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Posted by Ville Koskinen (January 18, 2019)

O-fucosylated CID spectra

O-linked fucose is easily lost in CID. A recent paper by Swearingen et al. in the Journal of Proteome Research discusses this in the context of identifying O-fucosylated thrombospondin type 1 repeats (TSRs) in Plasmodium parasites using database searching. The main problem is, the O-glycosidic bond is weaker than the peptide backbone. Collision energies typical for peptide fragmentation cause it [...]

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