Oligonucleotide analysis

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Oligonucleotide analysis elvistc  2025-02-21 15:58
 

Hi Skyline Team,

Can Skyline be used to process oligonucleotide LCMS data? I was wanting to use Skyline to detect the oligonucleotide fragments. We know the sequence of the oligonucleotide and we want how an enzyme cuts this when used as a substrate. Or is there another software that can be linked to Skyline to do this?

Kind regards,
Elvis

 
 
Nick Shulman responded:  2025-02-21 16:09
Skyline can be used with all types of molecules, but you have to tell Skyline the chemical formulas (or m/z) of the precursors and the fragment ions in order for Skyline to know what chromatograms to extract.

Skyline really only understands the fragmentation of peptide sequences along the backbone. For all other types of molecules you have to tell Skyline exactly what molecules and fragments to expect.

You might be able to find spectral libraries containing fragmentation information about your molecules. Skyline understands NIST libraries (.msp), Spectrast (.sptxt), XHunter (.xlf) as well as our own BiblioSpec (.blib) formats.

If you want to learn about how to provide Skyline with a list of molecules to extract chromatograms for, the Small Molecule Targets tutorial might be a good place to start:
https://skyline.ms/wiki/home/software/Skyline/page.view?name=tutorial_small_molecule
-- Nick