Development and characterisation of a new interface for coupling capillary LC with collision-cell ICP–MS and its application for phosphorylation profiling of tryptic protein digests

A comparison of different nebulisers for direct hyphenation of capillary and nano liquid chromatography (Cap-LC, Nano-LC) and quadrupole-based collision cell inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (CC-ICP–MS) for phosphorylation profiling of tryptic protein digests is described. Helium was used as cell gas and specially tuned instrumental conditions were used to achieve background minimisation at the mass of phosphorus, because of kinetic energy discrimination of the interfering polyatomic ions. The proposed set-up is based on a modified capillary electrophoresis interface and a home-made 4 mL spray chamber. It enables the use of gradient conditions with a highly concentrated organic mobile phase as often used in protein phosphorylation analysis, without the need to apply membrane desolvation for removal of the organic phase or further background minimisation. No significant signal suppression or other negative effects caused by the organic mobile phase occur, because of the low flow rates used in Cap-LC and the robust plasma conditions of the CC-ICP–MS instrument. A tryptic digest of beta-casein was investigated as model compound to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed set-up for phosphorylation profiling in protein analysis using quadrupole based collision-cell ICP–MS as phosphorus-specific detector. Detection limits for phosphorylated peptides down to the sub picomole level were obtained. As a complementary technique, electrospray ionisation tandem mass spectrometry (ESI–MS–MS) with data base searching was used for further characterisation of the phosphorylated peptides detected.     

乳状液法制备憎液溶胶Ⅰ.BaCO_3均匀粒子的制备

均匀胶体粒子的形成，除与反应条件（反应物浓度、陈化时间和温度、介质种类等）有关外，反应体系的环境也影响最终产物的形态，《至结晶结构．气溶胶法和微乳液法正是利用微环境中的‘水池效应”；分别制备出球形亚微米和纳米级的均匀粒子［‘－‘］、这些方法与水解法和相转化法等方法比较，反应物浓度要大几个数量级，而反应时间却短很多，因而受到研究人员的关注．乳状液也能提供亚微米、微米及以上级的微环境，因此，可以应用O／W乳状液乳液中的聚合反应制备亲液的分散体系．然而，极少有关利用w／O乳状液制备僧液溶胶的报导问；最近…     

N(~4S)+NO(X~2II)→N_2(X~3Σ_g~-)+O(~3P)反应的立体动力学(英文)

采用准经典轨线方法研究了在不同碰撞能下,碰撞反应N(4S) NO(X2!)→N2(X3"g-) O(3P)在两个最低势能面3A″和3A′产物与反应物之间的矢量相关.结果表明,对于不同的碰撞能,在两个势能面上反应产物的转动取向展示了不同的特征和趋势.发生在3A″势能面上的反应主要由外平面机理支配,而发生在3A′势能面上的反应倾向于受内平面机理支配.这些差异来自于两个势能面的不同构型.     

Analysis of phosphorus herbicides by ion-pairing reversed-phase liquid chromatography coupled to inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry with octapole reaction cell

A reversed phase ion-pairing high performance liquid chromatographic (RPIP-HPLC) method is developed for the separation of two phosphorus herbicides, Glufosinate and Glyphosate as well as Aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA), the major metabolite of Glyphosate. Tetrabutylammonium hydroxide is used as the ion-pairing reagent in conjunction with an ammonium acetate/acetic acid buffering system at pH 4.7. An inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS) is coupled to the chromatographic system to detect the herbicides at m/z = 31P. Historically, phosphorus has been recognized as one of the elements difficult to analyze in argon plasma. This is due to its relatively high ionization potential (10.5 eV) as well as the inherent presence of the polyatomic interferences 14N16O1H+ and 15N16O+ overlapping its only isotope at m/z = 31. An octapole reaction cell is utilized to minimize the isobaric polyatomic interferences and to obtain the highest signal-to-background ratio. Detection limits were found to be in the low ppt range (25-32 ng/l). The developed method is successfully applied to the analysis of water samples collected from the Ohio River and spiked with a standard compounds at a level of 20 microg/l.     

Optimisation of ICPMS collision/reaction cell conditions for the simultaneous removal of argon based interferences of arsenic and selenium in water samples

The optimisation of ICPMS collision/reaction cell conditions for the simultaneous analysis of arsenic and selenium is described. A mixture of 3.8 mL min⁻¹ of H₂ and 0.5 mL min⁻¹ of He was found to be suitable for the removal of both ArAr⁺ and ArCl⁺ interferences. Detection limits down to 30 ng (element) L⁻¹ in total analysis, and between 81 and 230 ng (element) L⁻¹ in speciation analysis were achieved in chloride matrix (1 g L⁻¹ NaCl). After validation, the method was applied to commercially available mineral waters.     

丙二醇甲醚中超痕量金属杂质元素的ICP-MS/MS分析

基于电感耦合等离子体串联质谱(ICP-MS/MS)建立了准确测定丙二醇甲醚中超痕量金属杂质元素的分析方法,提出了利用混合反应气消除质谱干扰的新策略.丙二醇甲醚经超纯水稀释后直接采用IC P-MS/MS测定其中具有挑战性的超痕量金属元素Mg,Al,K,Ti,V,Cr,Fe,Ni,Cu和Zn,在MS/MS模式下,选择混合气...     

Thermalization of electron–positron plasma with quantum degeneracy

The non-equilibrium electron–positron–photon plasma thermalization process is studied using relativistic Boltzmann solver, taking into account quantum corrections both in non-relativistic and relativistic cases. Collision integrals are computed from exact QED matrix elements for all binary and triple interactions in the plasma. It is shown that in non-relativistic case (temperatures $k_{B}T\le 0.3m_e{c}^2$) binary interaction rates dominate over triple ones, resulting in establishment of the kinetic equilibrium prior to final relaxation towards the thermal equilibrium, in agreement with the previous studies. On the contrary, in relativistic case (final temperatures $k_{B}T\ge 0.3m_e{c}^2$) triple interaction rates are fast enough to prevent the establishment of kinetic equilibrium. It is shown that thermalization process strongly depends on quantum degeneracy in initial state, but does not depend on plasma composition.     

类氖氩离子能级及碰撞强度的计算

利用扭曲波波恩近似方法及AUTOSTRUCTURE (AS)程序，快速精确地计算了类氖Ar8+离子2s22p6、2s22p53s、2s22p53p、2s22p53d、2s2p63s、2s2p63p和2s2p63d组态的能级以及当电子碰撞能量为75.0、125.0、175.0、250.0 (Ry)时，从j能态到i能态的碰撞强度.并且与已有的研究成果进行了对比.结果表明，采用扭曲波波恩近似并结合AUTOSTRUCTURE (AS)程序的研究方法，可以成为研究原子或离子碰撞强度的有效途径。     

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。     

Determination of sulfur and selected trace elements in metallothionein-like proteins using capillary electrophoresis hyphenated to inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry with an octopole reaction cell

The determination of sulfur in biologically relevant samples such as metalloproteins is described. The analytical methodology used is based on robust on-line coupling between capillary electrophoresis (CE) and octopole reaction cell inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ORC–ICP–MS). Polyatomic ions that form in the plasma and interfere with the determination of S at mass 32 are minimised by addition of xenon to the collision cell. The method has been applied to the separation and simultaneous element-specific detection of sulfur, cadmium, copper, and zinc in commercially available metallothionein preparations (MT) and metallothionein-like proteins (MLP) extracted from liver samples of bream (Abramis brama L.) caught in the river Elbe, Germany. Instrumental detection limits have been calculated according to the German standard procedure DIN 32645 for the determination of sulfur and some simultaneously measured trace elements in aqueous solution. For sulfur detection limits down to 1.3 g L^–1 (³⁴S) and 3.2 g L^–1 (³²S) were derived. For the other trace elements determined simultaneously detection limits ranging from 300 ng L^–1 (⁵⁸Ni) to 500 ng L^–1 (⁶⁶Zn, ⁵⁵Mn) were achieved. For quantification of sulfur and cadmium in a commercially available MT preparation under hyphenated conditions the use of external calibration is suggested. Finally, the need for proper sample-preparation technique will be discussed.