Publications

Joseph, A.; Wagner, A. M.; Garay-Sarmiento, M.; Aleksanyan, M.; Haraszti, T.; Söder, D.; Georgiev, V. N.; Dimova, R.; Percec, V.; Rodriguez-Emmenegger, C.: Zwitterionic dendrimersomes: a closer xenobiotic mimic of cell membranes. Advanced Materials, 2206288 (2022)

Benk, L. T.; Benk, A. S.; Lira, R. d.; Cavalcanti-Adam, E. A.; Dimova, R.; Lipowsky, R.; Geiger, B.; Spatz, J. P.: Integrin α_IIbβ₃ activation and clustering in minimal synthetic cells. Advanced nanoBiomed research 2 (4), 2100094 (2022)

Ewins, E.; Han, K.; Bharti, B.; Robinson, T.; Velev, O. D.; Dimova, R.: Controlled adhesion, membrane pinning and vesicle transport by Janus particles. Chemical Communications 58 (18), pp. 3055 - 3058 (2022)

Fabiani, C.; Georgiev, V.; Peñalva, D.A.; Sigaut, L.; Pietrasanta, L.; Corradi, J.; Dimova, R.; Antollini, S.S.: Membrane lipid organization and nicotinic acetylcholine receptor function: a two-way physiological relationship. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 730, 109413 (2022)

Georgiev, V.; Avalos Padilla, Y.; Fernàndez-Busquets, X.; Dimova, R.: Femtoliter injection of ESCRT-III proteins into adhered giant unilamellar vesicles. Bio-protocol 12 (4), e4328 (2022)

Kabelka, I.; Georgiev, V.; Marx, L.; Pajtinka, P.; Lohner, K.; Pabst, G.; Dimova, R.; Vácha, R.: Magainin 2 and PGLa in bacterial membrane mimics III: membrane fusion and disruption. Biophysical Journal 121 (5), pp. 852 - 861 (2022)

Marušič, N.; Otrin, L.; Rauchhaus, J.; Zhao, Z.; Kyrilis, F. L.; Hamdi, F.; Kastritis, P. L.; Dimova, R.; Ivanov, I.; Sundmacher, K.: Increased efficiency of charge-mediated fusion in polymer/lipid hybrid membranes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119 (20), e2122468119 (2022)

Marušič, N.; Zhao, Z.; Otrin, L.; Dimova, R.; Ivanov, I.; Sundmacher, K.: Fusion-induced growth of biomimetic polymersomes: behavior of poly(dimethylsiloxane)-poly(ethylene oxide) vesicles in saline solutions under high agitation. Macromolecular Rapid Communications 43 (5), 2100712 (2022)

Pramanik, S.; Steinkühler, J.; Dimova, R.; Spatz, J.; Lipowsky, R.: Binding of His-tagged fluorophores to lipid bilayers and giant vesicles. Soft Matter 18 (34), pp. 6372 - 6383 (2022)

Wójcik, A.; Stephan, M.; Ryczek, W.; Olechowska, K.; Wydro, P.; Dimova, R.; Broniatowski, M.: Interactions of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and their nitro derivatives with bilayer and monolayer models of fungal membranes. Journal of Molecular Liquids 360, 119591 (2022)

Zhao, Z.; Roy, D.; Steinkühler, J.; Robinson, T.; Lipowsky, R.; Dimova, R.: Super-resolution imaging of highly curved membrane structures in giant vesicles encapsulating molecular condensates. Advanced Materials 34 (4), 2106633 (2022)

Avalos Padilla, Y.; Georgiev, V.; Dimova, R.: ESCRT-III induces phase separation in model membranes prior to budding and causes invagination of the liquid-ordered phase. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: BBA 1863 (10), 183689 (2021)

Avalos Padilla, Y.; Georgiev, V.; Lantero, E.; Pujals, S.; Verhoef, R.; N. Borgheti-Cardoso, L.; Albertazzi, L.; Dimova, R.; Fernàndez-Busquets, X.: The ESCRT-III machinery participates in the production of extracellular vesicles and protein export during Plasmodium falciparum infection. PLoS Pathogens 17 (4), e1009455 (2021)

Faizi, H. A.; Dimova, R.; Vlahovska, P. M.: Electromechanical characterization of biomimetic membranes using electrodeformation of vesicles. Electrophoresis 42 (20), pp. 2027 - 2032 (2021)

Guo, X.; Steinkühler, J.; Marin, M.; Li, X.; Lu, W.; Dimova, R.; Melikyan, G. B.: Interferon-induced transmembrane protein 3 blocks fusion of diverse enveloped viruses by altering mechanical properties of cell membranes. ACS Nano 15 (5), pp. 8155 - 8170 (2021)

Leomil, F.; Zoccoler, M.; Dimova, R.; Riske, K. A.: PoET: automated approach for measuring pore edge tension in giant unilamellar vesicles. Bioinformatics advances 1 (1), vbab037 (2021)

Lipowsky, R.; Dimova, R.: Introduction to remodeling of biomembranes. Soft Matter 17 (2), pp. 214 - 221 (2021)

Lira, R. d.; Leomil, F. S.C.; Melo, R. J.; Riske, K. A.; Dimova, R.: To close or to collapse: the role of charges on membrane stability upon pore formation. Advanced Science 8 (11), 2004068 (2021)

Otrin, L.; Witkowska, A.; Marušič, N.; Zhao, Z.; Lira, R. d.; Kyrilis, F. L.; Hamdi, F.; Ivanov, I.; Lipowsky, R.; Kastritis, P. L. et al.; Dimova, R.; Sundmacher, K.; Jahn, R.; Vidaković-Koch, T.: En route to dynamic life processes by SNARE-mediated fusion of polymer and hybrid membranes. Nature Communications 12, 4972 (2021)

Steinkühler, J.; Fonda, P.; Bhatia, T.; Zhao, Z.; Leomil, F.; Lipowsky, R.; Dimova, R.: Superelasticity of plasma- and synthetic membranes resulting from coupling of membrane asymmetry, curvature, and lipid sorting. Advanced Science 8 (21), 2102109 (2021)