What is an Immonium ion?
Immonium ions are internal product ions resulting from two-bond cleavages that retain a single amino acid side-chain. These ions are common in peptide tandem mass spectra and can often verify the presence of certain amino acids in a peptide.
What is a peptide ion?
Peptides are protonated in positive-ion mode. The proton initially locates at the N-terminus or a basic residue side chain, but because of the internal solvation, it can move along the backbone breaking at different sites which result in different fragments.
What is B and Y ions in mass spectrometry?
For a given peptide sequence, the B ions are the product when the charge is retained on the N-Terminus (i.e. at the beginning of the sequence) and the Y ions the product when the charge is retained at the C-Terminus (i.e. at the end of the sequence).
What is Y ion?
The b ion m/z value is basically the mass of the peptide minus OH, or -17u. Similarly, groups of peptide fragment ions appear to extend from the C-terminus, these peaks are termed, “y ions”.
What is polypeptide chain classified as?
A polypeptide is a longer, continuous, unbranched peptide chain. Hence, peptides fall under the broad chemical classes of biological polymers and oligomers, alongside nucleic acids, oligosaccharides, polysaccharides, and others.
Where does trypsin cleave?
Trypsin cleaves the peptide bond between the carboxyl group of arginine or the carboxyl group of lysine and the amino group of the adjacent amino acid. The rate of cleavage occurs more slowly when the lysine and arginine residues are adjacent to acidic amino acids in the sequence or cystine.
Why is the abundance of Y ions more than that of the B ions?
In general, Y-ions were much more abundant than B-ions. The favoring of Y-ions suggested that the charge carrier (the proton) preferred to reside on the C-terminal fragments instead of on the N-terminal fragments.
How do you read a mass spectra peptide?
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What is polypeptide structure?
A polypeptide is a chain of amino acids. Amino acids bond together with peptide bonds in order to form a polypeptide. The n-terminal (amino terminal) is located at one end of the polypeptide while the c-terminal (carboxyl terminal) is located at its other end.