Structural characterization of intact proteins is enhanced by prevalent fragmentation pathways rarely observed for peptides

Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 949-959

  Cobb, Jennifer S ^a   Easterling, Michael L ^b   Agar, Jeffrey N ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRUKER DALTONIK GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOVINE SERUM ALBUMINS; CHARGE STATE; COLLISIONALLY ACTIVATED DISSOCIATION; DECLUSTERING; DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; DISSOCIATION MECHANISMS; FRAGMENTATION CHANNELS; FRAGMENTATION MECHANISM; FRAGMENTATION PATHWAYS; INTACT PROTEINS; ION CHARGE STATE; ION FUNNELS; LOWER ENERGIES; MOBILE PROTONS; N-TERMINALS; PROTEIN CHARACTERIZATION; PROTEIN FRAGMENTATION; PROTEIN IDENTIFICATION; SOURCE REGION; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION; TIME-SCALES; TOPDOWN; UBIQUITIN; USERS ACCESS;

BODY FLUIDS; DISSOCIATION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PEPTIDES; PROTONS; SEARCH ENGINES;

IONS;

ASPARTIC ACID; BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; MYOGLOBIN; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; PROLINE; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; PROTON; SERINE; UBIQUITIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COLLISIONALLY ACTIVATED DISSOCIATION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; CATTLE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HORSES; IONS; MYOGLOBIN; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SERUM ALBUMIN, BOVINE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; UBIQUITIN;

BOVINAE;

EID: 77952872266     PISSN: 10440305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasms.2010.02.009     Document Type: Article

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