Ammonium ion binding to DNA G-quadruplexes: Do electrospray mass spectra faithfully reflect the solution-phase species?

Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-8

  Balthasart, Françoise ^a   Plavec, Janez ^b,c,d   Gabelica, Valérie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^d EN FIST   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

G quadruplex DNA; Gas phase structure; Ion mobility spectrometry; Noncovalent complex

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM ION BINDING; AMMONIUM IONS; APTAMERS; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; ELECTROSPRAY SOURCE; ELECTROSPRAYS; G-QUADRUPLEXES; GAS-PHASE STRUCTURES; GASPHASE; ION ACTIVATION; ION MOBILITY; ION MOBILITY CELLS; ION MOBILITY SPECTROMETRY; MASS SPECTRA; NON-COVALENT COMPLEXES; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SOLUTION PHASE; SOLUTION-PHASE STRUCTURES; SPECIFIC SITES; THROMBIN BINDING; TRAVELING WAVE;

DNA SEQUENCES; GASES; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; PHASE STRUCTURE; STOICHIOMETRY; SULFONATION;

IONS;

AMMONIA; APTAMER; GUANINE QUADRUPLEX;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; ION MOBILITY SPECTROMETRY; MASS SPECTROMETER; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STOICHIOMETRY;

DNA; G-QUADRUPLEXES; GASES; IONS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION;

EID: 84873025442     PISSN: 10440305     EISSN: 18791123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13361-012-0499-3     Document Type: Article

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