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The application of multiple-stage ion-trap (IT) mass spectrometric methods for the structural characterization of cardiolipin (CL), a 1,3-bisphosphatidyl-sn-glycerol that consists of four fatty acyl chains and three glycerol backbones (designated as A, B, and central glycerol, respectively), as the sodiated adduct ions in the positive-ion mode was evaluated. Following collisionally activated dissociation (CAD), the [M−2H+3Na]+ ions of CL yield two prominent fragment ion pairs that consist of the phosphatidyl moieties attached to the 1′- and 3′-position of the central glycerol, respectively, resulting from the differential losses of the diacylglycerol moieties containing A and B glycerol, respectively. The results are consistent with those previously described for the [M−H]− and [M−2H+Na]− ions in the negative-ion mode, thus permitting assignment of the two phosphatidyl moieties attached to the 1′-or 3′-position of the central glycerol. The identities of the fatty acyl substituents and their positions on the glycerol backbones (glycerol A and B) are deduced from further degradation of the above ion pairs that give the fragment ions reflecting the fatty acid substituents at the sn-1 (or sn-1′) and sn-2 (or sn-2′) positions. The ions that arise from losses of the fatty acid substituents at sn-1 and sn-1′, respectively, are prominent, but the analogous ions from losses of the fatty acid substituents at sn-2 and sn-2′, respectively, are of low abundance in the MS2 product-ion spectra. This feature further confirms the assignment of the positions of the fatty acid substituents. The similar IT multiple-stage mass spectrometric approaches including MS2 and MS3 for structural characterization of CL using its [M+Na]+ and the [M−H+2Na]+ ions are also readily applicable. However, their uses for structural characterization are less desirable because formation of the [M+Na]+ and the [M−H+2Na]+ ions for CL is not predictable.
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Hsu, F.F., Turk, J. Characterization of cardiolipin as the sodiated ions by positive-ion electrospray ionization with multiple stage quadrupole ion-trap mass spectrometry. The official journal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry 17, 1146–1157 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasms.2006.04.024
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