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Role of the site of protonation in the low-energy decompositions of gas-phase peptide ions
Authors:Kathleen A Cox  Simon J Gaskell  Michael Morris  Andrew Whiting
Institution:1. Michael Barber Centre for Mass Spectrometry, Department of Chemistry, UMIST, P. O. Box 88, M60 1QD, Manchester, United Kingdom
3. VG Organic, Altrincham, Cheshire, United Kingdom
4. Department of Chemistry, UMIST, Manchester, United Kingdom
Abstract:The dissociation of singly or multiply protonated peptide ions by using low-energy collisional activation (CA) is highly dependent on the sites of protonation. The presence of strongly basic amino acid residues in the peptide primary structure dictates the sites of protonation, which generates a precursor ion population that is largely homogeneous with respect to charge sites. Attempts to dissociate this type of precursor ion population by low-energy CA result in poor fragmentation via few pathways. The work described here represents a systematic investigation of the effects of charge heterogeneity in the precursor ion population of a series of model peptides in low-energy CA experiments. Incorporation of acidic residues in the peptide RLC*IFSC*FR (where C* indicates a cysteic acid residue), for example, balances the charge on the basic arginine residues, which enables the ionizing protons to reside on a number of less basic sites along the peptide backbone. This results in a precursor ion population that is heterogeneous with respect to charge site. Low-energy CA of these ions results in diverse and efficient fragmentation. Molecular modeling has been utilized to demonstrate that energetically preferred conformations incorporate an intraionic interaction between arginine and cysteic acid residues.
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