Publications 2023

2023 161Stress granules plug and stabilize damaged endolysosomal membranes, C. Bussi, A. Mangiarotti, C. Vanhille-Campos, B. Aylan, E. Pellegrino, N. Athanasiadi, A. Fearns, A. Rodgers, T.M. Franzmann, A. Šarić, R. Dimova and M.G. Gutierrez, Nature 623, 1062–1069 (2023)DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c01338 Full text 160Biomolecular condensates modulate membrane lipid packing and hydration,A. Mangiarotti, M. Siri, N.W. Tam, Z. Zhao, L. Malacrida and R. Dimova, Nature Com. 14, 6081 (2023) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41709-5 Full text BioRxiv link159Photomanipulation of minimal synthetic cells: area increase, softening, and interleaflet coupling of membrane models doped with azobenzene-lipid photoswitches, M. Aleksanyan, A. Grafmüller, F. Crea, V.N. Georgiev, N. Yandrapalli, S. Block, J. Heberle and R.…
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Publications 2022

2022 149Zwitterionic dendrimersomes: a closer xenobiotic mimic of cell membranes, A. Joseph, A.M. Wagner, M. Garay-Sarmiento, M. Aleksanyan, T. Haraszti, D. Söder, V.N. Georgiev, R. Dimova, V. Percec and c. Rodriguez-Emmenegger, Adv. Mater. 34, 2206288 (2022) DOI: 10.1002/adma.202206288 Full text Movie 1 Movie 2148Membrane lipid organization and nicotinic acetylcholine receptor function: a necessary physiological relationship, C. Fabiani, V.N. Georgiev, A. Peñalva, L. Sigaut, L. Pietrasanta, J. Corradi, R. Dimova and S. Antollini, Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 730, 109413 (2022) DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2022.109413 Full text147ACS Editors’ choice: Bending rigidity, capacitance and shear viscosity of giant vesicle membranes prepared by spontaneous swelling, electroformation, gel–assisted and phase transfer methods: a comparative…
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Publications 2021

2021 133PoET: automated approach for measuring pore edge tension in giant unilamellar vesicles, F.S.C. Leomil, M. Zocoler, R. Dimova and K.A. Riske, Bioinformatics Advances vol. 1, vbab037 (2021) DOI: 10.1093/bioadv/vbab037 Full textMovie S1 Movie S2 Raw Data132Super-elasticity of plasma- and synthetic membranes resulting from coupling of membrane asymmetry, curvature and lipid sorting,  J. Steinkühler,  T. Bhatia, Z. Zhao, F.S.C. Leomil, R. Lipowsky and R. Dimova, Adv. Sci. 8, 2102109 (2021) DOI: 10.1002/advs.202102109 Full text BioRxiv link131Electromechanical characterization of biomimetic membranes using electrodeformation of vesicles, H.A. Faizi, R. Dimova and, P.M. Vlahovska, Electrophoresis, 42, 2027-2032 (2021) DOI: 10.1002/elps.202100091 Full text130En route to dynamic life processes by SNARE-mediated fusion of…
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Publications 2012

2012 60Highlight: Lipid membranes in contact with aqueous phases of polymer solutions, R. Dimova and R. Lipowsky, Soft Matter, 8, 6409-6415 (2012) DOI:10.1039/C2SM25261A Full Textidentified as a hot articleBook chapter:  Giant Vesicles: A Biomimetic Tool for Membrane Characterization, R. Dimova, in Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes, edited by  Aleš Iglič,  Elsevier, Burlington: Academic Press, vol. 16, pp. 1-50 (2012), ISBN: 978-0-12-396534-9 DOI:10.1016/B978-0-12-396534-9.00001-5 For full text, send me an email59Solution behavior of double-hydrophilic block copolymers in dilute aqueous solution, O. Casse, A. Shkilnyy, J. Linders, C. Mayer, D. Haussinger, A. Völkel, A. F. Thünemann, R. Dimova, H. Cölfen, W. Meier, H. Schlaad and A. Taubert, Macromolecules, 45, 4772−4777 (2012) DOI:10.1021/ma300621g Full…
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Publications 2013

2013 65Insights on the interactions of chitosan with phospholipid vesicles. Part II: Membrane stiffening and pore formation, O. Mertins and R. Dimova, Langmuir, 29, 14552−14559 (2013) DOI: 10.1021/la4032199 Full Text64Insights on the interactions of chitosan with phospholipid vesicles. Part I: Effect of polymer deprotonation, O. Mertins and R. Dimova, Langmuir,  29, 14545−14551 (2013) DOI: 10.1021/la403218c Full Text63Electrochemical detection of single microbeads manipulated by optical tweezers in the vicinity of ultramicroelectrodes, E. Suraniti, F. Kanoufi, C. Gosse, X. Zhao, R. Dimova, B. Pouligny and N. Sojic, Anal. Chem., 85, 8902−8909 (2013) DOI: 10.1021/ac402200p Full Text62Macro- versus microscopic view on the electrokinetics of a water/membrane interface, V. Knecht , B. Klasczyk and…
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Publications 2014

2014 70Membrane morphology is actively transformed by covalent binding of the protein Atg8 to PE-lipids, R. Knorr, H. Nakatogawa, Y. Ohsumi, R. Lipowsky,  T. Baumgart and R. Dimova, PLOS ONE 9, e115357 (2014) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0115357 Full Text69Giant unilamellar vesicles formed by hybrid films of lipids and agarose display altered mechanical properties, R. B. Lira, R. Dimova and K. A. Riske, Biophys. J. 107, 1609–1619 (2014)DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2014.08.009 Full Text Movie 1 Movie 2 Movie 368Inward and outward membrane tubes pulled from giant vesicles, R. Dasgupta and R. Dimova, J. Phys. D Appl. Phys., 47, 282001 (2014) DOI:10.1088/0022-3727/47/28/282001 Full Text67Effect of cytochrome c on the phase behavior of charged multicomponent lipid…
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Publications 2015

2015 74Ellipsoidal Relaxation of Deformed Vesicles, M. Yu, R. B. Lira, K. A. Riske, R. Dimova, and H. Lin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 128303 (2015) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.128303 Full Text73Autophagosome closure requires membrane scission, R. L. Knorr, R. Lipowsky and R. Dimova, Autophagy 11, 2134-2137 (2015) DOI:10.1080/15548627.2015.1091552 Full Text72Viscoelasticity of polyethylene glycol solutions on supported lipid bilayer studied by quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation, Z. Zhao, X. Ji, R. Dimova, R. Lipowsky and Y. Liu, Macromolecules 48, 1824-1831 (2015) DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.5b00095 Full Text71Cell rigidity and shape override CD47’s ‘self’ signaling in phagocytosis by hyperactivating myosin-II, N. Sosale, T. Rouhiparkouhi, A. Bradshaw, R. Dimova, R. Lipowsky and D. Discher, Blood 125, 542-552…
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Publications 2016

2016 80GM1 softens POPC membranes and induces the formation of micron-sized domains, N. Fricke and R. Dimova, Biophys. J. 111, 1935–1945 (2016) DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2016.09.028 Full TextBook chapter:  Electrodeformation, Electroporation, and Electrofusion of Giant Unilamellar Vesicles, R. Dimova and K. Riske, in Handbook on Electroporation, edited by D. Miclavcic, Springer International Publishing, Cham. 1-18 (2016), ISBN: 978-3-319-26779-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-26779-1_199-1 Full Text79Modulating vesicle adhesion by electric fields, J. Steinkühler, J. Agudo-Canalejo, R. Lipowsky and R. Dimova, Biophys. J. 111, 1454–1464 (2016) DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2016.08.029 Full TextCode78Solution Asymmetry and Salt Expand Fluid-Fluid Coexistence Regions in Charged Membranes, B. Kubsch, T. Robinson, R. Lipowsky, and R. Dimova, Biophys. J. 110, 2581–2584 (2016) DOI:10.1016/j.bpj.2016.05.028 Full Text77Posing for a picture:…
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Publications 2017

2017 84Fusion and scission of membranes: ubiquitous topological transformations in cells, R.L. Knorr, N. Mizushima and R. Dimova, Traffic 18, 758–761 (2017) DOI: 10.1111/tra.12509 Full Text83Phase behavior of charged vesicles under symmetric and asymmetric solution conditions monitored with fluorescence microscopy, B. Kubsch, T. Robinson, J. Steinkühler and R. Dimova, JoVE 128, e56034 (2017) DOI:10.3791/56034 Full Text Play video82Copper ATPase CopA from Escherichia coli: Quantitative Correlation between ATPase Activity and Vectorial Copper Transport, C.J.K. Wijekoon, S.R. Udagedara, R.L. Knorr, R. Dimova, A.G. Wedd and Z. Xiao, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 139, 4266−4269 (2017) DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b12921 Full Text81Review: Giant vesicles exposed to aqueous two-phase systems: Membrane wetting, budding processes, and spontaneous tubulation, R. Dimova and R. Lipowsky, Adv.…
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Publications 2018

2018 99Asymmetric ionic conditions generate large membrane curvatures, M. Karimi, J. Steinkühler, D. Roy, R. Dasgupta, R. Lipowsky and R. Dimova, Nano Lett. 18, 7816−7821 (2018) DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b03584 Full Text98Spatial relationship and functional relevance of three lipid domain populations at the erythrocyte surface, L. Conrard, A. Stommen, J. Steinkühler, R. Dimova, H. Pollet and D. Tyteca, Cell. Physiol. Biochem. 51, 1544-1565 (2018) DOI: 10.1159/000495645 Full Text97Light-guided motility of a minimal synthetic cell, S.M. Bartelt, J. Steinkühler, R. Dimova and S.V. Wegner, Nano Lett. 18, 7268−7274 (2018) DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b03469 Full Text96Review: Liposomes and polymersomes: a comparative review towards cells mimicking, E. Rideau, R. Dimova, P. Schwille, F. Wurm, K. Landfester, Chem. Soc.…
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