We report here the development of a corona discharge (CD) initiated electrochemical (EC) electrospray ionization (ESI) technique using a standard electrospray ion source. This is a new ionization technique distinct from ESI, electrochemistry inherent to ESI, APCI, and techniques using hydroxyl radicals produced under atmospheric pressure conditions. By maximizing the observable CD at the tip of...

Abbreviations: PTMs=post-translational modifi cations; PPIs=protein-protein interactions; SDS-PAGE= sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis; 2D-PAGE=two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis; MS=mass spectrometry; ESI=electrospray ionization; MALDI=Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization; ESI-MS=electrospray ionization mass spectrometry; MALDI-MS=MALDI mass spectr...

Ion-mobility spectrometry (IMS) in conjunction with radioactive ionization sources has been employed for field-portable applications for the past two decades. Recently, electrospray ionization (ESI) sources have been shown as a viable ionization source with IMS instruments, enabling the analysis of many nonvolatile compounds. Introduction of a liquid-sheath-flow ESI source enabled the direct an...

Reduced flow rate electrospray ionization has been proven to provide improved sensitivity, less background noise, and improved limits of detections for ESI-MS analysis. Miniaturizing the ESI source from conventional electrospray to microelectrospray and further down to nanoelectrospray has resulted in higher and higher sensitivity; however, when effects of flow rate were investigated for atmosp...

The Electrospray Ionization (ESI) is a soft ionization technique extensively used for production of gas phase ions (without fragmentation) of thermally labile large supramolecules. In the present review we have described the development of Electrospray Ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) during the last 25 years in the study of various properties of different types of biological molecules. Th...

a fast, accurate, sensitive, selective and reliable method using reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatography coupled to electrospray ionization ion trap mass spectrometry was developed and validated for the determination of finasteride in human plasma. after protein precipitation with perchloric acid, satisfactory separation was achieved on a zorbax eclipse® c8 analytical column using ...

A secondary electrospray ionization (SESI) method was developed as a nonradioactive ionization source for ion mobility spectrometry (IMS). This SESI method relied on the gas-phase interaction between charged particles created by electrospray ionization (ESI) and neutral gaseous sample molecules. Mass spectrometry (MS) was used as the detection method after ion mobility separation for ion identi...

Liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC/MS), combining good separation characteristics with highly specific and sensitive detection, is the method of choice for forensic trace analysis of explosives. Principles of operation and instrumentation of several LC/MS interface/ionization modes are described. Among the various LC/MS interfaces and ionization modes, electrospray ionization (ESI)-LC/...

The application of continuous flow-extractive desorption electrospray ionization (CF-EDESI), an ambient ionization source demonstrated previously for use with intact protein analysis, is expanded here for the coupling of reversed phase protein separations to mass spectrometry. This configuration allows the introduction of charging additives to enhance detection without affecting the chromatogra...

In this study we evaluated a method for the characterization of complexes, formed in different relative ratios of mercury(II) to dicysteinyl tetrapeptide, by electrospray ionization orbitrap mass spectrometry. This strategy is based on previous successful characterization of mercury-dicysteinyl complexes involving tripeptides by utilizing mass spectrometry among other techniques. Mercury(II) ch...