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A novel structural analysis of glycerophosphocholines as TFA/K + adducts by electrospray ionization ion trap tandem mass spectrometry
Author(s) -
Ho YenPeng,
Huang PingChen
Publication year - 2002
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.751
Subject(s) - chemistry , trifluoroacetic acid , mass spectrometry , quadrupole ion trap , adduct , tandem mass spectrometry , ion trap , electrospray ionization , electrospray , fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance , ion , analytical chemistry (journal) , molecule , selected reaction monitoring , mass spectrum , chromatography , organic chemistry
When collisionally activated dissociation (CAD) of glycerophosphocholine (GPC) species is examined using quadrupole ion trap mass spectrometry (QITMS), the spectral patterns differ from those obtained using sector or quadrupole mass spectrometry. Methods employed in the structural analysis of GPCs using a sector or quadrupole mass spectrometers are not necessarily useful for an ion trap mass spectrometer. A novel method is presented for structurally analyzing GPCs that involves the CAD of trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) adducts of kaliated GPCs. Solutions of GPCs in 0.1% TFA/methanol were electrosprayed to produce precursor ions by attaching a trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) molecule to a kaliated GPC molecule. The CAD‐MS/MS spectra obtained by QITMS revealed a dramatic increase in the abundance of fragment ions, corresponding to the losses of sn‐1 and sn‐2 fatty acyl substituents. A preferential loss of the sn‐1 fatty acyl group over the loss of the sn‐2 fatty acyl group was observed among the GPC standards examined. A GPC extract from egg yolk was directly analyzed by this method without prior separation. The identities and positions of fatty acyl substituents of over 20 GPC species were identified. Some isomers present in very low relative abundance, which could not be analyzed by QITMS/MS using other ions as precursors, were identified by the TFA attachment method. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.