| Literature DB >> 17297962 |
Tatiana N Laremore1, Fuming Zhang, Robert J Linhardt.
Abstract
Polyanionic oligosaccharides such as dermatan sulfate (DS) and chondroitin sulfate (CS) exhibit poor ionization efficiencies and tend to undergo thermal fragmentation through the loss of SO(3) under conventional ultraviolet matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (UV-MALDI) conditions. A new ionic liquid matrix (ILM), a guanidinium salt of alpha-cyano-4-hydroxycinnamic acid, facilitates direct UV-MALDI mass spectrometric (MS) analysis of underivatized DS and CS oligosaccharides up to a decasaccharide in their common form as sodium salts. The resulting mass spectra show very low extent of fragmentation through an SO(3) loss. The new ILM is suitable for MALDI-MS analysis of mixtures containing oligosaccharides with different numbers of sulfo groups.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 17297962 PMCID: PMC4140614 DOI: 10.1021/ac061688m
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Anal Chem ISSN: 0003-2700 Impact factor: 6.986