Principles of Mass Spectrometry Applied to Biomolecules

Preface.

STRUCTURES AND DYNAMICS OF GAS-PHASE BIOMOLECULES.

1. Spectroscopy of neutral Peptides in the Gas Phase-Structure, Reactivity, Microsolvation, Molecular Recognition (M. Gerhards).

2. Probing the Electronic Structure of Fe-S Clusters Using Anoin Photoelectron Spectroscopy: Ubiquitous Electron Transfer Centers in Metalloproteins (X. Yang, et al.).

3. Ion/Molecule Reactions and H/D Exchange for Structural Characterization of Biomolecules (M. Green & C. Lebrilla).

4. Understanding Protein Interactions and their Representation in the Gas Phase of the Mass Spectrometer (F. Sobott & C. Robinson).

5. Protein Structure and Folding in the Gas Phase: Ubiquitin and Cytochrome c (K. Breuker).

6. Dyunamical Simulations of Photoionization of Small Biological Molecules (D. Shemesh & R. Gerber).

7. IVR and Ergodicity of Dissociation of Bio-Molecules (C. Lifshitz).

PART II: ACTIVATION, DISSOCIATION AND REACTIVITY.

8. Mechanisms of Peptide Fragmentation (V. Wysocki, et al.).

9. Peptide Radical Cations (A. Hopkinson & K. Siu).

10. Photodissociation of Biomolecule Ions: Progress, Possibilities, and the Perspectives Coming From Small-Ion Models (R. Dunbar).

11. Chemical Dynamics Simulations of EnergyTransfer and Unimolecular Decomposition in Collision-Induced Dissociation (CID) and Surface-Induced Dissociation (SID) (A. Rahaman, et al.).

12. Ion Soft Landing: Instrumentation, Phenomena and Applications (B. Gologan, et al.).

13. Electron Capture Dissociation and Other Ion-electron Fragmentation Reactions (R. Zubarev).

14. Biomolecule Ion/Ion Reactions (S. McLuckey).

PART III: THERMOCHEMISTRY AND ENERGETICS.

15. Thermochemistry Studies of Biomolecules (C. Wesdemiotis).

16. Energy and Entropy Effects in the Gas Phase Dissociation of Peptides and Proteins (J. Laskin).

Index.