Abstract
Amide hydrogen deuterium exchange is widely used to probe conformations of gas-phase biomacromolecular ions. Meaningful interpretation of such experiments depends on relating the experimentally determined H/D exchange rate constants to specific exchangeable hydrogen sites on the molecule. Here, we present the first definitive assignment of H/D exchange rate constants for the N-terminal ammonium, amide hydrogen, and carboxyl hydrogens in diglycine, based on comparison of site-specific gas-phase H/D exchange rate constants for diglycine (GlyGly) and its selectively methylated homologues (GlySar, GlyGly-OMe, and GlySar-OMe). The present method may be extended to identification of site-specific H/D exchange rate constants for other dipeptides, to provide insight into H/D exchange reaction mechanisms.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2244-2249 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Journal of Physical Chemistry B |
| Volume | 105 |
| Issue number | 11 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 22 2001 |
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