Lessons in de novo peptide sequencing by tandem mass spectrometry

Mass Spectrometry Reviews

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 43-63

  Medzihradszky, Katalin F ^a,b   Chalkley, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

CID; De novo sequencing; Fragmentation; HCD; Peptides

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; BIOLOGY; DATA ACQUISITION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PEPTIDES; PROTEINS; SPECTROMETRY;

CID; COLLISION INDUCED DISSOCIATION; DE NOVO PEPTIDE SEQUENCING; DE NOVO SEQUENCING; FRAGMENTATION; HCD; QUANTITATIVE CHARACTERIZATION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

SEARCH ENGINES;

PEPTIDE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PEPTIDES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SOFTWARE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 84922182266     PISSN: 02777037     EISSN: 10982787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mas.21406     Document Type: Review

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