S. Castet et al., CHARACTERIZATION OF ASPARTIC-ACID AND BETA-ASPARTIC ACID IN PEPTIDES BY FAST-ATOM-BOMBARDMENT MASS-SPECTROMETRY AND TANDEM MASS-SPECTROMETRY, Rapid communications in mass spectrometry, 10(15), 1996, pp. 1934-1938
In this paper, we have shown that it is possible to differentiate an a
spartic acid residue from its beta-aspartic acid isomer in dipeptides
according to the characteristic fragmentation pathways, i.e. specific
immonium ion formation and cleavages involving side-chain atoms.