Radical a-ions in electron capture dissociation: on the origin of species.

نویسندگان

  • Roman A Zubarev
  • David M Good
  • Mikhail M Savitski
چکیده

Radical a* ions appear in electron capture dissociation mass spectra sporadically, but sometimes with high intensity. Mechanistically, radical a ions are hypothesized to arise due to thermodynamically disadvantaged charge solvation on the backbone nitrogen (instead of carbonyl), which upon neutralization produces a hypervalent group instantly fragmenting into a radical b* and conventional y' ion. The former species is unstable and, after releasing a CO molecule, decays to an a* ion. Here we validate this scenario by direct observation of the complementarity of a* and y' ions by interrogation of an ECD MS/MS database of >10,000 doubly and >5,000 triply charged tryptic peptides. Intriguingly, the most abundant a*/y' pairs are found to come from the cleavage of the same backbone link as the most abundant c' and z* complementary ions. This result gives strong support to the "local" N-Cα bond cleavage mechanism, in which the dissociation occurs at the site of charge solvation. However, a second strong peak is observed in the c'/z* fragment distribution four residues away from the a*/y' cleavage, which supports the indirect N-Cα bond cleavage mechanism. The size distribution of a ions from doubly (but not triply!) charged precursors shows deficit of a3 ions, and possibly a6 ions.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry

دوره 23 6  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2012