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Whole-body Mass Spectrometry Imaging by Infrared Matrix-assisted Laser Desorption Electrospray Ionization (IR-MALDESI)
Published on: March 24, 2016
IR-MALDI-LDI combined with ion mobility orthogonal time-of-flight mass spectrometry
Amina S Woods1, Michael Ugarov, Shelley N Jackson
1NIDA IRP, NIH, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA. awoods@intra.nida.nih.gov
Abstract:
Most MALDI instrumentation uses UV lasers. We have designed a MALDI-IM-oTOF-MS which employs both a Nd:YAG laser pumped optical parametric oscillator (OPOTEK, lambda = 2.8-3.2 microm at 20 Hz) to perform IR-LDI or IR-MALDI and a Nd:YLF laser (Crystalaser, lambda = 249 nm at 200 Hz) for the UV. Ion mobility (IM) gives a fast separation and analysis of biomolecules from complex mixtures in which ions of similar chemical type fall along well-defined "trend lines". Our data shows that ion mobility allows multiply charged monomers and multimers to be resolved; thus, yielding pure spectra of the singly charged protein ion which are virtually devoid of chemical noise. In addition, we have demonstrated that IR-LDI produced similar results as IR-MALDI for the direct tissue analysis of phospholipids from rat brain.
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