TY - JOUR A1 - Erler, Alexander A1 - Riebe, Daniel A1 - Beitz, Toralf A1 - Löhmannsröben, Hans-Gerd A1 - Grothusheitkamp, Daniela A1 - Kunz, Thomas A1 - Methner, Frank-Jürgen T1 - Characterization of volatile metabolites formed by molds on barley by mass and ion mobility spectrometry JF - Journal of mass spectrometr N2 - The contamination of barley by molds on the field or in storage leads to the spoilage of grain and the production of mycotoxins, which causes major economic losses in malting facilities and breweries. Therefore, on-site detection of hidden fungus contaminations in grain storages based on the detection of volatile marker compounds is of high interest. In this work, the volatile metabolites of 10 different fungus species are identified by gas chromatography (GC) combined with two complementary mass spectrometric methods, namely, electron impact (EI) and chemical ionization at atmospheric pressure (APCI)-mass spectrometry (MS). The APCI source utilizes soft X-radiation, which enables the selective protonation of the volatile metabolites largely without side reactions. Nearly 80 volatile or semivolatile compounds from different substance classes, namely, alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, esters, substituted aromatic compounds, alkenes, terpenes, oxidized terpenes, sesquiterpenes, and oxidized sesquiterpenes, could be identified. The profiles of volatile and semivolatile metabolites of the different fungus species are characteristic of them and allow their safe differentiation. The application of the same GC parameters and APCI source allows a simple method transfer from MS to ion mobility spectrometry (IMS), which permits on-site analyses of grain stores. Characterization of IMS yields limits of detection very similar to those of APCI-MS. Accordingly, more than 90% of the volatile metabolites found by APCI-MS were also detected in IMS. In addition to different fungus genera, different species of one fungus genus could also be differentiated by GC-IMS. KW - APCI KW - fungus KW - gas chromatography KW - ion mobility spectrometry KW - mass KW - spectrometry KW - mold KW - soft X-ray Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/jms.4501 SN - 1076-5174 SN - 1096-9888 VL - 55 IS - 5 SP - 1 EP - 10 PB - Wiley CY - Hoboken ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Villatoro, José Andrés A1 - Weber, M. A1 - Zühlke, Martin A1 - Lehmann, A. A1 - Zenichowski, Karl A1 - Riebe, Daniel A1 - Beitz, Toralf A1 - Löhmannsröben, Hans-Gerd A1 - Kreuzer, O. T1 - Structural characterization of synthetic peptides using electrospray ion mobility spectrometry and molecular dynamics simulations JF - International Journal of Mass Spectrometry N2 - Electrospray ionization-ion mobility spectrometry was employed for the determination of collision cross sections (CCS) of 25 synthetically produced peptides in the mass range between 540-3310 Da. The experimental measurement of the CCS is complemented by their calculation applying two different methods. One prediction method is the intrinsic size parameter (ISP) method developed by the Clemmer group. The second new method is based on the evaluation of molecular dynamics (MD) simulation trajectories as a whole, resulting in a single, averaged collision cross-section value for a given peptide in the gas phase. A high temperature MD simulation is run in order to scan through the whole conformational space. The lower temperature conformational distribution is obtained through thermodynamic reweighting. In the first part, various correlations, e.g. CCS vs. mass and inverse mobility vs. m/z correlations, are presented. Differences in CCS between peptides are also discussed in terms of their respective mass and m/z differences, as well as their respective structures. In the second part, measured and calculated CCS are compared. The agreement between the prediction results and the experimental values is in the same range for both calculation methods. While the calculation effort of the ISP method is much lower, the MD method comprises several tools providing deeper insights into the conformations of peptides. Advantages and limitations of both methods are discussed. Based on the separation of two pairs of linear and cyclic peptides of virtually the same mass, the influence of the structure on the cross sections is discussed. The shift in cross section differences and peak shape after transition from the linear to the cyclic peptide can be well understood by applying different MD tools, e.g. the root-mean-square deviation (RMSD) and the root mean square fluctuation (RMSF). (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. KW - Ion mobility spectrometry KW - Electrospray ionization KW - Peptides KW - Collision cross-section KW - Molecular dynamics Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijms.2018.10.036 SN - 1387-3806 SN - 1873-2798 VL - 436 SP - 108 EP - 117 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Villatoro Leal, José Andrés A1 - Zühlke, Martin A1 - Riebe, Daniel A1 - Beitz, Toralf A1 - Weber, Marcus A1 - Löhmannsröben, Hans-Gerd T1 - Sub-ambient pressure IR-MALDI ion mobility spectrometer for the determination of low and high field mobilities JF - Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry : a merger of Fresenius' journal of analytical chemistry, Analusis and Quimica analitica N2 - A new ion mobility (IM) spectrometer, enabling mobility measurements in the pressure range between 5 and 500 mbar and in the reduced field strength range E/N of 5-90 Td, was developed and characterized. Reduced mobility (K-0) values were studied under low E/N (constant value) as well as high E/N (deviation from low field K-0) for a series of molecular ions in nitrogen. Infrared matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization (IR-MALDI) was used in two configurations: a source working at atmospheric pressure (AP) and, for the first time, an IR-MALDI source working with a liquid (aqueous) matrix at sub-ambient/reduced pressure (RP). The influence of RP on IR-MALDI was examined and new insights into the dispersion process were gained. This enabled the optimization of the IM spectrometer for best analytical performance. While ion desolvation is less efficient at RP, the transport of ions is more efficient, leading to intensity enhancement and an increased number of oligomer ions. When deciding between AP and RP IR-MALDI, a trade-off between intensity and resolving power has to be considered. Here, the low field mobility of peptide ions was first measured and compared with reference values from ESI-IM spectrometry (at AP) as well as collision cross sections obtained from molecular dynamics simulations. The second application was the determination of the reduced mobility of various substituted ammonium ions as a function of E/N in nitrogen. The mobility is constant up to a threshold at high E/N. Beyond this threshold, mobility increases were observed. This behavior can be explained by the loss of hydrated water molecules. KW - ion mobility spectrometry KW - IR-MALDI KW - high field mobility KW - dub-ambient KW - pressure KW - peptides Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-020-02735-0 SN - 1618-2642 SN - 1618-2650 VL - 412 IS - 22 SP - 5247 EP - 5260 PB - Springer CY - Heidelberg ER -