Aplikasi
Spektroskopi massa banya di gunakan untuk mengidentifikasi senyawa –
senyawa organik. Salah satunya adalah menganalisis protein. Sepert yng
dilakukan oleh Pavel A Pevzner dkk dalam jurnal nya yang berjudul “Mutation-
Tolerant Protein identification by Mass Spectrometry” dan dimuat dalam journal
of computational biology volume 7, number 6, tahun 2000.
“Database search in tandem mass spectrometry is a powerful tool for protein identi.
cation. High-throughput spectral acquisition raises the problem of dealing with
genetic variation and peptide modi. cations within a population of related
proteins. A method that cross-correlates and clusters related spectra in large
collections of uncharacterized spectra (i.e., from normal and diseased individuals)
would be very valuable in functional proteomics. This problem is far from being
simple since very similar peptides may have very different spectra. We introduce
a new notion of spectral similarity that allows one to identify related spectra even
if the corresponding peptides have multiple modi. cations/mutations. Based on
this notion, we developed a new algorithm for mutation-tolerant database search
as well as a method for cross-correlating related uncharacterized spectra”
Semakin lama perkembangan sektroskopi massa semakin canggih. Baru – baru ini
spektroskopi massa digunakan dalam nanodroplets terprotonasi. Hal ini diteliti oleh Keri
McQuinn dkk dalam jurnalnya yang berjudul “Collision-induced dissociation of
protonated nanodroplets” dan dimuat dalam Internasional Journal of Massa
Spectrometry, 279(2009)32-36. Berikut adalah abstrak dari jurnal tersebut.
“Protonated nanodroplets are easily generated using electrospray ionization mass
spectrometry (ESI–MS) and may be isolated and fragmented using collision-induced
dissociation (CID), causing sequential loss of water molecules. These studies reveal not
only the expected high stability of the “magic” protonatedwater cluster [H(H2O)21]+, a
dodecahedral clathrate cage, but also a new, rather more subtle trend in stabilities of
product ions that manifests itself as increased stability of clusters that have a multiple of
12–13 water molecules.”