Extensive charge reduction and dissociation of intact protein complexes following electron transfer on a quadrupole-ion mobility-time-of-flight MS

Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1068-1076

  Lermyte, Frederik ^a   Williams, Jonathan P ^b   Brown, Jeffery M ^b   Martin, Esther M ^a   Sobott, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b WATERS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Charge state reduction; Electron transfer dissociation; Noncovalent complex; Protein complex; Top down fragmentation

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRONS; IONS; PHOTODISSOCIATION; PROTEINS; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

CHARGE STATE; ELECTRON TRANSFER DISSOCIATION; NON-COVALENT COMPLEXES; PROTEIN COMPLEXES; TOPDOWN;

DISSOCIATION;

ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; CONCANAVALIN A; FUNGAL ENZYME; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; HEMOGLOBIN; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; PYRUVATE KINASE; ION; PROTEIN;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; CANAVALIA ENSIFORMIS; CELL MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GAS; HUMAN; ION TRAP MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PROTON TRANSPORT; REDUCTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TAURINE CATTLE; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROCEDURES;

ELECTRONS; IONS; PROTEINS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

EID: 84934965573     PISSN: 10440305     EISSN: 18791123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13361-015-1124-z     Document Type: Article

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