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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY
Volume 19, Issue 7, Pages 938-946Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasms.2008.03.018
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Gas-phase hydrogen/deuterium exchange of small oligonucleotides (dTG, dC6 and Q with CD30D was performed in the second hexapole of a Fourier transform ion-cyclotron resonance (FTICR) mass spectrometer. Ion activation experiments were conducted by accelerating the ions at the entrance of the H/D exchange cell under conditions promoting exclusively collisional isomerization. These experiments allowed us to assess the presence of several conformers, and to probe the height of the isomerization barrier separating these conformers. Ion mobility experiments were also performed. Their results were consistent with the H/D exchange data. A model accounting for the competing isomerization and H/D exchange reactions is proposed. Comparing the ion acceleration experiments for H/D exchange and for ion mobility reveals that the most compact conformer displays the fastest H/D exchange. This observation shows that H/D exchange and ion mobility provide us with complementary information because hydrogen accessibility and macromolecule compactness are not univocally associated.
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