ch. 1. Overview of recent developments in the mass spectrometry of nucleic acid and constituents / Joseph H. Banoub ... [et al.] -- ch. 2. Mass spectrometric analysis of deoxyinosines / Antonio Triolo -- ch. 3. Tandem mass spectrometry of nucleic acids / Jiong Yang and Kristina Hk̄ansson -- ch. 4. Mass spectrometric application in the study of cyclic nucleotides in biochemical signal transduction / Russell P. Newton -- ch. 5. Analysis of urinary modified nucleosides by mass spectrometry / Ed Dudley -- ch. 6. Mass spectrometric determination of DNA adducts in human carcinogenesis / Filip Lemir̈e -- ch. 7. Sequence distribution of nucleobase adducts studied by isotope labeling of DNA-mass spectrometry / Natalia Y. Tretyakova -- ch. 8. Electrospray mass spectrometry of noncovalent complexes between small molecule ligands and nucleic acids / Valřie Gabelica -- ch. 9. Electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry for the investigation of protein-nucleic acid interactions / Daniele Fabris, Kevin B. Turner, and Nathan A. Hagan --

ch. 10. Characterization of noncovalent complexes of nucleic acids with peptides and proteins by mass spectrometry / William Buchmann -- ch. 11. MALDI-TOF detection of specific noncovalent complexes of highly acidic biomolecules with pyrenemethylguanidinium / Michael Smietana, Keiichiro Ohara, and Jean-Jacques Vasseur -- ch. 12. Quantitative identification of nucleic acids via signature digestion products detected using mass spectrometry / Mahmud Hossain and Patrick A. Limbach -- ch. 13. Electrospray ionization mass spectrometry for the direct analysis of modified nucleosides in small RNAs / C. Callie Coombs and Patrick A. Limbach -- ch. 14. LC-MS/MS for the examination of the cytotoxic and mutagenic properties of DNA lesions in vitro and in vivo / Chunang Gu, Haizheng Hong, and Yinsheng Wang -- ch. 15. Influence of metal ions on the structure and reactivity of nucleic acids / Janna Anichina and Diethard K. Bohme.