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Can collision-induced negative-ion fragmentations of [M–H]– anions be used to identify phosphorylation sites in peptides?
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Can collision-induced negative-ion fragmentations of [M–H]– anions be used to identify phosphorylation sites in peptides?

T T Nha Tran, Tianfang Wang, S Hack, P Hoffmann and J H Bowie
Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, Vol.25(23), pp.3537-3548
2011
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Abstract

A joint experimental and theoretical investigation of the fragmentation behaviour of energised [M-H]- anions from selected phosphorylated peptides has confirmed some of the most complex rearrangement processes yet to be reported for peptide negative ions. In particular: 1.pSer and pThr (like pTyr) may transfer phosphate groups to C-terminal carboxyl anions and to the carboxyl anion side chains of Asp and Glu, and characteristic nucleophilic/cleavage reactions accompany or follow these rearrangements. 2.pTyr may transfer phosphate to the side chains of Ser and Thr. The reverse reaction, namely transfer of a phosphate group from pSer or pThr to Tyr, is energetically unfavourable in comparison. 3.pSer can transfer phosphate to a non-phosphorylated Ser. The non-rearranged [M-H]- species yields more abundant product anions than its rearranged counterpart. If a peptide containing any or all of Ser, Thr and Tyr is not completely phosphorylated, negative-ion cleavages can determine the number of phosphated residues, and normally the positions of Ser, Thr and Tyr, but not which specific residues are phosphorylated. This is in accord with comments made earlier by Lehmann and coworkers

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