scholarly journals High sensitivity analysis of nanogram quantities of glycosaminoglycans using ToF-SIMS

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew L. Hook ◽  
John Hogwood ◽  
Elaine Gray ◽  
Barbara Mulloy ◽  
Catherine L. R. Merry
Keyword(s):  
Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Animal Species ◽  
Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry ◽  
High Sensitivity ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Complex Molecules ◽  
Tof Sims ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Secondary Ion

AbstractGlycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are important biopolymers that differ in the sequence of saccharide units and in post polymerisation alterations at various positions, making these complex molecules challenging to analyse. Here we describe an approach that enables small quantities (<200 ng) of over 400 different GAGs to be analysed within a short time frame (3–4 h). Time of flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) together with multivariate analysis is used to analyse the entire set of GAG samples. Resultant spectra are derived from the whole molecules and do not require pre-digestion. All 6 possible GAG types are successfully discriminated, both alone and in the presence of fibronectin. We also distinguish between pharmaceutical grade heparin, derived from different animal species and from different suppliers, to a sensitivity as low as 0.001 wt%. This approach is likely to be highly beneficial in the quality control of GAGs produced for therapeutic applications and for characterising GAGs within biomaterials or from in vitro cell culture.

scholarly journals Potential of gas-assisted time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry for improving the elemental characterization of complex metal-based systems

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (12) ◽  
pp. 2997-3006
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Priebe ◽  
Tianle Xie ◽  
Laszlo Pethö ◽  
Johann Michler
Keyword(s):  
Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Chemical Analysis ◽  
Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry ◽  
High Sensitivity ◽  
Elemental Distribution ◽  
Tof Sims ◽  
Molecular Information ◽  
Secondary Ion ◽  
Elemental Characterization

Enhancing the spatial resolution of TOF-SIMS, which provides 3D elemental distribution in combination with high sensitivity and molecular information, is currently one of the hottest topics in the field of chemical analysis at the nanoscale.

Applications of Time-OF-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (TOF-SIMS)

1990 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 308-309
Author(s):  
Bruno Schueler ◽  
Robert W. Odom
Keyword(s):  
Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Structural Information ◽  
Time Of Flight ◽  
Biological Tissues ◽  
Polymer Surfaces ◽  
Tof Sims ◽  
Secondary Ions ◽  
Ion Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Secondary Ion

Time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS) provides unique capabilities for elemental and molecular compositional analysis of a wide variety of surfaces. This relatively new technique is finding increasing applications in analyses concerned with determining the chemical composition of various polymer surfaces, identifying the composition of organic and inorganic residues on surfaces and the localization of molecular or structurally significant secondary ions signals from biological tissues. TOF-SIMS analyses are typically performed under low primary ion dose (static SIMS) conditions and hence the secondary ions formed often contain significant structural information.This paper will present an overview of current TOF-SIMS instrumentation with particular emphasis on the stigmatic imaging ion microscope developed in the authors’ laboratory. This discussion will be followed by a presentation of several useful applications of the technique for the characterization of polymer surfaces and biological tissues specimens. Particular attention in these applications will focus on how the analytical problem impacts the performance requirements of the mass spectrometer and vice-versa.

Optics-Free Visualization of Proteins in Single Cells by Time of Flight-Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry Coupled with Genetically Encoded Chemical Tags

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feifei Jia ◽  
Jie Wang ◽  
Yanyan Zhang ◽  
Qun Luo ◽  
Luyu Qi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Single Cells ◽  
Time Of Flight ◽  
E Coli ◽  
Tof Sims ◽  
Ion Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Chemical Tags ◽  
Secondary Ion

<p></p><p><i>In situ</i> visualization of proteins of interest at single cell level is attractive in cell biology, molecular biology and biomedicine, which usually involves photon, electron or X-ray based imaging methods. Herein, we report an optics-free strategy that images a specific protein in single cells by time of flight-secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) following genetic incorporation of fluorine-containing unnatural amino acids as a chemical tag into the protein via genetic code expansion technique. The method was developed and validated by imaging GFP in E. coli and human HeLa cancer cells, and then utilized to visualize the distribution of chemotaxis protein CheA in E. coli cells and the interaction between high mobility group box 1 protein and cisplatin damaged DNA in HeLa cells. The present work highlights the power of ToF-SIMS imaging combined with genetically encoded chemical tags for <i>in situ </i>visualization of proteins of interest as well as the interactions between proteins and drugs or drug damaged DNA in single cells.</p><p></p>

Time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS) of polyisoprenes

1996 ◽  
Vol 122 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyang Xu ◽  
Andrew Proctor ◽  
David M. Hercules
Keyword(s):  
Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Time Of Flight ◽  
Tof Sims ◽  
Ion Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Secondary Ion
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