Gas-phase peptide fragmentation: How understanding the fundamentals provides a springboard to developing new chemistry and novel proteomic tools

Journal of Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1301-1319

  Barlow, Christopher K ^a   O'Hair, Richard A J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anions; Cations; Collision induced dissociation; Disulfide bond; Electron transfer dissociation; Electrospray; Metal ions; Peptide; Radical

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTIONS; DISSOCIATION; ELECTROLYSIS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; FREE RADICAL REACTIONS; GASES; IONS; METAL IONS; NEGATIVE IONS; PEPTIDES; PROTEINS;

ANIONS; CATIONS; COLLISION-INDUCED DISSOCIATION; DISULFIDE BOND; ELECTRON TRANSFER DISSOCIATION; ELECTROSPRAY; RADICAL;

AMINES;

AMMONIA; PHENYLALANINE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; COLLISIONALLY ACTIVATED DISSOCIATION; DISULFIDE BOND; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTROSPRAY; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PHOTOACTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEOMICS; PROTON TRANSPORT; REVIEW; SELECT METHOD; THERMODYNAMICS;

AMINO ACIDS; CATIONS; DISULFIDES; ELECTRONS; FREE RADICALS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; METALS; PEPTIDES; PHENYLALANINE; PROTEOMICS;

EID: 55249095084     PISSN: 10765174     EISSN: 10969888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jms.1469     Document Type: Review

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