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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY
Volume 21, Issue 5, Pages 810-818Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasms.2010.01.011
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Poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG)ylation of peptides and proteins creates significant challenges for detailed structural characterization, such as PEG heterogeneity, site of addition and number of attached PEGylated moieties. Recently, we published a novel LC/MS methodology with a post-column addition of amines to obtain accurate masses of PEGylated peptides and proteins. The accurate masses can be used to assign the structures and number of attached PEGs [15], but the PEGylation site remains unclear in situations where multiple potential attachments are involved. Here, we present a methodology combining in-source fragmentation (ISF) with CID-MS/MS to elucidate the PEGylated sites in PEGylated products. All PEGylated samples, either prepared in acidic solution, or collected from a RP-HPLC stream, were first ionized via ISF to produce products containing small PEG fragment attachment, and then those fragment ions obtained were sequenced via CID MS/MS to deduce the PEGylation site. The methodology was successfully applied to PEGylated glucagon and IgG4 antibody light chain, which demonstrated that the small PEG fragments attached were stable during the CID activation. (J Am Soc Mass Spectrom 2010, 21, 810-818) (C) 2010 American Society for Mass Spectrometry
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