Gas-phase peptide sulfinyl radical ions: Formation and unimolecular dissociation

Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2011-2019

  Tan, Lei ^a   Xia, Yu ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collision induced dissociation; Disulfide bond; Peptide radical ion; Sulfinyl radical; Tandem mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

AMIDE BOND; AMINO ACID RESIDUES; CHARGE STATE; COLLISION-INDUCED DISSOCIATION; COLLISIONAL ACTIVATION; DISSOCIATION CHANNELS; DISULFIDE BONDS; FRAGMENTATION PATHWAYS; FREE THIOL GROUP; GASPHASE; ION CHARGE; ION FORMATION; ION POLARITIES; ION TRAP MASS SPECTROMETER; LOW ENERGIES; MOBILE PROTONS; NANO-ESI; NANOELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; PEPTIDE IONS; PROTON MOBILITY; PROTONATED; RADICAL IONS; RADICAL SITES; SIDE-CHAINS; SULFINYL RADICAL; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; UNIMOLECULAR DISSOCIATION;

AMIDES; AMINO ACIDS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COVALENT BONDS; DISSOCIATION; IONIZATION OF GASES; IONS; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROTONATION; PROTONS; REACTION KINETICS;

PEPTIDES;

AMINO ACID; CYSTEINE; DISULFIDE; ION; PROTEIN; PROTEIN SULFINYL RADICAL ION; PROTON; RADICAL; SULFUR; THIOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COLLISIONALLY ACTIVATED DISSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTON TRANSPORT; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CATIONS; CYSTEINE; DISULFIDES; GASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 84868247623     PISSN: 10440305     EISSN: 18791123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13361-012-0465-0     Document Type: Article

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