A Sulfoxide-Based Isobaric Labelling Reagent for Accurate Quantitative Mass Spectrometry.

Publication Year
2018

Type

Journal Article
Abstract

Modern proteomics requires reagents for exact quantification of peptides in complex mixtures. Peptide labelling is most typically achieved with isobaric tags that consist of a balancer and a reporter part that separate in the gas phase. An ingenious distribution of stable isotopes provides multiple reagents with identical molecular weight but a different mass of the reporter groups, allowing relative quantification of multiple samples in one measurement. Here we report a new isobaric labelling reagent, where the balancer and the reporter are linked by a sulfoxide group, which, based on the sulfoxide pyrolysis, leads to easy and asymmetric cleavage at low fragmentation energy. The fragmentation of our new design is significantly improved, yielding more intense complementary ion signals, allowing complementary ion cluster analysis as well.

Journal
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl
Volume
57
Issue
11
Pages
2958-2962
Date Published
2018 Mar 05
ISSN Number
1521-3773
Alternate Journal
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl
PMID
29316131