Toward full peptide sequence coverage by dual fragmentation combining electron-transfer and higher-energy collision dissociation tandem mass spectrometry.

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Frese CK, Altelaar AF, van den Toorn H, Nolting D, Griep-Raming J, Heck AJ, Mohammed S.
Anal Chem. 2012 Nov 20;84(22):9668-73.
Increasing peptide sequence coverage by tandem mass spectrometry improves confidence in database search-based peptide identification and facilitates mapping of post-translational modifications and de novo sequencing. Inducing 2-fold fragmentation by combining electron-transfer and higher-energy collision dissociation (EThcD) generates dual fragment ion series and facilitates extensive peptide backbone fragmentation. After an initial electron-transfer dissociation step, all ions including the unreacted precursor ions are subjected to collision induced dissociation which yields b/y- and c/z-type fragment ions in a single spectrum. This new fragmentation scheme provides richer spectra and substantially increases the peptide sequence coverage and confidence in peptide identification.

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ac3025366
Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research and Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands