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Czerniak T, Sáenz JP# (2025) Effects of lipid membranes on RNA catalytic activity and stability. Biology of the Cell.doi:10.1111/boc.202400115
Kriebisch CME, Bantysh O, Baranda Pellejero L, et al., Sáenz J, Schwille P, Göpfrich K, Weber CA, Boekhoven J (2025) A roadmap toward the synthesis of life. Chem.doi:10.1016/j.chempr.2024.102399
Oertel J, Safronova N, Sáenz JP#, Fahmy K# (2025) Metabolic heat flow from the minimal cell JCVI-Syn3B reveals the lipidome-dependence of growth and metabolism. bioRxiv.doi:10.1101/2025.09.12.675810
Schrage P, Afonina U, Wörtz J, Marchfelder A, Martens KJA, Sáenz JP, Endesfelder U (2025) A novel expression system for imaging single-molecule fluorescence in Haloferax volcanii WR806 enables visualization of Cas1 involvement in UV-light associated DNA repair. bioRxiv.doi:10.1101/2025.02.24.639823
2024
Justice IG, Kiesel P, Safronova N, von Appen A, Sáenz JP# (2024) A tuneable minimal cell membrane reveals that two lipid species suffice for life. Nature Communications. 15:9679. doi:10.1038/s41467-024-53975-y
Safronova N, Junghans L, Sáenz JP# (2024) Temperature change elicits lipidome adaptation in the simple organisms Mycoplasma mycoides and JCVI-Syn3B. Cell Reports. 43(7):114435. doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2024.114435
Nguyen HNA, Sharp L, Lyman E, Sáenz JP# (2024) Varying the position of phospholipid acyl chain unsaturation modulates hopanoid and sterol ordering. Biophysical Journal. 123(13):1896-1902. doi:10.1016/j.bpj.2024.06.002
Reinhard J, Starke L, Klose C, Haberkant P, Hammarén H, Stein F, Klein O, Berhorst C, Stumpf H, Sáenz JP, Hub J, Schuldiner M, Ernst R (2024) MemPrep, a new technology for isolating organellar membranes provides fingerprints of lipid bilayer stress. The EMBO Journal.doi:10.1038/s44318-024-00063-y
Safronova N, Junghans L, Oertel J, Fahmy K, Sáenz JP (2024) Chemically defined lipid diets reveal the versatility of lipidome remodeling in genomically minimal cells. bioRxiv.doi:10.1101/2024.10.04.616688
2023
Schenkel M, Ravamehr-Lake D, Czerniak T, Sáenz JP, Krainer G, Schlierf M, Deber CM (2023) Impact of cholesterol and Lumacaftor on the folding of CFTR helical hairpins. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta – Biomembranes.doi:10.1016/j.bbamem.2022.184078
Di Lorenzo F, et al. [authors not yet verified in Zotero], Sáenz JP, et al. (2023) Expanding knowledge of methylotrophic capacity: structure and properties of the rough-type LPS from Methylobacterium extorquens and its role on membrane resistance to methanol. JACS Au.doi:10.1021/jacsau.3c00025
Xu Y, Rothe R, Voigt D, Sayed A, Huang C, Hauser S, Lee P-W, Cui M, Sáenz JP, Boccaccini AR, Zheng K, Pietzsch J, Zhang Y (2023) A self-assembled dynamic extracellular matrix-like hydrogel system with multi-scale structures for cell bioengineering applications. Acta Biomaterialia.doi:10.1016/j.actbio.2023.03.015
2022
Thornburg ZR, Bianchi DM, Brier TA, Gilbert BR, Earnest TM, Melo MCR, Safronova N, Sáenz JP, Cook AT, Wise KS, Hutchison CA, Smith HO, Glass JI, Luthey-Schulten Z (2022) Fundamental behaviors emerge from simulations of a living minimal cell. Cell. 185(2):345-360.e28. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2021.12.025
Czerniak T, Sáenz JP# (2022) Lipid membranes modulate the activity of RNA through sequence-dependent interactions. PNAS. 119(4):e2119235119. doi:10.1073/pnas.2119235119
Tookmanian E, Junghans L, Kulkarni G, Ledermann R, Sáenz JP#, Newman DK# (2022) Hopanoids confer robustness to physicochemical variability in the niche of the plant symbiont Bradyrhizobium diazoefficiens. Journal of Bacteriology.doi:10.1128/jb.00442-21
Tekin E, Salditt A, Schwintek P, Wunnava S, Langlais J, Saenz J, Tang D, Schwille P, Mast C, Braun D (2022) Prebiotic foam environments to oligomerize and accumulate RNA. ChemBioChem.doi:10.1002/cbic.202200423
Vanacore A, Forgione MC, Cavasso D, Nguyen HNA, Molinaro A, Saenz JP, D'Errico G, Paduano L, Marchetti R, Silipo A (2022) Role of EPS in mitigation of plant abiotic stress: the case of Methylobacterium extorquens PA1. Carbohydrate Polymers.doi:10.1016/j.carbpol.2022.119863
2021
Tookmanian EM, Belin BJ, Sáenz JP, Newman DK (2021) The role of hopanoids in fortifying rhizobia against a changing climate. Environmental Microbiology.doi:10.1111/1462-2920.15594
Rizk S, Henke P, Santana-Molina C, Martens G, Gnädig M, Nguyen NA, Devos DP, Neumann-Schaal M, Sáenz JP (2021) Functional diversity of isoprenoid lipids in Methylobacterium extorquens PA1. Molecular Microbiology.doi:10.1111/mmi.14794
Nsamela A, Sharan P, Garcia-Zintun A, Heckel S, Chattopadhyay P, Wang L, Wittmann M, Gemming T, Sáenz JP, Simmchen J (2021) Effect of viscosity on microswimmers: a comparative study. ChemNanoMat.doi:10.1002/cnma.202100119
2020
Chwastek G, Surma MA, Rizk S, Grosser D, Lavrynenko O, Ruci?ska M, Jambor H, Sáenz J (2020) Principles of membrane adaptation revealed through environmentally induced bacterial lipidome remodeling. Cell Reports. 32(12):108165. doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2020.108165
Chwastek G, Petrov E, Sáenz JP# (2019) New method for high-throughput measurements of viscosity in sub-micrometer-sized membrane systems. ChemBioChem. 21(6):836-844. doi:10.1002/cbic.201900510
Before 2020
Stordeur C, Hofbauer H, Sáenz JP, Ernst R (2015) Homeostatic control of biological membranes by dedicated lipid and membrane packing sensors. Biological Chemistry. 396(9-10):1043-1058. doi:10.1515/hsz-2015-0130
Sáenz JP#, Grosser D, Bradley A, Lagny TJ, Broda M, Lavrynenko O, Simons K# (2015) Hopanoids as functional analogues of cholesterol in bacterial membranes. PNAS. 112(38):11971-11976. doi:10.1073/pnas.1515607112
Stordeur C, Puth K, Sáenz JP, Ernst R (2014) Crosstalk of lipid and protein homeostasis to maintain membrane function. Biological Chemistry.doi:10.1515/hsz-2013-0235
Sáenz JP, Sezgin E, Schwille P, Simons K (2012) Functional convergence of hopanoids and sterols in membrane ordering. PNAS. 109(35):14236-14240. doi:10.1073/pnas.1212141109
Sáenz JP, Summons RE, Eglinton TI, Waterbury J (2012) Hopanoids in marine cyanobacteria: probing their phylogenetic distribution and biological role. Geobiology. 10(4):311-319. doi:10.1111/j.1472-4669.2012.00318.x
Sáenz JP, Hopmans E, Henderson P, Charette M, Casciotti K, Schouten S, Sinninghe Damsté J, Eglinton TI (2012) Distribution of anaerobic ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in a subterranean estuary. Marine Chemistry. 136-137:7-13. doi:10.1016/j.marchem.2012.04.004
Wakeham SG, Turich C, Schubotz F, Podlaska A, Li XN, Varela R, Astor Y, Sáenz JP, Rush D, Sinninghe Damsté JS, Summons RE, Scranton MI, Taylor GT, Hinrichs KU (2012) Biomarkers, chemistry and microbiology show chemoautotrophy in a multilayer chemocline in the Cariaco Basin. Deep-Sea Research I.doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2012.01.005
Sáenz JP, Summons RE, Eglinton TI, Wakeham SG (2011) New constraints on the provenance of hopanoids in the marine geologic record: bacteriohopanepolyols in marine suboxic and anoxic environments. Organic Geochemistry. 42:1351-1362. doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2011.08.016
Sáenz JP, Summons RE, Eglinton TI (2011) Abundance and structural diversity of bacteriohopanepolyols in suspended particulate matter along a river to ocean transect. Organic Geochemistry. 42:774-780. doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2011.05.006
Bradley AS, Pearson A, Saenz JP, Marx CJ (2010) Adenosylhopane: the first intermediate in hopanoid side chain biosynthesis. Organic Geochemistry.doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2010.07.003
Sáenz JP (2010) Hopanoid enrichment in a detergent resistant membrane fraction of Crocosphaera watsonii: implications for bacterial lipid raft formation. Organic Geochemistry.doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2010.05.005
Sáenz JP (2010) Exploring the distribution and physiological roles of bacterial membrane lipids in the marine environment. PhD thesis, MIT–WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography.doi:10.1575/1912/4081
Pearson A, Leavitt WD, Sáenz JP, Summons RE, Tam MCM, Close HG (2008) Diversity of hopanoids and squalene-hopene cyclases across a tropical land-sea gradient. Environmental Microbiology. 11(5):1208-1223. doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01817.x
Coolen MJL, Sáenz JP, Trowbridge N, Giosan L, Eglinton TI (2009) DNA and lipid molecular stratigraphic records of haptophyte succession in the Black Sea during the Holocene. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 284(3-4):610-621. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2009.05.029
Sáenz JP, Kinne R, Kinne-Saffran E (2003) Determination of the purity of membrane fractions isolated from flounder (Pleuronectes americanus) gills by a selective biotin exposure technique. Bulletin of the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory. 42:85-88.
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