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Catherine Fenselau is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of chemistry, with significant contributions to spectroscopy, molecular biology, and immunology.

The scientist's research encompasses a range of topics including mass spectrometry techniques and applications, immune cells in cancer, extracellular vesicles in disease, inflammation biomarkers and pathways, SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing, biosensors and analytical detection, and COVID-19 diagnosis using artificial intelligence.

Fenselau has published several papers in notable scientific journals. Representative recent works include:

  • Molecular cargo in myeloid-derived suppressor cells and their exosomes, 2020, Cellular Immunology
  • MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometric Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Using Cellulose Sulfate Ester Enrichment and Hot Acid Treatment, 2022, Journal of Proteome Research
  • Extraction of Membrane Components from Neisseria gonorrhoeae Using Catanionic Surfactant Vesicles: A New Approach for the Study of Bacterial Surface Molecules, 2020, Pharmaceutics
  • Mamoru Ohashi: Some Personal Memories, 2022, Journal of the Mass Spectrometry Society of Japan
  • Innovations in applications of mass spectrometry impact many fields of science, 2023, Mass Spectrometry Reviews

Their frequent coauthors include Suzanne Ostrand-Rosenberg, Dapeng Chen, Wayne A. Bryden, Michael McLoughlin, and Caroline R. Haddaway.

Notable publication venues contributing to Fenselau's research output are:

  • Cellular Immunology
  • Journal of Proteome Research
  • Pharmaceutics
  • Journal of the Mass Spectrometry Society of Japan
  • Mass Spectrometry Reviews

Best Publications

  • Proteolytic 18O labeling for comparative proteomics: model studies with two serotypes of adenovirus.

    Xudong Yao;Amy Freas;Javier Ramirez;Plamen A. Demirev

  • Characterization of intact microorganisms by MALDI mass spectrometry.

    Catherine Fenselau;Plamen A. Demirev

  • How many human proteoforms are there

    Ruedi Aebersold;Jeffrey N. Agar;I. Jonathan Amster;Mark S. Baker

  • Identification of bacteria using mass spectrometry

    John P. Anhalt;Catherine. Fenselau

  • Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells: Immune-Suppressive Cells That Impair Antitumor Immunity and Are Sculpted by Their Environment.

    Suzanne Ostrand-Rosenberg;Catherine Fenselau

  • Characterization of the protein subset desorbed by MALDI from whole bacterial cells.

    Victor Ryzhov;Catherine Fenselau

  • Microorganism identification by mass spectrometry and protein database searches.

    Plamen A. Demirev;Yen-Peng Ho;Victor Ryzhov;Catherine Fenselau

  • Gag proteins of the highly replicative MN strain of human immunodeficiency virus type 1: posttranslational modifications, proteolytic processings, and complete amino acid sequences.

    L E Henderson;M A Bowers;R C Sowder;S A Serabyn

  • Chemical aspects of fast atom bombardment

    Catherine. Fenselau;Robert J. Cotter

  • Dissection of proteolytic 18O labeling: endoprotease-catalyzed 16O-to-18O exchange of truncated peptide substrates.

    Xudong Yao;Carlos Afonso;Catherine Fenselau

  • Collision energy dependence of proton-bound dimer dissociation: entropy effects, proton affinities, and intramolecular hydrogen-bonding in protonated peptides

    Xueheng Cheng;Zhuchun Wu;Catherine Fenselau

  • Alkylating properties of phosphoramide mustard.

    Michael Colvin;Robert B. Brundrett;Man-Na N. Kan;Ian Jardine

  • Isotopic distributions in mass spectra of large molecules

    James. Yergey;David. Heller;Gordon. Hansen;Robert J. Cotter

  • Synthesis and Self-Assembly Processes of Monofunctionalized Cucurbit[7]uril

    Brittany Vinciguerra;Liping Cao;Joe R. Cannon;Peter Y. Zavalij

  • Characterization of melphalan-glutathione adducts whose formation is catalyzed by glutathione transferases

    Deanne M. Dulik;Catherine Fenselau;John Hilton

  • Proteolytic 18O labeling for comparative proteomics: evaluation of endoprotease Glu-C as the catalytic agent.

    Kristy J. Reynolds;Xudong Yao;Catherine Fenselau

  • Assessment of metals in reconstituted metallothioneins by electrospray mass spectrometry.

    Xiaolan. Yu;Marek. Wojciechowski;Catherine. Fenselau

  • Profiling of bacteria by fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry.

    D. N. Heller;R. J. Cotter;Catherine. Fenselau;O. M. Uy

  • Kurstakins: a new class of lipopeptides isolated from Bacillus thuringiensis.

    Yetrib Hathout;Yen-Peng Ho;Victor Ryzhov;Plamen Demirev

  • Mass spectrometry for rapid characterization of microorganisms

    Plamen A Demirev;Catherine Fenselau

  • A Biologically Active Metabolite of Cyclophosphamide

    Michael Colvin;Charles A. Padgett;Catherine Fenselau

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert J. Cotter
Robert J. Cotter Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Igor A. Kaltashov
Igor A. Kaltashov University of Massachusetts Amherst
Ron Orlando
Ron Orlando University of Georgia
Suzanne Ostrand-Rosenberg
Suzanne Ostrand-Rosenberg University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Raymond C. Sowder
Raymond C. Sowder National Cancer Institute
David Fushman
David Fushman University of Maryland, College Park
Bettina Warscheid
Bettina Warscheid University of Freiburg
Joseph Zaia
Joseph Zaia Boston University
Sang Bok Lee
Sang Bok Lee University of Maryland, College Park
Mathias Uhlén
Mathias Uhlén Royal Institute of Technology

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