food intake is regulated by various neuromodulators, including numerous neuropeptides. However, it remains elusive at the molecular and cellular level as to how these important chemicals regulate internal processes and which regions of the neuronal organs are... |
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Ion-neutral Clustering of Bile Acids in Electrospray Ionization Across UPLC Flow Regimes
10.1007/s13361-017-1878-6 2018-02-09 Bile acid authentic standards were used as model compounds to quantitatively evaluate complex in-source phenomenon on a UPLC-ESI-TOF-MS operated in the negative mode. Three different diameter columns and a ceramic-based microfluidic separation device were uti... |