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The types, extent, and overall distribution of peptide fragmentation produced by matrix-assisted laser desorption-ionization-postsource decay (MALDI-PSD) on a reflector time-of-flight mass spectrometer were compared with those obtained from high and low energy collision-induced dissociation (CID) on a four-sector mass spectrometer and from liquid secondary ion mass spectrometry (LSIMS) ion source fragmentation and LSIMS metastable ion (MI) decomposition on a two-sector mass spectrometer. The model peptides studied had sequences and compositions that yielded predominantly either N- or C-terminal fragmentation from CID. For des-Arg1 and des-Arg9 bradykinin (i.e., H-PPGFSPFR-OH and H-RP-PGFSPF-OH, respectively), the types of fragment ions and the extent to which each type is formed in both MALDI-PSD and low energy CID spectra are remarkably similar. This observation suggests that both methods deposit comparable internal energies (IE) into [M + H]+ precursor ions. The distribution of N-terminal, C-terminal, immonium, and internal fragmentation from MALDI-PSD spectra of des-Arg1 and des-Arg9 bradykinin did not change dramatically with respect to the terminal arginine position, contrary to those from LSIMS MI decomposition, high and low energy CID spectra. This observation in combination with the prominent immonium, internal, and minus 17 fragment ion types in PSD indicates that the imparted IE from MALDI and the 14 µs of flight time may promote steady-state decomposition kinetics. Fragmentation distributions of MALDI-PSD spectra are also similar to those in LSIMS spectra. This implies that the distribution of protonation sites in [M + H]+ is comparable for both techniques.
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Rousecor, J.C., Yu, W. & Martin, S.A. A comparison of the peptide fragmentation obtained from a reflector matrix-assisted laser desorption-ionization time-of-flight and a tandem four sector mass spectrometer. J Am Soc Mass Spectrom 6, 822–835 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1016/1044-0305(95)00325-8
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