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Kinetic Ion Thermometers for Electron Transfer Dissociation
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posted on 2015-02-19, 00:00 authored by Robert Pepin, František TurečekPeptide fragment ions of the z-type
were used as kinetic ion thermometers to gauge the internal energy
of peptide cation-radicals produced by electron transfer in the gas-phase.
Electron transfer dissociation (ETD)-produced z2 ions containing the leucine residue, z2(Leu-Lys) and z2(Leu-Arg), were found
to undergo spontaneous dissociation by loss of C3H7 that was monitored by time-resolved kinetic measurements
on the time scale of the linear ion trap mass spectrometer. Kinetic
modeling of the dissociations, including collisional cooling and product
loss by neutralization, provided unimolecular rate constants for dissociation
that were converted to the z ion internal
energies using RRKM theory. The internal energy of z2(Leu-Lys) and z2(Leu-Arg) fragment ions was found
to decrease with the increasing size of the precursor peptide ion,
indicating vibrational energy partitioning between the ion and neutral
fragments and ergodic behavior. The experimentally determined excitation
in the peptide cation-radicals upon electron transfer (285–327
kJ mol–1) was found to be lower than that theoretically
calculated from the reaction exothermicity. The reasons for this missing
energy are discussed.
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reaction exothermicityunimolecular rate constantscollisional coolingETDz ionprecursor peptide ionKinetic Ion ThermometersRRKM theoryergodic behaviorElectron Transfer Dissociation Peptide fragment ionsion thermometerstime scaleion trap mass spectrometerelectron transferKinetic modelingproduct lossleucine residueelectron transfer dissociationvibrational energy partitioningC 3H
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