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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2006 Jan 25.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Soc Mass Spectrom. 1996 Sep;7(9):972–976. doi: 10.1016/1044-0305(96)00071-2

Table 1.

Calculated and experimental charge states of 11 peptides formed by electrospray ionization from methanol-water-acid solutionsa

Measured charge state
Calculated maximum charge state
Peptidea Number of basic sites Average Maximum Original model Flexible terminus modification
G6 1 1.0 1 1 1
R3 4 3 2 3
(RG)3 4 2.8 3 3 3
(RG)6 7 4.6 5 4 4
(RRGG)3 7 4.0 5 4 5
R6G6 7 4.0 4 4 4
Re 7 3.9 4 3 4
(RG)10 11 4.0 5 6 6
(RĀ)9R 11 4.7 6 7 7
(RG)15 16 7.9 9 9 9
(RĀ)14R 16 8.3 10 10 10
a

Experimental values are from ref 17 except for R3, which is from ref 27.

b

= δ-aminovaleric acid.