Publications related to Secondary electrospray ionization

Ion Spectroscopy Reveals Structural Difference for Proteins Microhydrated by Retention and Condensation of Water

Protein ubiquitin in its +7 charge state microhydrated by 5 and 10 water molecules has been interrogated in the gas phase by cold ion UV/IR spectroscopy. The complexes were formed either by condensing water onto the unfolded bare proteins in a temperature- ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Bridging Native and Intrinsic Structures of Microhydrated Biomolecules by Cold Ion Spectroscopy

Andrei Zviagin

Solving native structures of such large molecules, like biomolecules, is often challenging, particularly due to the potentially infinite number of non-covalent interactions with water. In this thesis, we report the use of cold ion gas-phase action spectros ...

EPFL2023

Standard-Free Quantification of Dicarboxylic Acids: Case Studies with Salt-Rich Effluents and Serum

Christian Ludwig, Daniil Salionov, Sasa Bjelic

The present study evaluates the ionization efficiency (IE) of linear and branched C2–C14 dicarboxylic acids (DCAs) by electrospray ionization (ESI) under different conditions. The influence of the concentration of organic modifier (MeOH); mobile phase addi ...

2022

Identification of Isomeric Biomolecules by Infrared Spectroscopy of Solvent-Tagged Ions

Oleg Boyarkine, Andrei Zviagin

The difference in functionality of many isomeric biomolecules requires their analytical identification for life science studies. We present a universal approach for quantitative identification of different small- to medium-sized isomeric biomolecules that ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Combining Ion Mobility and Cryogenic Spectroscopy for Structural and Analytical Studies of Biomolecular Ions

Thomas Rizzo, Michael Zachary Kamrath

Ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) has become a valuable tool in biophysical and bioanalytical chemistry because of its ability to separate and characterize the structure of gas-phase biomolecular ions on the basis of their collisional cross section (CCS). It ...

2018

UV and IR Spectroscopy of Cryogenically Cooled, Lanthanide-Containing Ions in the Gas Phase

Thomas Rizzo, Yoshiya Inokuchi

We measure UV and IR spectra in the gas phase for EuOH+, EuCl+, and TbO+ ions, which are produced by an electrospray ionization source and cooled to similar to 10 K in a cold, 22-pole ion trap. The UV photodissociation (UVPD) spectra of these ions show a n ...

American Chemical Society2017

Spectroscopic studies of kinetically trapped conformations in the gas phase: the case of triply protonated bradykinin

Thomas Rizzo, Liudmila Voronina

Understanding the relation between the gas-phase structure of biological molecules and their solution-phase structure is important when attempting to use gas-phase techniques to address biologically relevant questions. Directly after electrospray ionizatio ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2015

Measurements of Submicron Aerosols at the California-Mexico Border during the Cal-Mex 2010 Field Campaign

Satoshi Takahama

We present measurements of submicron aerosols in Tijuana, Mexico during the Cal-Mex 2010 field campaign. A suite of aerosol instrumentations were deployed, including a hygroscopic-volatility tandem differential mobility analyzer (HV-TDMA), aerosol particle ...

Elsevier2014

Laser Spectroscopic Study of Cold Host–Guest Complexes of Crown Ethers in the Gas Phase

Thomas Rizzo, Oleg Boyarkine, Yoshiya Inokuchi

A laser spectroscopic study on the structure and dynamics of cold host–guest inclusion complexes of crown ethers (CEs) with various neutral and ionic species in the gas phase is presented. The complexes with neutral guest species are formed by using supers ...

2013

A scalable synthesis of highly stable and water dispersible Ag-44(SR)(30) nanoclusters

Francesco Stellacci

We report the synthesis of atomically monodisperse thiol-protected silver nanoclusters Ag-44(SR)(30), (SR = 5-mercapto-2-nitrobenzoic acid) in which the product nanocluster is highly stable in contrast to previous preparation methods. The method is on ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2013

In-Spray Supercharging of Peptides and Proteins in Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry

Hubert Girault, Yury Tsybin, Luca Fornelli, Yu Lu, Sasa Miladinovic, Krzysztof Marek Piech

Enhanced charging, or supercharging, of analytes in electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI MS) facilitates high resolution MS by reducing an ion mass-to-charge (m/z) ratio, increasing tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) efficiency. ESI MS superchargin ...

2012

Fragmentation methods on the balance: unambiguous top–down mass spectrometric characterization of oxaliplatin–ubiquitin binding sites

Paul Joseph Dyson, Yury Tsybin, Christian Hartinger

The interaction between oxaliplatin and the model protein ubiquitin (Ub) was investigated in a top-down approach by means of high-resolution electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) using diverse tandem mass spectrometric (MS/MS) techniques, incl ...

Springer-Verlag2012

IR spectroscopy of isolated metal-organic complexes of biocatalytic interest: Evidence for coordination number four for Zn2+(imidazole)(4)

Ulrich Lorenz

The characterization of the interactions of Zn2+ ions with imidazole ligands is vital for understanding the function of a plethora of zinc enzymes at the molecular level. The infrared multiple photon dissociation (IRMPD) spectrum of mass selected Zn2+(imid ...

2011

Peptide Structure and Radical Chemistry in the Gas Phase Revealed by Product Ion Abundance Analysis in Electron Capture and Transfer Dissociation Mass Spectrometry

Hisham Ben Hamidane

Peptide and protein ion abundances in mass spectrometry (MS) and tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) may provide orthogonal, or complementary, information to their mass measurements. Collision induced dissociation (CID), the most commonly used MS/MS technique ...

EPFL2011

Cold Ion Spectroscopy of Biological Molecules in the Gas Phase

Natalia Nagornova

The three-dimensional (3D) structures of proteins and peptides in vivo largely determine their biological functions. In vitro these native structures and their heterogeneity reflect a subtle balance between noncovalent intramolecular interactions and those ...

EPFL2011

Structure of Zirconocene Complexes Relevant for Olefin Catalysis: Infrared Fingerprint of the Zr(C5H5)(2)(OH)(CH3CN)(+) Cation in the Gas Phase

Ulrich Lorenz

Cationic zirconocene complexes are active species in Ziegler-Natta catalysis for olefin polymerization. structure and metal-ligand bond strength strongly influence their activity. In the present work, the multiphoton dissociation (IRMPD) spectrum of mass s ...

2010

Spectroscopy and dissociation dynamics of cold, biomolecular ions

Monia Guidi

The function of a peptide is intimately connected to its structure, which in solution is the result of the balance between non-covalent interactions within the molecule and the molecule-solvent interactions. Theory has the power to predict the properties o ...

EPFL2010

A new tandem mass spectrometer for photofragment spectroscopy of cold, gas-phase molecular ions

Thomas Rizzo, Ulrich Lorenz, Oleg Boyarkine, Annette Svendsen

We present here the design of a new tandem mass spectrometer that combines an electrospray ion source with a cryogenically cooled ion trap for spectroscopic studies of cold, gas-phase ions. The ability to generate large ions in the gas phase without fragme ...

American Institute of Physics2010

Dynamic Actuation of Magnetic Beads for Immunoassays on-chip

Yves Moser

This thesis was carried out in the frame of the European project DetectHIV aiming the development of a new biosensor platform for the highly sensitive detection of the HIV capsid protein p24. We explore the implementation of a magnetic bead-based lab-on-a- ...

EPFL2010

Electrospray ionization mass spectrometry : electrochemistry and on-chip reactions for bioinorganic analyses

Michel Prudent

Metal ions are essential elements in all living systems. Their detections and identifications in biological processes require different methodologies. Mass spectrometry is one of the commonly used techniques in bioinorganic analyses to fulfill these requir ...

EPFL2009