Publications by Chiara Masellis

Can Mutational Analysis Be Used To Assist Structure Determination of Peptides?

Thomas Rizzo, Liudmila Voronina, Valeriu Scutelnic, Chiara Masellis

Mutational analysis is widely used to study the relationship between sequence and structure of proteins and peptides. It is often assumed that substituting a proline with another amino acid "locks" the peptide bond in the trans conformation, allowing only ...

2018

Cryogenic IR spectroscopy combined with ion mobility spectrometry for the analysis of human milk oligosaccharides

Thomas Rizzo, Michael Zachary Kamrath, Chiara Masellis, Neelam Khanal

We report here our combination of cryogenic, messenger-tagging, infrared (IR) spectroscopy with ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) and mass spectrometry (MS) as a way to identify and analyze a set of human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) ranging from trisacchari ...

2018

A method for characterizing polysaccharides

Thomas Rizzo, Michael Zachary Kamrath, Chiara Masellis, Neelam Khanal

A method for a structural characterization of polysaccharides, comprising steps of characterizing a polysaccharide by physical measurements comprising a determination of a mass of the polysaccharide by means of mass spectrometry, a further determination of ...

2018

Kinetically Trapped Liquid-State Conformers of a Sodiated Model Peptide Observed in the Gas Phase

Thomas Rizzo, Markus Schneider, Chiara Masellis, Carsten Baldauf

We investigate the peptide AcPheAla(5)Lyar(+), a model system for studying helix formation in the gas phase, in order to fully understand the forces that stabilize the helical structure. In particular, we address the question of whether the local fixation ...

2017

Glycosaminoglycan Analysis by Cryogenic Messenger-Tagging IR Spectroscopy Combined with IMS-MS

Thomas Rizzo, Michael Zachary Kamrath, Chiara Masellis, Neelam Khanal

We combine ion mobility spectrometry with cryogenic, messenger-tagging, infrared spectroscopy and mass spectrometry to . identify different isomeric disaccharides of chondroitin sulfate (CS) and heparan sulfate (HS), which are representatives of two major ...

2017

Cryogenic Vibrational Spectroscopy Provides Unique Fingerprints for Glycan Identification

Thomas Rizzo, Michael Zachary Kamrath, Chiara Masellis, Neelam Khanal

The structural characterization of glycans by mass spectrometry is particularly challenging. This is because of the high degree of isomerism in which glycans of the same mass can differ in their stereochemistry, attachment points, and degree of branching. ...

2017

Cryogenic Ion Spectroscopy of Peptides and Glycans

Chiara Masellis

Understanding the structure of biomolecules, which are directly related to physiological processes that take place in the human body, has always generated a large interest in the scientific community. In this thesis we focus our attention on two of these c ...

EPFL2017