Publications by Natalia Nagornova

Waste-to-Taste: Transforming Wet Byproducts of the Food Industry into New Nutritious Foods

Food and beverage production generates enormous amounts of spent residues in the form of pomaces, pulps, grains, skins, seeds, etc. Although these sidestreams remain nutritious, their conversion to foods can be complicated by issues of digestibility and pr ...

2024

Revealing the Structure of Tryptophan in Microhydrated Complexes by Cold Ion Spectroscopy

Natalia Nagornova, Oleg Boyarkine, Andrei Zviagin, Ruslan Yamaletdinov, Manuel Dömer

The geometry of biomolecules isolated in the gas phaseusuallydiffers substantially from their native structures in aqueous solution,which are the only ones truly relevant to life science. To connectthe high resolution of cold ion spectroscopy that can be a ...

2023

Disentangling the evolution of electrons and holes in photoexcited ZnO nanoparticles

Majed Chergui, Natalia Nagornova, Thomas Charles Henry Rossi, Hui-Yuan Chen

The evolution of charge carriers in photoexcited room temperature ZnO nanoparticles in solution is investigated using ultrafast ultraviolet photoluminescence spectroscopy, ultrafast Zn K-edge absorption spectroscopy, and ab initio molecular dynamics (MD) s ...

Aip Publishing2023

Tracking local and global structural changes in a protein by cold ion spectroscopy

Natalia Nagornova, Oleg Boyarkine, Andrei Zviagin, Vladimir Kopysov

Characterization of native structures of proteins in the gas phase remains challenging due to the unpredictable conformational changes the molecules undergo during desolvation and ionization. We spectroscopically studied cryogenically cooled protonated pro ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

Initial Steps of Amyloidogenic Peptide Assembly Revealed by Cold-Ion Spectroscopy

Natalia Nagornova, Oleg Boyarkine, Vladimir Kopysov

The early stages of fibril formation are difficult to capture in solution. We use cold-ion spectroscopy to examine an 11-residue peptide derived from the protein transthyretin and clusters of this fibre-forming peptide containing up to five units in the ga ...

Wiley-Blackwell2018

A Decapeptide Hydrated by Two Waters: Conformers Determined by Theory and Validated by Cold Ion Spectroscopy

Natalia Nagornova, Oleg Boyarkine, Robert Benny Gerber

The intrinsic structures of biomolecules in the gas phase may not reflect their native solution geometries. Microsolvation of the molecules bridges the two environments, enabling a tracking of molecular structural changes upon hydration at the atomistic le ...

American Chemical Society2017

The LOUVRE Laboratory: State-of-the-Art Ultrafast Ultraviolet Spectroscopies for Molecular and Materials Science

Majed Chergui, Natalia Nagornova, Frank van Mourik, Edoardo Baldini, Thomas Charles Henry Rossi, Malte Oppermann, Tania Palmieri, Lars-Hendrik Mewes, Benjamin Bauer, Aurelio Oriana

We describe the facilities for ultraviolet studies in the femtosecond to nanosecond time domain. These facilities consist of: i) a set-up for deep-ultraviolet spectroscopy in the 260–380 nm range in both pump and probe pulses for transient absorption/refle ...

2017

Vibrational Signatures of Conformer-Specific Intramolecular Interactions in Protonated Tryptophan

Natalia Nagornova, Oleg Boyarkine, Aleksandr Pereverzev

Because of both experimental and computational challenges, protonated tryptophan has remained the last aromatic amino acid for which the intrinsic structures of low-energy conformers have not been unambiguously solved. The IR-IR UV hole-burning spectroscop ...

Amer Chemical Soc2016

Conformational Structures of a Decapeptide Validated by First Principles Calculations and Cold Ion Spectroscopy

Thomas Rizzo, Natalia Nagornova, Oleg Boyarkine, Vladimir Kopysov, Robert Benny Gerber

Calculated structures of the two most stable conformers of a protonated decapeptide gramicidin S in the gas phase have been validated by comparing the vibrational spectra, calculat- ed from first- principles and measured in a wide spectral range using infr ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2015

Exploring the Mechanism of IR–UV Double-Resonance for Quantitative Spectroscopy of Protonated Polypeptides and Proteins

Thomas Rizzo, Natalia Nagornova, Oleg Boyarkine

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2013