Figure 2.
(A) CTD spectrum of the [M-2H]2− precursor of synthetic heparan sulfate tetramer standard GlcA-GlcNAc-GlcA2S-GlcNAc-O(CH2)5NH2. Molecular structure inset represents fragmentation seen from both CTD and EDD (black), CTD only (blue) and EDD only (red). (B) Fragment type distribution for glycosidic, cross-ring, glycosidic sulfate loss and cross-ring sulfate loss fragments are shown.