淫羊藿苷的电喷雾质谱研究

研究了淫羊藿苷的电喷雾质谱行为.结果表明,该化合物在正、负离子模式下均可得到较好的质谱信息,在负离子模式下,采用H/D交换方法,证明淫羊藿苷易形成加合2个水分子的准分子离子.利用电喷雾碰撞诱导解离方法,分别阐明了该化合物在正、负离子模式下的电喷雾质谱碎裂规律.     

芹菜素的电喷雾萃取电离串联质谱

采用实验室自制的电喷雾萃取电离源(EESI),结合串联质谱(MSn)技术,对芹菜素这一典型的黄酮类活性化合物的质谱行为进行了研究。实验表明,在正、负离子检测模式下,该化合物均能得到较好的EESI-MS信号,且在负离子检测模式下灵敏度更高。通过对比芹菜素的EESI-MS和电喷雾电离质谱(ESI-MS)谱图发现,芹菜素在EESI-MS和ESI-MS中的裂解规律相似,但是EESI是一种比ESI更软的电离模式。根据对芹菜素EESI-MS特征碎片离子的分析,提出了芹菜素在EESI-MS中裂解的基本规律,为EESI-MS技术用于分析、鉴定复杂基质中痕量芹菜素奠定了理论和实验基础。     

芍药苷的电喷雾串联质谱研究

采用电喷雾串联质谱(ESI-MSn)技术, 结合H/D交换方法, 在正、负离子检测模式下对白芍药材中主要成分芍药苷的质谱裂解规律进行了系统研究. 实验结果表明, 该化合物在正、负离子模式下均得到较好的质谱信息, 且在正离子模式下, 电喷雾质谱分析的灵敏度更高. 同时获得了其质谱裂解规律, 为白芍中其它化合物的分析鉴定提供了有效的质谱方法.     

朝鲜淫羊藿中黄酮类化合物的高效液相色谱与电喷雾质谱联用研究

利用高效液相色谱与电喷雾质谱联用技术研究了朝鲜淫羊藿中的黄酮类化合物。实验采用反相C18色谱柱，二元线性梯度洗脱，分离并检测了朝鲜淫羊藿中的6种黄酮类化合物；通过与电喷雾质谱联用获得了这几种化合物的分子量信息，利用质谱的源内碰撞诱导解离技术对这几种化合物进行了结构鉴定。     

车前草中苯乙醇苷化合物的电喷雾多级串联质谱研究

利用电喷雾多级串联质谱技术研究了车前草药材中的苯乙醇苷化合物, 根据其在负离子条件下表现出的特征质谱行为, 提出了车前草中的苯乙醇苷类化合物可能的电喷雾质谱碎裂规律, 建立了车前草中苯乙醇苷化合物的快速分析、鉴定方法.     

C60-N-甲基吡咯烷衍生物直接进样电喷雾离子阱质谱表征

通过直接进样方式,采用电喷雾电离质谱技术分析了8个合成的富勒烯-N-甲基吡咯烷衍生物,详细研究了其在电喷雾条件下的质谱行为。由结果可知,该类化合物在电喷雾电离过程中易得到电子而负离子化;当衍生物结构中有相对易质子化基团或有活泼氢时,则可获得质子化和去质子的正负离子谱图;衍生物在负离子模式下容易失去吡咯环产生富勒烯负离子,且在合适能量碰撞下易发生衍生化基团内部的逆环加成反应,通过失去1个中性小分子物质CH2‖N—CH3,产生新的一取代亚甲基富勒烯衍生物。基于电喷雾电离源技术联合离子阱分析器建立的质谱分析方法,不但能提供准确的分子量信息,还能通过获得高分辨同位素谱峰和丰富的二级碎片离子峰,进一步确认化合物的分子结构,是一种先进、快速的富勒烯吡咯烷衍生物定性分析方法。     

芦丁的电喷雾离子阱质谱分析

研究了芦丁在电喷雾离子阱质谱(ESI-MS)下的主要特征碎片离子及其裂解规律。应用电喷雾离子阱质谱技术研究芦丁的结构和正、负离子扫描条件下芦丁的主要特征碎片离子及其裂解规律。芦丁在正、负离子模式下均可得到较好的质谱信息,在正离子模式下,容易与Na+形成[M+Na]+的准分子离子,并裂解形成碎片m/z 605,487,331,325,313,185等,在负离子模式下,形成[M-H]-的准分子离子,并进一步碎裂形成碎片m/z 301,283,257,255,229,227,211等。分别阐明了芦丁在正、负离子模式下的电喷雾质谱碎裂规律,并对主要特征碎片离子进行归属,为进一步芦丁的结构优化和修饰提供了有价值的依据。     

朝鲜淫羊藿的色谱指纹图谱及液相色谱/电喷雾串联质谱分析

建立了长白山区朝鲜淫羊藿药材的高效液相色谱指纹图谱的分析方法. 确定了18批朝鲜淫羊藿药材的13个共有峰, 该指纹图谱的精密度、稳定性和重现性的相对标准偏差均低于3.0%. 结合液相色谱/电喷雾串联质谱对特征峰进行了结构确认, 并根据电喷雾串联质谱数据推测了13个特征化合物的结构. 结果表明采用高效液相色谱与质谱联用技术对朝鲜淫羊藿色谱指纹图谱中的特征峰进行结构确认, 使其色谱指纹图谱的特征性更强, 更适合于药材质量的鉴别与评价.     

治疗骨骼疾病药物阿屈酸的电喷雾质谱研究

阿屈酸的极性很强且热稳定性很差，因此不适合用电子轰击质谱来研究，该文研究了它的正离子和负离子电喷雾质谱的行为，结果表明阿屈酸既可作负离子电喷雾质谱分析，也可作正离子电喷雾质谱分析，且正离子电喷雾质谱分析的灵敏度高于负离子；电喷雾源内碰撞诱导解离分析时正离子和负离子的裂解方式相似，但不完全相同，且正离子有明显的[M Na]^ 峰和[M H]^ 及[M Na]^ 与M的非共价键簇离子峰，这对确定类似未知物的相对分子质量有很大的帮助。     

有机盐类化合物醋酸钠的电喷雾质谱研究

利用电喷雾质谱技术研究了有机盐类化合物醋酸钠(NaAc)的特征质谱行为,实验结果表明,在全扫描电喷雾正负离子谱中都出现了质量数相差82的质谱峰簇．这与醋酸钠的相对分子质量相一致,正负质谱峰簇分别对应于簇合物离子Na^ (NaAc)n和Ac^-(NaAc)m:簇合物离子的多级串联质谱进一步证明了簇合物离子的存在。该结果为类似结构的盐类化合物的表征提供了一种新的质谱证据。     

Calibration in positive and negative ion fast atom bombardment using salt mixtures

Two salt mixtures are described far mass calibration in fast atom bombardment: CsI and NaI for positive ion mode, and CsI and CsF for negative ion mode. The mixtures give many more peaks than CsI and therefore better mass accuracy can be obtained both in scanning and in peak-matching mode. Their use is especially advantageous for computerized data acquisition. The mass range of 23–3500 for positive ion mode, and 19–3000 for negative ion mode, has been tested and gave good results.     

纳米材料辅助负离子激光解吸电离-飞行时间质谱分析小分子研究进展

基质辅助激光解吸电离-飞行时间质谱（MALDI-TOF MS）作为一种软电离质谱技术,目前已被广泛用于蛋白质、多肽、核酸、聚合物等大分子分析。由于传统有机化合物基质在低相对分子质量（小于700 Da）区域的干扰,该技术在小分子物质分析方面受到很大限制。为克服传统有机化合物基质在低相对分子质量区域的干扰,近年来以纳米材料为代表的无机基质材料备受关注。相对传统有机化合物基质或纳米材料正离子模式,基于纳米材料的负离子激光解吸电离（LDI）有效避免了正离子模式下一种化合物会产生多种加合物的问题,具有图谱简单易于解析、灵敏度高、重现性好等优点。该文综述了近5年来纳米材料负离子LDI-TOF MS技术在小分子分析方面的研究进展,以期拓展该技术在小分子分析方面的应用。     

电喷雾质谱法研究氨基酸的质谱碎裂及其与人参皂苷Rb3的相互作用

用串联质谱法研究了18种常见氨基酸在正离子和负离子模式下的质谱碎裂规律. 结果表明, 在正离子模式下的分子离子峰强度比在负离子模式下的高一个数量级, 氨基酸α-C上的羧基和氨基容易脱掉. 在正离子和负离子模式下都有两种裂解机理. 用电喷雾软电离技术研究了人参皂苷Rb3与18种氨基酸的非共价相互作用, 并采用直接计算的方法得出这些非共价复合物的解离常数. 结果表明, 在水介质中,与其它氨基酸相比, 酸性氨基酸和碱性氨基酸与人参皂苷结合更稳定.     

Unfolding of proteins monitored by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry: a comparison of positive and negative ion modes

Electrospray ionization (ESI) mass spectrometry (MS) in both the positive and negative ion mode has been used to study protein unfolding transitions of lysozyme, cytochrome c (cyt c), and ubiquitin in solution. As expected, ESI of unfolded lysozyme leads to the formation of substantially higher charge states than the tightly folded protein in both modes of operation. Surprisingly, the acid-induced unfolding of cyt c as well as the acid and the base-induced unfolding of ubiquitin show different behavior: In these three cases protein unfolding only leads to marginal changes in the negative ion charge state distributions, whereas in the positive ion mode pronounced shifts to higher charge states are observed. This shows that ESI MS in the negative ion mode as a method for probing conformational changes of proteins in solution should be treated with caution. The data presented in this work provide further evidence that the conformation of a protein in solution not its charge state is the predominant factor for determining the ESI charge state distribution in the positive ion mode. Furthermore, these data support the hypothesis of a recent study (Konermann and Douglas, Biochemistry 1997, 36, 12296–12302) which suggested that ESI in the positive ion mode is not sensitive to changes in the secondary structure of proteins but only to changes in the tertiary structure.     

The influence of sialylation on glycan negative ion dissociation and energetics

For the analysis of native glycans using tandem mass spectrometry (MS), it is desirable to choose conditions whereby abundances of cross-ring cleavages indicative of branch positions are maximized. Recently, negative ion tandem mass spectrometry has been shown to produce significantly higher abundances of such ions in glycans compared to the positive ion mode. Much of this prior work has concerned fragmentation patterns in asialo glycans. The present work compares the abundances of critical cross-ring cleavage ions using negative mode tandem mass spectrometry for milk oligosaccharides and N-linked glycans. For comparison, product ion formation was studied for deprotonated and nitrated ions formed from asialo glycans and deprotonated ions from sialylated glycans. Breakdown profiles demonstrate clearly that more energy was required to fragment sialylated compounds to the same extent as either their asialo or nitrate adducted counterparts. The extraction of a proton from a ring hydroxyl group during the ionization process may be viewed, qualitatively, as imparting significantly more energy to the ion than would that from a molecule bearing an acidic group, so that acidic glycans are more stable in the gas phase, as the negative charge resides on the carboxyl group. These results have strong practical implications because a major portion of glycans released from mammalian proteins will be sialylated.     

Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry of underivatized and permethylated gangliosides

Underivatized and permethylated gangliosides have been studied by the matrix-assisted laser desorption (MALD) ionization technique. The samples investigated included commercially available and highly purified gangliosides from the human brain containing up to five sialic acid residues. Several permethylated gangliosides have also been studied, and MALD has proven successful in analyzing multicomponent mixtures of glycolipids with different fatty acyl residues. During the studies a variety of matrix and wavelength combinations have been tested in both the positive and negative ion modes. The best results have been obtained with the matrices 2,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid, 4-hydrazinobenzoic acid, 1,5-diaminonaphthalene, and 6-aza-2-thiothymine. Negative ion mass spectra of the underivatized gangliosides have always been of better quality than the positive ion mass spectra, exhibiting better signal-to-noise ratio, better resolution, less fragmentation, and less adduct formation with Na⁺ and K⁺. With increasing number of sialic acid substituents the molecular ion region became less and less resolvable, leading to broadened peaks even in the negative ion mode. Fragmentation could frequently be observed in the negative ion mode, and it was pronounced in the positive ion mode. The major fragmentation pathways corresponded to loss of sialyl group(s) and to decarboxylation of one of the sialyl residues. For underivatized gangliosides the typical sample amount used was 10–20 pmol. Permethylation led to a significant improvement in sensitivity (two orders of magnitude); the detection limit of permethylated gangliosides was about 10 fmol. The higher stability of the permethylated compounds was indicated by the fact that positive ion mass spectra exhibited only a marginal extent of fragmentation.     

Negative ion production from peptides and proteins by matrix‐assisted laser desorption/ionization time‐of‐flight mass spectrometry

Negative ion production from peptides and proteins was investigated by matrix‐assisted laser desorption/ionization time‐of‐flight (MALDI‐TOF) mass spectrometry. Although most research on peptide and protein identification with ionization by MALDI has involved the detection of positive ions, for some acidic peptides protonated molecules are not easily formed because the side chains of acidic residues are more likely to lose a proton and form a deprotonated species. After investigating more than 30 peptides and proteins in both positive and negative ion modes, [M–H]⁻ ions were detected in the negative ion mode for all peptides and proteins although the matrix used was 2,5‐dihydroxybenzoic acid (DHB), which is a good proton donor and favors the positive ion mode production of [M+H]⁺ ions. Even for highly basic peptides without an acidic site, such as myosin kinase inhibiting peptide and substance P, good negative ion signals were observed. Conversely, gastrin I (1‐14), a peptide without a highly basic site, will form positive ions. In addition, spectra obtained in the negative ion mode are usually cleaner due to absence of alkali metal adducts. This can be useful during precursor ion isolation for MS/MS studies. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Compelling Advantages of Negative Ion Mode Detection in High-Mass MALDI-MS for Homomeric Protein Complexes

Chemical cross-linking in combination with high-mass MALDI mass spectrometry allows for the rapid identification of interactions and determination of the complex stoichiometry of noncovalent protein–protein interactions. As the molecular weight of these complexes increases, the fraction of multiply charged species typically increases. In the case of homomeric complexes, signals from multiply charged multimers overlap with singly charged subunits. Remarkably, spectra recorded in negative ion mode show lower abundances of multiply charged species, lower background, higher reproducibility, and, thus, overall cleaner spectra compared with positive ion mode spectra. In this work, a dedicated high-mass detector was applied for measuring high-mass proteins (up to 200 kDa) by negative ion mode MALDI-MS. The influences of sample preparation and instrumental parameters were carefully investigated. Relative signal integrals of multiply charged anions were relatively independent of any of the examined parameters and could thus be approximated easily for the spectra of cross-linked complexes. For example, the fraction of doubly charged anions signals overlapping with the signals of singly charged subunits could be more precisely estimated than in positive ion mode. Sinapinic acid was found to be an excellent matrix for the analysis of proteins and cross-linked protein complexes in both ion modes. Our results suggest that negative ion mode data of chemically cross-linked protein complexes are complementary to positive ion mode data and can in some cases represent the solution phase situation better than positive ion mode.