title: 21 Tesla Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometer Greatly Expands Mass Spectrometry Toolbox.
abstract: We provide the initial performance evaluation of a 21 Tesla Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer operating at the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The spectrometer constructed for the 21T system employs a commercial dual linear ion trap mass spectrometer coupled to a FTICR spectrometer designed and built in-house. Performance gains from moving to higher magnetic field strength are exemplified by the measurement of peptide isotopic fine structure, complex natural organic matter mixtures, and large proteins. Accurate determination of isotopic fine structure was demonstrated for doubly charged Substance P with minimal spectral averaging, and 8158 molecular formulas assigned to Suwannee River Fulvic Acid standard with root-mean-square (RMS) error of 10 ppb. We also demonstrated superior performance for intact proteins; namely, broadband isotopic resolution of the entire charge state distribution of apo-transferrin (78 kDa) and facile isotopic resolution of monoclonal antibody under a variety of acquisition parameters (e.g., 6 s time-domains with absorption mode processing yielded resolution of approximately 1 M at m/z = 2700). Graphical Abstract ᅟ.
authors.affiliation: Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 3335 Innovation Ave. (K8-98), P.O. Box 999, Richland, WA, 99352, USA.
authors.forename: Jared B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Shaw
authors.affiliation: Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 3335 Innovation Ave. (K8-98), P.O. Box 999, Richland, WA, 99352, USA.
authors.forename: Tzu-Yung
authors.initials: TY
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.affiliation: Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 3335 Innovation Ave. (K8-98), P.O. Box 999, Richland, WA, 99352, USA.
authors.forename: Franklin E
authors.initials: FE
authors.lastname: Leach
authors.affiliation: Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 3335 Innovation Ave. (K8-98), P.O. Box 999, Richland, WA, 99352, USA.
authors.forename: Aleksey V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Tolmachev
authors.affiliation: Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 3335 Innovation Ave. (K8-98), P.O. Box 999, Richland, WA, 99352, USA.
authors.forename: Nikola
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tolić
authors.affiliation: Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 3335 Innovation Ave. (K8-98), P.O. Box 999, Richland, WA, 99352, USA.
authors.forename: Errol W
authors.initials: EW
authors.lastname: Robinson
authors.affiliation: Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 3335 Innovation Ave. (K8-98), P.O. Box 999, Richland, WA, 99352, USA.
authors.forename: David W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Koppenaal
authors.affiliation: Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 3335 Innovation Ave. (K8-98), P.O. Box 999, Richland, WA, 99352, USA. ljiljana.pasatolic@pnnl.gov.
authors.forename: Ljiljana
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Paša-Tolić
keywords: FTICR; FTMS; Fourier transform mass spectrometry; High resolution mass spectrometry; Monoclonal antibody