红景天苷及其酯化产物的ESI MS和MS/MS裂解途径

糖苷广泛存在于自然界中,常以糖苷酯形式存在,这有效地提高了它们的酯溶性,增加它们在肠内和胞内的吸收[1-3]。红景天苷是一种具有抗疲劳、抗辐射、抗缺氧、提高记忆、延缓衰老等药理活性的天然糖苷[4-8],在此先导化合物的基础上合成了各种红景天苷酯。本文对这类红景天苷酯的E     

LC/MS and LC/MS/MS determination of protein tryptic digests

Tryptic digests were analyzed by means of online microbore liquid chromatography combined with mass spectrometry (LC/MS) for some common proteins. Following conventional enzymatic digestion with trypsin, the freeze-dried residues were dissolved in high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) eluent and subjected to gradient reversed-phase microbore HPLC separation with mass spectrometric detection. The latter was done in the full-scan single or tandem (MS/MS) mass spectrometry mode. The formation of gas-phase ions from dissolved analytes was accomplished at atmospheric pressure by pneumatically assisted electrospray (ion spray) ionization. This produced field-assisted ion evaporation of dissolved ions, which could then be mass-analyzed for molecular mass or structure. In the full-scan LC/MS mode, the masses for the peptide fragments in the tryptic digests can be determined as either their singly or multiply charged ions. When the molecular weights of the peptides lie outside the mass range of the mass spectrometer, the multiply charged feature of these experimental conditions still provides reliable molecular weight determinations. In addition, collision-activated dissociation (CAD) on selected peptide precursor ions provides online LC/MS/MS sequence information for the tryptic fragments. Results are shown for the tryptic digests of horse heart cytochrome c, bovine β-lactoglobulin A, and bovine β-lactoglobulin B.     

Selective detection and identification of phosphopeptides by dansyl MS/MS/MS fragmentation

Protein phosphorylation regulates many cellular processes and pathways, such as cell cycle progression, signal transduction cascades and gene expression. Selective detection of phosphopeptides from proteolytic digests is a challenging and highly relevant task in many proteomics applications. Often phosphopeptides are present in small amounts and need selective isolation or enrichment before identification. Here we report a novel approach to label selectively phospho-Ser/-Thr residues by exploiting the features of a novel linear ion trap mass spectrometer. Using dansyl labelling and MS3 fragmentation, we developed a method useful for the large-scale proteomic profiling of phosphorylation sites. The new residues in the sequence were stable and easily identifiable under general conditions for tandem mass spectrometric sequencing.     

Analytical performance of the various acquisition modes in Orbitrap MS and MS/MS

Quadrupole Orbitrap instruments (Q Orbitrap) permit high‐resolution mass spectrometry‐based full scan acquisitions and have a number of acquisition modes where the quadrupole isolates a particular mass range prior to a possible fragmentation and high‐resolution mass spectrometry‐based acquisition. Selecting the proper acquisition mode(s) is essential if trace analytes are to be quantified in complex matrix extracts. Depending on the particular requirements, such as sensitivity, selectivity of detection, linear dynamic range, and speed of analysis, different acquisition modes may have to be chosen. This is particularly important in the field of multi‐residue analysis (eg, pesticides or veterinary drugs in food samples) where a large number of analytes within a complex matrix have to be detected and reliably quantified. Meeting the specific detection and quantification performance criteria for every targeted compound may be challenging. It is the aim of this paper to describe the strengths and the limitations of the currently available Q Orbitrap acquisition modes. In addition, the incorporation of targeted acquisitions between full scan experiments is discussed. This approach is intended to integrate compounds that require an additional degree of sensitivity or selectivity into multi‐residue methods.     

Dual parallel electrospray ionization and atmospheric pressure chemical ionization mass spectrometry (MS), MS/MS and MS/MS/MS for the analysis of triacylglycerols and triacylglycerol oxidation products

Two mass spectrometers, in parallel, were employed simultaneously for analysis of triacylglycerols in canola oil, for analysis of triolein oxidation products, and for analysis of triacylglycerol positional isomers separated using reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography. A triple quadrupole mass spectrometer was interfaced via an atmospheric pressure chemical ionization (APCI) interface to two reversed-phase liquid chromatographic columns in series. An ion trap mass spectrometer was coupled to the same two columns using an electrospray ionization (ESI) interface, with ammonium formate added as electrolyte. Electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) under these conditions produced abundant ammonium adduct ions from triacylglycerols, which were then fragmented to produce MS/MS spectra and then fragmented further to produce MS/MS/MS spectra. ESI-MS/MS of the ammoniated adduct ions gave product ion mass spectra which were similar to mass spectra obtained by APCI-MS. ESI-MS/MS produced diacylglycerol fragment ions, and additional fragmentation (MS/MS/MS) produced [RCO](+) (acylium) ions, [RCOO+58](+) ions, and other related ions which allowed assignment of individual acyl chain identities. APCI-MS of triacylglycerol oxidation products produced spectra like those reported previously using APCI-MS. APCI-MS/MS produced ions related to individual fatty acid chains. ESI-MS of triacylglycerol oxidation products produced abundant ammonium adduct ions, even for those molecules which previously produced little or no intact molecular ions under APCI-MS conditions. Fragmentation (MS/MS) of the [M+NH(4)](+) ions produced results similar to those obtained by APCI-MS. Further fragmentation (MS/MS/MS) of the diacylglycerol fragments of oxidation products provided information on the oxidized individual fatty acyl chains. ESI-MS and APCI-MS were found to be complementary techniques, which together contributed to a better understanding of the identities of the products formed by oxidation of triacylglycerols.     

串级质谱应用于蛋白质科学研究的实例介绍

串级质谱（MS/MS）分析是近年来迅猛发展的仪器分析技术,对于化学相关学科与其他交叉领域都起到了极大的推动作用。在使用计算机辅助解析后,常常需要进一步进行图谱指认,而这部分内容常常被化学教学所忽略。从串级质谱的原理出发,详细分析了肽段在二级质谱中可能的断裂模式与结构特性,并进一步以模型蛋白为例详细分析了串级质谱的图谱指认和峰的归属的基本原理与实用性方法,以期对教学与科研有助。     

Structure elucidation of glycoproteins by direct nanoESI MS and MS/MS analysis of proteolytic glycopeptides

Bovine ribonuclease B (RNAse B) and asialofetuin (FETUA) were subjected to in-capillary tryptic digest (Pohlentz et al. Proteomics. 2005, 5, 1758-1763) and the obtained glycopeptides were analyzed, respectively, by nanoelectrospray ionization mass spectrometry and collision-induced dissociation (CID) during the ongoing digest. For RNAse, B glycans of the high-mannose type (Man(4) to Man(9)) attached to either a tetra- or a hexapeptide containing the sole N-glycosylation site of the protein were detected. Glycopeptides derived from all three N-glycosylation sites of FETUA were observed, and the corresponding CID spectra proved the respective glycans to be oligosaccharides of the triantennary complex type. Moreover, an O-glycopeptide carrying Gal-GalNAc at T(280) could be unambiguously identified. An in-solution tryptic/chymotryptic digest of human transferrin (TRFE) was analyzed directly for glycopeptides subsequent to the addition of methanol and formic acid. Disialylated diantennary glycans were observed in glycopeptides of both N-glycosylation sites of TRFE. These results demonstrate the feasibility of direct structure determination of glycopeptides in proteolytic mixtures without any further refurbishment.     

Determination of estrogens and progestogens by mass spectrometric techniques (GC/MS, LC/MS and LC/MS/MS)

Steroid sex hormones and related synthetic compounds have been shown to provoke alarming estrogenic effects in aquatic organisms, such as feminization, at very low concentrations (ng/L or pg/L). In this work, different chromatographic techniques, namely, gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS), liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC/MS) and liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS), are discussed for the analysis of estrogens, both free and conjugated, and progestogens, and the sensitivities achieved with the various techniques are inter-compared. GC/MS analyses are usually carried out after derivatization of the analytes with bis(trimethylsilyl)trifluoroacetamide (BSTFA). For LC/MS and LC/MS/MS analyses, different instruments, ionization techniques (electrospray (ESI) and atmospheric pressure chemical ionization (APCI)), ionization modes (negative ion (NI) and positive ion (PI)) and monitoring modes (selected ion monitoring (SIM) and selected reaction monitoring (SRM)) are generally employed. Based on sensitivity and selectivity, LC/ESI-MS/MS is generally the method of choice for determination of estrogens in the NI mode and of progestogens in the PI mode (instrumental detection limits (IDLs) 0.1-10 ng/mL). IDLs achieved by LC/ESI-MS in the SIM mode and by LC/ESI-MS/MS in the SRM mode were, in general, comparable, although the selectivity of the latter is significantly higher and essential to avoid false positive determinations in the analysis of real samples. Conclusions and future perspectives are outlined.     

An impulse-driven liquid-droplet deposition interface for combining LC with MALDI MS and MS/MS

A simple and robust impulse-driven droplet deposition system was developed for off-line liquid chromatography matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry (LC-MALDI MS). The system uses a solenoid operated with a pulsed voltage power supply to generate impulses that dislodge the hanging droplets from the LC outlet directly to a MALDI plate via a momentum transfer process. There is no contact between the LC outlet and the collection surface. The system is compatible with solvents of varying polarity and viscosity, and accommodates the use of hydrophobic and hydrophilic MALDI matrices. MALDI spots are produced on-line with the separation, and do not require further processing before MS analysis. It is shown that high quality MALDI spectra from 5 fmol of pyro-Glu-fibrinopeptide deposition after LC separation could be obtained using the device, indicating that there was no sample loss in the interface. To demonstrate the analytical performance of the system as a proteome analysis tool, a range of BSA digest concentrations covering about 3 orders of magnitude, from 5 fmol to 1 pmol, were analyzed by LC-MALDI quadrupole time-of-flight MS, yielding 6 and 57% amino acid sequence coverage, respectively. In addition, a complex protein mixture of an E. coli cell extract was tryptically digested and analyzed by LC-MALDI MS, resulting in the detection of a total of 409 unique peptides from 100 fractions of 15-s intervals.     

Analysis of MS/MS fragmentation of taxoids

The fragmentation pathways of seven types of taxoids were investigated by using a LC-MS/MS method, namely: (1) neutral taxoids with a C-4(20) double bond; (2) taxoids with a C-4(20) double bond and oxygenation at C-14; (3) 5-cinnamoyl taxoids with a C-4(20) double bond; (4) a basic taxoid with a C-4(20) double bond; (5) a taxoid with a C-4(20) epoxide; (6) taxoids with an oxetane ring; and (7) taxoids with an oxetane ring and a phenylisoserine C-13 side chain. Depending on the class of core structure and the substitution pattern, each taxoid gave either the molecular adduct ion [M+NH4]+ or [M+H]+. In the MS/MS, the molecular adduct ion gave characteristic product ions corresponding to the loss of water, acetic acid, benzoic acid, and cinnamic acid or the phenylisoserine group. These could reflect the difference of the substitutions and structural modifications and should be utilized for the structure elucidation oftaxoids by LC-MS.     

Discrimination of Thermoplastic Polyesters by MALDI-TOF MS and Py-GC/MS

The aim of this work is to discriminate thermoplastic polyester-polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polybutylene terephthalate (PBT), and polytrimethylene terephthalate (PTT), which cannot be easily identified by many methods. Both matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) and pyrolysis gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS) were applied to identify these polyesters owing to their analytical ability to determining polymers' chemical structure. The three thermoplastic polyesters can be easily distinguished by MALDI-TOF MS according to their different repeated units. Py-GC/MS was used to analyze their specific pyrolyzates. The three polyesters can be identified through their characteristic pyrolysis products as well.     

Optimization of automatically generated rules for predicting the presence and absence of substructures from MS and MS/MS data

A pattern-recognition/artificial-intelligence program, referred to as MAPS (Method for Analyzing Patterns in Spectra), was recently developed to identify the relationships that exist between substructures and the characteristic features they produce in the spectra from mass spectrometry (MS) and successive mass spectrometry (MS/MS). MAPS has been extended to utilize these relationships to formulate exclusion rules as well as inclusion rules, so that the absence of recognized substructures can be predicted as well as their presence. The potential usefulness of each MS and MS/MS spectral feature in such rule formulation is characterized by correlation and uniqueness factors. The correlation factor expresses the degree of correlation between a feature and a specific substructure; the uniqueness factor expresses the uniqueness of a feature with respect to that substructure. Features with high correlation factors are most use for predicting the absence of substructures, whereas features with high uniqueness factors are most useful for predicting their presence. Feature intensity-data have been found to improve the inclusion-rule performance and degrade the exclusion-rule performance. Criteria for optimizing the predictive abilities of both rule types are discussed.     

Reliable peak-finding for MS/MS

A fast, reliable routine has been developed for dynamically reducing the peak-shaped sequential intensity data, normally obtained in a scanning mass spectrometer, to a mass/intensity pair for each peak in the scan. The algorithm is specifically designed for applications such as MS/MS having large dynamic range as well as overlapping and irregular peak shapes. A method of testing the accuracy of real-time peak-finding algorithms is also described and applied to this algorithm.     

MS and GC–MS studies on phthalocyanine monomers

Phthalocyanines are a class of macrocyclic organic compounds known for their high tinctorial properties, thermal stability, chemical inertness, catalytic activity, and photoconductivity. A mass spectral study on metal phthalocyanines presented many difficulties because of their excellent thermal stability. The present work deals with MS and GC–MS studies of phthalocyanine, copper, and nickel phthalocyanine monomers at various temperatures. Tentative mechanism for the modes of fragmentation is proposed.     

LC/MS and LC/MS/MS based protocol for identification of dyes in historic textiles

Identification of dyes in historic textiles was until recently only based on reversed phase liquid chromatography and diode-array detection (RPLC–DAD). Although in the last years mass spectrometry (MS) is increasingly used as a detection system for liquid chromatography, most applications in the field are directed to identification of the molecular ions or in studies dedicated to degradation products which may be used as markers in RPLC–DAD. In the present work, an analytical protocol for the identification of dyes using RPLC/ESI/MS is presented. Atmospheric pressure electrospray ionization (ESI) was applied, in the negative ion monitoring mode. Both single stage and tandem MS (MS/MS) approaches were considered. An ion trap was used as mass analyzer. Experiments are based on the characterization of standards (natural dyes and/or dyed fibers) with the mass spectrometer sequentially working in the following modes: single MS/full scan, followed by plotting chromatograms through ion extraction (IEC) according to mass/charge ratios corresponding to molecular ions; single MS/selected ion monitoring (SIM) mode; tandem MS/single reaction monitoring (SRM) mode; tandem MS/multiple reactions monitoring (MRM) or product ion scanning modes. A faster chromatographic separation could be applied as MS detection readily balanced the selectivity of the analytical process. In a case study, 11 dyes from 3 biological sources were detected in a 0.5 mg historic sample.     

Exploiting the complementary nature of LC/MALDI/MS/MS and LC/ESI/MS/MS for increased proteome coverage

The goal of this work was to evaluate the improvement in proteome coverage of complex protein mixtures gained by analyzing samples using both LC/ESI/MS/MS and LC/MALDI/MS/MS. Parallel analyses of a single sample were accomplished by interfacing a Probot fractionation system with a nanoscale LC system. The Probot was configured to perform a post-column split such that a fraction (20%) of the column effluent was sent for on-line LC/ESI/MS/MS data acquisition, and the majority of the sample (80%) was mixed with a matrix solution and deposited onto the MALDI target plate. The split-flow approach takes advantage of the concentration sensitive nature of ESI and provides sufficient quantity of sample for MALDI/MS/MS. Hybrid quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometers were used to acquire LC/ESI/MS/MS data and LC/MALDI/MS/MS data from a tryptic digest of a preparation of mammalian mitochondrial ribosomes. The mass spectrometers were configured to operate in a data dependent acquisition mode in which precursor ions observed in MS survey scans are automatically selected for interrogation by MS/MS. This type of acquisition scheme maximizes the number of peptide fragmentation spectra obtained and is commonly referred to as shotgun analysis. While a significant degree of overlap (63%) was observed between the proteins identified in the LC/ESI/MS/MS and LC/MALDI/MS/MS data sets, both unique peptides and unique proteins were observed by each method. These results demonstrate that improved proteome coverage can be obtained using a combination of these ionization techniques.     

Quantitation of melatonin and n‐acetylserotonin in human plasma by nanoflow LC‐MS/MS and electrospray LC‐MS/MS

Melatonin (MEL) and its chemical precursor N‐acetylserotonin (NAS) are believed to be potential biomarkers for sleep‐related disorders. Measurement of these compounds, however, has proven to be difficult due to their low circulating levels, especially that of NAS. Few methods offer the sensitivity, specificity and dynamic range needed to monitor MEL and its precursors and metabolites in small blood samples, such as those obtained from pediatric patients. In support of our ongoing study to determine the safety, tolerability and PK dosing strategies for MEL in treating insomnia in children with autism spectrum disorder, two highly sensitive LC‐MS/MS assays were developed for the quantitation of MEL and precursor NAS at pg/mL levels in small volumes of human plasma. A validated electrospray ionization (ESI) method was used to quantitate high levels of MEL in PK studies, and a validated nanospray (nESI) method was developed for quantitation of MEL and NAS at endogenous levels. In both assays, plasma samples were processed by centrifugal membrane dialysis after addition of stable isotopic internal standards, and the components were separated by either conventional LC using a Waters SymmetryShield RP18 column (2.1 × 100 mm, 3.5 µm) or on a polyimide‐coated, fused‐silica capillary self‐packed with 17 cm AquaC18 (3 µm, 125 Å). Quantitation was done using the SRM transitions m/z 233 → 174 and m/z 219 → 160 for MEL and NAS, respectively. The analytical response ratio versus concentration curves were linear for MEL (nanoflow LC: 11.7–1165 pg/mL, LC: 1165–116500 pg/mL) and for NAS (nanoflow LC: 11.0–1095 pg/mL). Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Structural characterization and sequence distributions of polysiloxanes using pyrolysis MS/MS

Novel polysiloxanes, with 4-(dialkylamino)pyridine substituents, are characterized by pyrolysis tandem mass spectrometry. These polymers form abundant cyclic oligomeric ions under both desorption electron ionization (DEI) and desorption chemical ionization (DCI) conditions. Product MS/MS spectra of the cyclic ions reveal characteristic fragmentations under low energy collision activated dissociation. Protonated cyclic oligomers higher than the pentamer are mainly due to the proton bound dimers of lower oligomeric units. The cyclic oligomers are shown to have proton affinities greater than 1000 kJ/mole. It is proposed that thermal depolymerization occurs through an intramolecular siloxane bond rearrangement, which is in agreement with a previously proposed "loop mechanism". Markovian statistical calculations are applied to the DCI mass spectral data in order to determine the sequence distribution of siloxane copolymers. Application of this method show that the monomers in the copolymers examined are non-randomly distributed.