... choice ofionization method depends on the nature of the sample and the type of information required from the analysis So-called 'soft ionization' methods such as field desorption and electrospray ionization ... analyzed by massspectrometry Although ionization and desorption/ desolvation are usually separate processes, the term "ionization method" is commonly used to refer to both ionization and desorption ... one must use a mass analyzer such as time- of- flight (TOF) or Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FTICR) that is compatible with pulsed ionization methods Magnetic sector mass spectrometers...
... electrospray ionization; EST: expressed sequence tag; HMW: high molecular weight; LMW: low molecular weight; MALDI- TOF: matrix-assisted laser desorption/ ionizationtimeofflightmass spectrometry; MS/ MS: ... D: Characterization of B- and C-type low molecular weight glutenin subunits by electrospray ionizationmassspectrometry and matrix-assisted laser desorption/ ionizationmassspectrometry Proteomics ... Methods for MS/ MS data analysis evolve rapidly Search algorithms that match the MS/ MS spectra of peptides with protein sequence information from databases are constantly being improved The use of multiple...
... Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ ionization time- of- flightmassspectrometry (MALDI- TOF MS) is one useful tool for integrating separation and analysis of complex mixtures of proteins Captured ... [29] The initial serum proteome profiles of CRC were generated by using the combination of MALDI- TOFMS and WCX magnetic beads as well as pattern recognition software in our study The 68 different ... stage of CRC from serum samples is still an urgent need in clinical practice In this study, we employed advanced proteomic approaches- Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ ionization time- of- flight mass...
... compilation ª 2007 FEBS T Neuhof et al Trichoderma hydrophobins Fig Intact-cell MALDI- TOFmass spectra of mycelia and spores of Trichoderma strains The masses 7347 and 7494 of T atroviride spores correlate ... Neuhof et al Fig Intact-cell MALDI- TOF spectra of mycelia (A, C, E) and sporulating mycelia (B, D, F) of three strains of H jecorina grown on malt agar The masses displayed have an error of about ... investigated the potential of intact-cell MALDI- TOFMS (ICMS) Initial applications of ICMS on filamentous fungi have demonstrated characteristic sets of ions for strain identification in mycelia...
... We conclude with a discussion of the results Matrix assisted laser desorption and ionisation -time offlightmassspectrometry (MALDI- TOF MS) In recent years, MALDI- TOF has gained greater attention ... available MS preprocessing tools are designed for either SELDI MS or LC -MS use, rather than for MALDI- TOFMS use Consequently, very limited functions of these tools can be used in MALDI- TOFMS data ... Comparison of algorithms for pre-processing of SELDITOF massspectrometry data Bioinformatics 2008, 24(19):2129-2136 Yang C, He Z, Yu W: Comparison of public peak detection algorithms for MALDImass spectrometry...
... by the EESI -MS analysis, which is carried out on a quadrupole time- of- flight (Q -TOF) mass spectrometer The relatively simple setup allows this method to be implemented on any type ofMS instrument ... cone voltage was 40 V The Q -TOF mass spectrometer (QTOF UltimaTM, Micromass/Waters, Manchester, UK) was running in positive ion detection mode, Figure Schematic view of the EESI setup Copyright ... after a short time, but also forms a side product, 3[(2-cyanoethyl)phenylethylamino]propionitrile (CPEAP, MW 227) after a longer reaction time, by addition of a second molecule of acrylonitrile...
... to facilitate comparison of the unfolding transitions induced by temperature Cytotoxicity assays MALDI- TOFMS All mass spectra were acquired on a Bruker ULTRAFLEX ` TOFmass spectrometer, at the ... at different time- points from each sample and analyzed by MALDI- TOFMS The addition of the protease is considered the zero time point The relative intensities of the peaks from the mass spectra ... purification of the enzyme [13] The molecular massof each purified product, as measured by MALDI- TOF MS, was 11 947.87±2 for (Met1)-ONC (M23L) and 11 838.21±2 for rONC, which conforms well to the...
... Ir Number of observations Number of unique reections Temperature (K) Rfactor (%) Rfree (%) Rmsd bond lengths (A) Rmsd bond angles () Number of all atoms Number of protein atoms Number of waters ... Number of waters Number of inhibitor atoms Baverage (A2) Protein main chain atoms Protein side chain atoms All protein atoms Inhibitor atoms Water atoms Other atoms All atoms PDB code Methyl 4,4II,4III,4IVtetrathio-a-D-xylopentaoside ... & Whitehouse CM (1989) Electrospray ionization for massspectrometryof large biomolecules Science 246, 6471 52 Loo JA (2000) Electrospray ionizationmass spectrometry: a technology for studying...
... monitoring) mode was chosen to perform the MS- MS detection MRM mode allows a simultaneous registration of all MS- MS transitions at a scan timeof 150 ms for each fragmentation At the used ESI ... described in Methods Massspectrometry A Sciex API 3000 tandem MS system was used for MS- MS detection with an electrospray ion source in the negative ion mode (ESI-) Compound specific mass spectrometer ... analytical run time, including the recondition step of the column for the next injection, was 21 Figure represents an example of a chromatogram of spiked EBC with each analyte Mass spectrometry...
... at 1.2 mL/min Massspectrometry was carried out using a 5973 Mass Selective Detector (Hewlett Packard, Wilmington, DE, USA) in electron -ionization mode with an ionization voltage of 70 eV and ... the Examination of Water Occurrence of EDTA in river water samples from three regions of Japan was examined EDTA was detected in ten of thirteen river water samples A high level of EDTA was observed ... mL methanol and mL of Milli-Q water, respectively Extraction of water samples was carried out at a flow rate of 10mL/min After extraction, cartridges were rinsed with 3mL of Milli-Q water and...
... multi-q [41] software to analyze the iTRAQ data Raw data files from the Waters Q -Tof premier mass spectrometer were converted into files of mzXML format using masswolf (Institute for Systems Biology, ... LC-ESI MS/ MS analysis To label peptides with the iTRAQ reagent (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA, USA), one unit of label (defined as the amount of reagent required to label 100 lg of protein) ... analyze the sample directly by RPLC -MS ⁄ MS three times to obtain a confident protein identification result Using the iTRAQ labeling mass spectrometry, a total of 438 proteins were identified by our...
... polymorphism of apolipoprotein C1 M S Wroblewski et al also suggest approaches that might be used to determine the role of N-terminal truncation of ApoC1 Results Profile analysis The MALDI- TOFmass spectrometer ... and the peptides subjected to MS The peptide mass fingerprint from MALDI- TOFMS showed m ⁄ z values corresponding to all eight theoretical peptides plus the peptide of the truncated protein (residues ... USA) MS ⁄ MS analysis was conducted with the QSTAR o -MALDI mass spectrometer The TOF region acceleration voltage was kV, and the injection pulse repletion was 4.9 kHz with a pulse timeof 18 ls...
... °CÆmin)1 ES -MS Negative-ion ES -MS and CID MS/ MS were carried out on a Micromass (Manchester, UK) Q -Tof mass spectrometer Nitrogen was used as desolvation and nebuliser gas at a flow rate of 250 LÆh)1 ... and sequence analysis of underivatized oligosaccharides by combined MS/ MSof singly and doubly charged molecular ions in negative-ion electrospray massspectrometry J Am Soc Mass Spectrom 13, 670–679 ... of the homonuclear 2D experiments typically consisted of 4K · 256 complex data points Results Determination of branching pattern and blood group determinants by ES -MS/ MS Negative-ion CID ES -MS/ MS...
... amounts present in a mixture quantitated using MALDI- TOF- MS; (b) F420H2 auto-oxidizes nonstereospecifically to F420 in the matrix used for MALDITOF -MS; (c) F420 is stereospecifically reduced to with ... 2005 FEBS H Seedorf et al Stereochemistry of F420H2 oxidase Fig MALDI- TOF- MS analysis of F420 and F420H2 for the determination of the stereospecificity of F420H2 oxidase (FprA) The insets show ... nonstereospecific reaction In Fig 2A three MALDI- TOFmass spectra of a control experiment are shown: the spectrum of [5-1H]F420 (Fig 2Aa); the spectrum of [5-1H2]F420H2 generated from [5-1H]F420...
... adjusted, so that the ions are sampled from a region of the plasma where the ionization is carefully controlled Thus, ionizationof the elements of interest can be maintained, but the potential interfering ... the vapor pressure of even the most volatile solvent (such as acetone) is sufficiently reduced to allow stable plasma operation Removal of carbon The presence of high levels of organic solvent ... considerably more reactive, and so the use of platinum-tipped interface cones instead of the standard nickel cones is recommended Optimization of the appropriate level of oxygen for a particular organic...
... carbon atoms of aKG/Glu The carbon atoms of AcCoA originate from the last two carbon atoms of pyruvate, the mass isotopomer distribution of which is reflected in this of alanine Therefore, the mass ... name of an amino acid in the legend refers to the weight of the depicted fragment ion of the TBDMS-derivative of the amino acid of 18 GC -MS runs and its standard deviation reflects the variance of ... stoichiometry of the first three reactions of the TCA cycle (no 16, 17 and 18), the last three carbon atoms of OAA/Asp become the first three carbon atoms of aKG/Glu (see Fig 7), while the carbon atoms of...
... stainless steel MALDI target (Opti -TOF; Applied Biosystems) MALDI- TOF- TOFMS and MS ⁄ MS spectra were acquired with a MALDI- TOF ⁄ TOF 4800 mass spectrometer (Applied Biosystems) in the positive ... High mass MALDI- TOFMS High -mass MALDI- TOFmass spectra of the intact protein complexes were obtained using a MALDI- TOFmass spectrometer (Voyager DE STR; Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA, USA) ... d4 (A) MALDI- TOF- TOFmass spectrum of the light (d0) and heavy (d4) precursor ions presenting a mass difference of 4.024 Da (indicated by the curved arrow) (B) Fragmentation mass spectrum of the...
... perform this analysis, we chose to use native MS [25,26], a novel development in the field ofMS using relatively soft ionizationof the sample by electrospray ionization from solutions at physiological ... measured with a scan timeof s for a total of 10 per sample RNA binding properties of the different mutants were monitored with an LC-T spectrometer MS data analysis MS data of the different mutants ... previously [9] using a nanoflow electrospray ionization orthogonal time- of- flight mass spectrometer (Micromass LC-T; Waters, Manchester, UK) modified for high mass operation and operating in positive...
... electrospray ionization Fourier-Transform massspectrometry Changing patterns of covalent active-site occupancy (ESI ⁄ FTMS) to pick out the active-site peptides and determine the nature of the covalently ... extent of loading on the domains of module and its attached TE domain MS analysis of the KS1 fraction showed that the active site was fully loaded with propionate The absence of the free form of ... derivative of the chain-extension ACP, despite the presence of the free thiol form of the domain The nature of the diketide adduct in this experiment was determined by treatment of a sample of the...