Papers on Microtubule bundles and smart bionanotubes
D.J. Needleman, M.A. Ojeda-Lopez, U. Raviv, H.P. Miller, L. Wilson and C.R. Safinya, “Higher-order Assembly of Microtubules by Counterions: From Hexagonal Bundles to Living Necklaces”, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 101, 16099-16103, (2004).
U. Raviv, D.J. Needleman, Y. Li, H.P. Miller, L. Wilson and C.R. Safinya, “Cationic Liposome - Microtubule Complexes: Pathways to the Formation of Two State Lipid-Protein Nanotubes with Open or Closed Ends”, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 102, 11167-11172, (2005).
D.J. Needleman, J.B. Jones, U. Raviv, M.A. Ojeda-Lopez, H.P. Miller, Y. Li, L. Wilson and C.R. Safinya, “Supramolecular Assembly of Biological Molecules Purified from Bovine Nerve Cells: from Microtubule Bundles and Necklaces to Neurofilament Networks”, J. Phys.: Cond. Matt., 17, S3225–S3230, (2005).
U. Raviv, D.J. Needleman, and C.R. Safinya, “Cationic Membranes Complexed with Oppositely Charged Microtubules: Hierarchical Self-assembly leading to Bio-Nanotubes”, J. Phys.: Cond. Matt. 18, S1271-S1279 (2006).
U. Raviv, T. Nguyen, R. Ghafouri, D. J. Needleman, Y. Li, H. P. Miller, L. Wilson, R. F. Bruinsma, C. R. Safinya, Microtubule protofilament number is modulated in a stepwise fashion by the charge density of an enveloping layer, Biophys. J. 92 (1), 278-287 (2007).
U. Raviv. D.J.
Needleman, K. Ewert and C.R. Safinya,
Hierarchical bionanotubes formed by the self assembly of microtubules with
cationic membranes or polypeptides,
J. Appl. Cryst.,
40,
s83-s87, (2007).