Fred W. McLafferty: The Man Who Drove a Different Kind of Flying Machine

https://cen.acs.org/acs-news/programs/GCMS-honored-chemical-landmark/97/i29 https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/gas-chromatography-mass-spectrometry.html. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_McLafferty McLafferty FW (1959) Mass spectrometric analysis. Molecular rearrangements. Anal Chem 31(1):82–87 McLafferty FW (1963) Mass spectrometry of organic ions. Elsevier, Amsterdam Stenhagen E, Abrahamsson S, McLafferty FW (1974) Registry of mass spectral data. Wiley, New York McLafferty FW, Stauffer DB (1989) The Wiley/NBS registry of mass spectral data. Wiley, New York Han X, Jin M, Breuker K, McLafferty FW (2006) Extending top-down mass spectrometry to proteins with masses greater than 200 kilodaltons. Science 314:109–112 Skinner OS, McLafferty FW, Breuker K (2012) How ubiquitin unfolds after transfer into the gas phase. J Am Soc Mass Spectrom 23:1011–1014 Strauss E, Zhai H, Brand LA, McLafferty FW, Begley TP (2004) Mechanistic studies on phosphopantothenoylcysteine decarboxylase: trapping of an enethiolate intermediate with a mechanism-based inactivating agent. Biochemistry 43:15520–15533 Dorrestein PC, Zhai H, McLafferty FW, Begley TP (2004) The biosynthesis of the thiazole phosphate moiety of thiamin: the sulfur transfer mediated by the sulfur carrier protein ThiS. Chem Biol 11(10):1373–1381 Xu G, Zhai H, Narayan M, McLafferty FW, Scheraga HA (2004) Simultaneous characterization of the reductive unfolding pathways of RNase B isoforms by top-down mass spectrometry. Cell Chem Biol 11:517–524 Sze SK, Ge Y, Oh H, McLafferty FW (2002) Top-down mass spectrometry of a 29-kDa protein for characterization of any posttranslational modification to within one residue. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 99(4):1774–1779. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.251691898 Zubarev RA, Kelleher NL, McLafferty FW (1998) Electron capture dissociation of multiply charged protein cations. A nonergodic process. J Am Chem Soc 120:3265–3266 Breuker K, McLafferty FW (2003) Native electron capture dissociation for the structural characterization of noncovalent interactions in native cytochrome c. Angew Chem Int Ed 42:4900–4904 O’Connor PB, Speir JP, Wood TD, Chorush RA, Guan Z, McLafferty FW (1996) Broadband quadrupolar axialization of large multiply charged ions to enhance measurement and minimize conformational restrictions. J Mass Spectrom 31(5):555–559 McLafferty FW, Zhang MY, Stauffer DB, Loh SY (1998) Comparison of algorithms and databases for matching unknown mass spectra. J Am Soc Mass Spectrom 9:92–95 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KnS03XsAAAAJ&hl=en McLafferty FW, Aaserud DJ, Ziqiang G, Little DP, Kelleher NL (1997) Double stranded DNA sequencing by tandem mass spectrometry. Int J Mass Spectrom Ion Process 165(166):457–466 Narayan M, Welker E, Zhai H, Han X, Xu G, McLafferty FW, Scheraga HA (2008) Detecting native folds in mixtures of proteins that contain disulfide bonds. Nat Biotechnol 26:427–429