Fast and effective ion mobility-mass spectrometry separation of D-amino-acid-containing peptides

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Fouque, Kevin Jeanne Dit
Garabedian, Alyssa
Porter, Jacob
Baird, Matthew A.
Pang, Xueqin
Williams, Todd D.
Li, Lingjun
Shvartsburg, Alexandre A.
Fernandez-Lima, Francisco
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2017-11-01
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Containing conus peptide , FT-ICR MS , Amphibian skin , Gas-phase , TIMS-MS , Size parameters , Achatina-fulica , Residue , Resolution , Proteins
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Kevin Jeanne Dit Fouque, Alyssa Garabedian, Jacob Porter, Matthew Baird, Xueqin Pang, Todd D. Williams, Lingjun Li, Alexandre Shvartsburg, and Francisco Fernandez-Lima. 2017. Fast and effective ion mobility-mass spectrometry separation of D-amino-acid-containing peptides. Analytical Chemistry 2017 89 (21), 11787-11794
Abstract

Despite often minute concentrations in vivo, d-amino acid containing peptides (DAACPs) are crucial to many life processes. Standard proteomics protocols fail to detect them as d/l substitutions do not affect the peptide parent and fragment masses. The differences in fragment yields are often limited, obstructing the investigations of important but low abundance epimers in isomeric mixtures. Separation of d/l-peptides using ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) was impeded by small collision cross section differences (commonly similar to 1%). Here, broad baseline separation of DAACPs with up to similar to 30 residues employing trapped IMS with resolving power up to similar to 340, followed by time-of-flight mass spectrometry is demonstrated. The d/l-pairs coeluting in one charge state were resolved in another, and epimers merged as protonated species were resolved upon metalation, effectively turning the charge state and cationization mode into extra separation dimensions. Linear quantification down to 0.25% proved the utility of high resolution IMS-MS for real samples with large interisomeric dynamic range. Very close relative mobilities found for DAACP pairs using traveling-wave IMS (TWIMS) with different ion sources and faster IMS separations showed the transferability of results across IMS platforms. Fragmentation of epimers can enhance their identification and further improve detection and quantification limits, and we demonstrate the advantages of online mobility separated collision-induced dissociation (CID) followed by high resolution mass spectrometry (TIMS-CID-MS) for epimer analysis.

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American Chemical Society
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Analytical Chemistry;v.89:no.21
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0003-2700
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