Roman Zubarev’s group at Karolinska Institutet focuses on Molecular Biometry using mass spectrometry for studying various processes of biomedical importance.

Joined December 2019
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29 Aug 2025
For decades, scientists believed that stable isotopes in our tissues reflected our diet with a small correction. Our new preprint shows it’s more complex: isotopes actively shape biology and converge in surprising ways. Read the preprint 👉 [biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…] #isotopes #
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11 Dec 2023
🧪 Our hypothesis? Diminished conformational and vibrational entropy leading to accelerated kinetics. 🔬 Potential applications? Ultralight enzymes for scenarios requiring extreme reaction rates! ⚙️
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11 Dec 2023
Grateful for the collaboration and support from our amazing team! 🤝👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 #ScientificBreakthrough #Research #AngewandteChemie #IsotopeDepletion #EnzymeEngineering #UltralightUltrafastEnzymes
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Peptide sequencing based on host–guest interaction-assisted nanopore sensing - Nature Methods nature.com/articles/s41592-0… --- #proteomics #prot-paper
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26 Sep 2023
New paper published. Hopefully our results will lead to developing novel biomarkers and therapeutic interventions against traumatic brain injury in the long run.
26 Sep 2023
Our paper on identification of biomarkers and therapeutic targets in traumatic brain injury (TBI) is now published. Here, we use PISA to dissect the early molecular events and proteome solubility changes following a dynamic injury to neurons. mdpi.com/1420-3049/28/19/676…
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4 Sep 2023
Check out our new work on PISA-REX for analysis of proteomes in the three dimensions of redox state, solubility and expression for target identification.
4 Sep 2023
Finally after a year of data analysis, fine-tuning and writing, one of my most important papers is online. It is about a tool for 3D analysis of proteomes in target deconvolution (1). biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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This toy example may change how you look at tSNE & UMAP. They find clusters in the most uniform data possible.
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3 Mar 2023
Our new collaborative study shows that NCF1-dependent production of ROS protects against lupus by regulating plasmacytoid dendritic cell (pDC) development and functions. ROS deficiency enhances pDC generation through the AKT/mTOR pathway. insight.jci.org/articles/vie…

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DOPA is just as good (or even better!) than Vitamin C - when it comes to protecting tissues from free radicals. 🛡️🔥 Proud of this largely experimental (!) work of our lab. 🎉🎉🎉 Thanks to amazing collaborators @RedoxDKFZ @RZLabKI @prisnerlab and others!
1st author Cluster Young Scientist Markus Kurth uncovers collagen, the main structural protein of all connective tissues, as a redox-active material & establishes DOPA residues as redox-active side chains of collagens 👉 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… @biorxivpreprint #preprint
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3 Jan 2023
New work from our lab at @karolinskainst uncovers massive solubility changes of neuronal proteins upon simulation of traumatic brain injury. #TBI #neuroscience #proteomics #TeamMassSpec
3 Jan 2023
Excited to share our work, where we combine a novel apparatus with state-of-the-art solubility proteomics and simulate traumatic brain injury, to uncover mechanisms of neuron damage, for ultimate identification of diagnostic and therapeutic biomarkers. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Happy Sunday 🙂 Please check out our new protocol - "Proteome Integral Solubility Alteration (PISA) Assay in Mammalian Cells for Deep, High-Confidence, and High-Throughput Target Deconvolution". bio-protocol.org/e4556 @RZLabKI @XuepeiZhang #proteomics #spectrometry #cells
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Finally, all pieces have been put together! The #FTMS Booster is now installed in the @RZLabKI. Thank you @Spectroswiss for all the help and also for a great talk!
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11 Nov 2022
Individual amino acid isotopic ratio measurement and peptide sequencing using only 1 μg of sample, all in one!
Fourier Transform Isotopic Ratio Mass Spectrometry enables precise measurements of isotopic composition of the elements C, H, N, and O in individual amino acids using only 1 μg of protein sample. @RZLabKI @hasangharibi @chernolab @AmirAta8 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
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18 Oct 2022
The Omnitrap – IMS platform has successfully been installed at KI! Thank you @Fasmatech_MS , MSvision and @RZLabKI for the great effort. Time to produce some exciting data!
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25 Aug 2022
In our new preprint, we identify the O-glycosylated substrates of GALNT1 using versatile proteomics tools. Arguably one of the most challenging PTMs to study. We close in on a motif too.
Mapping the GALNT1 substrate landscape with versatile proteomics tools biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #bioRxiv
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