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Fu S, Wang C, Li J, Yu J, Tang K. Simulation study of a new racetrack FAIMS analyzer to achieve both high-resolution and high-sensitivity. Talanta 2024; 276:126305. [PMID: 38788385 DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2024.126305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2024] [Revised: 05/09/2024] [Accepted: 05/20/2024] [Indexed: 05/26/2024]
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A new racetrack field-asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometry (r-FAIMS) analyzer was developed in this study by combining the existing planar FAIMS (p-FAIMS) and cylindrical FAIMS (c-FAIMS). The ion inlet and outlet regions of r-FAIMS were consisted of a half of c-FAIMS, respectively, and these c-FAIMS were further connected by two p-FAIMS to form a racetrack shaped FAIMS. With such FAIMS working electrode configuration, the ions entering the r-FAIMS can be focused and separated in the first c-FAIMS section, be further separated in the p-FAIMS section with high-resolution, be focused and separated again in the final c-FAIMS section and eventually enter the mass spectrometer or other analyzers for analysis. Detailed simulation by using SIMION software with the default FAIMS user program showed that the ion focusing effect in the first c-FAIMS section ensures the ions entering the following p-FAIMS section as a compact ion packet. This effectively decreases the ion loss caused by Coulomb repulsion and thermal diffusion in p-FAIMS section as compared to the ions being introduced into the p-FAIMS gap randomly in the conventional design. As a result, the ion transmission efficiency of r-FAIMS is at least 3.3-fold higher than the single p-FAIMS under the operating conditions used in this study. The ion trajectory simulation results also showed that the resolving power of r-FAIMS is about the sum of the resolving powers for its c-FAIMS and p-FAIMS sections. The resolving power of r-FAIMS is at least 3.6-fold higher than the single c-FAIMS under the operation conditions used in this study. Therefore, the r-FAIMS can realize both high-resolution and high-sensitive ion mobility separation.
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- Shoushuai Fu
- Institute of Mass Spectrometry, Zhejiang Engineering Research Center of Advanced Mass Spectrometry and Clinical Application, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, PR China; Zhenhai Institute of Mass Spectrometry, Ningbo, 315211, PR China; Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, PR China
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- Institute of Mass Spectrometry, Zhejiang Engineering Research Center of Advanced Mass Spectrometry and Clinical Application, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, PR China; Zhenhai Institute of Mass Spectrometry, Ningbo, 315211, PR China; School of Material Science and Chemical Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, PR China
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- Institute of Mass Spectrometry, Zhejiang Engineering Research Center of Advanced Mass Spectrometry and Clinical Application, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, PR China; Zhenhai Institute of Mass Spectrometry, Ningbo, 315211, PR China; School of Material Science and Chemical Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, PR China.
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- Institute of Mass Spectrometry, Zhejiang Engineering Research Center of Advanced Mass Spectrometry and Clinical Application, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, PR China; Zhenhai Institute of Mass Spectrometry, Ningbo, 315211, PR China; Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, PR China
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- Institute of Mass Spectrometry, Zhejiang Engineering Research Center of Advanced Mass Spectrometry and Clinical Application, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, PR China; Zhenhai Institute of Mass Spectrometry, Ningbo, 315211, PR China; School of Material Science and Chemical Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, PR China.
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Wörner TP, Thurman HA, Makarov AA, Shvartsburg AA. Expanding Differential Ion Mobility Separations into the MegaDalton Range. Anal Chem 2024; 96:5392-5398. [PMID: 38526848 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.3c05012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/27/2024]
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Along with mass spectrometry (MS), ion mobility separations (IMS) are advancing to ever larger biomolecules. The emergence of electrospray ionization (ESI) and native MS enabled the IMS/MS analyses of proteins up to ∼100 kDa in the 1990s and whole protein complexes and viruses up to ∼10 MDa since the 2000s. Differential IMS (FAIMS) is substantially orthogonal to linear IMS based on absolute mobility K and offers exceptional resolution, unique selectivity, and steady filtering readily compatible with slower analytical methods such as electron capture or transfer dissociation (ECD/ETD). However, the associated MS stages had limited FAIMS to ions with m/z < 8000 and masses under ∼300 kDa. Here, we integrate high-definition FAIMS with the Q-Exactive Orbitrap UHMR mass spectrometer that can handle m/z up to 80,000 and MDa-size ions in the native ESI regime. In the initial evaluation, the oligomers of monoclonal antibody adalimumab (148 kDa) are size-selected up to at least the nonamers (1.34 MDa) with m/z values up to ∼17,000. This demonstrates the survival and efficient separation of noncovalent MDa assemblies in the FAIMS process, opening the door to novel analyses of the heaviest macromolecules.
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- Tobias P Wörner
- Thermo Fisher Scientific, Hanna-Kunath Strasse 11, Bremen 28199, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Wichita State University, 1845 Fairmount, Wichita, Kansas 67260, United States
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- Thermo Fisher Scientific, Hanna-Kunath Strasse 11, Bremen 28199, Germany
- Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Bijvoet Centre for Biomolecular Research and Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, Utrecht 3584 CH, The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemistry, Wichita State University, 1845 Fairmount, Wichita, Kansas 67260, United States
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Hao J, Feng R, Li J, Gao W, Yu J, Tang K. A high-performance standalone planar FAIMS system for effective detection of chemical warfare agents via TSPSO algorithm. Talanta 2024; 269:125516. [PMID: 38070286 DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2023.125516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2023] [Revised: 11/28/2023] [Accepted: 12/03/2023] [Indexed: 01/05/2024]
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A high-performance standalone planar field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometry (p-FAIMS) system with a deconvolution algorithm (two-step particle swarm optimization algorithm, TSPSO) for overlapping peaks was developed to effectively detect chemical warfare agents (CWAs). Four CWA simulants were applied in this study to systemically evaluate the performance of the standalone p-FAIMS system. The experimental results showed that each CWA simulant in the mixture can be positively identified by carefully comparing the compensation voltage (CV) value of each peak in the FAIMS spectra for the mixture to the ones in the spectra acquired by using the same FAIMS system for the pure CWA simulant standards. The FAIMS spectrum of the CWA simulant mixture might consist of multiple overlapping peaks, which would be difficult to accurately determine the CV value for each CWA simulant peak. This problem has been effectively resolved in this study by deconvoluting the overlapping peaks via the TSPSO algorithm. As the effective peak deconvolution via TSPSO requires the degree of overlap between each FAIMS peak to be lower than a specific value, the flow rate of FAIMS carrier gas was decreased to further improve the resolution of the p-FAIMS system. After the accurate deconvolution, the resolution of original FAIMS spectrum can also be enhanced to achieve baseline separation by using TSPSO algorithm to narrow the peak width of each peak. The experimental results in this study demonstrated the possibility of using TSPSO algorithm to achieve high-resolution on a typically low-resolution standalone FAIMS. The concept in this study can potentially be applied to any low-resolution instruments to achieve high-resolution results.
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- Jie Hao
- Institute of Mass Spectrometry, Zhejiang Engineering Research Center of Advanced Mass Spectrometry and Clinical Application, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, PR China; Zhenhai Institute of Mass Spectrometry, Ningbo, 315211, PR China; Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, PR China
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- Institute of Mass Spectrometry, Zhejiang Engineering Research Center of Advanced Mass Spectrometry and Clinical Application, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, PR China; Zhenhai Institute of Mass Spectrometry, Ningbo, 315211, PR China; School of Material Science and Chemical Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, PR China
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- Institute of Mass Spectrometry, Zhejiang Engineering Research Center of Advanced Mass Spectrometry and Clinical Application, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, PR China; Zhenhai Institute of Mass Spectrometry, Ningbo, 315211, PR China; School of Material Science and Chemical Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, PR China.
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- Institute of Mass Spectrometry, Zhejiang Engineering Research Center of Advanced Mass Spectrometry and Clinical Application, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, PR China; Zhenhai Institute of Mass Spectrometry, Ningbo, 315211, PR China; School of Material Science and Chemical Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, PR China
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- Institute of Mass Spectrometry, Zhejiang Engineering Research Center of Advanced Mass Spectrometry and Clinical Application, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, PR China; Zhenhai Institute of Mass Spectrometry, Ningbo, 315211, PR China; Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, PR China
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- Institute of Mass Spectrometry, Zhejiang Engineering Research Center of Advanced Mass Spectrometry and Clinical Application, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, PR China; Zhenhai Institute of Mass Spectrometry, Ningbo, 315211, PR China; School of Material Science and Chemical Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, PR China.
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Pathak P, Shvartsburg AA. High-Definition Ion Mobility/Mass Spectrometry with Structural Isotopic Shifts for Nominally Isobaric Isotopologues. J Phys Chem A 2023; 127:3914-3923. [PMID: 37083428 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c01792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/22/2023]
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We had reported the isotopic envelopes in differential IMS (FAIMS) separations depending on the ion structure. However, this new approach to distinguish isomers was constrained by the unit-mass resolution commingling all nominally isobaric isotopologues. Here, we directly couple high-definition FAIMS to ultrahigh-resolution (Orbitrap) MS and employ the resulting platform to explore the FAIMS spectra for isotopic fine structure. The peak shifts therein for isotopologues of halogenated anilines with 15N and 13C (split by 6 mDa) in N2/CO2 buffers dramatically differ, more than for the 13C, 37Cl, or 81Br species apart by 1 or 2 Da. The shifts in FAIMS space upon different elemental isotopic substitutions are orthogonal mutually and to the underlying separations, forming fingerprint multidimensional matrices and 3-D trajectories across gas compositions that redundantly delineate all isomers considered. The interlocking instrumental and methodological upgrades in this work take the structural isotopic shift approach to the next level.
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- Pratima Pathak
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Wichita State University, 1845 Fairmount, Wichita, Kansas 67260, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Wichita State University, 1845 Fairmount, Wichita, Kansas 67260, United States
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Ji X, Liu R, Hao J, Wang C, Li J, Gao W, Yu J, Tang K. Two-step particle swarm optimization algorithm for effective deconvolution and resolution enhancement of various overlapping peaks. RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY : RCM 2023; 37:e9429. [PMID: 36346291 DOI: 10.1002/rcm.9429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2022] [Revised: 10/30/2022] [Accepted: 11/03/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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RATIONALE The existing particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithms are only effective in deconvoluting the overlapping peaks in ion mobility spectra with fewer than four component peaks, which limits the applicability of these algorithms. METHODS A high-performance two-step particle swarm optimization (TSPSO) algorithm was developed. Compared to the existing PSO algorithms, TSPSO can narrow the search ranges of all coefficients for the overlapping peaks through Gaussian model calculation, and thus can deconvolute various overlapping peaks with high accuracy, even for 30-component overlapping peaks. In addition, the TSPSO could be further applied to enhance the resolution of the spectra by narrowing the peak widths after the peak deconvolution. RESULTS Simulated overlapping peaks were first used to evaluate the performance of TSPSO as compared to the dynamic inertia weight particle swarm optimization (DIWPSO) algorithm. The results showed that the profiles of the peaks deconvoluted by using TSPSO were more consistent with the original ones. The fitness values and the standard deviations of the fitness values from TSPSO were also at least an order of magnitude less than those from DIWPSO. By applying TSPSO, the overlapping peaks from both mass spectrometry (MS) and field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometry (FAIMS) spectra can also be well deconvoluted. In addition, the resolutions of the MS and FAIMS spectra can be effectively enhanced after peak deconvolution. The enhanced spectra matched excellently with the experimental ones acquired at high-resolution modes. CONCLUSIONS The experiment results convincingly demonstrate that the TSPSO algorithm is capable of both deconvoluting complex overlapping peaks and enhancing the spectrum resolution with high accuracy.
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- Xiaoli Ji
- Institute of Mass Spectrometry, Zhejiang Engineering Research Center of Advanced Mass Spectrometry and Clinical Application, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
- School of Material Science and Chemical Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
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- Institute of Mass Spectrometry, Zhejiang Engineering Research Center of Advanced Mass Spectrometry and Clinical Application, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
- School of Material Science and Chemical Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
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- Institute of Mass Spectrometry, Zhejiang Engineering Research Center of Advanced Mass Spectrometry and Clinical Application, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
- Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
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- Institute of Mass Spectrometry, Zhejiang Engineering Research Center of Advanced Mass Spectrometry and Clinical Application, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
- School of Material Science and Chemical Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
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- Institute of Mass Spectrometry, Zhejiang Engineering Research Center of Advanced Mass Spectrometry and Clinical Application, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
- Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
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- Institute of Mass Spectrometry, Zhejiang Engineering Research Center of Advanced Mass Spectrometry and Clinical Application, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
- School of Material Science and Chemical Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
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- Institute of Mass Spectrometry, Zhejiang Engineering Research Center of Advanced Mass Spectrometry and Clinical Application, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
- Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
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- Institute of Mass Spectrometry, Zhejiang Engineering Research Center of Advanced Mass Spectrometry and Clinical Application, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
- School of Material Science and Chemical Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
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Autoxidation Kinetics of Tetrahydrobiopterin-Giving Quinonoid Dihydrobiopterin the Consideration It Deserves. Molecules 2023; 28:molecules28031267. [PMID: 36770933 PMCID: PMC9921404 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28031267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2022] [Revised: 01/20/2023] [Accepted: 01/22/2023] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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In humans, tetrahydrobiopterin (H4Bip) is the cofactor of several essential hydroxylation reactions which dysfunction cause very serious diseases at any age. Hence, the determination of pterins in biological media is of outmost importance in the diagnosis and monitoring of H4Bip deficiency. More than half a century after the discovery of the physiological role of H4Bip and the recent advent of gene therapy for dopamine and serotonin disorders linked to H4Bip deficiency, the quantification of quinonoid dihydrobiopterin (qH2Bip), the transient intermediate of H4Bip, has not been considered yet. This is mainly due to its short half-life, which goes from 0.9 to 5 min according to previous studies. Based on our recent disclosure of the specific MS/MS transition of qH2Bip, here, we developed an efficient HPLC-MS/MS method to achieve the separation of qH2Bip from H4Bip and other oxidation products in less than 3.5 min. The application of this method to the investigation of H4Bip autoxidation kinetics clearly shows that qH2Bip's half-life is much longer than previously reported, and mostly longer than that of H4Bip, irrespective of the considered experimental conditions. These findings definitely confirm that an accurate method of H4Bip analysis should include the quantification of qH2Bip.
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High-end ion mobility mass spectrometry: A current review of analytical capacity in omics applications and structural investigations. Trends Analyt Chem 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.trac.2022.116761] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Li J, Li L, Gao W, Shi S, Yu J, Tang K. Two-Dimensional FAIMS-IMS Characterization of Peptide Conformers with Resolution Exceeding 1000. Anal Chem 2022; 94:6363-6370. [PMID: 35412805 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.2c00805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A high-performance field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometry (FAIMS)-IMS-MS platform was developed and applied to explore the conformational diversity of the singly and doubly charged bradykinin (BK + H+)+ and (BK + 2H+)2+ ions. With pure N2 as the FAIMS carrier gas, more than ten conformers of (BK + H+)+ can be resolved using FAIMS-IMS, as compared to only four conformers resolved using either FAIMS or IMS alone. Interestingly, multiple conformers of (BK + H+)+ were found to have completely different values of FAIMS compensation voltage (CV), while their IMS drift times were essentially the same, which were also proven experimentally to not result from the structural annealing by the collisional heating in the ion funnel. The separations in the FAIMS and IMS dimensions are substantially orthogonal, and the overall resolving power of two-dimensional FAIMS-IMS separation is largely proportional to the product of the separation resolving powers of FAIMS and IMS. Using a gas mixture of N2/He to further improve the resolving power of the FAIMS separation, the total resolving powers of the combined FAIMS and IMS separation were estimated to be about 1020 and 1400 for (BK + H+)+ and (BK + 2H+)2+ ions, respectively, which are significantly higher than the resolving power of any ion mobility-based separation techniques demonstrated so far. The combined FAIMS-IMS can thus be a much more powerful technique to explore the structural diversity of biomolecules.
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- Junhui Li
- Institute of Mass Spectrometry, Zhejiang Engineering Research Center of Advanced Mass spectrometry and Clinical Application, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, P. R. China.,Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, P. R. China
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- Institute of Mass Spectrometry, Zhejiang Engineering Research Center of Advanced Mass spectrometry and Clinical Application, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, P. R. China.,School of Material Science and Chemical Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, P. R. China
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- Institute of Mass Spectrometry, Zhejiang Engineering Research Center of Advanced Mass spectrometry and Clinical Application, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, P. R. China.,School of Material Science and Chemical Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, P. R. China
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- Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, P. R. China
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- Institute of Mass Spectrometry, Zhejiang Engineering Research Center of Advanced Mass spectrometry and Clinical Application, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, P. R. China.,Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, P. R. China
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- Institute of Mass Spectrometry, Zhejiang Engineering Research Center of Advanced Mass spectrometry and Clinical Application, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, P. R. China.,School of Material Science and Chemical Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, P. R. China
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Li J, Gao W, Wu H, Shi S, Yu J, Tang K. Application of zero-phase digital filtering for effective denoising of field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometry signal. RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY : RCM 2022; 36:e9211. [PMID: 34643299 DOI: 10.1002/rcm.9211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2021] [Revised: 07/27/2021] [Accepted: 10/05/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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RATIONALE Field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometry (FAIMS) has a great potential to become a portable technology for rapid detection of chemical and biological agents. However, the ion current signals, measured at the exit of the planar FAIMS directly, may contain different types of noises. The peak information in the FAIMS spectrum, such as the compensation voltage (CV) value at the maximum peak intensity (CVP ) and the peak width at half maximum (Wh ), could not be accurately determined under the weak signal condition, which significantly limits the achievable instrument sensitivity, and there are no existing solutions to the problem. METHODS This study analyzed the noise type of FAIMS signal in detail, and three different signal processing algorithms, such as median filtering (MF), discrete wavelet transform (DWT), and zero-phase digital filtering (ZDF), were evaluated for their performance in denoising the FAIMS signal. RESULTS The results show that the standard deviation of CVp obtained from the signal denoised using ZDF algorithm is at least 31.82% smaller as compared to using MF and DWT algorithms. The standard deviation of Wh is at least 45.45% smaller using ZDF algorithm. Moreover, only ZDF algorithm can keep the percentage error for the CV value of the denoised signal to be within 0.50 ± 0.47% of the true CV value, implying the effectiveness of ZDF algorithm in denoising while retaining the integrity of the signal. CONCLUSIONS The ZDF algorithm greatly reduces the analyte peak extraction error and improves the limit of detection in FAIMS measurements.
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- Junhui Li
- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Mass Spectrometry and Molecular Analysis, Institute of Mass Spectrometry, Ningbo University, Ningbo, P. R. China
- Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo, P. R. China
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- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Mass Spectrometry and Molecular Analysis, Institute of Mass Spectrometry, Ningbo University, Ningbo, P. R. China
- School of Material Science and Chemical Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo, P. R. China
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- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Mass Spectrometry and Molecular Analysis, Institute of Mass Spectrometry, Ningbo University, Ningbo, P. R. China
- Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo, P. R. China
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- Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo, P. R. China
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- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Mass Spectrometry and Molecular Analysis, Institute of Mass Spectrometry, Ningbo University, Ningbo, P. R. China
- Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo, P. R. China
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- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Mass Spectrometry and Molecular Analysis, Institute of Mass Spectrometry, Ningbo University, Ningbo, P. R. China
- School of Material Science and Chemical Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo, P. R. China
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Sanders JD, Butalewicz JP, Clowers BH, Brodbelt JS. Absorption Mode Fourier Transform Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry Multiplexing Combined with Half-Window Apodization Windows Improves Resolution and Shortens Acquisition Times. Anal Chem 2021; 93:9513-9520. [PMID: 34185992 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.1c01427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Fourier transform multiplexing enables the coupling of drift tube ion mobility to a wide array of mass spectrometers with improved ion utilization and duty cycles compared to dual-gate signal averaging methods. Traditionally, the data generated by this method is presented in the magnitude mode, but significant improvements in resolution and the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) are expected if the data can be phase corrected and presented in the absorption mode. A method to simply and reliably determine and correct phase shifts in Fourier transform ion mobility mass spectrometry data using information readily available to any user is presented and evaluated for both small molecule and intact protein analyses with no modification to instrument hardware or experimental procedures. Additionally, the effects of apodization and zero padding are evaluated for both processing methods, and a strategy to use these techniques to reduce acquisition times is presented and evaluated. Resolution is improved by an average factor of 1.6, the SNR is improved by an average factor of 1.2, and acquisition times are reduced by up to 80% through the application of absorption mode processing combined with apodization and zero padding.
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- James D Sanders
- The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99163, United States
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Jeanne Dit Fouque K, Kaplan D, Voinov VG, Holck FHV, Jensen ON, Fernandez-Lima F. Proteoform Differentiation using Tandem Trapped Ion Mobility, Electron Capture Dissociation, and ToF Mass Spectrometry. Anal Chem 2021; 93:9575-9582. [PMID: 34170114 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.1c01735] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Comprehensive characterization of post-translationally modified histone proteoforms is challenging due to their high isobaric and isomeric content. Trapped ion mobility spectrometry (TIMS), implemented on a quadrupole/time-of-flight (Q-ToF) mass spectrometer, has shown great promise in discriminating isomeric complete histone tails. The absence of electron activated dissociation (ExD) in the current platform prevents the comprehensive characterization of unknown histone proteoforms. In the present work, we report for the first time the use of an electromagnetostatic (EMS) cell devised for nonergodic dissociation based on electron capture dissociation (ECD), implemented within a nESI-TIMS-Q-ToF mass spectrometer for the characterization of acetylated (AcK18 and AcK27) and trimethylated (TriMetK4, TriMetK9 and TriMetK27) complete histone tails. The integration of the EMS cell in a TIMS-q-TOF MS permitted fast mobility-selected top-down ECD fragmentation with near 10% efficiency overall. The potential of this coupling was illustrated using isobaric (AcK18/TriMetK4) and isomeric (AcK18/AcK27 and TriMetK4/TriMetK9) binary H3 histone tail mixtures, and the H3.1 TriMetK27 histone tail structural diversity (e.g., three IMS bands at z = 7+). The binary isobaric and isomeric mixtures can be separated in the mobility domain with RIMS > 100 and the nonergodic ECD fragmentation permitted the PTM localization (sequence coverage of ∼86%). Differences in the ECD patterns per mobility band of the z = 7+ H3 TriMetK27 molecular ions suggested that the charge location is responsible for the structural differences observed in the mobility domain. This coupling further enhances the structural toolbox with fast, high resolution mobility separations in tandem with nonergodic fragmentation for effective proteoform differentiation.
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- Kevin Jeanne Dit Fouque
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida International University, Miami, Florida 33199, United States.,Biomolecular Sciences Institute, Florida International University, Miami, Florida 33199, United States
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- KapScience, LLC., Tewksbury, Massachusetts 01876, United States
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- e-MSion, Inc., Corvallis, Oregon 97330, United States.,Linus Pauling Institute and Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and VILLUM Center for Bioanalytical Sciences, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark
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- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and VILLUM Center for Bioanalytical Sciences, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida International University, Miami, Florida 33199, United States.,Biomolecular Sciences Institute, Florida International University, Miami, Florida 33199, United States
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Berthias F, Baird MA, Shvartsburg AA. Differential Ion Mobility Separations of d/l Peptide Epimers. Anal Chem 2021; 93:4015-4022. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c05023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Francis Berthias
- Department of Chemistry, Wichita State University, 1845 Fairmount, Wichita, Kansas 67260, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Wichita State University, 1845 Fairmount, Wichita, Kansas 67260, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Wichita State University, 1845 Fairmount, Wichita, Kansas 67260, United States
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Pathak P, Baird MA, Shvartsburg AA. High-Resolution Ion Mobility Separations of Isomeric Glycoforms with Variations on the Peptide and Glycan Levels. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2020; 31:1603-1609. [PMID: 32501708 DOI: 10.1021/jasms.0c00183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
Abstract
Glycosylation is a ubiquitous post-translational modification (PTM) that strongly affects the protein folding and function. Glycosylation patterns are impacted by many diseases, making promising biomarkers. Glycans are also the most complex PTMs, exhibiting isomers (linkage, anomers, and those with isomeric moieties). Permuted with localization variants that occur for all PTMs, these produce numerous isomeric glycoforms. Characterizing them by mass spectrometry and ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) has been a challenge. High-definition differential IMS (FAIMS) had robustly disentangled isomeric peptides involving other PTMs but was not evaluated for glycopeptides that featured multilevel isomerism. Here, we apply it to representative mucin glycopeptides with O-linked glycans: three GalNAc localization variants, a pair with α/β GalNAc anomers, and another with GalNAc/GlcNAc isomers. The first two classes were separated baseline with the resolution exceeding previous benchmarks by 10-fold, and the last pair was partly resolved. The recently demonstrated straightforward coupling to ultrahigh-resolution MS and electron-transfer dissociation makes high-definition FAIMS an attractive tool for glycoproteomics.
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- Pratima Pathak
- Department of Chemistry, Wichita State University, 1845 Fairmount, Wichita, Kansas 67260, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Wichita State University, 1845 Fairmount, Wichita, Kansas 67260, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Wichita State University, 1845 Fairmount, Wichita, Kansas 67260, United States
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Shliaha PV, Gorshkov V, Kovalchuk SI, Schwämmle V, Baird MA, Shvartsburg AA, Jensen ON. Middle-Down Proteomic Analyses with Ion Mobility Separations of Endogenous Isomeric Proteoforms. Anal Chem 2020; 92:2364-2368. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b05011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- Pavel V. Shliaha
- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and VILLUM Center for Bioanalytical Sciences, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark
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- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and VILLUM Center for Bioanalytical Sciences, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark
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- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and VILLUM Center for Bioanalytical Sciences, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark
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- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and VILLUM Center for Bioanalytical Sciences, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry, Wichita State University, 1845 Fairmount, Wichita, Kansas 67260, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Wichita State University, 1845 Fairmount, Wichita, Kansas 67260, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and VILLUM Center for Bioanalytical Sciences, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark
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Winter DL, Mastellone J, Kabir KMM, Wilkins MR, Donald WA. Separation of Isobaric Mono- and Dimethylated RGG-Repeat Peptides by Differential Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry. Anal Chem 2019; 91:11827-11833. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b02504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Daniel L. Winter
- School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia
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- School of Chemistry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia
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- School of Chemistry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia
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- School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia
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- School of Chemistry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia
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