Mobile protons versus mobile radicals: Gas-phase unimolecular chemistry of radical cations of cysteine-containing peptides

Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1296-1312

  Lam, Adrian K Y ^a,b   Ryzhov, Victor ^c   O'Hair, Richard A J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; ATOMS; CARBON; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; GASES; IONIZATION OF GASES; ISOMERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PEPTIDES; POSITIVE IONS; PROTONATION;

ACCURATE MASS MEASUREMENTS; CYSTEINE-CONTAINING PEPTIDES; ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION (ESI); FRAGMENTATION REACTIONS; GAS-PHASE FRAGMENTATION; HIGH RESOLUTION MASS SPECTROMETRY; HYDROGEN ATOM TRANSFERS (HAT); RELATIVE STABILITIES;

FREE RADICAL REACTIONS;

CARBON; CATION; CYSTEINE; DEUTERIUM; DIPEPTIDE; FORMYLPEPTIDE; HYDROGEN; RADICAL; S NITROSOCYSTEINE; SULFUR; TRIPEPTIDE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; FREE RADICAL; PEPTIDE; PROTON; S NITROSOTHIOL; S-NITROSOCYSTEINE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL REACTION; COLLISIONALLY ACTIVATED DISSOCIATION; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; GAS; HYDROGEN ATOM TRANSFER; ISOTOPE LABELING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MULTISTAGE MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROTON TRANSPORT; STEREOSPECIFICITY; UNIMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; THERMODYNAMICS;

CATIONS; CYSTEINE; FREE RADICALS; GASES; HYDROGEN; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDES; PROTONS; S-NITROSOTHIOLS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 78651425110     PISSN: 10440305     EISSN: 18791123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasms.2010.01.027     Document Type: Article

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