Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY
Volume 310, Issue -, Pages 72-76Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijms.2011.11.003
Keywords
MALDI; DHB (2,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid); 9-AA (9-aminoacridine); Hyaluronan; Chondroitin sulphate/oversulphated chondroitin; Sulphate loss
Funding
- German Research Council [TR 67]
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Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization (MALDI) time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometry (MS) is increasingly used in the field of carbohydrate characterization. The majority of oligosaccharides can be investigated with only a minimum extent of fragmentation. However, significant but unwanted sulphate loss occurs if the negative ion MALDI mass spectra of sulphated carbohydrates are recorded. We will show here by using differently sulphated oligosaccharides of the chondroitin sulphate (CS) type that this problem can be minimized by recording the positive ion spectra in the presence of the common MALDI matrix DHB (2,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid). Although the sensitivity of the positive ion spectra is reduced in comparison to the negative ion spectra, the reduction of the sulphate loss is a major advantage particularly regarding the analysis of mixtures. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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