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American Chemical Society, Analytical Chemistry, 1(85), p. 10-13, 2012

DOI: 10.1021/ac3029129

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High-Resolution Differential Ion Mobility Spectrometry of a Protein

Journal article published in 2012 by Alexandre A. Shvartsburg, Richard D. Smith ORCID
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Abstract

Use of elevated electric fields and helium-rich gases has recently enabled differential IMS with resolving power up to R ~ 300. Here we applied that technique to a protein (namely, ubiquitin), achieving R up to ~80 and separating many previously unresolved conformers. While still limited by conformational multiplicity, this resolution is some four times greater than that previously reported using either conventional (drift-tube or traveling-wave) or differential IMS. The capability for fine resolution of protein conformers may open new avenues for proteoform separations in top-down and intact-protein proteomics.