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2026

2 papers
bioRxiv 2026

High-Throughput Characterization of Trends in Transmembrane Helix Partitioning into Membrane Domains

Jonathan Thelen, Melanie Koenig, Maisa Vuorte, Jarkko Liimatainen, Matti Javanainen, Fabio Lolicato

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 2026

How lipid composition shapes the nanostructural interaction of tumor biomarker alpha-fetoprotein and bovine serum albumin with model membranes

Beatrice Barletti, Melanie König, Nicoló Paracini, Giovanna Fragneto, Jean-Pierre Alcaraz, Andrew Nelson, Isabelle Vilgrain, Donald K. Martin, Fabio Lolicato, Marco Maccarini

2025

8 papers
Nature Communications 2025

Plasma membrane transbilayer asymmetry of PI(4,5)P2 drives unconventional secretion of Fibroblast Growth Factor 2

Manpreet Kaur, Fabio Lolicato, Walter Nickel

bioRxiv 2025

Nanoscale PI(4,5)P2 partitioning driven by FGF2 oligomerization triggers membrane pore formation

Alessandra Griffo, Daniel Beyer, Jaime Fernández Sobaberas, Melanie König, Zeynep Kilcan, Manpreet Kaur, Eleonora Margheritis, Katia Cosentino, Petra Riegerová, Martin Hof, Radek Šachl, Walter Nickel, Fabio Lolicato

Nature Communications 2025

Conserved function of the HAUS6 calponin homology domain in anchoring augmin for microtubule branching

Martin Würtz, Giulia Tonon, Bram J. A. Vermeulen, Maja Zezlina, Qi Gao, Annett Neuner, Angelika Seidl, Melanie König, Maximilian Harkenthal, Sebastian Eustermann, Sylvia Erhardt, Fabio Lolicato, Elmar Schiebel, Stefan Pfeffer

Protein Science 2025

Structural insights into SARS-CoV-2 nonstructural protein 4 (nsp4) biogenesis

José M. Acosta-Cáceres, Fabio Lolicato, Laura Gadea-Salom, Juan Ortiz-Mateu, Diego Belda, Luis Martínez-Gil, María Jesús García-Murria, Ismael Mingarro

Traffic 2025

Beyond the Secretory Pathway: New Insights Into Protein Release

Ruey-Hwa Chen, Antonio J. Costa-Filho, Jayanta Debnath, Thierry Galli, Liang Ge, Deborah Goberdhan, Wei Guo, Kangmin He, Ralf Jacob, Tiebang Kang, Min Goo Lee, Lian Li, Fabio Lolicato, Jun Lu, Vivek Malhotra, Walter Nickel, and others

ACS Central Science 2025

The Martini 3 Lipidome: Expanded and Refined Parameters Improve Lipid Phase Behavior

Kasper B. Pedersen, Helgi I. Ingólfsson, Daniel P. Ramirez-Echemendia, Luís Borges-Araújo, Mikkel D. Andreasen, and others, including Fabio Lolicato

Antioxidants 2025

Synthesis of Ethylphosphonate Curcumin Mimics: Substituents Allow Switching Between Cytotoxic and Cytoprotective Activities

Valeria Romanucci, Rita Pagano, Solveigh C. Koeberle, Andreas Koeberle, Minh Bui Hoang, Sonia Di Gaetano, Domenica Capasso, Michele Francesco Maria Sciacca, Valeria Lanza, Carmelo Tempra, Fabio Lolicato, Armando Zarrelli, Danilo Milardi, Giovanni Di Fabio

Faraday Discussions 2025

Does plasma membrane transbilayer asymmetry coupled to lipid nanodomains drive fast kinetics of FGF2 membrane translocation into the extracellular space?

Fabio Lolicato, Manpreet Kaur, Ana Marija Knez, Roberto Saleppico, Walter Nickel

2024

5 papers
Journal of Biological Chemistry 2024

Phosphoinositide switches in cell physiology - From molecular mechanisms to disease

Fabio Lolicato, Walter Nickel, Volker Haucke, Michael Ebner

eLife 2024

SNAP25 disease mutations change the energy landscape for synaptic exocytosis due to aberrant SNARE interactions

Anna Kádková, Jacqueline Murach, Maiken Østergaard, Andrea Malsam, Jörg Malsam, Fabio Lolicato, Walter Nickel, Thomas H. Söllner, Jakob Balslev Sørensen

Nature Communications 2024

Overlay databank unlocks data-driven analyses of biomolecules for all

Anne M. Kiirikki, Hanne S. Antila, Lara S. Bort, Pavel Buslaev, Fernando Favela-Rosales, Tiago Mendes Ferreira, Patrick F. J. Fuchs, Rebeca Garcia-Fandino, Ivan Gushchin, Batuhan Kav, and others, including Fabio Lolicato

eLife 2024

Disulfide bridge-dependent dimerization triggers FGF2 membrane translocation into the extracellular space

Fabio Lolicato, Julia P. Steringer, Roberto Saleppico, Daniel Beyer, Jaime Fernandez-Sobaberas, Sebastian Unger, Steffen Klein, Petra Riegerová, Sabine Wegehingel, Hans-Michael Müller, Xiao J. Schmitt, Shreyas Kaptan, Christian Freund, Martin Hof, Radek Šachl, Petr Chlanda, Ilpo Vattulainen, Walter Nickel

RSC Advances 2024

Mechanics of biomimetic free-standing lipid membranes: insights into the elasticity of complex lipid compositions

Alessandra Griffo, Carola Sparn, Fabio Lolicato, Friederike Nolle, Navid Khangholi, Ralf Seemann, Jean-Baptiste Fleury, Martin Brinkmann, Walter Nickel, Hendrik Hähl

2023

5 papers
bioRxiv 2023

The sterol transporter STARD3 transports sphingosine at ER-lysosome contact sites

Pia Hempelmann, Fabio Lolicato, Andrea Graziadei, Ryan D. R. Brown, Sarah Spiegel, Juri Rappsilber, Walter Nickel, Doris Höglinger, Denisa Jamecna

EMBO Journal 2023

The Ebola virus VP40 matrix layer undergoes endosomal disassembly essential for membrane fusion

Sophie L. Winter, Gonen Golani, Fabio Lolicato, Melina Vallbracht, Keerthihan Thiyagarajah, Samy Sid Ahmed, Christian Lüchtenborg, Oliver T. Fackler, Britta Brügger, Thomas Hoenen, Walter Nickel, Ulrich S. Schwarz, Petr Chlanda

Analytical Chemistry 2023

Determining the Functional Oligomeric State of Membrane-Associated Protein Oligomers Forming Membrane Pores on Giant Lipid Vesicles

Vandana Singh, Sabína Macharová, Petra Riegerová, Julia P. Steringer, Hans-Michael Müller, Fabio Lolicato, Walter Nickel, Martin Hof, Radek Šachl

Cell Host & Microbe 2023

IFITM3 blocks influenza virus entry by sorting lipids and stabilizing hemifusion

Steffen Klein, Gonen Golani, Fabio Lolicato, Carmen Lahr, Daniel Beyer, Alexia Herrmann, Moritz Wachsmuth-Melm, Nina Reddmann, Romy Brecht, Mehdi Hosseinzadeh, Androniki Kolovou, Jana Makroczyova, Sarah Peterl, Martin Schorb, Yannick Schwab, Britta Brügger, Walter Nickel, Ulrich S. Schwarz, Petr Chlanda

Communications Biology 2023

In vivo characterization of the bacterial intramembrane-cleaving protease RseP using the heme binding tag-based assay iCliPSpy

Thomas Kupke, Rabea M. Götz, Florian M. Richter, Rainer Beck, Fabio Lolicato, Walter Nickel, Carsten Hopf, Britta Brügger

2022

4 papers
Journal of Cell Biology 2022

Cholesterol promotes clustering of PI(4,5)P2 driving unconventional secretion of FGF2

Fabio Lolicato, Roberto Saleppico, Alessandra Griffo, Annalena Meyer, Federica Scollo, Bianca Pokrandt, Hans-Michael Müller, Helge Ewers, Hendrik Hähl, Jean-Baptiste Fleury, Ralf Seemann, Martin Hof, Britta Brügger, Karin Jacobs, Ilpo Vattulainen, Walter Nickel

PLOS ONE 2022

Dimerization of the pulmonary surfactant protein C in a membrane environment

Hanna Korolainen, Fabio Lolicato, Giray Enkavi, Jesús Pérez-Gil, Waldemar Kulig, Ilpo Vattulainen

Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology 2022

A Role for Liquid-Ordered Plasma Membrane Nanodomains Coordinating the Unconventional Secretory Pathway of Fibroblast Growth Factor 2?

Fabio Lolicato, Walter Nickel

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Proteins and Proteomics 2022

A unifying framework for amyloid-mediated membrane damage: The lipid-chaperone hypothesis

Carmelo Tempra, Federica Scollo, Martina Pannuzzo, Fabio Lolicato, Carmelo La Rosa

2021

1 papers
Chemistry and Physics of Lipids 2021

The role of alpha-helix on the structure-targeting drug design of amyloidogenic proteins

Carmelo Tempra, Carmelo La Rosa, Fabio Lolicato

2020

7 papers
ACS Chemical Neuroscience 2020

Lipid-Chaperone Hypothesis: A Common Molecular Mechanism of Membrane Disruption by Intrinsically Disordered Proteins

Michele F. Sciacca, Fabio Lolicato, Carmelo Tempra, Federica Scollo, Bikash R. Sahoo, Matthew D. Watson, Sara García-Viñuales, Danilo Milardi, Antonio Raudino, Jennifer C. Lee, Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy, Carmelo La Rosa

Biophysical Chemistry 2020

Modulating Aβ aggregation by tyrosol-based ligands: The crucial role of the catechol moiety

Valeria Romanucci, Sara García-Viñuales, Carmelo Tempra, Roberta Bernini, Armando Zarrelli, Fabio Lolicato, Danilo Milardi, Giovanni Di Fabio

Communications Biology 2020

The Na,K-ATPase acts upstream of phosphoinositide PI(4,5)P2 facilitating unconventional secretion of Fibroblast Growth Factor 2

Cyril Legrand, Roberto Saleppico, Jana Sticht, Fabio Lolicato, Hans-Michael Müller, Sabine Wegehingel, Eleni Dimou, Julia P. Steringer, Helge Ewers, Ilpo Vattulainen, Christian Freund, Walter Nickel

Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2020

Cholesterol Localization around the Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor 2

Markus Kurth, Fabio Lolicato, Angelica Sandoval-Perez, Helman Amaya-Espinosa, Alexandra Teslenko, Irmgard Sinning, Rainer Beck, Britta Brügger, Camilo Aponte-Santamaría

ACS Chemical Neuroscience 2020

Membrane-Dependent Binding and Entry Mechanism of Dopamine into Its Receptor

Fabio Lolicato, Hanna Juhola, Agata Zak, Pekka A. Postila, Annina Saukko, Sami Rissanen, Giray Enkavi, Ilpo Vattulainen, Mariusz Kepczynski, Tomasz Róg

European Biophysics Journal 2020

Symmetry-breaking transitions in the early steps of protein self-assembly

Carmelo La Rosa, Marcello Condorelli, Giuseppe Compagnini, Fabio Lolicato, Danilo Milardi, Trang Nhu Do, Mikko Karttunen, Martina Pannuzzo, Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy, Franca Fraternali, Francesca Collu, Human Rezaei, Birgit Strodel, Antonio Raudino

PNAS 2020

Mcl-1 and Bok transmembrane domains: Unexpected players in the modulation of apoptosis

Estefanía Lucendo, Mónica Sancho, Fabio Lolicato, Matti Javanainen, Waldemar Kulig, Diego Leiva, Gerard Duart, Vicente Andreu-Fernández, Ismael Mingarro, Mar Orzáez

2019

2 papers
Small 2019

The Role of Temperature and Lipid Charge on Intake/Uptake of Cationic Gold Nanoparticles into Lipid Bilayers

Fabio Lolicato, Loic Joly, Hector Martinez-Seara, Giovanna Fragneto, Ernesto Scoppola, Francesca Baldelli Bombelli, Ilpo Vattulainen, Jaakko Akola, Marco Maccarini

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2019

The Devil Is in the Details: What Do We Really Track in Single-Particle Tracking Experiments of Diffusion in Biological Membranes?

Andrey A. Gurtovenko, Matti Javanainen, Fabio Lolicato, Ilpo Vattulainen

2018

3 papers
Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2018

Phospholipids Critical Micellar Concentrations Trigger Different Mechanisms of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Interaction with Model Membranes

Federica Scollo, Carmelo Tempra, Fabio Lolicato, Michele F. M. Sciacca, Antonio Raudino, Danilo Milardi, Carmelo La Rosa

Neuroscience 2018

Negatively Charged Gangliosides Promote Membrane Association of Amphipathic Neurotransmitters

Hanna Juhola, Pekka A. Postila, Sami Rissanen, Fabio Lolicato, Ilpo Vattulainen, Tomasz Róg

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2018

Detection and characterization at nM concentration of oligomers formed by hIAPP, Aβ(1–40) and their equimolar mixture using SERS and MD simulations

Luisa D’Urso, Marcello Condorelli, Orazio Puglisi, Carmelo Tempra, Fabio Lolicato, Giuseppe Compagnini, Carmelo La Rosa

2017

3 papers
eLife 2017

Key steps in unconventional secretion of fibroblast growth factor 2 reconstituted with purified components

Julia P. Steringer, Sascha Lange, Sabína Čujová, Radek Šachl, Chetan Poojari, Fabio Lolicato, Oliver Beutel, Hans-Michael Müller, Sebastian Unger, Ünal Coskun, Alf Honigmann, Ilpo Vattulainen, Martin Hof, Christian Freund, Walter Nickel

ACS Chemical Neuroscience 2017

Inhibition of Aβ Amyloid Growth and Toxicity by Silybins: The Crucial Role of Stereochemistry

Michele F. M. Sciacca, Valeria Romanucci, Armando Zarrelli, Irene Monaco, Fabio Lolicato, Natalia Spinella, Clelia Galati, Giuseppe Grasso, Luisa D’Urso, Margherita Romeo, Luisa Diomede, Mario Salmona, Corrado Bongiorno, Giovanni Di Fabio, Carmelo La Rosa, Danilo Milardi

Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 2017

doGlycans – Tools for Preparing Carbohydrate Structures for Atomistic Simulations of Glycoproteins, Glycolipids, and Carbohydrate Polymers for GROMACS

Reinis Danne, Chetan Poojari, Hector Martinez-Seara, Sami Rissanen, Fabio Lolicato, Tomasz Róg, Ilpo Vattulainen

2016

2 papers
Biophysical Journal 2016

The Role of Cholesterol in Driving IAPP-Membrane Interactions

Michele F. M. Sciacca, Fabio Lolicato, Giacomo Di Mauro, Danilo Milardi, Luisa D’Urso, Cristina Satriano, Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy, Carmelo La Rosa

The Journal of Chemical Physics 2016

Lipid-assisted protein transport: A diffusion-reaction model supported by kinetic experiments and molecular dynamics simulations

Carmelo La Rosa, Silvia Scalisi, Fabio Lolicato, Martina Pannuzzo, Antonio Raudino

2015

1 papers
European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 2015

Resveratrol interferes with the aggregation of membrane-bound human-IAPP: A molecular dynamics study

Fabio Lolicato, Antonio Raudino, Danilo Milardi, Carmelo La Rosa