Mass Spectrometry is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal publishing articles in all areas of mass spectrometry. Published continuously online, the journal is fully indexed in J-STAGE and PubMed Central.
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Mass Spectrometry is an academic journal on both fundamentals and applications of mass spectrometry, owned and published by the Mass Spectrometry Society of Japan (MSSJ).
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Technical ReportAugust 10, 2022
Congenital disorders of glycosylation (CDG) are inherited metabolic diseases that affect the synthesis of glycoconjugates. Defects in mucin-type O-glycosylation occur independently or in combination with N-glycosylation disorders, and the profiling of the O-glycans of apolipoprotein CIII (apoCIII) by mass spectrometry (MS) can be used to support a diagnosis. The biomarkers are site occupancy and sialylation levels, which are indicated by the content of non-glycosylated apoCIII0a isoform and by the ratio of mono-sialylated apoCIII1 to disialylated apoCIII2 isoforms, respectively
Original ArticleApril 15, 2022
Electrospray ionization (ESI) mass spectrometry of transferrin can be used to diagnose congenital disorders of glycosylation (CDG) by detecting abnormal N-glycosylation due to reduced site occupancy or processing failure. Time-of-flight ...
ReviewFebruary 25, 2022
Mass Spectrometry Imaging
Shuichi Shimma
Mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) is a technique for obtaining information on the distribution of various molecules by performing mass spectrometry directly on the sample surface. The applications range from small molecules such as lipids to ...
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Original ArticleJanuary 30, 2021
Effect of Phosphorylation on the Collision Cross Sections of Peptide Ions in Ion Mobility Spectrometry
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The insertion of ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) between LC and MS can improve peptide identification in both proteomics and phosphoproteomics by providing structural information that is complementary to LC and MS, because IMS
Original ArticleDecember 25, 2021
Corona Discharge and Field Electron Emission in Ambient Air Using a Sharp Metal Needle: Formation and Reactivity of CO3−• and O2−•
Kenzo Hiraoka, Stephanie Rankin-Turner, Satoshi Ninomiya, Haruo Shimada, Kazumasa Kinoshita, Shinichi Yamabe
CO3−• and O2−• are known to be strong oxidizing reagents in biological systems. CO3−• in particular can cause serious damage to DNA and proteins by H• abstraction reactions. However,
Original ArticleJune 10, 2020
Analytical Capability of High-Time Resolution-Multiple Collector-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry for the Elemental and Isotopic Analysis of Metal Nanoparticles
Takafumi Hirata, Shuji Yamashita, Mirai Ishida, Toshihiro Suzuki
We measured the Re/Os (185Re/188Os) and 187Os/188Os ratios from nanoparticles (NPs) using a multiple collector-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometer equipped with high-time resolution ion counters (HTR-MC-ICP-MS). Using the HTR-MC-ICP-MS system developed in this study, the simultaneous data acquisition of four isotopes was possible with a time resolution of up to 10 μs. This permits