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Enhancements in travelling wave ion mobility resolution
Author(s) -
Giles Kevin,
Williams Jonathan P.,
Campuzano Iain
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
rapid communications in mass spectrometry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.528
H-Index - 136
eISSN - 1097-0231
pISSN - 0951-4198
DOI - 10.1002/rcm.5013
Subject(s) - chemistry , ion mobility spectrometry , separator (oil production) , ion , gas phase , chemical physics , traveling wave , mass spectrometry , analytical chemistry (journal) , chromatography , organic chemistry , thermodynamics , physics , mathematical analysis , mathematics
The use of ion mobility separation to determine the collision cross‐section of a gas‐phase ion can provide valuable structural information. The introduction of travelling‐wave ion mobility within a quadrupole/time‐of‐flight mass spectrometer has afforded routine collision cross‐section measurements to be performed on a range of ionic species differing in gas‐phase size/structure and molecular weight at physiologically relevant concentrations. Herein we discuss the technical advances in the second‐generation travelling‐wave ion mobility separator, which result in up to a four‐fold increase in mobility resolution. This improvement is demonstrated using two reverse peptides (mw 490 Da), small ruthenium‐containing anticancer drugs (mw 427 Da), a cisplatin‐modified protein (mw 8776 Da) and the noncovalent tetradecameric chaperone complex GroEL (mw 802 kDa). What is also shown are that the collision cross‐sections determined using the second‐generation mobility separator correlate well with the previous generation and theoretically derived values. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.