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A combinatorial tripeptide library having the general form D-Glu-Xxx-Xxx-CONH2 has been synthesized using a standard mix and split synthetic protocol that is expected to produce 676 components. All components of the mixture were analyzed using a new high-resolution ion mobility/time-of-flight mass spectrometer coupled with an electrospray ionization source. In this approach ions are separated by differences in their gas-phase mobilities prior to being introduced into the mass spectrometer for mass-to-charge analysis. The peptide library includes a wide range of different sequence, structural, and stereo isomers; trends in the number of expected and resolved isomers that are observed at each m/z ratio allow specific synthetic steps that have failed to be identified, even in the presence of other isomers. Information about the relative abundances of different isomers should dramatically improve the reliability of binding affinity studies from direct analysis of mixtures.
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Srebalus, C.A., Li, J., Marshall, W.S. et al. Determining synthetic failures in. J Am Soc Mass Spectrom 11, 352–355 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1016/S1044-0305(00)00099-4
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