The Mass Spectrometry Facility at Georgia State University is a research resource to provide modern instrumentations and expertise in the analysis of chemical and biological molecules with state-of-the-art mass spectrometers. The Facility operates six instruments including a Waters Micromass Q-TOF micro (ESI-Q-TOF) with a Waters nanoAcquity UPLC- and an alliance HPLC, Bruker-Daltonis UletraflexeXtreme MALDI TOF-TOF–tissue imaging, a Shimadzu QP5050A GC-EIMS, an ABSciex API 3200 (ESI(APCI)-Triple Quadruple) with an Agilent 1200 HPLC, a Thermo Scientific LTQ- Orbitrap Elite coupled with Thermo Scientific Dionex UltiMate 3000 RSLCnano UPLC, and an Agilent 1100 series II LC-CE-MSD.
The Facility can usually perform routine low-resolution analysis by EI, CI, ESI, nanoSpray, APCI and MALDI of small organic molecules and large biological molecules such as peptides, proteins, nucleic acids, lipids, oligosaccharides, polymers etc. The Facility also routinely conducts exact mass and elemental composition determination, tandem (MS/MS) experiments and GC and LC separations with MS detection as requested by researchers.