The Mechanism Behind Top-Down UVPD Experiments: Making Sense of Apparent Contradictions

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Journal J Am Soc Mass Spectrom

Specialty Chemistry

Date 2017 Jul 14

PMID 28702929

Citations 47

Authors

Ryan R Julian

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Abstract

Top-down ultraviolet photodissociation (UVPD) allows greater sequence coverage than any other currently available method, often fracturing the vast majority of peptide bonds in whole proteins. At the same time, UVPD can be used to dissociate noncovalent complexes assembled from multiple proteins without breaking any covalent bonds. Although the utility of these experiments is unquestioned, the mechanism underlying these seemingly contradictory results has been the subject of many discussions. Herein, some fundamental considerations of photochemistry are briefly summarized within the context of a proposed mechanism that rationalizes the experimental results obtained by UVPD. Considerations for future instrument design, in terms of wavelength choice and power, are briefly discussed. Graphical Abstract ᅟ.

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