Assessing the Dynamic Range and Peak Capacity of Nanoflow LC−FAIMS−MS on an Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer for Proteomics

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Abstract

Proteomics experiments on complex mixtures have benefited greatly from the advent of fast-scanning ion trap mass spectrometers. However, the complexity and dynamic range of mixtures analyzed using shotgun proteomics is still beyond what can be sampled by data-dependent acquisition. Furthermore, the total liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) peak capacity is not sufficient to resolve the precursors within these mixtures, let alone acquire tandem mass spectra on all of them. Here we describe the application of a high-field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometry (FAIMS) device as an interface to an ion trap mass spectrometer. The dynamic range and peak capacity of the nanoflow LC-FAIMS-MS analysis was assessed using a complex tryptic digest of S. cerevisiae proteins. By adding this relatively simple device to the front of the mass spectrometer, we obtain an increase in peak capacity >8-fold and an increase in dynamic range of >5-fold, without increasing the length of the LC-MS analysis. Thus, the addition of FAIMS to the front of a table-top mass spectrometer can obtain the peak capacity of multidimensional protein identification technology (MudPIT) while increasing the throughput by a factor of 12.

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