Porphyrinogen fragmentation profiles by ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography/electrospray ionisation tandem mass spectrometry
Benton, C.M. and Lim, Chang-Kee and Moniz, C. and Jones, D.J.L. (2011) Porphyrinogen fragmentation profiles by ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography/electrospray ionisation tandem mass spectrometry. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 25 (24), pp. 3749-3757. ISSN 0951-4198.
Abstract
An ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography/electrospray ionisation tandem mass spectrometry system is described for the separation and characterisation of uroporphyrinogen, heptacarboxylic acid porphyrinogen, hexacarboxylic acid porphyrinogen, pentacarboxylic acid porphyrinogen and coproporphyrinogen. The separation was carried out on a 100 mm × 2.1 mm Thermo-Hypersil BDS column (2.4 µm average particle size) by gradient elution with a mixture of acetonitrile, methanol and 1 mol/L aqueous ammonium acetate buffer, pH 5.16, as eluent. The fragmentation pattern of each compound was established by collision-induced dissociation tandem mass spectrometry. The most characteristic fragmentation was ring opening at one of the four methylene bridges of the protonated porphyrinogen molecule followed by further cleavages of methylene bridges linking the four pyrrole rings at various points to give product ions with methylenepyrrolenine, methylene-dipyrrolenine and methylene-tripyrrolenine structures.
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Item Type: | Article |
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School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Natural Sciences |
Depositing User: | Administrator |
Date Deposited: | 02 Dec 2014 09:32 |
Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:14 |
URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/11169 |
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