I. Lindh et al., CHARGE-REMOTE FRAGMENTATION OF PEPTIDES DERIVATIZED WITH 4-AMINONAPHTHALENESULPHONIC ACID, Rapid communications in mass spectrometry, 8(10), 1994, pp. 797-803
A series of small peptides has been studied by negative-ion fast-atom
bombardment mass spectrometry with collision-induced dissociation. It
has been found that by derivatizing peptides with 4-aminonaphthalenesu
lphonic acid in a peptide linkage at the C-terminus, negative-ion form
ation can be enhanced and fragmentation in collision-induced dissociat
ion reactions controlled. The peptide-naphthalenesulphonates show char
ge-remote fragmentations and the resultant spectra give sequence infor
mation.