von Deuster, C. I. E.; Knecht, V.: Competing interactions for antimicrobial selectivity based on charge complementarity. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Biomembranes 1808 (12), pp. 2867 - 2876 (2011)
Kittner, M.; Knecht, V.: Disordered versus fibril-like amyloid beta (25-35) dimers in water: structure and thermodynamics. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 114 (46), pp. 15288 - 15295 (2010)
Klasczyk, B.; Knecht, V.: Kirkwood-Buff derived force field for alkali chlorides in simple point charge water. The Journal of Chemical Physics 132 (2), 024109 (2010)
Klasczyk, B.; Panzner, S.; Lipowsky, R.; Knecht, V.: Fusion-relevant changes in lipid shape of hydrated cholesterol hemisuccinate induced by pH and counterion species. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 114 (46), pp. 14941 - 14946 (2010)
Knecht, V.: Model amyloid peptide B18 monomer and dimer studied by replica exchange molecular dynamics simulations. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 114 (39), pp. 12701 - 12707 (2010)
Knecht, V.; Levine, Z. A.; Vernier, P. T.: Electrophoresis of neutral oil in water. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 352 (2), pp. 223 - 231 (2010)
Smirnova, Y. G.; Marrink, S. J.; Lipowsky, R.; Knecht, V.: Solvent-exposed tails as prestalk transition states for membrane fusion at low hydration. Journal of the American Chemical Society 132 (19), pp. 6710 - 6718 (2010)
Fuhrmans, M.; Knecht, V.; Marrink, S. J.: A single bicontinuous cubic phase induced by fusion peptides. Journal of the American Chemical Society 131 (26), pp. 9166 - 9167 (2009)
Knecht, V.: β-hairpin folding by a model amyloid peptide in solution and at an interface. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 112 (31), pp. 9476 - 9483 (2008)
Knecht, V.; Risselada, H. J.; Mark, A. E.; Marrink, S. J.: Electrophoretic mobility does not always reflect the charge on an oil droplet. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 318 (2), pp. 477 - 486 (2008)
Knecht, V.; Möhwald, H.; Lipowsky, R.: Conformational diversity of the fibrillogenic fusion peptide B18 in different environments from molecular dynamics simulations. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 111 (16), pp. 4161 - 4170 (2007)
Knecht, V.; Mark, A. E.; Marrink, S. J.: Phase behavior of a phospholipid/fatty acid/water mixture studied in atomic detail. Journal of the American Chemical Society 128 (6), pp. 2030 - 2034 (2006)
Supported by the EU’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and the UK Guarantee Scheme, the 'Condensates at Membrane Scaffolds – Integrated Systems as Synthetic Cell Compartments’ doctoral network seeks 17 PhD candidates. This international and interdisciplinary program aims to train future biomedical and biotechnology researchers to explore cellular…
Scientists can now predict structural colors in bacteria. By sequencing a wide range of bacterial DNA and developing an accurate predictive model, reseachers uncovered how bacteria organize themselves into specific patterns within colonies to interfere with light and create iridescence.Their findings hold great promise for sustainable, pigment-free color production.
Biomolecular condensates may play a crucial but overlooked role in remodeling membrane structures within cells. Rumiana Dimova and her team demonstrated that these droplets can shape parts of the endoplasmic reticulum into nanotubes and double-membrane discs without the need for specific curvature-molding proteins.
Imagine switching on a light and being able to understand and control the inner dynamics of a cell. This is what the Dimova group has achieved: by shining lights of different colors on replicates of cells, they altered the interactions between cellular elements. Controlling these complex interactions enables us to deliver specific drugs directly into the cells.
Little is known yet about the interaction between these biomolecular condensate droplets and the membrane-bound organelles. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam developed synthetic membraneless organelles and visualized what happens when they meet a membrane.
Prof Silvia Vignolini, Ph.D. is establishing the new Department "Sustainable and Bio-inspired Materials". She is working at the interface of physics, chemistry, biology and materials science and perfectly complements the institute's profile of research on chemistry, materials and sustainability.