B.Khaykovich, N.Kozlova, W.Choi, A. Lomakin, C.Hossain, Y.Sung, R.Dasari, M.S.Feld, G.B.Benedek, "Thickness-radius relationship and spring constants of cholesterol helical ribbons" Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 106, 15663–15666 (2009). [PDF]

Erica A. Ferdinger, Bernhard H. Monien, Brigita Urbanc, Aleksey Lomakin, Miao Tan, Huiyuan Li, Sean M. Spring, Margaret M. Condron, Luis Cruz, Cui-Wei Xie, George B. Benedek, and Gal Bitan, "C-terminal peptides coassemble into Aß42 oligomers and protect neurons against Aß42-induced neurotoxicity" Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 105, 14175–14180 (2008). [PDF]

McManus, J. J., Lomakin, A., Ogun, O., Pande, A., Basan M., Pande, J., and Benedek, G. B., "Altered phase diagram due to a single point mutation in human gD crystallin" Proc. Natl. Acad.Sci. USA, 104, 16856-16861 (2007).[PDF]

               Also see: George M. Thurston, "Protein anisotropy turns solubility on its head",

Grant, M. A., Lazo, N. D. , Lomakin A., Condron, M. M., Arai H., Yamin G., Rigby A. C., and Teplow D.B. Familial Alzheimer's disease mutations alter the stability of the amyloid -protein monomer folding nucleus, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104, 16522-16527 (2007) [PDF]

Khaykovich, B., Hossain, C., McManus, J. J., Lomakin, A., Moncton, D. E., and Benedek, G. B., "Structure of cholesterol helical ribbons and self-assembling biological springs" Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104, 9656-9660 (2007) [PDF].

               Also see: "Biological Springs from Cholesterol Ribbons?", The 2007 Annual Report

               of the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory, May 2008, p.105

Pande, A., Annunziata, O., Asherie, N., Ogun, O., Benedek, G.B., and Pande, J., "Decrease in protein solubility and cataract formation caused by the Pro23 to Thr mutation in human gD-crystallin," Biochemistry 44, 2491-2500 (2005). [PDF]

Lomakin, A., Teplow, D.B., and Benedek G.B., "Quasielastic light scattering for protein assembly study," Amyloid Proteins: Methods and Protocols. (Methods in Molecular Biology 299,) 153-174. E. M. Sigurdsson ed. (2005). [PDF]

Annunziata, O., Pande, A., Pande, J., Ogun, O., Lubsen N.H., and Benedek, G.B., "Oligomerization and phase transitions in aqueous solutions of native and truncated human bB1-crystalline," Biochemistry 44, 1316-1328 (2005). [PDF]

Asherie, N., "Protein crystallization and phase diagram," Methods 34, 266-272 (2004). [PDF]

Lomakin, A., Asherie, N. and Benedek, G.B., "Liquid-solid transition in nuclei of protein crystals," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100, 10254-10257 (2003). [PDF]

Basak, A., Bateman, O., Slingsby, C., Pande, A., Asherie, N., Ogun, O., Benedek, G.B. and Pande, J., "High resolution x-ray crystal structures of human gamma-D crystallin (1.25 A) and the R58H mutant (1.15 A) associated with aculeiform cataract," J. Mol. Biol. 328, 1137-1147 (2003). [PDF]

Annunziata, O., Ogun, O. and Benedek, G. B., "Observation of liquid-liquid phase separation for eye lens gamma-S crystallin," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100, 970-974 (2003). [PDF]

Bitan, G., Kirkitadze, M.D., Lomakin, A., Vollers, S.S., Benedek, G.B. and Teplow, D., "Amyloid beta-protein (Abeta) assembly: Abeta40 and Abeta42 oligomerize through distinct pathways," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100, 330-335 (2003). [PDF]

Annunziata, O., Asherie, N., Lomakin, A., Pande, J., Ogun, O. and Benedek, G.B., "Effect of polyethylene glycol on the liquid-liquid phase transition in aqueous protein solutions," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99, 14165-14170 (2002). [PDF]

Pande, J., Hanlon, E.B., and Pande, A., "A comparison of the environment of thiol groups in bovine and human g-crystallins using Raman spectroscopy," Exp. Eye Res. 75, 359-363 (2002). [PDF]

Yong, W., Lomakin, A., Kirkitadze, M.D., Teplow, D.B., Chen, S.-H. and Benedek, G.B., "Structure determination of micelle-like intermediates in amyloid beta-protein fibril assembly by using small angle neutron scattering," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 99, 150-154 (2002). [PDF]

Smith, B., Zastavker, Y.V. and Benedek, G.B., "Tension-induced straightening transition of self-assembled helical ribbons," Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 278101-(1-4) (2001). [PDF]

Asherie, N., Pande, J., Pande, A., Zarutskie, J.A., Lomakin, J., Lomakin, A., Ogun, O.. Stern, L.J., King, J. and Benedek, G.B., "Enhanced crystallization of the Cys18 to Ser mutant of bovine gamma-B crystallin," J. Mol. Biol. 314, 663-669 (2001). [PDF]

Lomakin, A., "Fitting the correlation function," Applied Optics 40, 4079-4086 (2001). [PDF]

Pande, A., Pande, J., Asherie, N., Lomakin, A., Ogun, O., King, J., and Benedek, G.B., "Crystal cataracts: Human genetic cataracts caused by protein crystallization," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98, 6116-6120 (2001). [PDF]

Pande, A., Pande, J., Asherie, N., Lomakin, A., Ogun, O., King, J.A., Lubsen, N.H., Walton, D. and Benedek, G.B., "Molecular basis of a progressive juvenile-onset hereditary cataract," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 97, 1993-1998 (2000). [PDF]

Sato, A.K., Zarutskie, J.A., Rushe, M.M., Lomakin, A., Natarajan, S.K., Sadegh-Nasseri, S., Benedek, G.B. and Stern, L.J., "Determinants of the Peptide-induced Conformational Change in the Human Class II Major Histocompatibility Complex Protein HLA-DR1," J. Biol. Chem. 275, 2165-2173 (2000). [PDF]

Lomakin, A., Benedek, G.B. and Teplow, D.B., "Monitoring Protein Assembly Using Quasielastic Light Scattering Spectroscopy," Meth. Enzymol. 309, 429-459 (1999).

Walsh, D. M., Hartley, D. M., Kusumoto, Y., Fezoui, Y., Condron, M. M., Lomakin, A., Benedek, G. B., Selkoe, D. J. and Teplow, D. B. "Amyloid Beta-Protein Fibrillogenesis: Structure and Biological Activity of Protofibrillar Intermediates," J. Biol. Chem. 274, 25945-25952 (1999). [PDF]

Lomakin, A., Asherie, N. and Benedek, G.B., "Aeolotopic Interactions of Globular Proteins,"Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 96, 9465-9468 (1999). [PDF]

Zastavker, Z.V., Asherie, N., Lomakin, A., Pande, J., Donovan, J.M., S chnur, J.M. and Benedek, G.B., "Self-assembly of helical ribbons," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 96, 7883-7887 (1999). [PDF]

Zarutskie, J.A., Sato, A.K., Rushe, M.M., Chan, I.C., Lomakin, A., Benedek, G.B. and Stern, L.J. "A conformational change in the human major histocompatibility complex protein HLA-DR1 induced by peptide binding," Biochemistry 38, 5878-5887 (1999). [PDF]

Benedek, G.B., Pande, J., Thurston, G.M. and Clark, J.I., "Theoretical and Experimental Basis for the Inhibition of Cataract," Progress in Retinal and Eye Research 18, 391-402 (1999).

Asherie, N., Pande, J., Lomakin, A., Ogun, O., Hanson, S.R.A., Smith, J.B. and Benedek, G.B., "Oligomerization and Phase Separation in Globular Protein Solutions," Biophys. Chem. 57, 213-227 (1998). [PDF]

Cohen, D.E., Thurston, G.M., Chamberlin, R.A., Benedek, G.B. and Carey, M.C., "Laser Light Scattering Evidence for a Common Wormlike Growth Structure of Mixed Micelles in Bile Salt - and Straight-Chain Detergent-Phosphatidylcholine Aqueous Systems: Relevance to the Micellar Structure of Bile," Biochemistry 37, 14798-14814 (1998). [PDF]

Kusumoto, Y., Lomakin, A., Teplow, D.B. and Benedek, G.B., "Temperature Dependence of Amyloid beta-Protein Fibrillization," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95, 12277-12282 (1998). [PDF]

Liu, C., Pande, J., Lomakin, A., Ogun, O. and Benedek, G.B., "Aggregation in Aqueous Solutions of Bovine Lens Gamma-Crystallins: Special Role of Gamma-S," Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 39, 1609-1619 (1998). [PDF]

Lomakin, A. and Frank-Kamenetskii, M.D., "A Theoretical Analysis of Specificity of Nucleic Acid Interactions with Oligonucleotides and Peptide Nucleic Acids (PNAs)," J. Mol. Biol. 276, 57-70 (1998).[PDF]

Benedek, G.B., "Cataract as a Protein Condensation Disease - The Proctor Lecture", Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 38, 1911-1921 (1997).

Walsh, D.M., Lomakin, A., Benedek, G.B., Condron, M.M. and Teplow, D.B., "Amyloid Beta-Protein Fibrillogenesis: Detection of a Protofibrillar Intermediate", J. Biol. Chem. 272, 22364-22372 (1997). [PDF]

Lebedev, A.D., Ivanova, M.A., Lomakin, A.V, and Noskin, V.A., "Heterodyne quasi-elastic light-scattering for biomedical diagnostics", Appl. Optics 36, 7518-7522 (1997).

Ivanova, M.A., Arutyunyan, A.V., Lomakin, A.V. and Noskin, V.A., "Study of DNA Internal Dynamics by Quasi-Elastic Light Scattering", Appl. Optics 36, 7657-7663 (1997).

Lomakin, A., Teplow, D. B., Kirschner, D. L., and Benedek, G. B., "Kinetic theory of fibrillogenesis of amyloid beta-protein," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 94, 7942-7947 (1997). [PDF]

Thurston, G.M., Hayden, D.L., Burrows, P., Clark, J.I., Taret, V.G., Kandel, J., Courogen, M., Peetermans, J.A., Bowens, M.S., Miller, D., Sullivan, K.M., Storb, R., Stern, H. and Benedek, G.B., "Quasielastic Light Scattering Study of the Living Human Lens as a Function of Age," Curr. Eye Res. 16, 197-207 (1997).

Thomas, H.G., Lomakin, A., Blankschtein, D. and Benedek, G.B. "Growth of Mixed Nonionic Micelles," Langmuir, 13, 205-218 (1997). [PDF]

Teplow, D.B., Lomakin, A., Benedek, G.B., Kirschner, D.A. and Waslsh,D.M. "Effects of b-protein mutations on amyloid fibril nucleation and elongation," p. 313-321 in "Alzheimer's Disease: Biology, Diagnosis and Therapeutics", edited by K. Iqbal, B. Winblad, T. Nishimura, M. Takeda and H.M. Wisniewski (John Wiley, New York, 1997). [PDF]

Friberg, G., Pande, J., Ogun, O. and Benedek, G.B., "Pantethine Inhibits the Formation of High-Tc Protein Aggregates in gamma II Crystallin Solutions," Curr. Eye Res. 15, 1182-1190 (1996).

Asherie, N., Lomakin, A. and Benedek, G.B., "Phase Diagram of Colloidal Solutions," Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4832-4835 (1996). [PDF]

Lomakin, A., Chung, D. S., Benedek, G.B., Kirschner, D. L. and Teplow, D. B., "On the Nucleation and Growth of Amyloid beta-Protein Fibrils: Detection of Nuclei and Quantitation of Rate Constants," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 93, 1125-1129 (1996). [PDF]

Lomakin, A., Asherie, N. and Benedek, G.B.,"Monte Carlo Study of Phase Separation in Aqueous Protein Solutions," J. Chem. Phys. 104, 1646-1656 (1996). [PDF]

Liu, C., Asherie, N., Lomakin, A., Pande, J. Ogun, O. and Benedek, G. B., "Phase Separation in Aqueous Solutions of Lens Gamma-Crystallins: Special Role of Gamma-S," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 93, 377-382 (1996).[PDF]

Fine, B., Lomakin, A., Ogun, O. and Benedek, G.B., "Static Structure Factor and Collective Diffusion of Globular Proteins in Concentrated Aqueous Solution," J. Chem. Phys. 104, 326-335 (1996). [PDF]

Pande, J., Lomakin, A., Fine, B., Ogun, O., Sokolinski, I. and Benedek, G.B., "Oxidation of gammaII-crystallin solutions yields dimers with a high phase separation temperature," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 92, 1067-1071(1995). [PDF]

Fine, B., Pande, J., Lomakin, A., Ogun, O. and Benedek, G.B., "Dynamic Critical Phenomena in Aqueous Protein Solutions," Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 198-201 (1995). [PDF]

Liu, C., Lomakin, A., Thurston, G.M., Hayden, D., Pande, A., Pande, J., Ogun, O., Asherie, N. and Benedek, G. B., "Phase Separation in Multicomponent Aqueous-Protein Solutions," J. Phys. Chem. 99, 454-461 (1995). [PDF]