Journal
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY
Volume 23, Issue 4, Pages 773-777Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s13361-011-0333-3
Keywords
Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization; In-Source decay; DNA; RNA; 1,5-Diaminonapthalene
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- JHU/APL
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The capability to rapidly and confidently determine or confirm the sequences of short oligonucleotides, including native and chemically-modified DNA and RNA, is important for a number of fields. While matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometry (MS) has been used previously to sequence short oligonucleotides, the typically low fragmentation efficiency of in-source or post-source decay processes necessitates the accumulation of a large number of spectra, thus limiting the throughput of these methods. Here we introduce a novel matrix, 1,5-diaminonapthalene (DAN), for facile in-source decay (ISD) of DNA and RNA molecular anions, which allows for rapid sequence confirmation. d-, w-, and y- series ions are prominent in the spectra, complementary to the (a-B)- and w- ions that are typically produced by MALDI post-source decay (PSD). Results are shown for several model DNA and RNA oligonucleotides, including combinations of DAN-induced fragmentation with true tandem TOF MS (MS/MS) for pseudo-MS3 and activated-ion PSD.
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