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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY
Volume 11, Issue 5, Pages 535-546Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1255/ejms.721
Keywords
lipopolysaccharide; endotoxin; lipid A; electrospray ionization; Fourier transform mass spectrometry; infrared multiphonton dissociation; capillary skimmer dissociation; MS/MS analysis; fragmentation
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Bacterial glycolipids are complex amphiphilic molecules which are, on the one hand, of utmost importance for the organization and function of bacterial membranes and which, on the other hand, play a major role in the activation of cells of the innate and adaptive immune system of the host. Already small alterations to their chemical structure may influence the biological activity tremendously. Due to their intrinsic biological heterogeneity [number and type of fatty acids, saccharide structures and substitution with for example, phosphate (P), 2-aminoethyl-(pyro)phosphate groups (P-Etn) or 4-amino-4-deoxyarabinose (Ara4N)], separation of the different components are a prerequisite for unequivocal chemical and nuclear magnetic resonance structural analyses. In this contribution, the structural information which can be obtained from heterogenous samples of glycolipids by Fourier transform (FT) ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometric methods is described. By means of recently analysed complex biological samples, the possibilities of high-resolution electrospray ionization FT-MS are demonstrated. Capillary skimmer dissociation, as well as tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) analysis utilizing collision-induced dissociation and infrared multiphoton dissociation, are compared and their advantages in providing structural information of diagnostic importance are discussed.
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