T. Faller et al., A NOVEL ACRIDONE DERIVATIVE FOR THE FLUORESCENCE TAGGING AND MASS-SPECTROMETRIC SEQUENCING OF PEPTIDES, Chemical communications, (16), 1997, pp. 1529-1530
An acridone derivative containing an activated carboxylic group is hig
hly reactive towards primary amine groups, and allows selective analys
is either using absorbance at a wavelength of 410 nm or fluorescence a
t excitation and emission wavelengths of 400 and 418 nm, respectively;
MS-MS analysis of peptides tagged with reagent gives fragmentation pa
tterns which are usually considerably more intense than background.