Publications

2024

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•   M. Kravikass, G. Koren, O. A. Saleh, R.  Beck, From isolated polyelectrolytes to star-like assemblies: The role of sequence heterogeneity on the statistical structure of the intrinsically disordered Neurofilament-low tail domain, The European Physical Journal E  47:13 (2024). DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-024-00409-8. Arxiv: 2311.18337

 

2023

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• V. Sethi, D. Cohen-Gerassi, S. Meir, M. Ney, Y. Shmidov, G. Koren, L. Adler-Abramovich, A. Chilkoti, R. Beck, Modulating hierarchical self-assembly in thermoresponsive intrinsically disordered proteins through high-temperature incubation, Scientific Reports 13:21688 (2023),  DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-48483-w, Arxiv: 2309.00582

• H. P. Truong, G. Koren, R. Avinery, R. Beck, O. A. Saleh, Pincus blob elasticity in an intrinsically disordered protein, The European Physical Journal E (46) 100 (2023). DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-023-00360-0

• G. Koren, S. Meir, L. Holschuh, H. DT Mertens, T. Ehm, N. Yahalom, A. Golombek, T. Schwartz, D.I. Svergun, O.A. Saleh, J. Dzubiella, R. Beck, Intramolecular Structural Heterogeneity altered by Long-range Contacts in an Intrinsically Disordered Protein, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 120 (30) e2220180120 (2023). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2220180120.  ArXiv

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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 (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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• A. Nir, E. Sela, R. Beck, Y. Bar-Sinai, Machine-learning Iterative Calculation of Entropy for Physical Systems, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 117(48), 30234-30240 (2020). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2017042117. Arxiv: 2008.05921
   

• B. Gutman, M. Mrejen, G. Shabat, R. Avinery, Y. Shkolniskya, R. Beck, Angular Super-Resolution Retrieval in Small-Angle X-ray Scattering, Scientific Reports 10(1), 16038 (2020). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-73030-2. Arxiv: 2002.12665
   

• M. Segal, L. Ozery, G. Slor, S. Wagle, T. Ehm, R. Beck, R. Amir, The architectural change of the shell-forming block from linear to V-shaped accelerates micellar disassembly but slows the complete enzymatic degradation of the amphiphiles, Biomacromolecules 21(10), 4076-4086 (2020). DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.0c00882

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• I. Morgan, R. Avinery, G. Rahamim, R. Beck, O. Saleh, Glassy dynamics and memory effects in an intrinsically disordered protein construct, Physical Review Letters 125, 058001 (2020). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.058001. Editor’s Suggestions. Arxiv: 2007.10404

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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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• G. Jacoby, I. Portnaya, D. Danino, H. Diamant, R. Beck, Delayed Nucleation in Lipid Particles, Soft Matter 16, 347-255 (2020). DOI: 10.1039/C9SM01834D. Arxiv: 1909.06778

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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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• R. Avinery, M. Kornreich, R. Beck, Universal and accessible entropy estimation using a compression algorithm, Physical Review Letters 123, 178102 (2019). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.178102. ArXiv:1709.10164

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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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• R. Shaharabani, M. Ram-On, Y. Talmon, R. Beck, Pathological transitions in myelin membranes driven by environmental and multiple sclerosis conditions, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 44(115), 11156-11161 (2018). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1804275115

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• H. Greener, A. Vigder, S. Beck, R. Beck, Experiences in improving introductory physics labs, Physics Today 71, 12 (2018). DOI: 10.1063/PT.3.3960

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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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• E. Malka-Gibor, M. Kornreich, A. Laser-Azogui, O. Doron, I. Zingerman-Koladko, O. Medalia, R. Beck, Phosphorylation-induced mechanical regulation of intrinsically disordered neurofilament protein, Biophysical Journal 12(5), 892-900 (2017). DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2016.12.050. Cover art. Arxiv: 1609.05546

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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. 

 

• R. Shaharabani, M. Ram-On, R. Avinery, R. Aharoni, R. Arnon, Y. Talmon, R. Beck, Structural Transition in Myelin Membrane as Initiator of Multiple Sclerosis, Journal of the American Chemical Society 138(37), 12159–12165 (2016). DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b04826. 

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• K. Tao, A. Levin, G. Jacoby, R. Beck, E. Gazit, Entropic Phase Transitions with Stable Twisted Intermediates of Bio-Inspired Self-Assembly, Chemistry - A European Journal 22(43), 15237-15241 (2016). DOI: 10.1002/chem.201603882 

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• K. Tao, G. Jacoby, L. Burlaka, R. Beck, E. Gazit, Design of Controllable Bio-Inspired Chiroptic Self-Assemblies, Biomacromolecules 17(9), 2937–2945 (2016). DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.6b00752

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2015

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• M. Kornreich, R. Avinery, E. Malka-Gibor, A. Laser-Azogui, R. Beck, Order and disorder in intermediate filaments, FEBS Letters 589(19), 2464-2476 (2015). DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2015.07.024

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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. M. Storm, M. Kornreich, A. Hernandez-garcia, I. Voets, R. Beck, A. C. Stuart, A. M. Leermakers, R. De Vries, Liquid crystals of self-assembled DNA bottlebrushes, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 119, 4084-4092 (2015), DOI: 10.1021/jp511412t

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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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• C.R. Safinya, J. Deek, R. Beck, J.B. Jones,Y. Li, Assembly of Biological Nanostructures: Isotropic and Liquid Crystalline Phases of Neurofilament Hydrogels, Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics 6, 113-136 (2015), DOI: 10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-031214-014623

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• A. Laser-Azogui M. Kornreich, E. Malka-Gibor, R. Beck, Neurofilament assembly and function during neuronal development. Current Opinion in Cell Biology 32, 92-101 (2015). DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2015.01.003

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​2014

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• M. Kornreich, M. Heymann, S. Fraden, R. Beck, Cross polarization compatible dialysis chip, Lab on a Chip 14(19), 3700-3704 (2014), DOI: 10.1039/C4LC00600C, PMID: 25105977

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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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• C.R. Safinya, J, Deek, R. Beck, J.B. Jones, C. Leal, K.K. Ewert, Y. Li, Liquid crystal assemblies in biologically inspired systems. Liquid Crystals 40(12),1748-1758 (2013), DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2013.846422, PMID: 24558293

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• L. Almagor, R. Avinery, J. Hirsh, R. Beck, Structural flexibility of CaV 1.2 and CaV 2.2 proximal linker fragments in solution,  Biophysical Journal 104, 2392-2400 (2013), DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2013.04.034, PMID: 23746511

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• M. Kornreich, R. Avinery, R.Beck , Modern X-Ray Scattering Studies of Complex Biological Systems, Current Opinion in Biotechnology 24, 716-723 (2013), DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2013.01.005

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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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• Y. Li, R. Beck, T. Huang, M.C. Choi, M. Divinagracia, Scatterless Hybrid Metal-Single Crystal Slit for Small Angle X-ray Scattering and High Resolution X-ray Diffraction, Journal of Applied Crystallography 41,1134-1139(2008). DOI: 10.1107/S0021889808031129

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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