POSs are mono-phosphorylated. Intact POSs (17 pmol as Man2GlcNAc2-P) prepared from glucose-deprived wild-type MEFs were analyzed by LC-ESI-MS. A, MS chromatograms of Hex0–5HexNAc2-P. Parentheses indicate magnification ratio. B, MS spectra of HexNAc2-P (m/z 503.1285), Hex1HexNAc2-P (m/z 665.1806), Hex2HexNAc2-P (m/z 827.2333), Hex3HexNAc2-P (m/z 989.2844), Hex4HexNAc2-P (m/z 1151.3464), and Hex5HexNAc2-P (m/z 1313.3931). The average mass error for all detected POSs was 0.38 ppm, except that the mass error for Hex5HexNAc2-P was 5.82 ppm. Typical mass accuracy in external calibration was less than 5 ppm.