
Publications
Below is a selection of some of our most recent and most relevant work. We are highly active in publishing in top tier journals and the CoM2Life PIs have published > 150 joint interdisciplinary publications.

Original Works
A. Belluati*, S. Jimaja, R. J. Chadwick, C. Glynn, M. Chami, D. Happel, C. Guo, H. Kolmar, N. Bruns* “Artificial Cell Synthesis Using Biocatalytic Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly” Nat. Chem., 16, 564, 2024 (DOI: 10.1038/s41557-023-01391-y). Open Access.
A. Fritschen*, N. Lindner, S. Scholpp, P. Richthof, J. Dietz, P. Linke, Z. Guttenberg, A. Blaeser* “High-Scale 3D-Bioprinting Platform for the Automated Production of Vascularized Organs-on-a-Chip”, Adv. Healthc. Mater., 13, 2304028, 2024 (DOI: 10.1002/adhm.202304028). Open Access.
Y. Wang*, A. M. Bimmermann, M. Neufurth, P. Besenius* “Cucurbit[8]uril Mediated Supramolecular and Photocrosslinked Interpenetrating Network Hydrogel Matrices for 3D-Bioprinting”, Adv. Mater., 36, 2313270, 2024
(DOI: 10.1002/adma.202313270). Open Access.
S. Cao, T. Ivanov, J. Heuer, C. Ferguson, K. Landfester*, L. Caire da Silva* “Dipeptide Coacervates as Artificial Membraneless Organelles for Bioorthogonal Catalysis”, Nat. Comm., 15, 39, 2024 (DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-44278-9). Open Access
M. Nasiri, E. Loran, B. Liebchen*, “Smart Active Particles Learn and Transcend Bacterial Foraging Strategies”, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 121, e2317618121, 2024 (DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2317618121). Open Access.
M. Jung, G. Jung, F. Schmid* “Stability of Branched Tubular Membrane Structures”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 148401, 2023 (DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.148401).
D. Maltseva, S. Chatterjee, C. C. Yu, Y. Nagata, G. Gonella, A. Murthy, N. L. Fawzi, S. Parekh*, M. Bonn* “Fibril Formation and Ordering of Disordered FUS LC at the Water/Air Interface”, Nat. Chem., 15, 1146, 2023
(DOI: 10.1038/s41557-023-01221-1). Open Access.
T. Ghelani, M. Escher, U. Thomas, K. Esch, J. Lützkendorf, H. Depner, M. Maglione, P. Parutto, S. Gratz, T. Matkovic-Rachid, S. Ryglewski, A. M. Walter, D. Holcman, K. O‘Connor Giles, M. Heine*, S. J. Sigrist* “Interactive Nanocluster Compaction of the ELKS Scaffold and Cacophony Ca2+ Channels Drives Sustained Active Zone Potentiation”, Sci. Adv. 9, eade7804, 2023 (DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ade7804). Open Access.
B. Rennekamp, C. Karfusehr, M. Kurth, A. Ünal, K. Riedmiller, G. Gryn’ova, D.M. Hudson, F. Graeter* “Collagen Breaks at Weak Sacrificial Bonds Taming its Mechanoradicals”, Nat. Commun., 14, 2075, 2023 (DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37726-z). Open Access.
C. Viehmann, T. Beck, M. Maurer, O. Quiring, I. Gurevych “Investigating Label Suggestions for Opinion Mining in German Covid-19 Social Media: Setting up a Supervised Machine Learning Tool for Stance Classification”, Commun. Methods Meas., 17, 150, 2023 (DOI: 10.1080/19312458.2022.2151579).
Z. Zhou, K. Maxeiner, P. Moscariello, S. Xiang, Y. Wu, Y. Ren, C. J. Whitfield, L. Xu, A. Kaltbeitzel, S. Han, D. Mücke, H. Qi, M. Wagner, U. Kaiser, K. Landfester, I. Lieberwirth, D. Y. W. Ng*, T. Weil* “In Situ Assembly of Platinum(II)-Metallopeptide Nanostructures Disrupts Energy Homeostasis and Cellular Metabolism”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 144, 12219, 2022 (DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c03215) (Supplementary Cover). Open Access.
W. Weber, M. Roeder, T. Probanowski, J. Yang, H. Abujubara, H. Koeppl, A. Tietze, V. Stein* “Functional Nanopore Screen: A Versatile High-throughput Assay to Study and Engineer Protein Nanopores in Escherichia coli”, ACS Synth. Biol., 11, 2070 2022 (DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.1c00635).
X. Li, P. Bista, A. Z. Stetten, H. Bonart, M. T. Schür, S. Hardt, F. Bodziony, H. Marschall, A. Saal, X. Deng, R. Berger, S. A. L. Weber*, H.-J. Butt* “Spontaneous Charging Affects the Motion of Sliding Drops”, Nat. Phys. 18, 713, 2022 (DOI: 10.1038/s41567-022-01563-6). Open Access.
N. Janich*, A. Simmerling “Linguistics and Ignorance”. In: Editors M. Gross, L. McGoey “Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies”, Routledge London/New York, 2nd edition, 2022 [1st edition 2015] (DOI: 10.4324/9781003100607-18).
A. Samanta, V. Sabatino, T. R. Ward*, A. Walther* “Functional and Morphological Adaptation in DNA Protocells via Signal Processing Prompted by Artificial Metalloenzymes”, Nat. Nanotechnol. 15, 914, 2020 (DOI: 10.1038/s41565-020-0761-y) (Cover Article).
M. Duman, A. Vaquié, G. Nocera, M. Heller, M. Stumpe, D. Siva Sankar, J. Dengjel, D. Meijer, T. Yamaguchi, P. Matthias, T. Zeis, N. Schaeren-Wiemers, A. Hayoz, S. Ruff, C. Jacob* “EEF1A1 Deacetylation Enables Transcriptional Activation of Remyelination”, Nat. Commun. 11, 3420, 2020 (DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17243-z). Open Access.
F.-X. Lehr, M. Hanst, M. Vogel, J. Kremer, H. U. Göringer, B. Suess, H. Koeppl* “Cell-free Prototyping of AND-Logic Gates Based on Heterogeneous RNA Activators”, ACS Synth. Biol. 8, 2163, 2019 (DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.9b00238).
C. Wildner, H. Koeppl* “Moment-Based Variational Inference for Markov Jump Processes”, Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 97, 6766-75, 2019 (URL: http://proceedings.mlr.press/v97/wildner19a.html). Open Access.
C. D. Reinkemeier, G. E. Girona, E. A. Lemke* “Designer Membraneless Organelles Enable Codon Reassignment of Selected mRNAs in Eukaryotes”, Science 363, eaaw2644, 2019 (DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw2644). Open Access.
A. Filatova, L. K. Rey, M. B. Lechler, J. Schaper, M. Hempel, R. Posmyk, K. Szczaluba, G. W. E. Santen, D. Wieczorek, U. A. Nuber* “Mutations in SMARCB1 and in Other Coffin-Siris Syndrome Genes Lead to Various Brain Midline Defects”, Nat. Commun. 10, 2966, 2019 (DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-10849-y). Open Access.
A. Boussebayle, D. Torka, S. Ollivaud, J. Braun, C. Bofill-Bosch, M. Dombrowski, F. Groher, K. Hamacher, B. Suess* “Next-Level Riboswitch Development – Implementation of Capture-SELEX Facilitates Identification of a New Synthetic Riboswitch”, Nucleic Acids Res. 47, 4883, 2019 (DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkz216). Open Access.
R. Merindol, G. Delechiave, L. Heinen, L. H. Catalani, A. Walther* “Modular Design of Programmable Mechanofluorescent DNA Hydrogels”, Nat. Commun. 10, 528, 2019 (DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-08428-2). Open Access.
M. Tonigold, J. Simon, D. Estupinan, M. Kokkinopoulou, J. Reinholz, U. Kintzel, A. Kaltbeizel, P. Renz, M. P. Domogalla, K. Steinbrink, I. Lieberwirth, D. Crespy, K. Landfester, V. Mailaender* “Pre-Adsorption of Antibodies Enables Targeting of Nanocarriers Despite a Biomolecular Corona”, Nat. Nanotechnol. 13, 862, 2018 (DOI: 10.1038/s41565-018-0171-6).
T. Bohn, S. Rapp, N. Luther, M. Klein, T.-J. Bruehl, N. Kojima, P. Aranda Lopez, J. Hahlbrock, S. Muth, S. Endo, S. Pektor, A. Brand, K. Renner, V. Popp, K. Gerlach, D. Vogel, C. Lueckel, D. Arnold-Schild, J. Pouyssegur, M. Kreutz, M. Huber, J. Koenig, B. Weigmann, H.-C. Probst, E. von Stebut, C. Becker, H. Schild, E. Schmitt, T. Bopp* “Tumor Immunoevasion via Acidosis-Dependent Induction of Regulatory Tumor-Associated Macrophages”, Nat. Immunol. 19, 1319, 2018 (DOI: 10.1038/s41590-018-0226-8).
S. Dhiman, A. Jain, M. Kumar, S. J. George* “Adenosine-Phosphate-Fueled, Temporally Programmed Supramolecular Polymers with Multiple Transient States”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 139, 16568 2017 (DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b07469) (cover & spotlight).
3 Reviews and Viewpoints by the three Spokespersons
Review Article: R. Merindol, A. Walther* “Materials Learning from Life: Concepts for Active, Adaptive and Autonomous Molecular Systems”, Chem. Soc. Rev. 46, 5588, 2017 (Invited review for a special issue on “Chemical Systems Out-Of-Equilibrium”)(DOI: 10.1039/ c6cs00738d).
Review Article: T. Prangemeier, F.-X Lehr, R. M. Schoeman, H. Koeppl* “Microfluidic Platforms for the Dynamic Characterisation of Synthetic Circuitry”, Curr. Opin. Biotechnol. 63, 167, 2020 (DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2020.02.002).
Review Article: S. Chagri, D. Y. W. Ng*, T. Weil* “Designing Bioresponsive Nanomaterials for Intracellular Self-Assembly”, Nat. Rev. Chem. 6, 320, 2022 (DOI: 10.1038/s41570-022-00373-x). Open Access.