Publications by Robert Paul Pellegrinelli

Identification of Mobility-Resolved N-Glycan Isomers

Thomas Rizzo, Ahmed Ben Faleh, Stephan Warnke, Priyanka Bansal, Robert Paul Pellegrinelli

Glycan analysis has evolved considerably during the last decade. The advent of high-resolution ion-mobility spectrometry has enabled the separation of isomers with only the slightest of structural differences. However, the ability to separate such species ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

A method and system to build an ir fingerprint database for the structural identification of biomolecules

Thomas Rizzo, Ahmed Ben Faleh, Stephan Warnke, Priyanka Bansal, Robert Paul Pellegrinelli

A method, system, and computer-readable medium for identifying and creating a database of isomers and isobars of molecules including the steps of performing isomer or isobar separation on molecules to obtain separate isomeric or isobaric molecules, measuri ...

2022

A New Strategy Coupling Ion-Mobility-Selective CID and Cryogenic IR Spectroscopy to Identify Glycan Anomers

Thomas Rizzo, Ahmed Ben Faleh, Stephan Warnke, Eduardo Carrascosa Casado, Priyanka Bansal, Robert Paul Pellegrinelli, Lei Yue

Determining the primary structure of glycans remains challenging due to their isomeric complexity. While high-resolution ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) has recently allowed distinguishing between many glycan isomers, the arrival-time distributions (ATDs) ...

2022

Unravelling the structures of sodiated beta-cyclodextrin and its fragments

Thomas Rizzo, Eduardo Carrascosa Casado, Ali H Abikhodr, Robert Paul Pellegrinelli

We present cryogenic infrared spectra of sodiated beta-cyclodextrin beta-CD + Na, a common cyclic oligosaccharide, and its main dissociation products upon collision-induced dissociation (CID). We characterize the parent ions using high-resolution ion ...

2021

Combining cryognic ion spectroscopy with ion mobility for the study of glycan fragmentation

Robert Paul Pellegrinelli

The importance of glycans in biological processes are matched by their structural complexity. Coating the surface of most living cells, glycans play key roles in many biological processes, and the role they play is closely related to their structures. Stru ...

EPFL2021

Cryogenic Infrared Action Spectroscopy Fingerprints the Hydrogen Bonding Network in Gas-Phase Coumarin Cations

Thomas Rizzo, Eduardo Carrascosa Casado, Robert Paul Pellegrinelli

We report cryogenic vibrational spectra of gas-phase cations of two common hydroxycoumarins, scopoletin and esculetin, as well as their glycosidic derivatives, scopolin and esculin. The study allows direct observation of the intramolecular interactions bet ...

2020

How General Is Anomeric Retention during Collision-Induced Dissociation of Glycans?

Thomas Rizzo, Ahmed Ben Faleh, Stephan Warnke, Eduardo Carrascosa Casado, Robert Paul Pellegrinelli, Lei Yue

: Despite the essential role that glycans play in many biological processes, their isomeric com-plexity makes their structural determination partic-ularly challenging. Tandem mass spectrometry has played a central role in glycan analysis, and recent work h ...

2020

Combining Cryogenic Infrared Spectroscopy with Selective Enzymatic Cleavage for Determining Glycan Primary Structure

Thomas Rizzo, Eduardo Carrascosa Casado, Robert Paul Pellegrinelli

Given the biological relevance and intrinsic structural complexity of glycans, increasing efforts are being directed towards developing a general glycan database that includes information from different analytical methods. As recently demonstrated, cryogen ...

2020

Combining ultra-high resolution ion-mobility spectrometry with cryogenic IR spectroscopy for the study of biomolecular ions

Thomas Rizzo, Ahmed Ben Faleh, Stephan Warnke, Robert Paul Pellegrinelli, Natalia Yalovenko

Double-resonance spectroscopic schemes in combination with cryogenic ion traps are the go-to techniques when isomer-specific high-resolution spectra are required for analysis of molecular ions. Their limitation lies in the requirement for well-resolved, is ...

2019