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electron capture dissociation

In mass spectrometry, electron capture dissociatIon (ECD) is a method of fragmenting gas phase Ions for tandem mass spectrometric analysis (structural elucidatIon). ECD involves the introductIon of low energy electrons to trapped gas phase Ions. This fragmentatIon method generates different and often complementary fragmentatIon patterns when compared with collisIonally activated dissociatIon (CAD), infrared Multiphoton dissociatIon (IRMPD), or other slow, even-electron fragmentatIon methods. These other methods introduce internal vibratIonal energy in some way or another while ECD does not.ECD has the remarkable and useful ability to produce odd-electron, free-radical driven fragmentatIon of the same type as are generated by EI mass spectrometry. For Proteins, ECD cleaves between the backbone amide and the alpha carbon to form C and Z* fragments (where "*" refers to the radical "dot" symbol). Moreover, the cleavage sites show very little selectivity for particular Amino acids with the two exceptIons of disulphide bonds (having high radical affinity) and Proline (which is cyclic around the amide - alpha carbon and therefore requires breaking 2 bonds).AdditIonally, for Proteins, labile post-translatIonal modificatIons such as phosphorylatIon sites, o-glycosylatIon sites, n-glycosylatIon sites, and others remain attached to the backbone during ECD MS/MS experiments allowing determinatIon of the site and identity of post-translatIonal modificat

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