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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry Année : 2012

Formation and Fragmentation of Radical Peptide Anions: Insights from Vacuum Ultra Violet Spectroscopy

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We have studied the photodissociation of gas-phase deprotonated caerulein anions by vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) photons in the 4.5 to 20 eV range, as provided by the DESIRS beamline at the synchrotron radiation facility SOLEIL (France). Caerulein is a sulphated peptide with three aromatic residues and nine amide bonds. Electron loss is found to be the major relaxation channel at every photon energy. However, an increase in the fragmentation efficiency (neutral losses and peptide backbone cleavages) as a function of the energy is also observed. The oxidized ions, generated by electron photodetachment were further isolated and activated by collision (CID) in a MS3 scheme. The branching ratios of the different fragments observed by CID as a function of the initial VUV photon energy are found to be independent of the initial photon energy. Thus, there is no memory effect of the initial excitation energy on the fragmentation channels of the oxidized species on the time scale of our tandem MS experiment. We also report photofragment yields as a function of photon energy for doubly deprotonated caerulein ions, for both closed-shell ([M - 2H](2-)) non-radical ions and open-shell ([M - 3H](2-center dot)) radical ions. These latter ions are generated by electron photodetachment from[M - 3H](3-) precursor ions. The detachment yield increases monotonically with the energy with the appearance of several absorption bands. Spectra for radical and non-radical ions are quite similar in terms of observed bands; however, the VUV fragmentation yield is enhanced by the presence of a radical in caerulein peptides.

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hal-02646713 , version 1 (29-05-2020)

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Claire Brunet, Rodolphe Antoine, Philippe Dugourd, Francis Canon, Alexandre A. Giuliani, et al.. Formation and Fragmentation of Radical Peptide Anions: Insights from Vacuum Ultra Violet Spectroscopy. Journal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 2012, 23 (2), pp.274-281. ⟨10.1007/s13361-011-0285-7⟩. ⟨hal-02646713⟩
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