The first ETD-MS/MS characterization of polycationic carbohydrate based non-viral gene delivery agents.
Suitable selection of charge states and fluoranthene reagent time improves ETD fragmentation efficiency.
ETD with SA can complete structural deciphering of some building blocks which is not possible with CID only.
ETD based fragmentation is more efficient with long grafted polycationic arms.
MS/MS results can be used to correlate nitrogen/phosphorus ratio (N/P) in DNA compaction.