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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY
Volume 17, Issue 8, Pages 1096-1099Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasms.2006.04.023
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- NCI NIH HHS [R01 CA96906] Funding Source: Medline
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Recent studies revealed that the 3'-terminal nucleotides in plant microRNAs were methylated on the ribose at the 2' or 3' hydroxyl groups. Here we examined the fragmentation of the electrospray-produced [M + H](+) and [M - H](-) ions of 2'- and 3'-O-methylated ribonucleo-sides. It turned out that the predominant fragmentation pathway for the [M + H]+ ions of ribose-methylated nucleosides was the neutral loss of the methylated ribose, which made it impossible to distinguish 2'-O-methylation from 3'-O-methylation by positive-ion MS/MS. However, characteristic fragment ions, resulting from the cleavage through the ribose rings, Were produced for the [M - H](-) ions of each pair of ribose-methylated nucleosides. In this respect, the neutral loss of a 90-Da fragment (C3H6O3) was observed for 2'-O-methylated cytidine, guanosine and adenosine, but not for their 3'-O-methylated counterparts. On the other hand, the neutral loss of a 60-Da fragment (C2H4O2) was found for 3'-O-methyluridine, but not for 2'-O-methyluridine.
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