Journal
ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 410, Issue 4, Pages 1311-1321Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00216-017-0771-2
Keywords
Derivatization of peptides; Peptide sequencing; Ionization tag; Tandemmass spectrometry
Funding
- National Science Centre, Poland [UMO 2014/15/N/ST5/00738]
- Wroclaw Center of Biotechnology, program The Leading National Research Centre (KNOW)
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Quaternary ammonium salts (QAS), both linear and bicyclic, are often utilized to improve the mass spectrometry (MS) analysis of peptides by fixing a permanent positive charge on the analyzed molecule. However, during collision-induced dissociation (CID) experiments, QAS undergo unwanted side reactions-Hofmann elimination as well as a tertiary amine loss- rendering the data interpretation complicated. In this work, we present 2-thia- and 2-oxa-5-azoniaspiro[4.4]nonyl groups as heterocyclic derivatives of the highly stable ionization group, 5-azoniaspiro[4.4]nonyl, for a sensitive peptide analysis by MS. Due to the permanent positive charge, labeled peptides are characterized by enhanced ionization efficiency during electrospray mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) conditions. Moreover, interpretation of the CID fragmentation of labeled peptides is facilitated since a series of generated fragmentation ions enable a complete sequence coverage. Introduction of a heteroatom into the 5-azoniaspiro[4.4]nonyl scaffold allows for liberation of a stable reporter ion which could be used in selected reaction monitoring (SRM)-targeted quantification experiments. Additionally, we synthesized a deuterated analog of the tag for LC-SRM-targeted quantitative analysis. The obtained results indicate the general usefulness of the proposed heterocyclic quaternary ammonium ionization tag for sequencing and quantification of peptides.
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