Vol. 1 (2012)

Obituary

Obituary: Hisashi Matsuda (1924–2011)

Michisato Toyoda

Review

In-Situ U-Pb Dating of Apatite by Hiroshima-SHRIMP: Contributions to Earth and Planetary Science

Kentaro Terada, Yuji Sano

Original Article

Flexible Xxx–Asp/Asn and Gly–Xxx Residues of Equine Cytochrome c in Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization In-Source Decay Mass Spectrometry

Mitsuo Takayama

Original Article

Label-Free Analysis of O-glycosylation Site-Occupancy Based on the Signal Intensity of Glycopeptide/Peptide Ions

Yoshinao Wada

Original Article

Construction of a Newly Designed Small-Size Mass Spectrometer for Helium Isotope Analysis: Toward the Continuous Monitoring Of ³He/⁴He Ratios In Natural Fluids

Ken-ichi Bajo, Hirochika Sumino, Michisato Toyoda, Ryuji Okazaki, Takahito Osawa, Morio Ishihara, Itsuo Katakuse, Kenji Notsu, George Igarashi, Keisuke Nagao

Original Article

N^α Selective Acetylation of Peptides

Toshiyuki Mikami, Toshifumi Takao, Kazunori Yanagi, Hiroshi Nakazawa

Original Article

Correlations between Chemical Compositions and Retention Times of Methacrylate Random Copolymers Using LC-ESI-MS

Hirotaka Hisatomi, Yukari Nishimoto, Hideya Kawasaki, Hikaru Momose, Koichi Ute, Ryuichi Arakawa

Original Article

Mass Spectrometry Imaging and Structural Analysis of Lipids Directly on Tissue Specimens by Using a Spiral Orbit Type Tandem Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer, SpiralTOF-TOF

Takaya Satoh, Ayumi Kubo, Shuichi Shimma, Michisato Toyoda

Preface

Message from the Editor-in-Chief

Yoshinao Wada

Editorial

Special Issue: Advanced techniques of MALDI-TOF MS in ionization, instrumentation and applications

Tohru Yamagaki

Review

Matrix Effect on In-Source Decay Products of Peptides in Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization

Daiki Asakawa, Motoshi Sakakura, Mitsuo Takayama

Review

In Situ Pressure Probe Sampling and UV-MALDI MS for Profiling Metabolites in Living Single Cells

Yousef Gholipour, Rosa Erra-Balsells, Hiroshi Nonami

Review

Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization (MALDI) Imaging Mass Spectrometry (IMS): A Challenge for Reliable Quantitative Analyses

Akiko Kubo, Mayumi Kajimura, Makoto Suematsu

Original Article

Influence of Secondary Structure on In-Source Decay of Protein in Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Mass Spectrometry

Mitsuo Takayama, Issei Osaka, Motoshi Sakakura

Original Article

Hydrogen Radical Removal Causes Complex Overlapping Isotope Patterns of Aromatic Carboxylic Acids in Negative-ion Matrix-assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Mass Spectrometry

Tohru Yamagaki, Takehiro Watanabe

Original Article

Correlation between Sweet Spots of Glycopeptides and Polymorphism of the Matrix Crystal in MALDI Samples

Takashi Nishikaze, Hisako Okumura, Hiroshi Jinmei, Junko Amano