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Bonnet V, Clodic G, Sonnendecker C, Zimmermann W, Przybylski C. Ion mobility mass spectrometry enables the discrimination of positional isomers and the detection of conformers from cyclic oligosaccharides-metals supramolecular complexes. Carbohydr Polym 2023; 320:121205. [PMID: 37659808 DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2023.121205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2023] [Revised: 07/07/2023] [Accepted: 07/12/2023] [Indexed: 09/04/2023]
Abstract
Cyclic oligosaccharides are well known to interact with various metals, able to form supramolecular complexes with distinct sizes and shapes. However, the presence of various isomers in a sample, including positional isomers and conformers, can significantly impact molecular recognition, encapsulation ability and chemical reactivity. Therefore, it is crucial to have tools for deep samples probing and correlation establishments. The emerging ion mobility mass spectrometry (IM-MS) has the advantages to be rapid and sensitive, but is still in its infancy for the investigation of supramolecular assemblies. In the herein study, it was demonstrated that IM-MS is suitable to discriminate several isomers of cyclodextrins (CD)-metals complexes, used as cyclic oligosaccharide models. In this sense, we investigated branched 6-O-α-glucosyl- or 6-O-α-maltosyl-β-cyclodextrins (G1-β-CD and G2-β-CD) and their purely cyclic isomers: CD8 (γ-CD) and CD9 (δ-CD). The corresponding collision cross section (CCS) values were deducted for the main positive singly and doubly charged species. Experimental CCS values were matched with models obtained from molecular modelling. The high mobility resolving power and resolution enabled discrimination of positional isomers, identification of various conformers and accurate relative content estimation. These results represent a milestone in the identification of carbohydrate conformers that cannot be easily reached by other approaches.
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- Véronique Bonnet
- Laboratoire de Glycochimie, des Antimicrobiens et des Agroressources, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, 80039 Amiens, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Mass Spectrometry Sciences Sorbonne University, MS3U Platform, UFR 926, UFR 927, Paris, France
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- Institute of Analytical Chemistry, Leipzig University, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Institut Parisien de Chimie Moléculaire, IPCM, 4 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France; Université Paris-Saclay, Univ Evry, CNRS, LAMBE, Evry-Courcouronnes 91000, France.
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Zlibut E, May JC, Wei Y, Gessmann D, Wood CS, Bernat BA, Pugh TE, Palmer-Jones L, Cosquer RP, Dybeck E, McLean JA. Noncovalent Host-Guest Complexes of Artemisinin with α-, β-, and γ- Cyclodextrin Examined by Structural Mass Spectrometry Strategies. Anal Chem 2023; 95:8180-8188. [PMID: 37184072 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.2c05076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Cyclodextrins (CDs) are a family of macrocyclic oligosaccharides with amphiphilic properties, which can improve the stability, solubility, and bioavailability of therapeutic compounds. There has been growing interest in the advancement of efficient and reliable analytical methods that assist with elucidating CD host-guest drug complexation. In this study, we investigate the noncovalent ion complexes formed between naturally occurring dextrins (αCD, βCD, γCD, and maltohexaose) with the poorly water-soluble antimalarial drug, artemisinin, using a combination of ion mobility-mass spectrometry (IM-MS), tandem MS/MS, and theoretical modeling approaches. This study aims to determine if the drug can complex within the core dextrin cavity forming an inclusion complex or nonspecifically bind to the periphery of the dextrins. We explore the use of group I alkali earth metal additives to promote the formation of various noncovalent gas-phase ion complexes with different drug/dextrin stoichiometries (1:1, 1:2, 1:3, 1:4, and 2:1). Broad IM-MS collision cross section (CCS) mapping (n > 300) and power-law regression analysis were used to confirm the stoichiometric assignments. The 1:1 drug:αCD and drug:βCD complexes exhibited strong preferences for Li+ and Na+ charge carriers, whereas drug:γCD complexes preferred forming adducts with the larger alkali metals, K+, Rb+, and Cs+. Although the ion-measured CCS increased with cation size for the unbound artemisinin and CDs, the 1:1 drug:dextrin complexes exhibit near-identical CCS values regardless of the cation, suggesting these are inclusion complexes. Tandem MS/MS survival yield curves of the [artemisinin:βCD + X]+ ion (X = H, Li, Na, K) showed a decreased stability of the ion complex with increasing cation size. Empirical CCS measurements of the [artemisinin:βCD + Li]+ ion correlated with predicted CCS values from the low-energy theoretical structures of the drug incorporated within the βCD cavity, providing further evidence that gas-phase inclusion complexes are formed in these experiments. Taken together, this work demonstrates the utility of combining analytical information from IM-MS, MS/MS, and computational approaches in interpreting the presence of gas-phase inclusion phenomena.
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- Emanuel Zlibut
- Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235-1822, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235-1822, United States
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- Worldwide Research, Development & Medical, Pfizer, Inc., Lake Forest, Illinois 60045, United States
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- Worldwide Research, Development & Medical, Pfizer, Inc., Lake Forest, Illinois 60045, United States
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- Worldwide Research, Development & Medical, Pfizer, Inc., Lake Forest, Illinois 60045, United States
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- Worldwide Research, Development & Medical, Pfizer, Inc., Lake Forest, Illinois 60045, United States
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- Pfizer, R&D UK Ltd, PSSM ARD, Sandwich CT13 9NJ, U.K
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- Worldwide Research, Development & Medical, Pfizer, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235-1822, United States
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Chakraborty P, Neumaier M, Weis P, Kappes MM. Exploring Isomerism in Isolated Cyclodextrin Oligomers through Trapped Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2023; 34:676-684. [PMID: 36952473 DOI: 10.1021/jasms.2c00351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Cyclodextrin (CD) macrocycles are used to create a wide range of supramolecular architectures which are also of interest in applications such as selective gas adsorption, drug delivery, and catalysis. However, predicting their assemblies and identifying the possible isomers in CD oligomers have always remained challenging due to their dynamic nature. Herein, we interacted CDs (α, β, and γ) with a divalent metal ion, Cu2+, to create a series of Cu2+-linked CD oligomers, from dimers to pentamers. We characterized these oligomers using electrospray ionization mass spectrometry and probed isomerism in each of these isolated oligomers using high resolution trapped ion mobility spectrometry. Using this technique, we separated multiple isomers for each of the Cu2+-interlinked CD oligomers and estimated their relative population, which was not accessible previously using other characterization techniques. We further carried out structural analysis of the observed isomers by comparing the experimental collision cross sections (CCSs) to that of modeled structures. We infer that the isomeric heterogeneity reflects size-specific packing patterns of individual CDs (e.g., close-packed/linear). In some cases, we also reveal the existence of kinetically trapped structures in the gas phase and study their transformation to thermodynamically controlled forms by examining the influence of activation of the ions on isomer interconversion.
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- Papri Chakraborty
- Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
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Przybylski C, Bonnet V. Probing topology of supramolecular complexes between cyclodextrins and alkali metals by ion mobility-mass spectrometry. Carbohydr Polym 2022; 297:120019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2022.120019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2022] [Revised: 08/19/2022] [Accepted: 08/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Duncan MW, Gale PJ. Vale Al Yergey. JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY : JMS 2020; 55:e4535. [PMID: 32725946 DOI: 10.1002/jms.4535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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A mass spectrometric stochastic dynamic diffusion approach to selective quantitative and 3D structural analyses of native cyclodextrins by electrospray ionization and atmospheric pressure chemical ionization methods. Bioorg Chem 2019; 93:103308. [PMID: 31581053 DOI: 10.1016/j.bioorg.2019.103308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2019] [Revised: 08/19/2019] [Accepted: 09/19/2019] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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The paper addressed shortcoming with highly precise and selective 3D structural analysis of native cyclodextrins in mixture using ions observable at low m/z-region by ESI- and APCI-mass spectrometry. Because of, the quantitative and structural analyses of CDs, in general, are vexed by a set of complications. The study outlines our own stochastic dynamic approaches to the latter issues based on new model relations, quantifing the measurable MS outcome intensity. They introduce the so-called stochastic dynamic mass spectrometric diffusion "DSD" parameter, exhibiting high accuracy, precision, sensitivity and selectivity, respectively. It is linearly connected with the so-called quantum chemical diffusion parameter "DQC" according to Arrhenius's theory. The most important upshot is that statistical parameters r = 0.99639-0.99981 has been obtained correlating between DSD and DQC parameters. Therefore, we determine high accurately 3D molecular and electronic structures of analytes by mass spectrometry. Fragment peaks at m/z 313, 279, 272, 252, 231, 214, 198, 171, 158 and 141 are examined. Mixtures of CDs and monomeric and acyclic oligomer carbohydrates glucose (1), sucrose (2), raffinose (3), melezitose (4) and cellotriose (5) are also studied. Our method is able to account precisely for the effect of the temperature under ESI- and APCI-MS conditions, as well. Correlative analysess between DSD parameters of ESI- and APCI-MS measurements under different temperatures is also shown. Chemometric tests are used. Another important results and conclusions, among others, to draw from this research are: (i) excellent linear correlation between DSD and DQC parameters of r = 0.99636 is found looking at common ions at m/z 141, 158 and 171, belonging to 2-formyl-3,4-dihydroxy-pyranylium, 4,5,6-trihydroxy-6H-pyran-2-carbaldehyde and 3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-oxo-6H-pyran-2-ylmethylidyne-oxonium ions. Thus, we distinguish precisely between the last structure and 3-formyl-4,5-dihydroxy-2,7-dioxa-8-oxonia-bicyclo[4.2.0]octa-1(8),3,5-triene cation. In the case of ion at m/z 141 subtle electronic effects are distinguished between the mentioned structure and the charged 3,4-dihydroxy-6H-pyran-2-carbaldehyde one. The method determines precisely very similar structurally poly-OH-substituted derivatives. Because of, (ii) absolute reproducibility (r = 1) of DSD parameters of ESI-MS spectra is obtained studying the shown in point (i) MS peaks of β-CD between jth and jth numbers of experiments. The statistical equation is DiSD = (0.51 ± 3.1.10-5) × DjSD; (iii) the APCI- and ESI-MS provide identical results studying common MS ions of CDs and the correlation between DAPCISD and DESISD parameters excludes from error, due to, experiment; and (iv) The correlation between theory and experiment accounting for the factor temperature within our model equations shows r = 0.9828 looking at the MS peaks at m/z 313 280, 279, 274 and 252, respectively. The effect of the temperature under both ESI- and APCI-MS conditions on the 3D molecular and electronic structures of CDs is precisely studied, respectively.
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Zhang W, Wu H, Zhang R, Fang X, Xu W. Structure and effective charge characterization of proteins by a mobility capillary electrophoresis based method. Chem Sci 2019; 10:7779-7787. [PMID: 31588326 PMCID: PMC6761862 DOI: 10.1039/c9sc02039j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2019] [Accepted: 07/02/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Measuring the conformations and effective charges of proteins in solution is critical for investigating protein bioactivity, but their rapid analysis remains a challenging problem. Here we report a mobility capillary electrophoresis (MCE) based method for the rapid analysis of protein stereo-structures and effective charges in different solution environments. With the capability of mixture separation, MCE measures the hydrodynamic radius of a protein through Taylor dispersion analysis and its effective charge through ion mobility analysis. The experimental results acquired from MCE are then utilized to restrain molecular dynamics simulations, so that the most probable conformation of that protein can be obtained. As proof-of-concept demonstrations, the charge states and structures of five proteins were analyzed under close to native environments. The conformation transitions and charge state variations of bovine serum albumin and lysozyme under different pH conditions were also investigated. This method is promising for high-throughput protein analysis, which could potentially be coupled with mass spectrometry for investigating protein stereo-structures and functions in top-down proteomics.
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- Wenjing Zhang
- School of Life Science , Beijing Institute of Technology , No. 5 South Zhongguancun Street, Haidian Dist , Beijing , China .
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- School of Life Science , Beijing Institute of Technology , No. 5 South Zhongguancun Street, Haidian Dist , Beijing , China .
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- School of Life Science , Beijing Institute of Technology , No. 5 South Zhongguancun Street, Haidian Dist , Beijing , China .
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- National Institute of Metrology , No. 18, Bei San Huan Dong Lu, Chaoyang Dist , Beijing , China
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- School of Life Science , Beijing Institute of Technology , No. 5 South Zhongguancun Street, Haidian Dist , Beijing , China .
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Gale PJ, Cologna SM. Alfred L. Yergey III (September 17, 1941-May 27, 2018). JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2019; 30:557-560. [PMID: 30644054 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-018-2097-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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- P Jane Gale
- ASMS Archivist/Historian, Southborough, MA, USA.
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- Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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