文摘
A reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) separation approach has been combined withion mobility/time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometry inorder to characterize a combinatorial peptide librarydesigned to contain 4000 peptides of the general formNH2-Xxx-Xxx-Xxx-CO2H, NH2-Ala-Xxx-Xxx-Xxx-CO2H, NH2-Ser-Ala-Xxx-Xxx-Xxx-CO2H and NH2-Leu-Ser-Ala-Xxx-Xxx-Xxx-CO2H (where Xxx represents a randomization over10 different amino acids: Ala, Arg, Asp, Glu, Gly, Leu,Lys, Phe, Ser, and Val). Addition of the gas-phase mobilityseparation between the HPLC separation and TOF measurement dimensions makes it possible to resolve manypeptide isomers that have identical retention times (andmasses).