Applications of ion mobility-mass spectrometry in carbohydrate chemistry and glycobiology

Y Mu, BL Schulz, V Ferro - Molecules, 2018 - mdpi.com
Carbohydrate analyses are often challenging due to the structural complexity of these
molecules, as well as the lack of suitable analytical tools for distinguishing the vast number …

Navigate flying molecular elephants safely to the ground: mass-selective soft landing up to the Mega-Dalton range by Electrospray Controlled Ion-Beam Deposition

A Walz, K Stoiber, A Huettig, H Schlichting… - Analytical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The prototype of a highly versatile and efficient preparative mass spectrometry system used
for the deposition of molecules in ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) is presented, along with …

Binding Selectivity of Methanobactin from Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b for Copper(I), Silver(I), Zinc(II), Nickel(II), Cobalt(II), Manganese(II), Lead(II), and Iron(II)

JW McCabe, R Vangala, LA Angel - Journal of the American …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Methanobactin (Mb) from Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b is a member of a class of metal
binding peptides identified in methanotrophic bacteria. Mb will selectively bind and reduce …

Expanding Orbitrap Collision Cross-Section Measurements to Native Protein Applications Through Kinetic Energy and Signal Decay Analysis

VK James, JD Sanders, K Aizikov, KL Fort… - Analytical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The measurement of collision cross sections (CCS, σ) offers supplemental information about
sizes and conformations of ions beyond mass analysis alone. We have previously shown …

Native electrospray mass spectrometry approaches to probe the interaction between zinc and an anti-angiogenic peptide from histidine-rich glycoprotein

EM Martin, FDL Kondrat, AJ Stewart, JH Scrivens… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Zinc modulates the biological function of histidine-rich glycoprotein (HRG) through binding
to its His-rich region (HRR). The Zn2+-binding properties of a 35 amino-acid biologically …

Weak acid-base interactions of histidine and cysteine affect the charge states, tertiary structure, and Zn (II)-binding of heptapeptides

YF Lin, EN Yousef, E Torres, L Truong… - Journal of The …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Zinc fingers are proteins that are characterized by the coordination of zinc ions by an amino
acid sequence that commonly contains two histidines and two cysteines (2His-2Cys motif) …

Enhanced hexamerization of insulin via assembly pathway rerouting revealed by single particle studies

F Bohr, SSR Bohr, NK Mishra… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Insulin formulations with diverse oligomerization states are the hallmark of interventions for
the treatment of diabetes. Here using single-molecule recordings we firstly reveal that insulin …

Direct dynamics simulations of fragmentation of a Zn (II)-2Cys-2His oligopeptide. Comparison with mass spectrometry collision-induced dissociation

A Malik, YF Lin, S Pratihar, LA Angel… - The Journal of Physical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Abnormalities in zinc metabolism have been linked to many diseases, including different
kinds of cancers and neurological diseases. The present study investigates the …

pH dependent chelation study of Zn (II) and Ni (II) by a series of hexapeptides using electrospray ionization–Ion mobility–Mass spectrometry

AB Ilesanmi, TC Moore, LA Angel - International Journal of Mass …, 2020 - Elsevier
Presented here are the results of a study characterizing the selective metal chelating
performance of the alternative metal binding (amb) peptide: acetyl-His 1-Cys 2-Gly 3-Pro 4 …

ESI-IM-MS reveals the metal binding of three analog methanobactin peptides with different numbers of free Cys at physiological pH

R Vangala, LA Angel - International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, 2021 - Elsevier
Three analog methanobactin (amb 7) peptides containing the primary structure acetyl-Leu 1-
His 2-Cys 3-Gly 4-Ser 5-Cys 6-Tyr 7-Pro 8-His 9-Cys 10-Ser 11-Cys 12-Met 13 but differing …