Large-scale collision cross-section profiling on a traveling wave ion mobility mass spectrometer

J Am Soc Mass Spectrom. 2014 Dec;25(12):2009-19. doi: 10.1007/s13361-014-0920-1. Epub 2014 May 21.

Abstract

Ion mobility (IM) is a gas-phase electrophoretic method that separates ions according to charge and ion-neutral collision cross-section (CCS). Herein, we attempt to apply a traveling wave (TW) IM polyalanine calibration method to shotgun proteomics and create a large peptide CCS database. Mass spectrometry methods that utilize IM, such as HDMS(E), often use high transmission voltages for sensitive analysis. However, polyalanine calibration has only been demonstrated with low voltage transmission used to prevent gas-phase activation. If polyalanine ions change conformation under higher transmission voltages used for HDMS(E), the calibration may no longer be valid. Thus, we aimed to characterize the accuracy of calibration and CCS measurement under high transmission voltages on a TW IM instrument using the polyalanine calibration method and found that the additional error was not significant. We also evaluated the potential error introduced by liquid chromatography (LC)-HDMS(E) analysis, and found it to be insignificant as well, validating the calibration method. Finally, we demonstrated the utility of building a large-population peptide CCS database by investigating the effects of terminal lysine position, via LysC or LysN digestion, on the formation of two structural sub-families formed by triply charged ions.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Bradykinin / analysis
  • Bradykinin / chemistry
  • Calibration
  • Gases / chemistry
  • Ions / analysis
  • Ions / chemistry*
  • Mass Spectrometry / methods*
  • Mass Spectrometry / standards
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Peptide Fragments / analysis
  • Peptide Fragments / chemistry
  • Peptides / chemistry
  • Proteomics / methods
  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins / analysis
  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins / chemistry

Substances

  • Gases
  • Ions
  • Peptide Fragments
  • Peptides
  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins
  • polyalanine
  • Bradykinin