Publications

2025

• A roadmap toward the synthesis of lifeCollaborators, Kriebisch, C. M., Bantysh, O., Baranda Pellejero, L., Belluati, A., Bertosin, E., Dai, K. & 45 others, 13 Mar 2025, In: Chem. 11, 3, 102399Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Review article
• Effects of lipid membranes on RNA catalytic activity and stabilityCzerniak, T. & Saenz, J. P., Feb 2025, In: Biology of the Cell. 117, 2, e202400115Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article

2024

• A tuneable minimal cell membrane reveals that two lipid species suffice for lifeJustice, I., Kiesel, P., Safronova, N., von Appen, A. & Saenz, J. P., 8 Nov 2024, In: Nature communications. 15, 1, 9679Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
• Temperature change elicits lipidome adaptation in the simple organisms Mycoplasma mycoides and JCVI-syn3BSafronova, N., Junghans, L. & Saenz, J. P., 23 Jul 2024, In: Cell reports. 43, 7, 114435Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
• Varying the position of phospholipid acyl chain unsaturation modulates hopanoid and sterol orderingNguyen, H. N. A., Sharp, L., Lyman, E. & Saenz, J. P., 2 Jul 2024, In: Biophysical journal. 123, 13, p. 1896-1902, 7 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
• MemPrep, a new technology for isolating organellar membranes provides fingerprints of lipid bilayer stressReinhard, J., Starke, L., Klose, C., Haberkant, P., Hammarén, H., Stein, F., Klein, O. & 6 others, Apr 2024, In: The EMBO journal. 43, 8, p. 1653-1685, 33 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article

2023

• A self-assembled dynamic extracellular matrix-like hydrogel system with multi-scale structures for cell bioengineering applicationsXu, Y., Rothe, R., Voigt, D., Sayed, A., Huang, C., Hauser, S., Lee, P. W. & 6 others, 16 Mar 2023, In: Acta biomaterialia. 162, p. 211-225, 15 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
• Impact of cholesterol and Lumacaftor on the folding of CFTR helical hairpinsSchenkel, M., Ravamehr-Lake, D., Czerniak, T., Saenz, J. P., Krainer, G., Schlierf, M. & Deber, C. M., 1 Jan 2023, In:  Biochimica et biophysica acta : BBA. 1865, 1, 184078Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article

2022

• Role of EPS in mitigation of plant abiotic stress: The case of Methylobacterium extorquens PA1Vanacore, A., Forgione, M. C., Cavasso, D., Nguyen, H. N. A., Molinaro, A., Saenz, J. P., D'Errico, G. & 3 others, 1 Nov 2022, In: Carbohydrate polymers. 295, 119863Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
• Hopanoids Confer Robustness to Physicochemical Variability in the Niche of the Plant Symbiont Bradyrhizobium diazoefficiensTookmanian, E., Junghans, L., Kulkarni, G., Ledermann, R., Saenz, J., Newman, D. K. & Becker, A., Jul 2022, In: Journal of bacteriology. 204, 7, e0044221Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article