傅里叶变换离子回旋共振质谱的最新进展和展望

对傅里叶变换离子回旋共振(FT-ICR)质谱的基本原理进行了简要介绍,从离子回旋频率、回旋半径、离子速度、离子能量等几个方面阐明其基本概念,阐述了离子激发、检测原理.对离子同旋共振质谱与近年来新兴的常压离子化技术联用的最新进展进行了评述,对其发展趋势进行展望.由于常压离子化技术能够将复杂样品进行直接离子化,无需样品预处理或只需少量样品处理过程,常压离子化方法与FT-ICR质谱的联用必将拓宽其应用领域并成为质谱技术研究的新热点.     

Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry at the true cyclotron frequency

Ion cyclotron resonance (ICR) cells provide stability and coherence of ion oscillations in crossed electric and magnetic fields over extended periods of time. Using the Fourier transform enables precise measurements of ion oscillation frequencies. These precisely measured frequencies are converted into highly accurate mass-to-charge ratios of the analyte ions by calibration procedures. In terms of resolution and mass accuracy, Fourier transform ICR mass spectrometry (FT-ICR MS) offers the highest performance of any MS technology. This is reflected in its wide range of applications. However, in the most challenging MS application, for example, imaging, enhancements in the mass accuracy of fluctuating ion fluxes are required to continue advancing the field. One approach is to shift the ion signal power into the peak corresponding to the true cyclotron frequency instead of the reduced cyclotron frequency peak. The benefits of measuring the true cyclotron frequency include increased tolerance to electric fields within the ICR cell, which enhances frequency measurement precision. As a result, many attempts to implement this mode of FT-ICR MS operation have occurred. Examples of true cyclotron frequency measurements include detection of magnetron inter-harmonics of the reduced cyclotron frequency (i.e., the sidebands), trapping field-free (i.e., screened) ICR cells, and hyperbolic ICR cells with quadrupolar ion detection. More recently, ICR cells with spatially distributed ion clouds have demonstrated attractive performance characteristics for true cyclotron frequency ion detection. Here, we review the corresponding developments in FT-ICR MS over the past 40 years.     

傅立叶变换离子回旋共振质谱及其在药学领域的应用

傅立叶变换离子回旋共振质谱可以实现超高分辨率和质量精确度,在药物结构鉴定和元素分析中展现出强大的优势,并发展成为分析复杂混合物的强有力工具。本文简述了傅立叶变换离子回旋共振质谱的分析特性以及在药学领域的应用。     

Characterization of harmonics and multi-charged peaks obtained by Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry

The differences between harmonics and multi-charged peaks in mass spectrometry are often not obvious. This work conducts experiments using both electrospray ionization (ESI) and atmospheric pressure chemical ionization (APCI) sources with Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (FTICR MS) to investigate the difference between harmonics and multi-charged peaks for the first time. In particular, organometallic compounds, which were characterized by the isotope distribution in ESI, were investigated in detail. A comparison of the peaks of the three charges with the three frequency doubling results at high-resolution mass spectra demonstrated that these peaks may be clearly differentiated from one another. Fullerene (C₆₀) was characterized using APCI in the negative mode by FTICR MS provided further evidence. In addition, harmonics are unavoidable, but can be relatively weakened. These results are helpful to obtain accurate and comprehensive spectral information from FTICR MS.     

Mass spectrometry of peptides and proteins from human blood

It is difficult to convey the accelerating rate and growing importance of mass spectrometry applications to human blood proteins and peptides. Mass spectrometry can rapidly detect and identify the ionizable peptides from the proteins in a simple mixture and reveal many of their post‐translational modifications. However, blood is a complex mixture that may contain many proteins first expressed in cells and tissues. The complete analysis of blood proteins is a daunting task that will rely on a wide range of disciplines from physics, chemistry, biochemistry, genetics, electromagnetic instrumentation, mathematics and computation. Therefore the comprehensive discovery and analysis of blood proteins will rank among the great technical challenges and require the cumulative sum of many of mankind's scientific achievements together. A variety of methods have been used to fractionate, analyze and identify proteins from blood, each yielding a small piece of the whole and throwing the great size of the task into sharp relief. The approaches attempted to date clearly indicate that enumerating the proteins and peptides of blood can be accomplished. There is no doubt that the mass spectrometry of blood will be crucial to the discovery and analysis of proteins, enzyme activities, and post‐translational processes that underlay the mechanisms of disease. At present both discovery and quantification of proteins from blood are commonly reaching sensitivities of ～1 ng/mL. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc., Mass Spec Rev 30:685–732, 2011