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2010
    Sugawara, M., Resende, J.M., Mendonca de Moraes, C., Chich, J.F., Marquette, A., Metz-Boutigue, M.H., and Bechinger B.,
    Membrane structure and interactions of human Catestatin by multidemansional solution and solid-state NMR spectroscopy
    FASEB Journal (in press 2010)
Georgescu, J., & Bechinger, B.
NMR structures of the histidine-rich peptide LAH4 in micellar environments: membrane insertion, pH-dependent mode of antimicrobial action and DNA transfection (submitted)
Marquette, A., Lorber, B., and Bechinger B.,
Reversible association of liposomes by LAH4 - a peptide with potent antimicrobial and nucleic acid transfection activities, Biophysical Journal (in press 2010)
Langlet-Bertin, B., Leborgne, C., Scherman, D., Bechinger B., Mason; A.J., and Kichler, A.
Design and evaluation of histidine-rich amphipathic peptides for siRNA delivery (submitted)
Salnikov, E., Aisenbrey, C., Vidovic, V. and Bechinger, B.
Solid-state NMR spectroscopic approaches to measure topological equilibria and dynamics of membrane polypeptides
invited contribution to ‘Membrane Protein Dynamics : Correlating Structure to Function’, Editors: A. Ramamoorthy and G. Veglia,
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Membrane Reviews 1798, 258-265 (2010)






201020072004 and olderbook chapters
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2006thesys & posterspatents
20082005proceedings and meeting abstractsothers - general public
2009
Evgeniy Salnikov, Xing Li, Philippe Bertani, Joe D. J. O’Neil , Jan Raap and Burkhard Bechinger 
Analysis of the amide 15N chemical shift tensor of the Calpha tetrasubstituted constituent of membrane-active peptaibols, the alpha-aminoisobutyric acid residue, compared to those of di- and tri-substituted proteinogenic amino acid residues,
Journal of Biomolecular NMR 45, 373-387 (2009)
Resende, J.M., Mendonca Moraes, C., de Oliveira Munhos, V.H., Aisenbrey, C., Verly, R.M., Bertani, P., Cesar, A., Piló-Veloso, D., and Bechinger, B.
Membrane structure and conformational changes of the antibiotic heterodimeric peptide distinctin by solid-state NMR spectroscopy, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 106, 16639-16644 (2009)
Falk Bernsmann, Arnaud Ponche, Christian Ringwald, Jesus Raya, Burkhard Bechinger, Jean-Claude Voegel, Pierre Schaaf, and Vincent Ball
    Characterization and control of the surface-initiated dopamine-melanin growth on silicon oxides Journal of Physical Chemistry B (in press 2009)
Aisenbrey, C., Prongidi-Fix, L., Chenal, A., Gillet, D. and Bechinger, B.
    Side chain resonances in static oriented proton-decoupled 15N solid-state NMR spectra of membrane proteins,
Journal of the American Chemical Society 131, 6340-6341 (2009)
Bechinger, B.
Rationalizing the membrane interactions of cationic amphipathic antimicrobial peptides by their molecular shape
Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science, Surfactants 14, 349-355 (2009)
Alexandre Chenal, Lydia Prongidi-Fix, Aurélie Perier, Christopher Aisenbrey, Grégory Vernier, Stephan Lambotte, Michael Haertlein, Marie-Thérèse Dauvergne, Giovanna Fragneto, Burkhard Bechinger, Daniel Gillet, Vincent Forge, and Michel Ferrand; 
Deciphering membrane insertion of the diphtheria toxin T domain by specular neutron reflectometry and solid state NMR spectroscopy.
Journal of Molecular Biology, cover page of 50 years of JMB issue 391 (5), 872-883 (2009)
Salnikov, E., De Zotti, M., Formaggio, F., Li, X., Toniolo, C., O’Neil, J. D. J., Raap, J., Dzuba, S., and Bechinger, B.
Alamethicin topology in phospholipid membranes by oriented solid-state NMR and EPR spectroscopies: A comparison Journal of Physical Chemistry B 113, 3034-3042 (2009)
Evgeniy Salnikov, A. James Mason and Burkhard Bechinger
Membrane disordering in the presence of antimicrobial peptides by 2H solid-state NMR spectroscopy
Biochimie 91, 734-743 (2009)
Mason, A.J., Moussaoui, W., Abdelrhaman, T., Boukhari, A., Bertani, P., Marquette, A., Shooshtarizaheh, P., Moulay, G., Boehm, N., Guerold, B., Kichler, A., Metz-Boutigue, M.H., Candolfi, E., Prévost, G., and Bechinger, B.
Structural determinants of antimicrobial and antiplasmodial activity and selectivity in histidine rich amphipathic cationic peptides Journal of Biological Chemistry 284, 119-133 (2009)
Vidovic, V., Prongidi-Fix, L., Bechinger, B., and Werten S.
A versatile and highly efficient method for the production of antimicrobial peptides in Escherichia coli. 
Journal of Peptide Science 15, 278-284 (2009)
Verly, R.M., Mendonça de Moraes, C., Resende, J.M., Aisenbrey, C., Bemquerer, M.P., Piló-Veloso, D., Valente, A.P., de Almeida, F.C.L., and Bechinger, B.
Structure and membrane interactions of the antibiotic peptide dermadistinctin k by solution and oriented 15N and 31P solid-state NMR spectroscopy
Biophysical Journal 18, 2194-2203 (2009)
Evgeniy Salnikov, Herdis Friedrich, Xing Li , Philippe Bertani, Christian Hertweck, Siegmund Reissmann, Joe D. J. O’Neil, Jan Raap and Burkhard Bechinger
Structure and alignment of the membrane-associated peptaibols ampullosporin A and alamethicin by oriented 15N and 31P solid-state NMR spectroscopy
Biophysical Journal 96, 86-100 (2009)






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2006thesys & posterspatents
20082005proceedings and meeting abstractsothers - general public
2008
Svetlana Nedelkina, Helen Ridlley, Isa Gokce, Thierry Magnin, Francois Vallette, Franc Pattus, Jeremy Lakey, Burkhard Bechinger
High-yield expression and purification of soluble form of anti-apoptotic proteins Bcl-xL and Bcl-2 as a TolAIII- fusion proteins
Protein Expression and Purification 29, 1633-1644 (2008)
Bechinger, B.
The Structure and Dynamics of Membranes: Polypeptide Interactions in a Polymorphic Environment
invited review to the special issue Membrane structure and Dynamics, Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 65, 3028-3039 (2008)
Jarbas M. Resende, Cléria Mendonça Moraes, Amary Cesar, Fabio C. L. Almeida, Maura V. Prates, Nathália C. C. R. Mundim, Philippe Bertani, Ana Paula Valente, Marcelo P. Bemquerer, Dorila Piló-Veloso, and Burkhard Bechinger
Structure, activity and membrane interaction studies of Phylloseptin 1, 2, and 3 peptides by solution and combined 15N and 2H solid-state NMR spectroscopy, Peptides 29, 1633-1644 (2008)
Aisenbrey, C., Cusan, M., Lambotte, S., Jasperse, P., Georgescu, J., Harzer, U., and Bechinger, B.
Specific isotope labeling of colicin E1 and B channel domains for membrane topological analysis by oriented solid-state NMR spectroscopy
Chem.Bio.Chem 9, 944-51 (2008)
Marquette, A., Mason J. and Bechinger, B.
Aggregation and membrane permeabilising properties of designed histidine-containing cationic linear peptide antibiotics,
Jounal of Peptide Sciences 14, 488-495 (2008)
Aisenbrey, C., Bechinger, B. and Gröbner, G.
Effect on helix alignments of molecular crowding of peptides on the membrane surface
Journal of Molecular Biology 375, 376-385 (2008)






201020072004 and olderbook chapters
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2006thesys & posterspatents
20082005proceedings and meeting abstractsothers - general public
2007
Mason, A. J., Bertani, P., Moulay, G., Marquette, A., Perrone, B., Drake, A., Kichler, A., and Bechinger, B.
The membrane interaction of chrysophsin, a histidine rich antimicrobial peptide from red sea bream
Biochemistry 46, 15175-15187 (2007)
Egger, C., Raman, V., Schädler, V, Raya, J., Hirschinger, J., and Bechinger, B.,
1H-13C CP MAS and T2 Relaxation Solid-State NMR Measurements of Melamine-Based Polycondensed Chemical Gels
Macromorecular Chemistry and Physics 208, 2204-2214 (2007)
Prongidi-Fix, L., Bertani, P., and Bechinger, B.
The membrane alignment of helical peptides from non-oriented 15N chemical shift solid-state NMR spectroscopy
 Journal of the American Chemical Society 129, 8430-8431 (2007)
Mason, A.J., Marquette, A., and Bechinger, B.
Zwitterionic lipids and sterols modulate antimicrobial peptide-membrane interactions
Biophysical Journal 93, 4289-4299 (2007)
Aisenbrey, C., Sudheendra U.S., Ridley, H., Bertani, P.,  Marquette, A., Nedelkina, S., Lakey, J., & Bechinger, B.
Helix orientations in membrane-associated Bcl-xL determined by 15N solid-state NMR spectroscopy
European Biophysics Journal 36, 451-460 (2007)
Prongidi-Fix, L. Sugawara, M., Bertani, P., Raya, J., Leborgne, C., Kichler, A., and Bechinger, B.,
Self-promoted cell entry of peptidic transfection complexes
Biochemistry 46, 11253-11262 (2007)
Muhs, A., Hickman, D.T., Kolonko, N., Pihlgren, M., van der Auwera, I., van Leuven, F., Sugawara, M., Weingertner, M.C., Bechinger, B., Greferath, R., Nagel-Steger, L., Riesner, D., Pfeifer, A. and Nicolau, C., Conformation-dependent antigen presentation within a liposomal vaccine formulation reduces cerebral Aβ load and improves cerebral memory capacities in Alzheimer’s Disease model
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 104, 9810-9815 (2007)
Lalier, L., Cartron, P.-F., Juin, P., Nedelkina, S., Manon, S., Bechinger, B., Vallette, F.
Bax activation and mitochondrial insertion during apoptosis , Review,
Apoptosis, 12, 887-896 (2007)
Mason, A.J., Leborgne, C., Moulay, G., Martinez, A., Danos, O., Bechinger, B., Kichler, A.
Optimizing histidine-rich peptides for efficient DNA delivery in the presence of serum
Journal of Controlled Release 118, 95-114 (2007)
Aisenbrey, C., Bertani. P., Henklein, P., Bechinger, B.
Structure, Dynamics and Topology of membrane polypeptides by oriented 2H solid-state NMR spectroscopy, contribution to the Festschrift in honour to the 65th birthday of Professor Klaus Arnold.
European Biophysical Journal 36, 451-460 (2007)
Mason, J., Bechinger, B., & Kichler, A.
Rational design of vector and antibiotic peptide using solid state NMR
Mini-reviews in Medicinal Chemistry 7, 491-497 (2007)
Kichler, A., Leborgne, C., Danos, O., Bechinger, B.
Characterization of the gene transfer process mediated by histidine-rich peptides
Journal of Molecular Medicine 85, 191-201 (2007)






201020072004 and olderbook chapters
2009
2006thesys & posterspatents
20082005proceedings and meeting abstractsothers - general public
2006
Mason, A.J., Gasnier, C., Kichler, A., Prévost, G., Metz-Boutigue, M.H., & Bechinger, B. Enhanced membrane disruption and antibiotic action against pathogenic bacteria by designed histidine-rich peptides at acidic pH  
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 50, 3305-3311 (2006)
Bechinger, B. and Lohner, K.
Detergent-like action of linear cationic membrane-active antibiotic peptides
Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1758, 1529-1539 (2006) 
Aisenbrey, C., Kinder, R., Goormaghtigh, E., Ruysschaert, J.M., & Bechinger, B.
Interactions involved in the realignment of membrane-associated helices: an investigation using oriented solid-state NMR and ATR-FTIR spectroscopies
Journal of Biological Chemistry 281, 7708-7716 (2006)
Aisenbrey, C., Sizun, C., Koch, J., Hergert, M., Abele, R., Bechinger, B.*, and Tampé, R.*,
Structure and dynamics of membrane-associated ICP47, a viral inhibitor of the MHC I antigen-processing machinery.
J Biol Chem. 281, 30365-72. (2006)
Aisenbrey, C., Goormaghtigh, E. , Ruysshaert, J.M., & Bechinger, B.
    Translocation of amino acyl residues from the membrane interface to the hydrophobic core: Thermodynamic model and experimental analysis using ATR-FTIR spectroscopy
    Molecular Membrane Biology 23, 363-374 (2006)
Mason, J.A., Husnal Chotimah, I.N., Bertani, P., and Bechinger, B.
    Aspectroscopic study of the membrane interaction of the antimicrobial peptide pleurocidin
    Molecular Membrane Biology 23, 185-194 (2006)
Aisenbrey, C., Harzer, U., Bär, G., Bauer-Manz, G., Husnal Chotimah, I.N., Bertani, P., Kuhn, A., and Bechinger, B.
Structure and membrane alignment of the Pf3 coat protein by 15N solid-state NMR spectroscopy FEBS Journal 273, 817-28 (2006)
Kichler, A., Mason, J., and Bechinger, B.,
    Cationic amphipathic histidine-rich peptides for gene delivery
    Biochimica Biophysica Acta 1758, 301-307 (2006)
Mason, J.A., Marinez, A. Glaubitz, C., Danos, O., Kichler, A., and Bechinger, B.
The antibiotic and DNA transfecting peptide LAH4 selectively associates with, and disorders, anionic lipids in mixed membranes
FASEB J.  20, 320-2 (2006)






201020072004 and olderbook chapters
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2006thesys & posterspatents
20082005proceedings and meeting abstractsothers - general public
2005
Sudheendra U.S. & Bechinger, B.
Topological equilibria of ion-channel peptides in oriented lipid bilayers revealed by 15N solid-state NMR spectroscopy
Biochemistry, 44, 12120-12127 (2005)
Bechinger, B.,
    Detergent-like properties of magainin antibiotic peptides: A 31P solid-state NMR spectroscopy study
    Biochimica Biophysica Acta 1712, 101-108 (2005) 






201020072004 and olderbook chapters
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2006thesys & posterspatents
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    201020072004 and olderbook chapters
    2009
    2006thesys & posterspatents
    20082005proceedings and meeting abstractsothers - general public
    Proceedings and Meeting Abstracts
    Aisenbrey, C., Resende, J., Piló-Veloso, D., Bechinger, B:
    "Solid-state NMR investigations of membrane-associated peptides and proteins"
    Abstract for the Biophysical Society Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 18-24. February 2010
    Perrone, B., Miles, A.J., Bechinger, B., Hoffman, S.V., Wallace, B.A.
    "Oriented Synchrotron Radiation Circular Dichroism and Linear Dichroism Spectrospscopy of Peptides in Model Membranes"
     Abstract for the Biophysical Society Meeting, Boston, 28.2.-4.3.2009     http://www.abstractsonline.com/plan/SSResults.aspx 1724-Pos
    Salnikov, E., Friedrich, H., Li, X. , Bertani, P., Hertweck, C., Reissmann, S., O’Neil, J. D. J., Raap, J., and Bechinger, B..
    "Structure and alignment of membrane-associated peptaibols by oriented 15N and 31P solid-state NMR spectroscopy"
    Abstract for the Biophysical Society Meeting, Boston, 28.2.-4.3.2009
    http://www.abstractsonline.com/plan/SSResults.aspx  2101-Pos
    Bechinger, B.
    "Biophysical investigations of membrane-associated polypeptides by solid-state NMR: Applications to proteins and peptides involved in apoptosis, channel formation, antimicrobial action and transfection of nucleic acids"
    Abstracts of Papers of the Amercian Chemical Society
    ACS Spring Meeting, New Orleans LA  (April 6, 2008)
    Anna Itkin, Burkhard Bechinger, Jean-Marie Ruysschaert, Vincent Raussens
    Effects of Ca+2 ions and lipids on aggregation and conformational changes of synthetic amyloid beta-peptides associated with Alzheimer’s disease. Biophys. J. (2008)
    Philippe Bertani, Arnaud Marquette, A. James Mason, Sveltana Nedelkina, Marc Prudhon, Evgeniy Salnikov, Verica Vidovic, Christopher Aisenbrey, Robert, Tampé, Andreas Kuhn, Jeremy, H. Lakey, Burkhard Bechinger, Structural Investigations of proteins and peptides by solid-state NMR spectroscopy.
        Proceedings of the XVIII Mendeleev Congress on General and Applied Chemistry, Volume 5, Moscow (2007)
    Evgeniy S. Salnikov, Burkhard Bechinger, Jan Raap, Sergey A. Dzuba
    "Membrane Composition Influences Topology of Membrane-Modifying Peptaibol Alamethicin: Pulsed EPR and Solid State NMR Study" Sendai-Berlin-Novosibirsk
    2006, 28-31 August 2006, Novosibirsk, Russia, p.33
    Prongidi-Fix, L., Aisenbrey, C., Mason, J., Kichler, A., Bechinger, B.
    "New family of peptidic vectors with potent transfection and antibiotic activities"
    Abstracts of Papers of the Amercian Chemical Society 231: 178PHYS
    ACS Spring Meeting, Atlanta, GA  (March 26, 2006)
    Mason, J., Husnal Chotimah, I.N., & Bechinger, B.
    "Solid-state NMR studies of amphipathic helical DNA vectors and antibiotic peptides"
    European Biophysics Journal (2005) 34, 956
    Aisenbrey, C., Goormaghtigh, E., Ruysschaert, J.-M., and Bechinger, B,
    "Translocation of amino acids from the membrane interface to the interior: Theory and Experimiment", European Biophysics Journal (2005) 34, 789
    Aisenbrey, C. and Bechinger, B,
    "Investigations of polypeptide topology and rotational diffusion in membranes by solid-state NMR", European Biophysics Journal (2005) 34, 788
    Bechinger, B.
    "Structure, topology and dynamics of membrane-associated polypeptides by solid-state NMR spectroscopy", FEBS J. Special issue: The protein world, 272, 325 (2005)





    Book Chapters
    Bechinger, B.
    Membrane-association and pore formation by alpha-helical peptides
    invited contribution to ‘Proteins: Membrane Binding and Pore Formation, Editors: G. Anderluth and Jeremy Lakey, Landes Biosciences (2010, in press)
    Aisenbrey, C., Bertani, P., and Bechinger, B.
    Solid-state NMR of antimicrobial peptides
    in Methods in Molecular Biology: Antimicrobial Peptides: Methods and Protocols, Vol 618, pp. 209-233, Humana Press, editors: Andres C. Rinaldi and Andrea Guiliani (2010)
    Bechinger, B., Bertani, P., Werten, S., Mendonça de Moraes, C., Aisenbrey, C., Mason, A.J., Perrone, B., Prudhon, M., Sudheendra, U.S., and Vidovic, V.
    The structural and topological analysis of membrane polypeptides by oriented solid-state NMR spectroscopy: Sample preparation and theory. Chapter 9 in "Membrane-active peptides: Methods and results on structure and function" International University Line, La Jolla, California, USA; editor Miguel Castanho, pp. 196-215  (2010, in press)
    Goldmann, W.H., Isenberg, G., Marsh, D., & Bechinger, B.
    Cytoskeletal proteins meet lipid bilayers
    in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Their Applications: Recent Progress Volume 8, Editor H.T. Tien (2007)
    Bechinger, B., and Henklein, P.
    Solid-state NMR investigations of Vpu structural domains in oriented phospholipid bilayers: Interactions and alignment, Chapter 13 in Viral membrane proteins: Structure, function, drug design, editor: Wolfgang Fischer, Volume 1 in Series Protein Reviews (editor M. Zouhair Atassa), Publisher: Springer, pp. 177-186 (2005)



    Patents
    Kichler, A., Leborgne, C. and Bechinger, B.
    Vecteur peptidique pour le transfert d'acides nucléiques dans des cellules eucaryotes,
    Joint patent G143-B-18.120 FR and G143-B-18.120 PCT together with Généthon III, Evry, France (2001)
    Mason, J.A., Kichler, A., and Bechinger, B.
    US Provisional Patent Application 60/720,878, The antibiotic and DNA transfecting peptide LAH4 selectively associates with, and disorders, anionic lipids in mixed membranes, 27. September 2005
    Mason, A.J., Metz-Boutigue, M.H., Prévost, G. & Bechinger, B.
    US Provisional Patent Application 60/815469, Designed histidine-rich peptides with pH dependent antibiotic action against pathogenic bacteria, 21. June 2006
    Vidovic, V., Bechinger, B., and Werten S.
    US Provisional Patent Application 61/065709, A versatile and highly efficient method for the production of antimicrobial peptides in Escherichia coli, 14. February 2008
    Mason,J, Bechinger, B., Candolfi, E., Metz-Boutigue, M.H., Prevost, G. and Kichler, A.
    US Provisional Patent Application 61/103321, Structural determinants of antimicrobial and antiplasmodial activity and selectivity in histidine rich amphipathic cationic peptides, 8. October 2008



    201020072004 and olderbook chapters
    2009
    2006thesys & posterspatents
    20082005proceedings and meeting abstractsothers - general public
    Others - General Public
    Bechinger, B.
    Strukturuntersuchungen an membrangebundenen Polypeptiden. Werkstätten der Zukunft 1997 (Editor: Pressestelle der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft 1997)
    Münster, C., Salditt, T., Bechinger, B., Siebrecht, R. and Leiner, V.
     Nonspecular neutron scattering from highly aligned lipid membranes
    The Institut Max von Laue – Paul Langevin, Annual Report, 17-18 (1999)
    Bechinger, B.
    Strukturuntersuchungen an membrangebundenen Polypeptiden mittels Festkörper-NMR-Spektroskopie Jahrbuch der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft 1999, 91-96 (1999)
    Bechinger, B. and others (written and edited by Frédéric Naudon, Alsace Media Science)
    "RMN: quand la matière résonne", dossier in ULP Sciences 26 (January 2007





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