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Influence of electrolytes and a supercharging reagent on charge state distribution and response of neuropeptide ions generated during positive electrospray ionisation mass spectrometry

Influence of electrolytes and a supercharging reagent on charge state distribution and response of neuropeptide ions generated during positive electrospray ionisation mass spectrometry

Nielsen, Birthe V. ORCID: 0000-0002-0849-4987 and Abaye, Daniel A. (2013) Influence of electrolytes and a supercharging reagent on charge state distribution and response of neuropeptide ions generated during positive electrospray ionisation mass spectrometry. European Journal of Mass Spectrometry, 19 (5). pp. 335-344. ISSN 1469-0667 (Print), 1751-6838 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1255/ejms.1246)

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Abstract

To aid in the detection of trace quantities of neuropeptides in a biological matrix (as saliva), the influence of different electrolytes and a supercharging reagent on the positive electrospray ionisation mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) response was investigated. Ammonium acetate, sodium chloride and sodium bicarbonate (10–7 M to 10–3 M) and the supercharging reagent m-nitrobenzyl alcohol (m-NBA) was added to the mobile phase and the effect on the ESI response and charge-states distribution (CSD) was studied in a group of peptides (molecular weight range 2.2 kDa to 3.5 kDa; CGRP, VIP, GLP1, CRF and PrRP). As expected, the result indicates that the ESI response is affected by the presence of additives: ammonium acetate shifted the observed charge states ratio whereas the addition of m-NBA resulted in the appearance of higher maximum charge state ions. This increase in higher charge state for all the peptide ions, [M + nH]n+ to [M + (n +?1)H]n + 1, was atttributed to protonation of the C-terminal. However, when the composition of MeCN in a mobile phase �containing m-NBA was increased, an enhancement of the total ion signal was observed for non-polar peptide samples. This is a very interesting observation as this is not observed in samples without m-NBA and could be a result of how these peptide ions are solubilised and �positioned relative to the droplet surface/air interface.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: ESI-MS, electrolytes, biologically-active peptides, CSD
Subjects: Q Science > QD Chemistry
Pre-2014 Departments: School of Science
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Last Modified: 16 May 2019 12:34
URI: http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/10982

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