Electron Capture Dissociation of Gaseous Multiply-Charged Proteins Is Favored at Disulfide Bonds and Other Sites of High Hydrogen Atom Affinity
Zubarev R, Kruger N, Fridriksson E, Lewis M, Horn D, Carpenter B, McLafferty F. Electron Capture Dissociation of Gaseous Multiply-Charged Proteins Is Favored at Disulfide Bonds and Other Sites of High Hydrogen Atom Affinity. Journal Of The American Chemical Society 1999, 121: 2857-2862. DOI: 10.1021/ja981948k.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchElectron capture dissociationCapture dissociationLow-energy electronsBackbone bondsLow-energy collisionsHydrogen atom affinityDisulfide bondsElectron captureTandem mass spectrometryGaseous multiplyAtom affinitiesRRKM calculationsNonergodic behaviorMass spectrometerMass spectrometryPeptide chainBondsTrace amountsElectronsTryptophan residuesDissociationSame ringPhotonsExcitationCollisions