Publications

• 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^#, Schwille P^# (^#corresponding author)
  “Protein reconstitution inside giant unilamellar vesicles” (Review)
  Annual Review of Biophysics, 2021, 50:525-548[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]