Increasing the trapping mass range to m/z=109—A major step toward high resolution mass analysis of intact RNA, DNA and viruses

Xinyu Wang; Huijuan Chen; Jeonghoon Lee; Peter T.A Reilly

doi:10.1016/j.ijms.2012.07.024

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Increasing the trapping mass range to m/z=109—A major step toward high resolution mass analysis of intact RNA, DNA and viruses

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Increasing the trapping mass range to m/z=109—A major step toward high resolution mass analysis of intact RNA, DNA and viruses

Xinyu Wang, Huijuan Chen, Jeonghoon Lee and Peter T.A Reilly

International journal of mass spectrometry, Vol.328-329, pp.28-35

09/01/2012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijms.2012.07.024

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https://hdl.handle.net/2376/113781

PMCID: PMC3487701

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Abstract

Ion trap

Ultra high mass

Atmospheric ion sampling

Particulate ions

[Display omitted] ► Atmospheric sampling and trapping of singly charged particulates is demonstrated. ► Sampling and trapping was demonstrated up to m/z=3×109 with an efficiency of 1%. ► Trapping larger ions is possible. ► Trapping millions of ions is a prelude to resolved mass analysis in this range. This work demonstrates sampling of singly charged particles up to 200nm in diameter at atmospheric pressure into vacuum and trapping large numbers (>106) at a point in front of the end cap electrode of a linear quadrupole ion guide/trap for on-demand injection into the acceleration region of a time-of-flight mass spectrometer in a well-collimated ion packet. This procedure was shown to yield trapping efficiencies that ranged from 4 to 5% for 10nm diameter urea particles (∼400kDa) to 1% for 200nm urea particles (∼3×109Da). Analysis of the inlet optimization procedure suggests that the inlet can be adapted to sample and trap beyond the 200nm range. Review of the most likely places for ion loss in the sampling process suggests that the sampling and trapping efficiencies can be improved well beyond the 4–5% shown. Moreover, it suggests that sampling of smaller than 10nm ions could achieve efficiencies in the 10s of percent range thereby suggesting new levels of sensitivity can be achieved for small ions (<200kDa). Finally, demonstration of trapping large numbers of 200nm (3×109Da) ions for on-demand ejection in well collimated temporally discrete ion packets is a prelude to resolved mass analysis in that range.

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Title: Increasing the trapping mass range to m/z=109—A major step toward high resolution mass analysis of intact RNA, DNA and viruses
Creators: Xinyu Wang
Huijuan Chen
Jeonghoon Lee
Peter T.A Reilly
Publication Details: International journal of mass spectrometry, Vol.328-329, pp.28-35
Academic Unit: Chemistry, Department of; Institute for Shock Physics
Publisher: Elsevier B.V
Identifiers: 99900548224001842
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article