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SUBMITTER: Meluzzi D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2519147 | biostudies-literature | 2008 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Meluzzi Dario D Zheng Wei Hao WH Hensler Mary M Nizet Victor V Dorrestein Pieter C PC
Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters 20071101 10
Mass spectrometry (MS) is an important tool for studying non-ribosomal peptide, polyketide, and fatty acid biosynthesis. Here we describe a new approach using multi-stage tandem MS on a common ion trap instrument to obtain high-resolution measurements of the masses of substrates and intermediates bound to phosphopantetheinylated (holo) carrier proteins. In particular, we report the chemical formulas of 12 diagnostic MS(3) fragments of the phosphopantetheine moiety ejected from holo carrier prote ...[more]