Litschel T#, Dimitrios Vavylonis, David Weitz (#corresponding author) “3D printing cytoskeletal networks: ROS-induced filament severing leads to surge in actin polymerization” (Research Paper) bioRxiv, 2025, DOI: 10.1101/2025.03.19.644260 [Link] Under Review [Link] at Matter
Zhang W, Litschel T, D’Antuono R, Davis C, Schreiber A, Tooze S „Mechanistic studies of autophagic cargo recruitment and membrane expansion through in vitro reconstitution“ (Research Paper) bioRxiv, 2024, DOI: 10.1101/2024.12.24.630225 [Link] In Review at PNAS
Litschel T*,#, Kelley CF*, Cheng X, Babl L, Mizuno N, Case LB, Schwille P# (*equal contribution, #corresponding author) “Membrane-induced 2D phase separation of the focal adhesion protein talin” (Research Paper) Nature Communications, 2024, 15:4986 [Link]
Zheng J, Mallon J, Lammers A, Rados T,Litschel T, Moody ERR, Ramirez-Diaz DA, Schmid A, Williams TA, Bisson-Filho AW, Garner E “Salactin, a dynamically unstable actin homolog in Haloarchaea” (Research Paper) mBio, 2023, 14:e02272-23 [Link]
Bashirzadeh Y, Wubshet N, Litschel T, Schwille P, Liu AP „Rapid encapsulation of reconstituted cytoskeleton inside giant unilamellar vesicles” (Method Paper) Journal of Visualized Experiments, 2021, 177: e63332 [Link]
Bashirzadeh Y, Redford SA, Lorpaiboon C, Groaz A, Litschel T, Schwille P, Hocky GM, Dinner A, Liu AP “Actin crosslinker competition and sorting drive emergent GUV size-dependent actin network architecture” Communications Biology, 2021, 4:1136 [Link]
Litschel T, Kelley CF, Holz D, Adeli Koudehi M, Vogel S, Burbaum L, Mizuno N, Vavylonis D, Schwille P “Reconstitution of contractile actomyosin rings in vesicles” (Research Paper) Nature Communications, 2021, 12:2254 [Link]
Christ S, Litschel T, Schwille P, Lipowsky R “Active shape oscillations of giant vesicles with cyclic closure and opening of membrane necks” (Research Paper) Soft Matter, 2021, 17:319-330 [Link]
Kelley CF, Litschel T, Schumacher S, Dedden D, Schwille P, Mizuno N “Phosphoinositides regulate force-independent interactions between talin, vinculin, and actin” (Research Paper) eLife,2020, 9:e56110 [Link]
Jia H, Litschel T, Heymann M, Eto H, Franquelim H, Schwille P “Shaping giant membrane vesicles in 3D-printed protein hydrogel cages” (Research Paper) Small, 2020, 16:1906259 [Link]
Ganzinger KA, Merino-Salomón A, García-Soriano DA, Butterfield AN, Litschel T, Siedler F, Schwille P “FtsZ reorganization facilitates deformation of giant vesicles in microfluidic traps” (Research Paper) Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2020, 59:21372–21376 [Link]
Litschel T, Ramm B, Maas R, Heymann M, Schwille P “Beating vesicles: Encapsulated protein oscillations cause dynamic membrane deformations” (Research Paper) Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2018, 57:16286–16290 [Link]
Litschel T, Ganzinger KA, Movinkel T, Heymann M, Robinson T, Mutschler H, Schwille P “Freeze-thaw cycles induce content exchange between cell-sized lipid vesicles” (Research Paper) New Journal of Physics, 2018, 20:055008 [Link]
Litschel T, Norton MM, Tserunyan V, Fraden S “Engineering reaction-diffusion networks with properties of neural tissue” (Research Paper) Lab on a Chip, 2018, 18:714-722 [Link]
Thomas Litschel 