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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 84, Issue 16, Pages 7152-7157Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ac301498m
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- Swedish Research Council [2008-5597, 2009-6050, 2010-5421, 2010-0881]
- Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
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D-4-alpha-Cyano-4-hydroxycinnamic acid (D-4-CHCA) has been synthesized for use as a matrix for matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-mass spectrometry (MALDI-MS) and MALDI-MS imaging (MSI) of small molecule drugs and endogenous compounds. MALDI-MS analysis of small molecules has historically been hindered by interference from matrix ion clusters and fragment peaks that mask signals of low molecular weight compounds of interest. By using D-4-CHCA, the cluster and fragment peaks of CHCA, the most common matrix for analysis of small molecules, are shifted by + 4, + 8 and + 12 Da, which expose signals across areas of the previously concealed low mass range. Here, obscured MALDI-MS signals of a synthetic small molecule pharmaceutical, a naturally occurring isoquinoline alkaloid, and endogenous compounds including the neurotransmitter acetylcholine have been unmasked and imaged directly from biological tissue sections.
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