A capillary monolithic bioreactor of snake venom phosphodiesterase (SVP) was constructed to generate different single-nucleotide mass ladders of oligodeoxynucleotides for mass spectrometry (MS)-based sequencing by immobilization. The immobilization of SVP in the porous silica monolith significantly enhances its stability for prolonged and repeated applications. The constructed capillary bioreactor has the advantages of handling (sub)microliter DNA samples and having good permeability. Benefiting from its good permeability, DNA solutions can be directly injected into the sequential digestion bioreactor simply by hand pushing or a low-pressure microinjection pump. Moreover, the immobilization of SVP facilitates the elimination or repression of the metal adducts of oligodeoxynucleotides, improving the analytical performance of MS sequencing. By the application of capillary bioreactor of immobilized SVP, the sequence-specific modification of singlestranded oligodeoxynucleotide induced by a ubiquitous pollutant acrolein (Acr) was identified, demonstrating its promising applications in identification of sequence-specific damage, which may further our understanding of DNA damage caused mutagenesis.T he rapid development in DNA sequencing has greatly stimulated the research in life sciences. 1−8 Modern mass spectrometry (MS) technologies can provide an accurate mass measurement and possess an extraordinary capacity of structural elucidation; therefore, these technologies are attractive in complement to high-throughput sequencing technologies. 9−13 In addition to the uncoding of normal sequence information, sequence-specific DNA damages can also be explicitly located and characterized by employing MS sequencing. In general, the mutations, which are largely caused by DNA damage, can be mapped and the mutational hot spots in genes can be identified using a variety of DNA sequencing, but the DNA damages in the sequence context and their chemical structures are only obtained by MS-based sequencing. By identification of the sequence-specific damages, the links between the damages and the mutations can be established, which are very helpful to the understanding of the selective formation and repair of DNA damages and consequent mutagenesis and carcinogenesis. 14−19 In this work, we made an effort to construct a capillary monolithic bioreactor to generate mass ladders of oligodeoxynucleotides for MS-based sequencing and identification of sequence-specific damage through the immobilization of an exonuclease in a porous silica monolith. Previously, no attempt had been made to develop nuclease bioreactors for DNA sequencing. Snake venom phosphodiesterase (SVP) is chosen because of its unique ability as an exonuclease to sequentially cleave one nucleotide from single-stranded DNA. By taking advantage of this unique ability of SVP, the mass ladders of oligodeoxynucleotides with a single nucleotide difference can be produced, allowing for MS-based sequencing. 20−24 However, it is hard to control the sequence cleavage reac...