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Scientific themes => Compound identification => Topic started by: n.elliott on April 13, 2012, 04:29:35 PM

Title: neutral loss of 86
Post by: n.elliott on April 13, 2012, 04:29:35 PM
Hi all,
Over the last few months I have been trying to identify metabolites from human plasma.  I continually see neutral losses of 86.  I have search the literature and haven't come across anything that makes sense with human samples.  If anyone has suggestions I'd appreciate it.

Thanks!
Title: Re: neutral loss of 86
Post by: Jan Stanstrup on April 14, 2012, 03:39:45 AM
Do you have a more exact mass? Without some more digits it is impossible to tell for sure.
I have observed [M-CO2-C3H6] at 86.0368.
If you have exact mass you can use the Rdisop package for R to get an idea of the possibilities (http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2. ... disop.html (http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.11/bioc/html/Rdisop.html)).

Like this:
decomposeMass(43.99, ppm=20, mzabs=0.01)
Title: Re: neutral loss of 86
Post by: n.elliott on April 16, 2012, 10:15:48 AM
Unfortunately I only have accurate mass on the parents.  I used a TOF and then an IT for MS/MS.  I will keep that in mind, thanks.