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Publications

2024
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2023
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2022
 
  • T. Ehm, H. Shinar, G. Jacoby, S. Meir, G. Koren, M. Segal Asher, J. Korpanty, M. Thompson, N. Gianneschi, M. Kozlov, S.M. Azoulay-Ginsburg, R. Amir, J. Rädler, R. Beck, Self-Assembly of Tunable Intrinsically Disordered Peptide Amphiphiles. Biomacromolecules 24(1), 98-108(2022). BioRxiv

  • N. Edelstein-Pardo, M. Molco, P. Rathee, G. Koren, S. Tevet, Z. Shahar; S. Sharabani, R. Beck, R. Amir, A. Sitt, Anisotropic Microparticles through Periodic Autofragmentation of Amphiphilic Triblock Copolymer Microfibers, Chem. Mater. 34(14), 6367-6377 (2022). DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c00859

  • T. Ehm, J. Philipp, M. Barkey, M. Ober, A. T. Brinkop, D. Simmel, M. von Westphalen, B. Nickel, R. Beck, J. O. Radler, 3D printed SAXS chamber for controlled in-situ dialysis and optical characterization. J. Synchrotron Rad. 29, 1014-1019 (2022). DOI: 10.1107/S1600577522005136. BioArix

  • R. Misra,  F. Netti, G. Koren, Y. Dan, P. Chakraborty, S. Cohen, L. Shimon, R. Beck, L. Adler-Abramovich, An Atomistic View of Rigid Crystalline Supramolecular Polymers Derived from Short Amphiphilic, α, β Hybrid Peptide. Polymer Chemistry. (2022) DOI: 10.1039/D2PY01072K

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2021
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  • G. Jacoby, M. Segal Asher, T. Ehm, I. Abutbul Ionita, H. Shinar, S. Azoulay-Ginsburg, D. Danino, M. M. Kozlov, R. J. Amir, R. Beck, Order from disorder with intrinsically disordered peptide amphiphiles, Journal of the American Chemical Society 143, 11879-11888 (2021). DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c06133

  • A. Pau, G. Jacoby, D. Laor Bar-Yosef, R. Beck, E. Gazit, D. Segal, Glucosylceramide associated with Gaucher disease forms amyloid-like twisted ribbon fibrils that induce α-Synuclein aggregation, ACS Nano 15(7), 11854-11868 (2021). DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c02957.

  • T. Ehm, H. Shinar, S. Meir, A. Sekhon, V. Sethi, I. L. Morgan, G. Rahamim, O. A. Saleh, R. Beck, Intrinsically Disordered Proteins at the Nano-scale, (2021).  Nano Futures 5(2), 022501 (2021). DOI: 10.1088/2399-1984/abfb7c.  Arxiv: 2101.06902

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2020 
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  • S. Bera, B. Xue, P. Rehak, G. Jacoby, W. Ji, L. Shimon, R. Beck, P.  Král, Y. Cao, E. Gazit, Self-Assembly of Aromatic Amino Acid Enantiomers into Supramolecular Materials of High Rigidity, ACS Nano 14(2), 1694-1706 (2020). DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b07307​​

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2019
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  • S. Mondal, V. Basavalingapp, G. Jacoby, L. Shimon, R. Beck, E. Gazit, Functional Coiled-coil like Assembly by Knob-into-Hole Packing of Single Heptad Repeat. ACS Nano 13(11), 12630-12637​ (2019).

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  • I. Chakraborty, G. Rahamim, R. Avinery, Y. Roichman, R. Beck. Nanoparticle Mobility over a Surface as a Probe for Weak Transient Disordered Peptide-Peptide Interactions. Nano Letters 19(9), 96524-6534 (2019). DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b02764

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  • S. Bera, S. Mondal, Y. Tang, G. Jacoby, E. Arad, T. Guterman, R. Jelinek, R. Beck, G. Wei, E. Gazit, Deciphering the Rules for Amino Acid Co-Assembly Based on Interlayer Distances, ACS Nano 13(2), 1703-1712 (2019). DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b0777510

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2018

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  • S. Mondal, G. Jacoby, M. Sawaya, Z. Arnon, L. Adler-Abramovich, P. Rehak, L. Vuković, L. Shimon, Linda; P. Král, R. Beck, E. Gazit, Transition of metastable cross-α crystals into cross-β fibrils by β-turn flipping, Journal of the American Chemical Society 141(1), 363-369 (2018). DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b10289

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2017
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  • Y. Messica, A. Laser-Azogui, T. Volberg, Y. Elisha, K. Lysakovskaia, R. Eils, E. Gladilin, B. Geiger, R. Beck, The role of vimentin in regulating cell-invasive migration in dense cultures of breast carcinoma cells, Nano Letters 17(11), 6941-6948 (2017). DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b03358. ArXiv: 1710.02684

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  • I. Rosenbaum, R. Avinery, A.Harnoy, G. Slor, E. Tirosh, R. Beck, R. Amir, Reversible dimerization of polymeric amphiphiles acts as a molecular switch of enzymatic degradability, Biomacromolecules 18(10), 3457-3468 (2017). DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.7b01150

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  • G. Abramov, R. Shaharabani, O. Morag, R. Avinery, A. Haimovich, I. Oz, Inbal, R. Beck, A. Goldbourt, Structural effects of single mutations in a filamentous viral capsid across multiple length scales, Biomacromolecules 18(8), 2258–2266 (2017). DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.7b00125

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  • A. Harnoy, M. Buzhor, E. Tirosh, R. Shaharabani, R. Beck, R. Amir, A modular synthetic approach for adjusting the disassembly rates of enzyme-responsive polymeric micelles, Biomacromolecules 18(4), 1218-1228 (2017). DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.6b01906

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  • M. Segal, R. Avinery, M. Buzhor, R. Shaharabani, A. Harnoy, E. Tirosh, R. Beck, R. Amir, Molecular precision and enzymatic degradation: from readily to undegradable polymeric micelles by minor structural changes, Journal of the American Chemical Society 139(2), 803-810 (2017). DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b10624

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  • S. Mondal, M. Varenik, D. Bloch, Y. Atsmon-Raz, G. Jacoby, L. Adler-Abramovich, L. Shimon, R. Beck, Y. Miller, O. Regev, E. Gazit, A minimal length rigid helical peptide motif allows rational design of modular surfactants, Nature Communication 8, 14018 (2017). DOI:10.1038/ncomms14018

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2016
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  • T. Guterman, M. Kornreich, A. Stern, L. Adler-Abramovich, D. Porath, R. Beck, L. Shimon, E. Gazit, Formation of Bacterial Pilus-Like Nanofibers by Designed Minimalistic Self-Assembling Peptides, Nature Communication 7, 13482 (2016). DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13482

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  • I. M. Storm, M. Kornreich, I. K. Voets, R. Beck, R. de Vries, M. A. Cohen Stuart, F. Leermakers, Loss of Bottlebrush Stiffness due to Free Polymers, Soft Matter 12, 8004-8014 (2016). DOI: 10.1039/C6SM01227B 

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  • M. Kornreich, E. Malka Gibor, B. Zuker, A. Laser Azogui, R. Beck, Neurofilaments function as shock absorbers: compression response arising from disordered proteins, Physical Review Letters 117, 148101 (2016). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.148101. ArXiv:1609.01142. Editor’s Suggestions. Featured in Physics. 

 

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2015

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  • M. Kornreich, E. Malka-Gibor, A. Laser-Azogui, O. Doron, H. Herrmann, R. Beck, Composite bottlebrush mechanics: α-Internexin fine-tunes neurofilament network properties. Soft Matter 11, 5839-5849 (2015). DOI: 10.1039/C5SM00662G

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  • S. Pregent, A. Lichtenstein, R. Avinery, A. Laser-Azogui, F. Patolsky, R. Beck, Probing the interactions of intrinsically disordered proteins using nanoparticle tags. Nano Letters 15(5), 3080–3087(2015). DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b00073.

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  • M. Pellach, Y. Atsmon-Raz, E. Simonovsky, H. Gottlieb, G. Jacoby, R. Beck, L. Adler-Abramovich, Y. Miller, E. Gazit, Spontaneous structural transition in phospholipid-inspired aromatic phosphopeptide nanostructures, ACS Nano 9(14), 4085-4095 (2015). DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b00133

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  • G. Jacoby, K. Cohen, K. Barkan, Y. Talmon, D. Peer, R. Beck, Metastability in lipid based particles exhibits temporally deterministic and controllable behavior. Scientific Reports 5, 9481 (2015). DOI: 10.1038/srep09481 

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  • I. Rosenbaum, A. Harnoy, E. Tirosh, M. Buzhor, M. Segal, L. Frid, R. Shaharabani, R. Avinery, R. Beck, R. Amir, Encapsulation and covalent binding of molecular payload in enzymatically activated micellar nanocarriers. Journal of the American Chemical Society 137(6), 2276-2284 (2015), DOI: 10.1021/ja510085s

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​2014
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  • A.J. Harnoy, I. Rosenbaum ,E. Tirosh, Y. Ebenstein ,R. Shaharabani , R. Beck ,R. J. Amir, Enzyme-Responsive Amphiphilic PEG-dendron Hybrids and their Assembly into Smart Micellar Nanocarriers, Journal of the American Chemical Society 136(16), 5872-5875 (2014), DOI: 10.1021/ja413036q Spotlighted on recent JACS publication 

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2013

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2012

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  • R. Beck, J. Deek, C.R. Safinya, Structures and interactions in 'bottlebrush' Neurofilaments: the role of charged disordered proteins in forming hydrogel networks, Biochemical Society Transactions 40(5), 1027-1031 (2012), PMID: 22988859

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2010
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  • R. Beck, M.C. Choi, J. Deek, T. Ikawa, O. Watanabe, E. Frey, P. Pincus, C.R. Safinya, Unconventional Salt  Trend from Soft to Stiff in Single Neurofilament Biopolymers, Langmuir 26, 18595-18599 (2010), PMID: 21082794

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  • R. Beck, J. Deek, J.B. Jones, C.R. Safinya, Gel Expanded to Gel Condensed Transition in Neurofilament Networks revealed by Direct Force Measurements, Nature Materials 9, 40-46 (2010), PMID:19915555

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2008
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  • H. Hesse, R. Beck, C. Ding,  J.B. Jones, J. Deek,  N.C. MacDonald, Y. Li, C.R. Safinya, Direct imaging of aligned neurofilament networks assembled using in-situ dialysis in microchannels, Langmuir 24, 8397-8401 (2008), PMID: 18336050

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