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Inoue K, Fujihara A. Differentiation of free d-amino acids and amino acid isomers in solution using tandem mass spectrometry of hydrogen-bonded clusters. J Pharm Biomed Anal 2023; 234:115567. [PMID: 37441889 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpba.2023.115567] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2023] [Revised: 06/21/2023] [Accepted: 07/09/2023] [Indexed: 07/15/2023]
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Free d-amino acids and amino acid isomers were differentiated using tandem mass spectrometry without chromatographic separation. Ultraviolet photodissociation and water adsorption of leucine (Leu) and isoleucine (Ile) enantiomers hydrogen-bonded with tryptophan (Trp) were investigated at 8 K in the gas phase. The enantiomer-selective Cα-Cβ bond cleavage of Trp was observed in the product ion spectra obtained by 285 nm photoexcitation, where the abundance of NH2CHCOOH-eliminated ion of heterochiral H+(d-Trp)(l-Leu) was higher than that of homochiral H+(l-Trp)(l-Leu). When comparing water adsorption on the surfaces of the heterochiral and homochiral clusters in a cold ion trap, the number of water molecules adsorbed on the heterochiral cluster was greater than that adsorbed on the homochiral cluster. These results indicate that the stronger intermolecular interactions within the homochiral H+(l-Trp)(l-Leu) compared to the heterochiral cluster inhibit enantiomer-selective photodissociation. Leu and Ile were differentiated by the isomer-selective Cα-Cβ bond cleavage of Trp in the clusters. Calibration curves for the differentiation of isomeric amino acids and their enantiomers were developed using monitoring isomer- and enantiomer-selective photodissociation, indicating that the molar fractions in solution could be determined from a single product ion spectrum.
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- Kanako Inoue
- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka Metropolitan University, Osaka 599-8531, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka Metropolitan University, Osaka 599-8531, Japan.
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Nagai D, Fujihara A. Quantification of disaccharides in solution using isomer-selective ultraviolet photodissociation of hydrogen-bonded clusters in the gas phase. Carbohydr Res 2023; 523:108733. [PMID: 36571945 DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2022.108733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2022] [Revised: 11/04/2022] [Accepted: 12/20/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Chemical properties of gas-phase hydrogen-bonded clusters were investigated as a model for interstellar molecular clouds. Cold gas-phase hydrogen-bonded clusters of tryptophan (Trp) enantiomers and disaccharide isomers, including d-maltose and d-cellobiose, were generated by electrospray ionization and collisional cooling in an ion trap at 8 K. Product ion spectra in the 265-290 nm wavelength range were obtained using tandem mass spectrometry. NH2CHCOOH loss via the Cα-Cβ bond cleavage of Trp occurred frequently in homochiral H+(d-Trp)(d-maltose) compared with heterochiral H+(l-Trp)(d-maltose) at 278 nm, indicating that an enantiomeric excess of l-Trp was formed via the enantiomer-selective photodissociation. The photoreactivity differed between the enantiomers and isomers contained in the clusters at the photoexcitation of 278 nm. A calibration curve for the quantification of disaccharide isomers in solution was constructed by photoexcitation of the hydrogen-bonded clusters of disaccharide isomers with H+(l-Trp) at 278 nm. A linear relationship between the natural logarithm of the relative product ion abundance and the mole fraction of d-maltose to d-cellobiose ratio in the solution was obtained, indicating that the mole fraction could be determined from a single product ion spectrum. A calibration curve, for quantification of Trp enantiomers, was also obtained using d-maltose as a chiral auxiliary.
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- Daiya Nagai
- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka Metropolitan University, Osaka, 599-8531, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka Metropolitan University, Osaka, 599-8531, Japan.
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Inoue K, Fujihara A. Chemical properties of inner and surficial regions of hydrogen-bonded clusters of biological molecules: ultraviolet photodissociation and water adsorption analyses in the gas phase. Amino Acids 2023; 55:153-159. [PMID: 36414841 DOI: 10.1007/s00726-022-03214-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2022] [Accepted: 11/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The chemical and physical properties of cold, gas-phase hydrogen-bonded clusters of L-alanine (L-Ala), L-trialanine (L-Ala3), L-tetraalanine (L-Ala4), and tryptophan (Trp) enantiomers were investigated using tandem mass spectrometry with an electrospray ionization source and cold ion trap. From the ultraviolet (UV) photodissociation spectra at 265-290 nm, the electronic structures of homochiral H+(L-Trp)(L-Ala) at 8 K were found to be different from those of heterochiral H+(D-Trp)(L-Ala) and protonated Trp. The number of water molecules adsorbed on the surface of gas-phase H+(D-Trp)(L-Ala) was larger than that of H+(L-Trp)(L-Ala), indicating stronger intermolecular interactions of L-Ala with H+(L-Trp) than those with H+(D-Trp). The product ion spectrum obtained by 265 nm photoexcitation of H+(L-Trp)(L-Ala3)(H2O)n formed via gas-phase water adsorption on H+(L-Trp)(L-Ala3) showed that the evaporation of water molecules was the main photodissociation process. In the case of H+(L-Trp)(L-Ala4)(H2O)n, signals of H+(L-Ala4) (H2O)n formed via L-Trp evaporation were observed in the product ion spectra, and the cross-section for UV photoinduced L-Trp evaporation became larger as the number of adsorbed water molecules increased. This observation indicates that water molecules were selectively adsorbed on the H+(L-Ala4) side of H+(L-Trp)(L-Ala4) and weakened the intermolecular interactions between L-Trp and H+(L-Ala4) in the hydrogen-bonded cluster.
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- Kanako Inoue
- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka Metropolitan University, Osaka, 599-8531, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka Metropolitan University, Osaka, 599-8531, Japan.
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Inoue K, Fujihara A. Quantification of Amino Acid Enantiomers Using Electrospray Ionization and Ultraviolet Photodissociation. Mass Spectrom (Tokyo) 2021; 10:A0097. [PMID: 34552841 PMCID: PMC8440895 DOI: 10.5702/massspectrometry.a0097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2021] [Accepted: 07/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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The enantioselectivity of tryptophan (Trp) for amino acids, such as alanine (Ala), valine (Val), and serine (Ser), was investigated using ultraviolet (UV) photoexcitation and tandem mass spectrometry. Product ion spectra of cold gas-phase amino acid enantiomers that were hydrogen-bonded to Na+(L-Trp) were measured using a variable-wavelength UV laser and a tandem mass spectrometer equipped with an electrospray ionization source and a cold ion trap. Na+(L-Trp), formed via amino acid detachment, and the elimination of CO2 from the clusters were observed in the product ion spectra. For photoexcitation at 265 nm, the relative abundance of Na+(L-Trp) compared to that of the precursor ion observed in the product ion spectrum of heterochiral Na+(L-Trp)(D-Ala) was larger than that observed in the product ion spectrum of homochiral Na+(L-Trp)(L-Ala). A difference between the Val enantiomers in the relative abundance of the precursor and product ions was observed in the case of photoexcitation at 272 nm. The elimination of CO2 was not observed for L-Ser for the 285 nm photoexcitation, which was the main reaction pathway for D-Ser. Photoexcited Trp chiral recognition was applied to identify and quantify the amino acid enantiomers in solution. Ala, Val, and Ser enantiomers in solution were quantified from their relative abundances in single product ion spectra measured using photoexcitation at 265, 272, and 285 nm, respectively, for hydrogen-bonded Trp within the clusters.
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- Kanako Inoue
- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka 599–8531, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka 599–8531, Japan
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Murashima H, Fujihara A. Quantification of monosaccharide enantiomers using optical properties of hydrogen-bonded tryptophan. Anal Biochem 2021; 619:114151. [PMID: 33684343 DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2021.114151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2020] [Revised: 01/22/2021] [Accepted: 03/01/2021] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Chiral recognition between amino acids and monosaccharides in the gas phase was investigated as a model for chemical evolution in interstellar molecular clouds. Ultraviolet (UV) photodissociation spectra and product ion spectra of cold gas-phase hydrogen-bonded clusters of protonated tryptophan (Trp) and a pentose, including ribose and arabinose, were obtained using a tandem mass spectrometer equipped with an electrospray ionization source and a temperature-controlled ion trap. The relative intensity of the signal arising from the S1-S0 transition of protonated Trp observed at approximately 285 nm in the UV photodissociation spectrum of homochiral H+(d-Trp)(d-ribose) was significantly higher than that of heterochiral H+(l-Trp)(d-ribose), corresponding to the ππ* state of the Trp indole ring. Optical properties of Trp in the clusters induced by 285-nm photoexcitation were applied to the identification and quantification of pentose enantiomers in solution. Pentose enantiomeric excess in solution was determined from relative abundances observed in a single product ion spectrum of 285-nm photoexcited hydrogen-bonded clusters of H+(l-Trp) and pentose. A mixture of two pentoses could also be quantified by this method. The geometric and electronic structures of Trp enable recognition of biological molecules through hydrogen bonding.
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- Hiromori Murashima
- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, 599-8531, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, 599-8531, Japan.
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Murashima H, Fujihara A. Molecular Adsorption on Cold Gas-Phase Hydrogen-Bonded Clusters of Chiral Molecules. ORIGINS LIFE EVOL B 2021; 51:61-70. [PMID: 33587241 DOI: 10.1007/s11084-021-09605-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2020] [Accepted: 02/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Gas-phase molecular adsorption was investigated as a model for molecular cloud formation. Molecular adsorption on cold gas-phase hydrogen-bonded clusters containing protonated tryptophan (Trp) enantiomers and monosaccharides such as methyl-α-D-glucoside, D-ribose, and D-arabinose was detected using a tandem mass spectrometer equipped with an electrospray ionization source and cold ion trap. The adsorption sites on the surface of cold gas-phase hydrogen-bonded cluster ions were quantified using gas-phase N2 adsorption-mass spectrometry. The gas-phase N2 adsorption experiments indicated that the number of adsorption sites on the surface of the hydrogen-bonded heterochiral clusters containing L-Trp and D-monosaccharides exceeded the number of adsorption sites on the homochiral clusters containing D-Trp and D-monosaccharides. H2O molecules were preferentially adsorbed on the heterochiral clusters, and larger water clusters were formed in the gas phase. Physical and chemical properties of cold gas-phase hydrogen-bonded clusters containing biological molecules were useful for investigating enantiomer selectivity and chemical evolution in interstellar molecular clouds.
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- Hiromori Murashima
- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, 599-8531, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, 599-8531, Japan.
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Hirata K, Mori Y, Ishiuchi SI, Fujii M, Zehnacker A. Chiral discrimination between tyrosine and β-cyclodextrin revealed by cryogenic ion trap infrared spectroscopy. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:24887-24894. [PMID: 32914820 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp02968h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Complexes of permethylated β-cyclodextrin (β-MCD) with the two enantiomers of protonated tyrosine (l- and d-TyrH+) are studied by cryogenic ion trap infrared photo-dissociation spectroscopy. The vibrational spectra in the OH/NH stretch and fingerprint regions are assigned based on density functional theory calculations. The spectrum of both l- and d-TyrH+ complexes contains features characteristic of a first structure with ammonium and acid groups of the amino acid simultaneously interacting with the β-MCD, the phenolic OH remaining free. A second structure involving additional interaction between the phenolic OH and the β-MCD is observed only for the complex with d-TyrH+. The larger abundance of the d-TyrH+ complex in the mass spectrum is tentatively explained in terms of (1) better insertion of d-TyrH+ within the cavity with the hydrophobic aromatic moiety less exposed to hydrophilic solvent molecules and (2) a stiff structure involving three interaction points, namely the ammonium, the phenolic OH and the carboxylic acid OH, which is not possible for the complex with l-TyrH+. The recognition process does not occur through size effects that induce complementarity to the host molecule but specific interactions. These results provide a comprehensive understanding of how the cyclodextrin recognises a chiral biomolecule.
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- Keisuke Hirata
- Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259, Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama, 226-8503, Japan.
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Murashima H, Fujihara A. Wavelength dependence of chiral recognition using ions between photoexcited tryptophan and sugars. Chem Phys 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2020.110818] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Hanaichi S, Fujihara A. Identification and quantification of leucine and isoleucine residues in peptides using photoexcited tryptophan. Amino Acids 2020; 52:1107-1113. [PMID: 32710184 DOI: 10.1007/s00726-020-02875-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2020] [Accepted: 07/19/2020] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Ochiai N, Murashima H, Fujihara A. Quantification of hydroxy groups in carbohydrates using gas-phase N2 adsorption. Chem Phys Lett 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2020.137484] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Homochiral vs. heterochiral sodium core dimers of tartaric acid esters: A mass spectrometry and vibrational spectroscopy study. J Mol Struct 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2019.127583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Shi Y, Zhou M, Zhang K, Ma L, Kong X. Chiral Differentiation of Non-Covalent Diastereomers Based on Multichannel Dissociation Induced by 213-nm Ultraviolet Photodissociation. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2019; 30:2297-2305. [PMID: 31410655 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-019-02302-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2019] [Revised: 07/10/2019] [Accepted: 07/23/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Here we present the implementation of 213-nm ultraviolet photodissociation (UVPD) in a FT-ICR mass spectrometer for chiral differentiation in the gas phase. The L/D amino acid-substituted serine octamer ions were selected as examples of diastereoisomers for chiral analysis. Several kinds of fragment ions were observed in these experiments, including fragment ions that are similar to the ones observed in corresponding collision-activated dissociation (CAD) experiments, fragment ions generated with different protonation sites by only destroying non-covalent bonds, and unique non-covalent cluster radical ions. The latter two kinds of fragment ions are found to be more sensitive to the chirality of the substituted units. Further experiments suggest that the formation of radical ions is mainly affected by chromophores on side chains of the substituted units and micro surroundings of the characterized non-covalent diastereoisomers. A comparing experiment performed by only changing the wavelength of UV laser to 266 nm shows that the 213-nm UV laser has the priority in the diversity of fragmentation pathways and potential of further application in chiral differentiation experiments.
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- Yingying Shi
- State Key Laboratory and Institute of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China
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- State Key Laboratory and Institute of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China
- Department of Physics, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, 241000, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory and Institute of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China
- School of Precision Instrument and Opto-Electronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- School of Precision Instrument and Opto-Electronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- State Key Laboratory and Institute of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China.
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China.
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Soorkia S, Jouvet C, Grégoire G. UV Photoinduced Dynamics of Conformer-Resolved Aromatic Peptides. Chem Rev 2019; 120:3296-3327. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.9b00316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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- Satchin Soorkia
- Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay (ISMO), CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91405 Orsay, France
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- CNRS, Aix Marseille Université, PIIM UMR 7345, 13397, Marseille, France
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- Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay (ISMO), CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91405 Orsay, France
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Ben Nasr F, Alata I, Scuderi D, Lepère V, Brenner V, Jaïdane NE, Zehnacker A. Effects of complexation with sulfuric acid on the photodissociation of protonated Cinchona alkaloids in the gas phase. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:15439-15451. [PMID: 31257399 DOI: 10.1039/c9cp01518c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The effect of complexation with sulfuric acid on the photo-dissociation of protonated Cinchona alkaloids, namely cinchonidine (Cd), quinine (Qn) and quinidine (Qd), is studied by combining laser spectroscopy with quantum chemical calculations. The protonated complexes are structurally characterized in a room-temperature ion trap by means of infra-red multiple photon dissociation (IRMPD) spectroscopy in the fingerprint and the ν(XH) (X = C, N, O) stretch regions. Comparison with density functional theory calculations including dispersion (DFT-D) unambiguously shows that the complex consists of a doubly protonated Cinchona alkaloid strongly bound to a bisulfate HSO4- anion, which bridges the two protonated sites of the Cinchona alkaloid. UV excitation of the complex does not induce loss of specific photo fragments, in contrast to the protonated monomer or dimer, for which photo-specific fragments were observed. Indeed the UV-induced fragmentation pattern is identical to that observed in collision-induced dissociation experiments. Analysis of the nature of the first electronic transitions at the second order approximate coupled-cluster level (CC2) explains the difference in the behavior of the complex relative to the monomer or dimer towards UV excitation.
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- Feriel Ben Nasr
- Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d'Orsay (ISMO), CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91405 Orsay, France. and Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Atomique, Moléculaire et Applications (LSAMA) Université de Tunis El Manar, LSAMA, Tunis 1060, Tunisia
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- Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d'Orsay (ISMO), CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91405 Orsay, France.
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- Univ. Paris-Sud, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique, UMR 8000, and CNRS, Orsay, F-91405, France
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- Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d'Orsay (ISMO), CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91405 Orsay, France.
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- Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Atomique, Moléculaire et Applications (LSAMA) Université de Tunis El Manar, LSAMA, Tunis 1060, Tunisia
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- Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d'Orsay (ISMO), CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91405 Orsay, France.
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Nguyen DT, Oki N, Fujihara A. Determination of enantiomeric excess of amino acids using photodissociation of cold gas-phase Na + -containing clusters. JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY : JMS 2019; 54:629-633. [PMID: 31094029 DOI: 10.1002/jms.4373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2019] [Revised: 04/15/2019] [Accepted: 05/01/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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- Doan Thuc Nguyen
- Department of Chemistry, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, 599-8531, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, 599-8531, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, 599-8531, Japan
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Fujihara A, Shimada A. Gas-phase N2 adsorption on mass-selected hydrogen-bonded cluster ions. Chem Phys Lett 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2019.01.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Nguyen DT, Fujihara A. Chiral Recognition in Cold Gas-Phase Cluster Ions of Carbohydrates and Tryptophan Probed by Photodissociation. ORIGINS LIFE EVOL B 2018; 48:395-406. [PMID: 30953250 DOI: 10.1007/s11084-019-09574-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2019] [Accepted: 03/19/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Chiral recognition between tryptophan (Trp) and carbohydrates such as D-glucose (D-Glc), methyl-α-D-glucoside (D-glucoside), D-maltose, and D-cellobiose in cold gas-phase cluster ions was investigated as a model for chemical evolution in interstellar molecular clouds using a tandem mass spectrometer containing a cold ion trap. The photodissociation mass spectra of cold gas-phase clusters that contained Na+, Trp enantiomers, and D-maltose showed that Na+(D-Glc) was formed via the glycosidic bond cleavage of D-maltose from photoexcited homochiral Na+(D-Trp)(D-maltose), while the dissociation did not occur in heterochiral Na+(L-Trp)(D-maltose). The enantiomer-selective dissociation was also observed in the case of D-cellobiose. The enantiomer-selective glycosidic bond cleavage of disaccharides suggested that photoexcited D-Trp could prevent chemical evolution of sugar chains from D-enantiomer of carbohydrates in molecular clouds. The spectra of gas-phase clusters that contained Na+, Trp enantiomers, and D-Glc indicated that enantiomer-selective protonation of L-Trp from D-Glc could induce enantiomeric excess via collision-activated dissociation of the protonated L-Trp. In the case of protonated clusters, photoexcited H+(L-Trp) dissociated via Cα-Cβ bond cleavage in the presence of D-Glc or D-glucoside, where the excited states of H+(L-Trp) contributed to the enantiomer-selective reaction in the clusters. These enantiomer selectivities in cold gas-phase clusters indicated that chirality of a molecule induced enantiomeric excess of other molecules via enantiomer-selective reactions in molecular clouds.
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- Doan Thuc Nguyen
- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, 599-8531, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, 599-8531, Japan.
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Fujihara A, Okawa Y. Chiral and molecular recognition of monosaccharides by photoexcited tryptophan in cold gas-phase noncovalent complexes as a model for chemical evolution in interstellar molecular clouds. Anal Bioanal Chem 2018; 410:6279-6287. [DOI: 10.1007/s00216-018-1238-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2018] [Revised: 06/18/2018] [Accepted: 06/28/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Oki N, Fujihara A. Molecular recognition and quantitative analysis of leucine and isoleucine using photodissociation of cold gas-phase noncovalent complexes. JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY : JMS 2018; 53:595-597. [PMID: 29722139 DOI: 10.1002/jms.4196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2018] [Revised: 03/24/2018] [Accepted: 04/21/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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- Narumi Oki
- Department of Chemistry, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, 599-8531, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, 599-8531, Japan
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Fujihara A, Inoue H, Sogi M, Tajiri M, Wada Y. Chiral and Molecular Recognition through Protonation between Aromatic Amino Acids and Tripeptides Probed by Collision-Activated Dissociation in the Gas Phase. Molecules 2018; 23:molecules23010162. [PMID: 29342843 PMCID: PMC6017851 DOI: 10.3390/molecules23010162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2017] [Revised: 01/06/2018] [Accepted: 01/11/2018] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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Chiral and molecular recognition through protonation was investigated through the collision-activated dissociation (CAD) of protonated noncovalent complexes of aromatic amino acid enantiomers with l-alanine- and l-serine-containing tripeptides using a linear ion trap mass spectrometer. In the case of l-alanine-tripeptide (AAA), NH₃ loss was observed in the CAD of heterochiral H⁺(d-Trp)AAA, while H₂O loss was the main dissociation pathways for l-Trp, d-Phe, and l-Phe. The protonation site of heterochiral H⁺(d-Trp)AAA was the amino group of d-Trp, and the NH₃ loss occurred from H⁺(d-Trp). The H₂O loss indicated that the proton was attached to the l-alanine tripeptide in the noncovalent complexes. With the substitution of a central residue of l-alanine tripeptide to l-Ser, ASA recognized l-Phe by protonation to the amino group of l-Phe in homochiral H⁺(l-Phe)ASA. For the protonated noncovalent complexes of His enantiomers with tripeptides (AAA, SAA, ASA, and AAS), protonated His was observed in the spectra, except for those of heterochiral H⁺(d-His)SAA and H⁺(d-His)AAS, indicating that d-His did not accept protons from the SAA and AAS in the noncovalent complexes. The amino-acid sequences of the tripeptides required for the recognition of aromatic amino acids were determined by analyses of the CAD spectra.
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- Akimasa Fujihara
- Department of Chemistry, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka 599-8531, Japan.
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- Department of Chemistry, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka 599-8531, Japan.
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- Department of Chemistry, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka 599-8531, Japan.
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Osaka Women's and Children's Hospital, Osaka 594-1101, Japan.
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Osaka Women's and Children's Hospital, Osaka 594-1101, Japan.
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Fujihara A, Maeda N. Quantitative chiral analysis of amino acids in solution using enantiomer-selective photodissociation of cold gas-phase tryptophan via chiral recognition. Anal Chim Acta 2017; 979:31-35. [DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2017.04.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2017] [Revised: 04/17/2017] [Accepted: 04/18/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Doan TN, Fujihara A. Enantiomer-Selective Photo-Induced Reaction of Protonated Tryptophan with Disaccharides in the Gas Phase. ORIGINS LIFE EVOL B 2017; 48:123-130. [DOI: 10.1007/s11084-017-9544-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2017] [Accepted: 06/22/2017] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Fujihara A, Matsuyama H, Tajiri M, Wada Y, Hayakawa S. Enantioselective Collision-Activated Dissociation of Gas-Phase Tryptophan Induced by Chiral Recognition of Protonated L-Alanine Peptides. ORIGINS LIFE EVOL B 2017; 47:161-167. [PMID: 27271107 DOI: 10.1007/s11084-016-9511-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2016] [Accepted: 05/26/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Enantioselective dissociation in the gas phase is important for enantiomeric enrichment and chiral transmission processes in molecular clouds regarding the origin of homochirality in biomolecules. Enantioselective collision-activated dissociation (CAD) of tryptophan (Trp) and the chiral recognition ability of L-alanine peptides (L-Ala n ; n = 2-4) were examined using a linear ion trap mass spectrometer. CAD spectra of gas-phase heterochiral H+(D-Trp)(L-Ala n ) and homochiral H+(L-Trp)(L-Ala n ) noncovalent complexes were obtained as a function of the peptide size n. The H2O-elimination product was observed in CAD spectra of both heterochiral and homochiral complexes for n = 2 and 4, and in homochiral H+(L-Trp)(L-Ala3), indicating that the proton is attached to the L-alanine peptide, and H2O loss occurs from H+(L-Ala n ) in the noncovalent complexes. H2O loss did not occur in heterochiral H+(D-Trp)(L-Ala3), where NH3 loss and (H2O + CO) loss were the primary dissociation pathways. In heterochiral H+(D-Trp)(L-Ala3), the protonation site is the amino group of D-Trp, and NH3 loss and (H2O + CO) loss occur from H+(D-Trp). L-Ala peptides recognize D-Trp through protonation of the amino group for peptide size n = 3. NH3 loss and (H2O + CO) loss from H+(D-Trp) proceeds via enantioselective CAD in gas-phase heterochiral H+(D-Trp)(L-Ala3) at room temperature, whereas L-Trp dissociation was not observed in homochiral H+(L-Trp)(L-Ala3). These results suggest that enantioselective dissociation induced by chiral recognition of L-Ala peptides through protonation could play an important role in enantiomeric enrichment and chiral transmission processes of amino acids.
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- Akimasa Fujihara
- Department of Chemistry, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, Japan.
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- Department of Chemistry, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Osaka Medical Center and Research Institute for Matemal and Child Health, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Osaka Medical Center and Research Institute for Matemal and Child Health, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, Japan
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Yu X, Yao ZP. Chiral recognition and determination of enantiomeric excess by mass spectrometry: A review. Anal Chim Acta 2017; 968:1-20. [DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2017.03.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2016] [Revised: 03/15/2017] [Accepted: 03/16/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Fujihara A, Maeda N, Doan TN, Hayakawa S. Enantiomeric Excess Determination for Monosaccharides Using Chiral Transmission to Cold Gas-Phase Tryptophan in Ultraviolet Photodissociation. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2017; 28:224-228. [PMID: 27739022 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-016-1519-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2016] [Revised: 09/27/2016] [Accepted: 10/01/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Chiral transmission between monosaccharides and amino acids via photodissociation in the gas phase was examined using a tandem mass spectrometer fitted with an electrospray ionization source and a cold ion trap in order to investigate the origin of the homochirality of biomolecules in molecular clouds. Ultraviolet photodissociation mass spectra of cold gas-phase noncovalent complexes of the monosaccharide enantiomers glucose (Glc) and galactose (Gal) with protonated L-tryptophan H+(L-Trp) were obtained by photoexcitation of the indole ring of L-Trp. L-Trp dissociated via Cα-Cβ bond cleavage when noncovalently complexed with D-Glc; however, no dissociation of L-Trp occurred in the homochiral H+(L-Trp)(L-Glc) noncovalent complex, where the energy absorbed by L-Trp was released through the evaporation of L-Glc. This enantioselective photodissociation of Trp was due to the transmission of chirality from Glc to Trp via photodissociation in the gas-phase noncovalent complexes, and was applied to the quantitative chiral analysis of monosaccharides. The enantiomeric excess of monosaccharides in solution could be determined by measuring the relative abundance of the two product ions in a single photodissociation mass spectrum of the cold gas-phase noncovalent complex with H+(L-Trp), and by referring to the linear relationships derived in this work. Graphical Abstract ᅟ.
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- Akimasa Fujihara
- Department of Chemistry, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka, 599-8531, Japan.
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- Department of Chemistry, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka, 599-8531, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka, 599-8531, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka, 599-8531, Japan
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Fujihara A, Maeda N, Hayakawa S. Chiral recognition between L-alanine peptides and tryptophan enantiomers probed by ultraviolet photodissociation in the gas phase. JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY : JMS 2016; 51:257-260. [PMID: 26956393 DOI: 10.1002/jms.3750] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2015] [Revised: 01/15/2016] [Accepted: 01/18/2016] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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- Akimasa Fujihara
- Department of Chemistry, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, 599-8531, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, 599-8531, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, 599-8531, Japan
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Kumar S, Lucas B, Fayeton J, Scuderi D, Alata I, Broquier M, Barbu-Debus KL, Lepère V, Zehnacker A. Photofragmentation mechanisms in protonated chiral cinchona alkaloids. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:22668-77. [DOI: 10.1039/c6cp04041a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Photo-fragmentation of protonated alkaloids results in C8–C9 cleavage accompanied or not by hydrogen migration, with a stereochemistry-dependent branching ratio.
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- Sunil Kumar
- Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d'Orsay (ISMO)
- CNRS
- Univ. Paris-Sud
- Université Paris-Saclay
- France
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- Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d'Orsay (ISMO)
- CNRS
- Univ. Paris-Sud
- Université Paris-Saclay
- France
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- Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d'Orsay (ISMO)
- CNRS
- Univ. Paris-Sud
- Université Paris-Saclay
- France
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- Univ. Paris-Sud
- Laboratoire de Chimie Physique
- UMR8000, and CNRS
- Orsay
- France
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- Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d'Orsay (ISMO)
- CNRS
- Univ. Paris-Sud
- Université Paris-Saclay
- France
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- Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d'Orsay (ISMO)
- CNRS
- Univ. Paris-Sud
- Université Paris-Saclay
- France
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- Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d'Orsay (ISMO)
- CNRS
- Univ. Paris-Sud
- Université Paris-Saclay
- France
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- Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d'Orsay (ISMO)
- CNRS
- Univ. Paris-Sud
- Université Paris-Saclay
- France
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- Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d'Orsay (ISMO)
- CNRS
- Univ. Paris-Sud
- Université Paris-Saclay
- France
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Fujihara A, Matsuo S, Tajiri M, Wada Y, Hayakawa S. Hypervalent radical formation probed by electron transfer dissociation of zwitterionic tryptophan and tryptophan-containing dipeptides complexed with Ca2+ and 18-crown-6 in the gas phase. JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY : JMS 2015; 50:1124-1129. [PMID: 26456780 DOI: 10.1002/jms.3628] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2015] [Revised: 06/08/2015] [Accepted: 06/08/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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The relationship between peptide structure and electron transfer dissociation (ETD) is important for structural analysis by mass spectrometry. In the present study, the formation, structure and reactivity of the reaction intermediate in the ETD process were examined using a quadrupole ion trap mass spectrometer equipped with an electrospray ionization source. ETD product ions of zwitterionic tryptophan (Trp) and Trp-containing dipeptides (Trp-Gly and Gly-Trp) were detected without reionization using non-covalent analyte complexes with Ca(2+) and 18-crown-6 (18C6). In the collision-induced dissociation, NH3 loss was the main dissociation pathway, and loss related to the dissociation of the carboxyl group was not observed. This indicated that Trp and its dipeptides on Ca(2+) (18C6) adopted a zwitterionic structure with an NH3 (+) group and bonded to Ca(2+) (18C6) through the COO(-) group. Hydrogen atom loss observed in the ETD spectra indicated that intermolecular electron transfer from a molecular anion to the NH3 (+) group formed a hypervalent ammonium radical, R-NH3 , as a reaction intermediate, which was unstable and dissociated rapidly through N-H bond cleavage. In addition, N-Cα bond cleavage forming the z1 ion was observed in the ETD spectra of Trp-GlyCa(2+) (18C6) and Gly-TrpCa(2+) (18C6). This dissociation was induced by transfer of a hydrogen atom in the cluster formed via an N-H bond cleavage of the hypervalent ammonium radical and was in competition with the hydrogen atom loss. The results showed that a hypervalent radical intermediate, forming a delocalized hydrogen atom, contributes to the backbone cleavages of peptides in ETD.
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- Akimasa Fujihara
- Department of Chemistry, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka, 599-8531, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka, 599-8531, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Osaka Medical Center and Research Institute for Maternal and Child Health, Sakai, Osaka, 594-1101, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Osaka Medical Center and Research Institute for Maternal and Child Health, Sakai, Osaka, 594-1101, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka, 599-8531, Japan
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Wang LS. Perspective: Electrospray photoelectron spectroscopy: From multiply-charged anions to ultracold anions. J Chem Phys 2015; 143:040901. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4927086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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- Lai-Sheng Wang
- Department of Chemistry, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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Fujihara A, Maeda N, Hayakawa S. EnantioselectivePhotolysis and Quantitative Chiral Analysis of Tryptophan Complexed With Alkali-Metalized L-Serine in the Gas Phase. Chirality 2015; 27:349-52. [DOI: 10.1002/chir.22442] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2014] [Revised: 02/26/2015] [Accepted: 02/27/2015] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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- Akimasa Fujihara
- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science; Osaka Prefecture University; Osaka Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science; Osaka Prefecture University; Osaka Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science; Osaka Prefecture University; Osaka Japan
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Fujihara A, Maeda N, Hayakawa S. Quantitative chiral analysis of tryptophan using enantiomer-selective photolysis of cold non-covalent complexes in the gas phase. JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY : JMS 2015; 50:451-453. [PMID: 25800180 DOI: 10.1002/jms.3547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2014] [Revised: 11/13/2014] [Accepted: 11/14/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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- Akimasa Fujihara
- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka Prefecture University, 1-1 Gakuen-cho, Naka-ku, Sakai, Osaka, 599-8531, Japan
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Fujihara A, Maeda N, Hayakawa S. Enantiomer-selective photolysis of cold gas-phase tryptophan in L-serine clusters with linearly polarized light. ORIGINS LIFE EVOL B 2014; 44:67-73. [PMID: 25351685 DOI: 10.1007/s11084-014-9370-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2014] [Accepted: 10/03/2014] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Photostability of cold gas-phase tryptophan (Trp) enantiomers in L-serine (L-Ser) clusters at 8 K as a model for interstellar molecular clouds was examined using a tandem mass spectrometer containing a cold ion trap to investigate the hypothesis that homochirality in gas-phase Ser clusters promotes the enantiomeric enrichment of other amino acids via enantiomer-selective photolysis with linearly polarized light. In the UV excitation of heterochiral H(+) (L-Ser) 3(D-Trp), the CO2-eliminated product in the cluster was observed. In contrast, the photodissociation mass spectrum of homochiral H(+)(L-Ser)3(L-Trp) showed that photolysis of amino acids in the cluster did not occur due to the evaporation of L-Ser molecules. In the spectra of the homochiral H(+)(L-Ser) (L-Trp) and heterochiral H(+)(L-Ser) (D-Trp), the evaporation of L-Ser was the primary reaction pathway, and no difference between the L- and D-enantiomers was observed. The findings confirm that when 3 L-Ser units are present in the cluster, the photolytic decomposition of Trp is enantiomerically selective.
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- Akimasa Fujihara
- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka Prefecture University, 1-1 Gakuen-cho, Naka-ku, Sakai, Osaka, 599-8531, Japan,
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