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32Intact-mass agreement is a strong but incomplete identification. Two different sequences composed of the same residues have identical masses, and inverting the order of two residues changes nothing about the intact mass. Only fragmentation — tandem mass spectrometry, which selects a precursor ion, breaks it and measures the fragments — addresses sequence order.{{r|aebersold2003}}32Intact-mass agreement is a strong but incomplete identification. Two different sequences composed of the same residues have identical masses, and inverting the order of two residues changes nothing about the intact mass. Only fragmentation — tandem mass spectrometry, which selects a precursor ion, breaks it and measures the fragments — addresses sequence order.{{r|aebersold2003}}
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+34Stereochemistry is invisible to mass spectrometry entirely. A D-amino acid substitution is isobaric with the L form and requires [[Amino acid analysis|chiral analysis]] to detect. For peptides synthesised with racemisation-prone residues this is a real rather than theoretical gap.
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34== References ==36== References ==
35{{reflist}}37{{reflist}}