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ArticleAnalytical chemistry2025

Ion Mobility Gas-Phase Separation Enhances Top-Down Mass Spectrometry of Heavily Modified Guide RNA.

Luis A Macias, Jamie Lowther, Eric L Tillotson, Ellen Rohde, James A Madsen

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Article in Analytical chemistry, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Luis A MaciasVerve Therapeutics, 201 Brookline Avenue, Suite 601, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-1949-6029
Jamie LowtherVerve Therapeutics, 201 Brookline Avenue, Suite 601, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States.
Eric L TillotsonVerve Therapeutics, 201 Brookline Avenue, Suite 601, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States.
Ellen RohdeVerve Therapeutics, 201 Brookline Avenue, Suite 601, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States.
James A MadsenVerve Therapeutics, 201 Brookline Avenue, Suite 601, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States.ORCID 0009-0009-2512-8944

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Abstract

As gene editing technologies enter the clinic, state-of-the-art characterization methods have been developed in parallel to assess the components of these paradigm-shifting medicines. One such component, the guide RNA (gRNA) element of CRISPR-based drugs, is a large synthetic heavily modified oligonucleotide that programs for the desired gene edit. Conventional oligonucleotide sequencing technologies can inform gRNA composition, but these methods may not completely capture the chemical modifications that are introduced during synthesis. Circumventing these challenges, mass spectrometry has demonstrated use in oligonucleotide analyses and has been combined here with ion mobility to deepen its characterization power. The use of ion mobility enabled us to perform gas-phase separation of the fragment ions produced by top-down mass spectrometry, yielding a significant increase in fragment identifications for a highly modified 100-mer gRNA by uncovering high-confidence assignments for heavily modified regions and for the important spacer region. Furthermore, the high-confidence fragment assignments empowered simultaneous

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Mass SpectrometryRNA, Guide, CRISPR-Cas SystemsGasesIon Mobility SpectrometryPhase SeparationGasesRNA, Guide, CRISPR-Cas Systems

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PMID40215333
PMCPMC12060089

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