title: Electron-induced dissociation of peptides in a triple quadrupole mass spectrometer retrofitted with an electromagnetostatic cell.
abstract: Dissociation of peptides induced by interaction with (free) electrons (electron-induced dissociation, EID) at electron energies ranging from near 0 to >30 eV was carried out using a radio-frequency-free electromagnetostatic (EMS) cell retrofitted into a triple quadrupole mass spectrometer. The product-ion mass spectra exhibited EID originating from electronically excited even-electron precursor ions, reduced radical cations formed by capture of low-energy electrons, and oxidized radical cations produced by interaction with high-energy electrons. The spectra demonstrate, within the limits of the triple quadrupole's resolving power, that high-energy EID product-ion spectra produced with an EMS cell exhibit essentially the same qualitative structural information, i.e., amino acid side-chain (SC) losses and backbone cleavages, as observed in high-energy EID spectra produced with a Fourier-transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) mass spectrometer. The levels of fragmentation efficiency evident in the product-ion spectra recorded in this study, as was the case for those recorded in earlier studies with FT ICR mass spectrometers, is currently at the margin of analytical utility. Given that this shortcoming can be remedied, EMS cells incorporated into QqQ or QqTOF mass spectrometers could make tandem high-energy EID mass spectrometry more widely accessible for analysis of peptides, small singly charged molecules, pharmaceuticals, and clinical samples.
authors: Department of Chemistry, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 97330, USA, valery.voinov@orst.edu.
authors: Valery G
authors: VG
authors: Voinov
authors: Samuel E
authors: SE
authors: Bennett
authors: Douglas F
authors: DF
authors: Barofsky
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D017357:Cyclotrons; D055664:Electrochemical Techniques; D004574:Electromagnetic Fields; D005583:Fourier Analysis; D006801:Humans; D013058:Mass Spectrometry / Q000295:instrumentation; D009842:Oligopeptides / Q000737:chemistry*; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000032:analysis* / Q000737:chemistry; D010455:Peptides / Q000737:chemistry*; D055550:Protein Stability; D059748:Proteolysis; D021241:Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization / Q000295:instrumentation; D013373:Substance P / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D009842:Oligopeptides; D010446:Peptide Fragments; D010455:Peptides; D013373:Substance P
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