Open Access Papers

 

Pages 113–130
doi: 10.1255/ejms.947
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Deciphering drift time measurements from travelling wave ion mobility spectrometry-mass spectrometry studies
David P. Smith,a Tom W. Knapman,a Iain Campuzano,b Richard W. Malham,a Joshua T. Berryman,a Sheena E. Radforda and Alison E. Ashcrofta,*
aAstbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK. E-mail: a.e.ashcroft@leeds.ac.uk
bWaters MS Technologies Centre, Floats Road, Wythenshaw, Manchester, M23 9LZ, UK

Pages 311–317
doi: 10.1255/ejms.934
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Protease-dependent fractional mass and peptide properties
Harald Barsnes,a Ingvar Eidhammer,a Véronique Crucianib,c and Svein-Ole Mikalsenb
aDepartment of Informatics, University of Bergen, Norway. E-mail: Harald.Barsnes@ii.uib.no
bInstitute for Cancer Research, Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet Medical Center, Oslo, Norway
cPresent address: Affitech AS, Oslo Research Park, Oslo, Norway

Pages 51–56
doi: 10.1255/ejms.852
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Mass spectrometry in the study of mechanisms of aquatic chlorination of organic substrates
Albert Lebedev
Organic Chemistry Department, Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory 1/3, Moscow, 119992, Russia

Pages 45–50
doi: 10.1255/ejms.850
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Metabolomics and metabolite profiling: past heroes and future developments
W.J. Griffiths,a K. Karu,a M. Hornshaw,b G. Woffendinb and Y. Wanga
aThe School of Pharmacy, University of London, 29–39 Brunswick Square, London, UK
bThermo Electron, Hemel Hempstead, UK

Pages 69–75
doi: 10.1255/ejms.849
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Mass spectrometric approaches for elucidation of antigen–antibody recognition structures in molecular immunology
Raluca Stefanescu, Roxan E. Iacob,a Eugen N. Damoc,b Andreas Marquardt, Erika Amstalden,c Marilena Manea, Irina Perdivara, Madalina Maftei, Gabriela Paraschiv and Michael Przybylski*
University of Konstanz, Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry and Biopolymer Structure Analysis, Universitaetsstrasse 10, 78457 Konstanz, Germany. E-Mail: Michael.Przybylski@uni-konstanz.de

Pages 89–95
doi: 10.1255/ejms.848
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Modeling deoxyribonucleic acid and ribonucleic acid damage in the gas phase
F. Tureček
Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-1700, USA

Pages 57–59
doi: 10.1255/ejms.846
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Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance: state of the art
A.G. Marshall,a C.L. Hendrickson,a M.R. Emmett,a R.P. Rodgers,a G.T. Blakney and C.L. Nilsson
Ion Cyclotron Resonance Program, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, 1800 East Paul Dirac Drive, Tallahassee, FL 32310-4005, USA

Pages 35–39
doi: 10.1255/ejms.845
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Proteomic strategies for rapid characterization of micro- organisms
C. Fenselau, S. Russell, S. Swatkoski and N. Edwards*
University of Maryland, Deptartment of Chemistry & Biochemistry, and Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, College Park, MD 20742, USA

Pages 77–82
doi: 10.1255/ejms.843
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Selected ion flow tube mass spectrometry for on-line trace gas analysis in biology and medicine
P. Španěla and D. Smithb
aJ. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Dolejškova 3, Prague, 18223 Czech Republic
bKeele University, Stoke-on- Trent, United Kingdom

Pages 7–11
doi: 10.1255/ejms.841
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Recent advances in cluster science
A. Welford Castleman, Jr
Departments of Chemistry and Physics, Penn State University, 104 Chemistry Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA. E-mail: awc@psu.edu

Pages 83–87
doi: 10.1255/ejms.840
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Accurate mass as a bioinformatic parameter in data-to- knowledge conversion: Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry for peptide de novo sequencing
B. Spengler
University of Giessen, Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Schubertstrasse 60, Building 16, D-35392 Giessen, Germany

Pages 29–33
doi: 10.1255/ejms.839
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Functional investigations of retroviral protein–ribonucleic acid complexes by nanospray Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry
Daniele Fabris,* Prajakta Chaudhari, Nathan Hagan and Kevin Turner
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA

Pages 61–67
doi: 10.1255/ejms.838
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Analysis of melt copolymers
Maurizio S. Montaudo
Institute of Chemistry and Technology of Polymers, CNR, Viale A. Doria 6, 95125 Catania, Italy. E-mail: mmontaudo@unict.it

Pages 19–28
doi: 10.1255/ejms.837
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Electrospray ionization mass spectrometry: a major tool to investigate reaction mechanisms in both solution and the gas phase
Marcos N. Eberlin
ThoMSon Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Institute of Chemistry, State University of Campinas 13085-850 Campinas, SP Brazil. E-mail: Eberlin@iqm.unicamp.br

Pages 101–103
doi: 10.1255/ejms.836
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Mass spectrometry in the detection and diagnosis of congenital disorders of glycosylation
Yoshinao Wada
Osaka Medical Center and Research Institute for Maternal and Child Health, Department of Molecular Medicine. 840 Murodo-cho, Izumi, Osaka 594-1101, Japan

Pages 41–44
doi: 10.1255/ejms.834
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Microdevices in mass spectrometry
F. Foret and P. Kusý
Institute of Analytical Chemistry, Veveří 97, Brno, Czech Republic

Pages 1–6
doi: 10.1255/ejms.833
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New developments in laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry for brain research and life sciences
J.S. Becker,a J.Su. Becker,b M.V. Zoriy,a J. Dobrowolskaa and A. Matuschc
aCentral Division of Analytical Chemistry, Research Centre Jülich, D-52425 Jülich, Germany
bLaboratoire de Chimie Analytique Bio-Inorganique et Environnement, Centre Technologique Hélioparc, 64053 Pau, France
cInstitute of Medicine, Research Centre Jülich, D-52425 Jülich, Germany

Pages 13–18
doi: 10.1255/ejms.832
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Quadrupole ion traps and trap arrays: geometry, material, scale, performance
Z. Ouyang, L. Gao, M. Fico, W.J. Chappell, R.J. Noll and R.G. Cooks
Department of Chemistry and Schools of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA

Pages 97–100
doi: 10.1255/ejms.831
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Theory and experiment in mass spectrometry: a perspective on the relationship between computational modelling and experiment in gas-phase ion chemistry
Einar Uggerud
Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo, PO Box 1033 Blindern, N-0315 Oslo, Norway. einar.uggerud@kjemi.uio.no

Pages 525–541
doi: 10.1255/ejms.1158
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Review: Mass spectrometry of surfactant aggregates
Leopoldo Ceraulo,a,b,* Gianluca Giorgi,c Vincenzo Turco Liveri,d David Bongiorno,a,bSerena Indelicato,a.b Francesca Di Gaudioe and Sergio Indelicatof
aDipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Molecolari e Biomolecolari (STEMBIO), Università degli Studi di Palermo, Via Archirafi 32, I-90123, Palermo, Italy. E-mail: lceraulo@unipa.it
bCentro Grandi Apparecchiature-UniNetLab, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Via Marini 14, I-90128 Palermo, Italy
cDipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Siena, Via Aldo Moro, I-53100 Siena, Italy
dDipartimento di Chimica “S. Cannizzaro”, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, I-90128 Palermo, Italy
eDipartimento Di Biopatologia e Biotecnologie Mediche e Forensi (Di.Bi.Me.F.), Via Del Vespro 129, I-90127 Palermo, Italy
fCQRCLaboratory, A.O.U.P. “P. Giaccone”, Via Del Vespro 129, I-90127 Palermo, Italy

Pages 423–463
doi: 10.1255/ejms.1151
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Review: Gas-phase ion chemistry of the noble gases: recent advances and future perspectives
Felice Grandinetti
Dipartimento per la Innovazione nei sistemi Biologici, Agroalimentari e Forestali (DIBAF), Università della Tuscia, L.go dell'Università, s.n.c., 01100 Viterbo, Italy. E-mail: fgrandi@unitus.it

Pages 305–320
doi: 10.1255/ejms.1147
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Review: Applications of mass spectrometry techniques in the investigation of milk proteome
Vincenzo Cunsolo,* Vera Muccilli, Rosaria Saletti and Salvatore Foti
Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università degli Studi di Catania, Viale A. Doria, 6, I-95125 Catania, Italy. E-mail: vcunsolo@unict.it

Pages 321–331
doi: 10.1255/ejms.1143
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Repeatability and reproducibility of product ion abundances in electron capture dissociation mass spectrometry of peptides
Hisham Ben Hamidane, Aleksey Vorobyev and Yury O. Tsybin*
Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, BCH 4307, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. E-mail: yury.tsybin@epfl.ch

Pages 333–343
doi: 10.1255/ejms.1140
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Charge as you like! Efficient manipulation of negative ion net charge in electrospray ionization of proteins and nucleic acids
Barbara Ganisl, Monika Taucher, Christian Riml and Kathrin Breuker*
Institute of Organic Chemistry and Center for Molecular Biosciences Innsbruck (CMBI), University of Innsbruck, Innrain 52a, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria. E-mail: kathrin.breuker@uibk.ac.at

Pages 85–99
doi: 10.1255/ejms.1129
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Review: Some thoughts on electrospray ionization mechanisms
Sara Crotti,a Roberta Seragliab and Pietro Traldi
aDepartment of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Cà Foscari University, 2137 Dorsoduro, Venice, Italy
bCNR-ISTM, Corso Stati Uniti 4, I-35127 Padova, Italy. E-mail: pietro.traldi@adr.pd.cnr.it

Pages 1–31
doi: 10.1255/ejms.1114
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Review: Multistage mass spectrometry in quality, safety and origin of foods
Donatella Aiello,a Damiano De Luca,b Emanuela Gionfriddo,a Attilio Naccarato,a Anna Napoli ,a Elvira Romano,a,c Anna Russo,c Giovanni Sindona,a,* Antonio Tagarellia
aDipartimento di Chimica, Università della Calabria, via P. Bucci, Cubo 12/C, I-87030 Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy. E-mail: sindona@unical.it
bCALAB, Laboratorio Chimico Merceologico Della Calabria, 87046 Montalto Uffugo (CS), Italy
cCRA, Istituto Sperimentale per l'Olivicoltura, c. da Li Rocchi, I-87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy

Pages 269–282
doi: 10.1255/ejms.1057
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High-accuracy mass spectrometry for fundamental studies
H.-Jürgen Kluge
Atomic Physics Division, GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research GmbH, Planckstrasse 1, 64291 Darmstadt and Heidelberg University, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany. E-mail: J.Kluge@GSI.de