磷脂液相二次离了质谱分析中的分子离子簇

对３种极性头不同的磷脂ＤＭＰＧ、ＤＭＰＣ、ＤＭＰＥ的液相二次质子质谱分析中出现的分子离子族现象进行了系统的研究。结果表明，虽然分子离子族的民许多因素有关，如ＰＨ值、郭强度等，但起决定作用的是样品在底物中的浓度，浓度增大有利于分子离子簇的形成。研究还发现，由不同种类磷脂分子形成的分子离子簇峰明显高于同同种磷脂分子所形成的分子离子簇峰，指出异种磷脂分子间的簇离子形成能力地同种磷脂分子此外还讨论了磷脂     

硒芳香杂环化合物的GC/MS分析

本文对合成的7种含硒芳香杂环化合物进行了GC／MS分析研究。结果表明：BS、MB、BBS和DBBS等4个化合物在色谱柱内的保留时间与它们的相对分子质量呈线性关系。所有化合物均可获得特征质谱,表现出含单个硒原子的分子离子或碎片离子特征峰簇,硒的两种主要同位素在峰簇中表现为主要峰M与（M-2）的相对丰度比约为2：1,可为鉴定含硒分子离子或碎片离子提供重要信息。新化合物1,2,5-硒二唑并[3,4-d]嘧啶-5,7-（4H,6H）二酮（SPDO）在色谱柱内出现11．83min和7．96min两个具有相同的质谱的色谱峰,被认为是互变异构体的峰。     

基体辅助激光解吸飞行时间质谱法中多电荷单体和单电荷多聚体分子离子形成机理的研究

本文主要对基体辅助激光解吸质谱法中的多电荷单体和单电荷多聚体以及多电荷多聚体分子离子的形成机理进行研究。分析了样品的化学结构、样品浓度、基体的质子亲合性和基底的导电性等对多电荷和多聚体分子离子的形成的影响。实验中发现当蛋白质样品浓度增大，单电荷多聚体分子离子强度和聚合程度都随之增大；α－氰基－４－羟基－肉桂酸较３，５－二甲氧基－４－羟基肉桂酸易产生双电荷离子；当硝化纤维膜作基底时，多电荷单体的分子离子强度增加，但单电荷多聚体分子离子强度减少，同时还出现了多电荷多聚体分子离子峰，且高分子量分子较低分子量分子显著。对上述多电荷单体和单电荷多聚体以及多电荷多聚体分子离子的形成机理，进行了理论探讨。     

次卟啉及其金属配合物的FAB和APCI质谱

本文报道一些次卟啉及其金属配合物的ＦＡＢ和ＡＰＣＩ质谱，比较两种电离方式所测得的谱图表明，所有化合物的ＡＰＣＩ和ＦＡＢ谱都显示有特征的质子化分子离子峰ＭＨ＋。在ＡＰＣＩＭＳ上的主要碎片离子是脱掉金属离子并加两个氢原子生成ｍ／ｚ５１１离子〔ＭＨ－Ｍｅｔ＋２Ｈ〕＋。而ＦＡＢ谱却形成一系列由边链断裂的碎片离子峰，由羰基的β断裂生成的离子较特征（底物为间－硝基苄醇）。当用二乙醇胺做底物时，观察到分子离子与底物的加成离子。     

1,4-二氧六环和氨分子氢键团簇的从头算

在不同基组水平上,对１,４－二氧六环和氨分子氢键团簇体系进行了从头算分子转道法研究,优化得到中性团簇,离子团簇和碎片离子（质子化团簇离子和非质子化团簇离子）平衡几何构型,研究结果表明：中性团簇最稳定构型为Ｒ－ＨＮ２－ＨＮＮ２（Ｒ：１,４－二氧六环）,离子团簇由于发生质子转移,其构型与中 团簇有较大的淡同,两类碎片离子Ｒ（ＮＨ３）＋和Ｒ（ＮＨ３）Ｈ＾＋与中性团簇Ｒ（ＮＨ３）的结构也有所不同     

酸性染料在四极杆/静电场轨道阱高分辨质谱中的离子化与裂解规律

采用四极杆/静电场轨道阱高分辨质谱(Q-Orbitrap-HRMS),对结构性质差异大的常见18种酸性染料的分子离子峰存在形式进行研究,并在分辨率高达70 000条件下,直接采集准分子离子峰碎裂片段的高精度质量数(分辨率>70 000,m/z 200),通过元素模拟得到碎片离子的元素组成,进而探究酸性红1、酸性蓝9和酸性红18的裂解规律。结果表明:该类染料的分子离子峰是通过丢掉全部Na+离子后,自身形成带负电荷离子,以其中含有多个磺酸基(SO-3)的二价准分子离子为基峰;随着能量增加,裂解过程主要集中在化合物支链单键上,其中偶氮基团结构存在叠氮-偶氮的互变异构体,高键能的偶氮键■重排为氮氮单键(-NH-■)后,易发生C-N键和-NH-■键的断裂,同时伴随小分子的中性丢失,产生m/z 79.955 7(SO-3离子)的特征碎片离子。此外,通过直接进样确定18种酸性染料的最佳电离方式和分子离子峰存在形式,得到酸性红1、酸性蓝9和酸性红18的质谱裂解规律,可为相似染料的电喷雾质谱行为解析提供参考。     

天麻中对羟基苯类化合物的高效液相色谱-质谱研究

天麻中对羟基苯类化合物的(EsI(-))一级质谱图中除分子离子峰[M-1]外，还可见明显的[M-1 20] m[2m-1]峰，由此规律可方便确证未知同类样品的分子离子峰。由二级质谱(ESI/MS/MS)的特征碎片离子93、105和107等，结合紫外光谱及核磁结果确定了3个不纯样品中主要成分的结构，同时初步确定了两个同类杂质的结构。     

C_nSH~±与C_nS_2~±的碰撞诱导解离研究

在自制的交叉分子-离子束串级飞行时间质谱仪上，以激光溅射的方式，产生了一系列含有一个硫原子和一个氢原子与含有两个硫原子的杂碳原子簇正负离子、经“质量门”选出单一质量的簇离子，与氮气的超声分子束交叉碰撞，然后分析其碰撞碎片．研究结果确定了这些簇离子的结构，两个杂原子分别位于碳链的两端．对碎片离子的分析还揭示了这些簇离子的主要解离通道及其与成簇碳原子数和所带电荷极性的关系，发现当成簇碳原子数较少时，簇离子中最薄弱的是S－C键，随着残链的增长，与硫原子相邻的C－C键变得更为薄弱；实验中存在着多次碰撞的机会，因而各碎片离子还有可能进一步解离．     

稠环齐聚物结构的激光解吸电离飞行时间质谱表征

应用激光解吸电离飞行时间质谱对几种不同结构的吡嗪稠环齐聚物进行了表征.样品溶解在二甲基亚砜中,以正离子方式记录谱图,结果发现除了产生目标化合物的质子化的分子离子峰外,还产生了少量的碎片分子离子峰.结果表明激光解吸电离飞行时间质谱能有效地、快速准确地给出这类化合物的分子离子峰,为吡嗪类稠环齐聚物的研究提供了有效的表征方法.     

92种工业染料在四极杆/静电场轨道阱高分辨质谱中的离子化规律

采用四极杆/静电场轨道阱高分辨质谱,通过正负离子快速切换的全扫描分析,实现了对92种工业染料的分子离子峰的离子化规律的探究。结果表明:碱性染料中氯或硫元素的存在状态决定了染料分子离子峰的存在形式,其中,氯元素以氯化氢形式存在的含氯染料是通过丢掉氯化氢形成[~*M+H]~+分子离子峰,氯元素以Cl~-存在且含有强极性基团(分子中氮原子呈现带有4个键的正离子状态)的染料分子离子峰通过丢掉Cl~-后形成[~*M]~+分子离子峰;对于含有硫元素的碱性染料,当硫元素是以HSO_4~-的形式存在且含有强极性基团(分子中氮原子呈现带有4个键的正离子状态)的碱性染料是通过丢掉HSO_4~-形成[~*M]~+分子离子峰;酸性染料准分子离子峰的类型与分子结构中Na~+、磺酸基的数目相关,倾向失去所有的Na~+,从溶剂中获得氢原子结合在磺酸基上,形成一系列[(M-xNa+yH)/(x-y)]~-离子,含有多个磺酸基染料的多以二价准分子离子峰为基峰;苏丹染料和分散染料作为含电负性基团的弱极性染料,更易形成[M+H]~+分子离子峰。     

Fast atom bombardment tandem mass spectrometry employing ion-molecule reactions for the differentiation of phospholipid classes

Fast atom bombardment tandem mass spectrometry, employing ion-molecule reactions with ethyl vinyl ether in a triple-quadrupole mass spectrometer, is used to differentiate classes of phospholipids. The phospholipids are desorbed and ionized by fast atom bombardment, mass-selected by the first quadrupole, and reacted with ethyl vinyl ether in the second quadrupole; the resulting product ions are analyzed by the third quadrupole. The protonated molecules and reaction product ions observed permit the differentiation of various phospholipid classes. The pattern of addition reaction products formed is shown to depend solely on the functionality of the lipid polar head group and not on the fatty acyl constituents. Neutral gain scans that are specific for each phospholipid class are performed. Ion dissociation products are observed in the same scan as the ion reaction products to provide data on the fatty acyl composition and position on the glycerophosphate core along with the phospholipid class. Although this method is less sensitive than neutral loss scanning for most phospholipid classes, it can (1) identify phospholipids that do not readily lose their head group as a neutral fragment and (2) detect phospholipids in mixtures containing species that give interfering neutral losses.     

Clustering of glycine molecules in aqueous solution studied by molecular dynamics simulation

The nature of glycine--glycine interactions in aqueous solution has been studied using molecular dynamics simulations at four different concentrations and, in each case, four different temperatures. Although evidence is found for formation of small, transient hydrogen-bonded clusters of glycine molecules, the main type of interaction between glycine molecules is found to be single NH...OC hydrogen bonds. Double-hydrogen-bonded "dimers", which have often been cited as a significant species present in aqueous solutions of glycine, are only observed infrequently. When double-hydrogen-bonded dimers are formed, they dissociate quickly (typically within less than ca. 4 ps), although the broken hydrogen bonds have a higher than average probability of reforming. Several aspects of the clustering of glycine molecules are investigated as a function of both temperature and concentration, including the size distribution of glycine clusters, the radii of gyration of the clusters, and aspects of the lifetimes of glycine-glycine hydrogen bonding by means of hydrogen-bond correlation functions. Diffusion coefficients for the glycine clusters and water molecules are also investigated and provide results in realistic agreement with experimental results.     

Ion-molecule reactions and fragmentation patterns in helium nanodroplets

A study has been made of the ion chemistry of a series of small molecules that have been embedded in helium nanodroplets. In most instances, the molecules H2O, SO2, CO2, CH3OH, C2H5OH, C3H7OH, CH3F, and CH3Cl have been allowed to form clusters, and reactivity within these has been initiated through electron impact ionization. For two of the molecules studied, CF2Cl2 and CF3I, reactivity is believed to originate from single molecules embedded in the droplets. Electron impact on the droplets is thought to first create a helium ion, and formation of molecular ions is then assumed to proceed via a charge hopping mechanism that propagates though the droplet and terminates with charge-transfer to a molecule or cluster. The chemistry exhibited by many of the cluster ions and at least one of the single molecular ions is very different from that observed for the same species in isolation. In most cases, reactivity appears to be dominated by high-energy bond breaking processes as opposed to, in the case of the clusters, ion-molecule reactions. Overall, charge-transfer from He+ does not appear to be a "soft" ionization mechanism.     

Formation of substrate-supported membranes from mixtures of long- and short-chain phospholipids

We studied the formation of substrate-supported planar phospholipid bilayers (SPBs) on glass and silica from mixtures of long- and short-chain phospholipids to assess the effects of detergent additives on SPB formation. 1,2-Hexyanoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DHPC-C6) and 1,2-heptanoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DHPC-C7) were chosen as short-chain phospholipids. 1-Palmitoyl-2-oleol-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (POPC) was used as a model long-chain phospholipid. Kinetic studies by quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring (QCM-D) showed that the presence of short-chain phospholipids significantly accelerated the formation of SPBs. Rapid rinsing with a buffer solution did not change the adsorbed mass on the surface if POPC/DHPC-C6 mixtures were used below the critical micelle concentration (cmc) of DHPC-C6, indicating that an SPB composed of POPC molecules remained on the surface. Fluorescence microscopy observation showed homogeneous SPBs, and the fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) measurements gave a diffusion coefficient comparable to that for SPBs formed from POPC vesicles. However, mixtures of POPC/DHPC-C7 resulted in a smaller mass of lipid adsorption on the substrate. FRAP measurements also yielded significantly smaller diffusion coefficients, suggesting the presence of defects. The different behaviors for DHPC-C6 and DHPC-C7 point to the dual roles of detergents to enhance the formation of SPBs and to destabilize them, depending on their structures and aggregation properties.     

Two-dimensional analysis of phospholipids by capillary liquid chromatography/electrospray ionization mass spectrometry

A phospholipid mixture extracted from cultured cells was directly analyzed by capillary (Cap) liquid chromatography (LC)/electrospray ionization (ESI) mass spectrometry (MS). Using a quadrupole mass spectrometer, we analyzed positive molecular ions, negative molecular ions, positive fragment ions and negative fragment ions under four different functions. In the analysis of the elution patterns of the phospholipids, a two-dimensional map, in which the first dimension is elution time and the second dimension is mass, proved useful. Consequently, four different maps can be obtained by each of four different functions. Among them, from negative fragment ions at high cone voltage in the negative ion mode, ions that originated from acyl fatty acid and phosphorylcholine, phosphorylethanolamine and cyclic inositol phosphate can be detected at specific elution times. The map from positive fragment ions at high cone voltage in the positive ion mode indicated ions such as diradylglycerol and derivatives of 1-alkyl or 1-alkenyl cyclic phosphatidic acid from phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), and phosphorylcholine from choline-containing phospholipids. The map produced from positive molecular ions indicated choline-containing phospholipids such as phosphatidylcholine, sphingomyelin, lysophosphatidylcholine and PE. The map of negative molecular ions effectively indicated acidic phospholipids such as phosphatidylinositol. We were able to obtain more than 500 molecular species of phospholipids by this method within a few hours immediately after extraction from culture cells using a mixture of chloroform and methanol (2:1). In this context, we concluded that the combination of Cap-LC and ESIMS seems to be very effective in the analysis of phospholipid classes and their molecular species.     

Effect of the polar headgroup of phospholipids on their interaction with actin

It is generally admitted that actin filaments are anchored to a membrane by membranar actin-binding-proteins. However, we found that actin may also interact directly with membrane phospholipids. The actin-phospholipid complex has been investigated at the air-water interface using a film balance technique. In order to probe the effect of the phospholipid headgroup on the actin-phospholipid interaction, we focus mainly on phospholipids that have the same acyl chain length but different headgroups. For all the phospholipids, the apparent area per molecule (the total surface divided by the number of lipid molecules) increases after the injection of the protein into the subphase, which suggests an intercalation of actin between the phospholipid molecules. This effect seems to be more important for DMPE and DMPS than for DMPG, suggesting that the headgroup plays an important role in this intercalation. The critical surface pressure associated to the liquid expanded-liquid condensed (LE-LC) phospholipid transition increases with the concentration of G-actin and thus suggests that G-actin acts as an impurity, simply competing as a surfactant at the air-water interface. On the other hand, F-actin affects the LE to LC transition of phospholipids differently. In this case, the LE to LC transition is broader and F-actin slightly decreases the critical surface pressure, which suggests that electrostatic interactions are involved.     

Kinetics of supersaturated vapor nucleation on molecular condensation nuclei

The kinetics of nucleation is calculated for a supersaturated vapor containing molecular condensation nuclei, that is, foreign molecules able to induce the formation of viable nuclei of a condensed phase by themselves. In contrast to the previous calculation, the possibility of the escape of molecular condensation nuclei from very small clusters containing a few condensed vapor molecules is taken into account. More exact equations are derived for the rate of steady-state nucleation and the concentration of aerosol particles in a quasisteady-state regime of nucleation. The calculation demonstrates that, at a high probability of the escape of a molecular condensation nucleus, the predominating mechanism of cluster formation is the attachment of a molecular condensation nucleus to a cluster formed from vapor molecules rather than their condensation on the nucleus. At the same time, allowances for the possible escape of molecular condensation nuclei from clusters slightly affect the rate of nucleation and the concentration of aerosol particles being formed.     

Application of liquid chromatography-thermospray mass spectrometry in the analysis of glycerophospholipid molecular species

We report the application of high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) separation with ultraviolet detection and direct, on-line, structural analyses by mass spectrometry of glycerobenzoate derivatives from complex mixtures of phospholipid molecular species. Individual phospholipids were resolved from total lipid extracts by thin-layer chromatography (TLC). Diradylglycerols were released from phospholipids by phospholipase-C treatment, converted to diradyl glycerobenzoates and subsequently separated by TLC into subclasses (alk-1-enylacyl, alkylacyl and diacyl types). The molecular species within each subclass were resolved by HPLC with an octadecyl reversed-phase column in acetonitrile-isopropanol (80:20, v/v). Individual peaks were quantitated at the picomole level by measuring absorbance at 230 nm. After post-column addition of methanol-0.2 M ammonium acetate (50:50, v/v), peaks were introduced through the thermospray interface into a VG Masslab 30-250 quadrupole mass spectrometer. Molecular species showed as base peaks the salt adducts of the molecular ion which permitted easy deduction of the overall fatty acyl composition. In addition, the diglyceride fragment of each species was found at [MH - 122]+ and two fragments formed by the loss of the fatty acyl groups (R) in the sn-1 or sn-2 position were found at [M - R1]+ and [M - R2]+, respectively. Since preferential release of either fatty acyl group was observed in positional isomers, the ratio of the intensity of these fragments gave information on the position of the fatty acyl groups in the individual HPLC peaks. We show that the use of on-line mass spectrometry, however, provides easy identification of all molecular species present in a complex phospholipid mixture, even when more than one molecular species is contained in an HPLC peak.     

Quantitation and characterization of phospholipids in pharmaceutical formulations by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry

A simple and fast method for phospholipid analysis was developed using high-performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry with an atmospheric pressure ionization interface. Separation of the phospholipid molecular species was achieved using a linear gradient of a mixture of chloroform-10 mM ammonium acetate-methanol (30:5:65) on a silica column. Optimization of the mass spectrometer conditions has allowed the method to separate and detect the phospholipids mainly as protonated molecular species. In comparison to existing LC-MS methods, improvement in the total analysis time and sensitivity were achieved. Separation of all major phospholipid molecular classes was achieved in less than 6 min. Marked improvement was observed in the linearity of the response of the phospholipids studied providing a linear response over three orders of magnitude. Data supporting the validation of this method for the characterization of major phospholipids molecular species are also presented.     

Analysis of plant phosphatidylcholines by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry

The use of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometry (MS) for the quantitative determination of phospholipid (PL) molecular species has been problematic, due primarily to the formation of multiple signals (corresponding to the molecular ion and other adducts) for some classes of PL. For example, analysis of phosphatidylcholine (PC) yielded signals that corresponded to protonated and sodiated molecules in the MALDI spectrum. The resulting spectral overlap among various molecular species (e.g. [PC(16:0/18:2) + Na] and [PC(18:2/18:3)]) made it impossible to ascertain their relative amounts using this technique. Other spectral ambiguities existed among different structural isomers, such as PC(18:1/18:1) and PC(18:0/18:2). We determined that molecular species could be resolved by MALDI-TOFMS by first removing the polar head (e.g. phosphocholine) from the phospholipid to effect production of only the sodiated molecules of the corresponding diacylglycerols (DAGs). Analysis of the resulting spectrum allowed unequivocal determination of the molecular species profile of PC from potato tuber and soybean. Estimation of fatty acid composition based on the molecular species determined by MALDI-TOFMS analysis agreed with that from GC-FID analysis. Post-source decay (PSD) was used to resolve standard isomers of PC (e.g. 18:1/18:1 vs. 18:0/18:2). Our results indicated that PSD is a useful approach for resolving structural isomers of PL molecular species.