Publications of the Dimova Group

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 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), e2100712 (2022)

Avalos-Padilla, Y.; Georgiev, V. N.; 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) - Biomembranes 1863, 183689 (2021)

Avalos-Padilla, Y.; Georgiev, V. N.; 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, e1009455 (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)

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

Lira, R. B.; 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, 2004068 (2021)

Otrin, L.; Witkowska, A.; Marušič, N.; Zhao, Z.; Lira, R. B.; 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)

Bhatia, T.; Christ, S.; Steinkühler, J.; Dimova, R.; Lipowsky, R.: Simple sugars shape giant vesicles into multispheres with many membrane necks. Soft Matter 16, pp. 1246 - 1258 (2020)

Bhatia, T.; Robinson, T.; Dimova, R.: Membrane permeability to water measured by microfluidic trapping of giant vesicles. Soft Matter 16, pp. 7359 - 7369 (2020)

Chen, N.; Zhao, Z.; Wang, Y.; Dimova, R.: Resolving the Mechanisms of Soy Glycinin Self-Coacervation and Hollow-Condensate Formation. ACS Macro Letters 9, pp. 1844 - 1852 (2020)

Faizi, H. A.; Reeves, C. J.; Georgiev, V. N.; Vlahovska, P. M.; Dimova, R.: Fluctuation spectroscopy of giant unilamellar vesicles using confocal and phase contrast microscopy. Soft Matter 16, pp. 8996 - 9001 (2020)

Lira, R. B.; Willersinn, J.; Schmidt, B. V. K. J.; Dimova, R.: Selective Partitioning of (Biomacro)molecules in the Crowded Environment of Double-Hydrophilic Block Copolymers. Macromolecules 53, pp. 10179 - 10188 (2020)

Love, C.; Steinkühler, J.; Gonzales, D.; Yandrapalli, N.; Robinson, T.; Dimova, R.; Tang, D.: Reversible pH responsive coacervate formation in lipid vesicles activates dormant enzymatic reactions. Angewandte Chemie, International Edition in English (2020)

Love, C.; Steinkühler, J.; Gonzales, D.; Yandrapalli, N.; Robinson, T.; Dimova, R.; Tang, D.: Reversible pH responsive coacervate formation in lipid vesicles activates dormant enzymatic reactions. Angewandte Chemie 132 (15), pp. 6006 - 6013 (2020)

Marusic, N.; Otrin, L.; Zhao, Z.; Lira, R. B.; Kyrilis, F. L.; Hamdi, F.; Kastritis, P. L.; Vidaković-Koch, T.; Ivanov, I.; Sundmacher, K. et al.; Dimova, R.: Constructing artificial respiratory chain in polymer compartments: Insights into the interplay between bo3 oxidase and the membrane. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (26), pp. 15006 - 15017 (2020)

Roy, D.; Steinkühler, J.; Zhao, Z.; Lipowsky, R.; Dimova, R.: The mechanical tension of biomembranes can be measured by super resolution (STED) microscopy of force-induced nanotubes. Nano Letters (2020)

Steinkühler, J.; Knorr, R. L.; Zhao, Z.; Bhatia, T.; Bartelt, S. M.; Wegner, S.; Dimova, R.; Lipowsky, R.: Controlled division of cell-sized vesicles by low densities of membrane-bound proteins. Nature Communications 11, 905 (2020)

Chakraborty, T.; Bartelt, S. M.; Steinkuehler, J.; Dimova, R.; Wegner, S. V.: Light controlled cell to cell adhesion and chemical communication in minimal synthetic cells. Chemical Communications 55, pp. 9448 - 9451 (2019)

Chakraborty, T.; Bartelt, S. M.; Steinkühler, J.; Dimova, R.; Wegner, S. V.: Light controlled cell-to-cell adhesion and chemical communication in minimal synthetic cells. Chemical Communications 55, pp. 9448 - 9451 (2019)