Keller Group Publications

Publications and Press

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Press and Write-ups by Others re: Keller Lab (Reverse Chronological Order)

"Exploring Membranes: The Work of Sarah L. Keller" ASBMB today, June 2010, p. 32.

"Keller Garners Avanti Young Investigator Award" ASBMB today, Jan. 2010, p. 19.

"Simulating Life's Envelopes" Chemical and Engineering News, Feb. 9 2009, p. 31-33.

"Order Out of Disorder" 2000 Yearbook of Science and the Future, Encyclopedia Brittanica, p. 247.

Peter Olmsted, "Worm-Like Micelles Stir Up a Storm" Physics World, June 1998.

"Entropy Drives Phase Behavior in Colloids" Chemical and Engineering News, June 1 1998, p. 43.

Publications in Reverse Chronological Order

Jan 2010 - Present

R.A. Black, D.W. Deamer, M.C. Blosser, B.L. Stottrup, R. Tavakley, and S.L. Keller, submitted 2013.

C.A. Stanich, A.R. Honerkamp-Smith, G.G. Putzel, C.S. Warth, A.K. Lamprecht, P. Mandal, E. Mann, T.D. Hua, and S.L. Keller, Coarsening Dynamics of Domains in Lipid Membranes in press Biophys. J., 2013.

M.C. Blosser, J.B. Starr, C.W. Turtle, J. Ashcraft, and S.L. Keller, Minimal Effect of Lipid Charge on Membrane Miscibility Phase Behavior in Three Ternary Systems Biophys. J., 2013, 104, 2629.

T. Portet, S.E. Gordon, and S.L. Keller, Increasing Membrane Tension Decreases Miscibility Temperatures; an Experimental Demonstration via Micropipette Aspiration, Biophys. J., 2012, 103, L35-L37. (featured article; free download)

A.R. Honerkamp-Smith and S.L. Keller Experimental Observations of Dynamic Critical Phenomena in a Lipid Membrane, Phys. Rev. Lett, 2012, 108, 265702.

M.M. Stevens, A.R. Honerkamp-Smith and S.L. Keller Solubility limits of cholesterol, lanosterol, ergosterol, stigmasterol, and beta-sitosterol in electroformed lipid vesicles, Soft Matter, 2010, 6, 5882-5890. (cover article)

Jan 2005 - Dec 2009

A.R. Honerkamp-Smith, S.L. Veatch, and S.L. Keller, An Introduction to Critical Points for Biophysicists: Observations of Compositional Heterogeneity in Lipid Membranes, Biochim. Biophys. Acta - Biomembranes (Invited), 1788, 53-63, 2009. (cover article)

A.R. Honerkamp-Smith, P. Cicuta, M.D. Collins, S.L. Veatch, M. den Nijs, M. Schick, and S.L. Keller, Line Tensions, Correlation Lengths, and Critical Exponents in Lipid Membranes near Critical Points, Biophys. J., 95, 236-246, 2008.

M.D. Collins and S.L. Keller, Tuning Lipid Mixtures to Induce Domains across Leaflets of Unsupported Asymmetric Bilayers, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 105, 124-128, 2008.

M. Halter, Y. Liao, R.M. Plocinik, D.C. Coffey, S. Bhattacharjee, U. Mazur, G.J. Simpson, B.H. Robinson, and S.L. Keller Molecular Self-Assembly of Mixed High-beta Zwitterionic and Neutral Ground State NLO Chromophores, Chem. Mater., 20, 1778-1787, 2008.

S.L. Veatch, O. Soubias, S.L. Keller, and K. Gawrisch, Critical Fluctuations in Domain-Forming Lipid Mixtures, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 104, 17650-17655, 2007.

P. Cicuta, S.L. Keller, and S.L. Veatch, Diffusion of Liquid Domains in Lipid Bilayer Membranes, J. Phys. Chem. B., 111, 3328-3331, 2007.

S.L. Veatch, K. Gawrisch, and S.L. Keller, Closed-loop Miscibility Gap and Quantitative Tie-lines in Ternary Membranes Containing DiphytanoylPC", Biophys. J., 90, 4428-4436 2006.

B.L. Stottrup and S.L. Keller, Phase Behavior of Lipid Monolayers Containing DPPC and Cholesterol Analogs, Biophys. J., 90, 3176-3183, 2006.

S.L. Keller and A.L. Smith, Advice for New Faculty Teaching Undergraduate Science J. Chem. Educ., 83, 401-406, 2006.

S.L. Veatch and S.L. Keller, Seeing Spots: Complex Phase Behavior in Simple Membranes, Biochim. Biophys. Acta - Molecular Cell Research (Invited), 1746, 172-185, 2005. (cover article)

M.E. Beattie, S.L. Veatch, B.L. Stottrup, and S.L. Keller, Sterol Structure Determines Miscibility vs. Melting Transitions in Lipid Vesicles, Biophys. J., 89, 1760-1768, 2005.

S.L. Veatch and S.L. Keller, Miscibility Phase Diagrams of Giant Vesicles Containing Sphingomyelin, Phys. Rev. Lett., 94, 148101, 2005.

B.L. Stottrup, D.S. Stevens, and S.L. Keller, Miscibility of Ternary Mixtures of Phospholipids and Cholesterol in Monolayers, and Application to Bilayer Systems, Biophys. J., 88, 269-276, 2005.

Jan 2000 - Dec 2004

S.L. Veatch, I.V. Polozov, K. Gawrisch, and S.L. Keller Liquid Domains in Vesicles Investigated by NMR and Fluorescence Microscopy Biophys. J. 2004 86 2910-2922.

B.L. Stottrup, S.L. Veatch and S.L. Keller Nonequilibrium Behavior in Supported Lipid Membranes Containing Cholesterol Biophys. J. 2004 86 2942-2950.

S.L. Keller Sequential Folding of a Rigid Wire into Three-Dimensional Structures Am. J. Phys. 2004 72 599-604.

S.L. Veatch and S.L. Keller Separation of Liquid Phases in Giant Vesicles of Ternary Mixtures of Phospholipids and Cholesterol Biophys. J. 2003 85 3074-3083.

S.L. Veatch and S.L. Keller A Closer Look at the Canonical Raft Mixture in Model Membrane Studies Biophys. J. 2003 84, 725-726.

S.L. Keller Miscibility Transitions and Lateral Compressibility in Liquid Phases of Lipid Monolayers Langmuir 2003 19, 1451-1456.

S.L. Veatch and S.L. Keller Organization in Lipid Membranes Containing Cholesterol Phys. Rev. Lett 2002 89 268101.

S. Bezzine, J.G. Bollinger, S.L. Veatch, S.L. Keller and M.H. Gelb, On the Binding Preference of Secreted Phospholipases A2 for Membranes with Anionic Phospholipids J. Biol. Chem. 2002 277, 48523-48534.

S.L. Keller Coexisting Liquid Phases in Lipid Monolayers and Bilayers J. Phys.: Condens. Matt. (Special Issue Article), 2002, 14, 4763-4766.

W.H. Pitcher III, S.L. Keller, and W.H. Huestis Interaction of Nominally Soluble Proteins with Phospholipid Monolayers at the Air-Water Interface Biochim. Biophys. Acta (Biomembranes) 2002 1564, 107-113.

S.L. Keller, T.G. Anderson, and H.M. McConnell, Miscibility Critical Pressures in Monolayers of Ternary Lipid Mixtures Biophys. J., 2000, 79, 2033-2042.

S.L. Keller, A. Radhakrishnan, and H.M. McConnell, Saturated Phospholipids with High Melting Temperature Form Complexes with Cholesterol in Monolayers J. Phys. Chem. B, 2000, 104, 7522-7527.

Jan 1995 - Dec 1999

S.L. Keller and H.M. McConnell, Stripe Phases in Lipid Monolayers near a Miscibility Critical Point, Phys. Rev. Lett., 1999, 82, 1602.

S.L. Keller, W.H. Pitcher III, W.H. Huestis and H.M. McConnell, Red Blood Cell Lipids Form Immiscible Liquids, Phys. Rev. Lett., 1998, 81, 5019.

S.L. Keller, P. Boltenhagen, D. Pine and J.A. Zasadzinski, Direct Observation of Shear-Induced Structures in Worm-Like Micelles: a Freeze-Fracture Electron Microscopy Study, Phys. Rev. Lett., 1998, 80, 2725-2728.

M. Adams, Z. Dogic, S.L. Keller and S. Fraden, Entropically Driven Microphase Transitions in Mixtures of Colloidal Rods and Spheres, Nature, 1998, 393, 349.

H.E. Warriner, S.L. Keller, S.H.J. Idziak, N.L. Slack, P. Davidson, J.A. Zasadzinski and C.R. Safinya, The Influence of Polymer Molecular Weight in Lamellar Gels Based on PEG-Lipids, Biophys. J., 1998, 75, 272-293.

S.L. Keller, H.E. Warriner, C.R. Safinya and J.A. Zasadzinski, Direct Observation of the Defect Structure in a Lamellar Biogel of Membranes and Polymer-Lipids. Phys. Rev. Letters, 1997, 78, 4781-4785.

S.L. Keller, S.M. Gruner and K. Gawrisch, Small Concentrations of Alamethicin Induce a Cubic Phase in Bulk Phosphatidylethanolamine Mixtures, Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1996, 1278, 241-246.

Y-S. Lee, J-Z. Yang, T.M. Sisson, D.A. Frankel, J.T. Gleeson, E. Aksay, S.L. Keller, S.M. Gruner and D.F. O'Brien, Polymerization of Nonlamellar Lipid Assemblies, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1995, 117, no. 20, 5573-5578.

Jan 1990 - Dec 1994

S.L. Keller, S.M. Bezrukov, S.M. Gruner, M.W. Tate, I. Vodyanoy and V.A. Parsegian, Probability of Alamethicin Conductance States Varies with Nonlamellar Tendency of Bilayer Phospholipids, Biophys. J., 1993, 65, 23-27.

Sarah L. Keller, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry
Dept. of Chemistry 351700, Univ. of Washington
Seattle, WA, 98195-1700
e-mail: slkeller -at- chem.washington.edu
last edited 2010