TY - JOUR A1 - Haebel, Sophie A1 - Bahrke, Sven A1 - Peter, Martin G. T1 - Quantitative sequencing of complex mixtures of heterochitooligosaccharides by vMALDI-linear ion trap mass spectrometry N2 - Heterochitooligosaccharides possess interesting biol. properties. Isobaric mixts. of such linear heterochitooligosaccharides can be obtained by chem. or enzymic degrdn. of chitosan. However, the sepn. of such mixts. is a challenging anal. problem which is so far unresolved. It is shown that these isobaric mixts. can be sequenced and quantified simultaneously using std. derivatization and multistage tandem mass spectrometric techniques. A linear ion trap mass spectrometer equipped with a vacuum matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization (vMALDI) source is used to perform MS2 as well as MS3 expts. [on SciFinder (R)]. Y1 - 2007 UR - http://pubs.acs.org/loi/ancham U6 - https://doi.org/10.1021/Ac062254u SN - 0003-2700 ER -