Enhanced Electron Transfer Dissociation of Peptides Modified at C-terminus with Fixed Charges

Author: Ko Byoung  

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company

ISSN: 1044-0305

Source: Journal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry, Vol.23, Iss.11, 2012-11, pp. : 1991-2000

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Abstract

The impact of the conversion of carboxylates in peptides to basic or fixed charge sites on the outcome of electron transfer dissociation (ETD) is evaluated with respect to ETD efficiency and the number of diagnostic sequence ions. Four reagents, including benzylamine (BA), 1-benzylpiperazine (BZP), carboxymethyl trimethylammonium chloride hydrazide (GT), and (2-aminoethyl)trimethylammonium chloride hydrochloride (AETMA), were used for the carboxylate derivatization, with the first two replacing the acidic carboxylate groups with basic functionalities and the latter two introducing fixed charge sites. The ETD efficiencies and Xcorr scores were compared for both nonderivatized and derivatized tryptic and Glu-C peptides from cytochrome c. Derivatization of the carboxylate increases the average charge states, the number of fragment ions, and the dissociation efficiencies of peptides, especially for the fixed charge reagent, AETMA.