Publications

Publication List

(¶equal contribution, *co-corresponding author). 

2024

• Mangeol P, Massey-Harroche D, Sebbagh M, Richard F, Le Bivic A, Lenne PF. 2024 The zonula adherens matura redefines the apical junction of intestinal epithelia. PNAS. 121(9):e2316722121. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2316722121. PMID: 38377188 

• Rodriguez Lejarraga, P.; Moneo, A.; Martin, S.; Colom, A.; Redondo-Morata, L.; Giannotti, M.; Petrenko, V.; Silván, U.; Lanceros-Méndez, S., The surface charge of electroactive materials governs cell behaviour through its effect on protein deposition, Acta Biomaterialia (in press), doi: 10.1016/j.actbio.2024.06.039 

• Longarzo, M.L.; Vázquez, R.F.; Bellini, M.J.; Zamora, R.A.; Redondo-Morata, L.; Giannotti, M.I.; Oliveira Jr O.N..; Fanani, M.L.;. Maté, S.M., Understanding the effects of omega-3 fatty acid supplementation on the physical properties of brain membranes, iScience (in press), doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.110362 

• Villanueva, M. E., Bar, L., Redondo-Morata, L., Namdar, P., Ruysschaert, J. M., Pabst, G., Vandier, C., Bouchet, A. M., Losada-Pérez, P.; Spontaneous nanotube formation of an asymmetric glycolipid, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2024, 671, 410-422, doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2024.05.132

• Pfeffer,M.E., DiFrancesco,M.L., Marchesi,A. Galluzzi, F., Moschetta, M. Rossini, A. Francia,S., Franz, C.M., Fok, Y., Valotteau, C., Paternò,G.M., Redondo-Morata,L., Vacca,F., Mattiello, S., Magni, A., Maragliano,L., Beverina, L., Mattioli, G., Lanzani,G., Baldelli, P., Colombo, E., Benfenati, F., Nanoactuator for Neuronal Optoporation, ACS Nano, 2024, 18, 19, 12427–12452,  doi: 10.1021/acsnano.4c01672 

2023

• López-Alonso*, J., M. Eroles, S. Janel, M. Berardi, J. Pellequer, V. Dupres, F. Lafont, and F. Rico*. 2023. PyFMLab: Open-source software for atomic force microscopy microrheology data analysis [version 1; peer review: 2 approved with reservations]. Open Research Europe. 3. doi:10.12688/openreseurope.16550.1

• Perez-Dominguez, S., S.G. Kulkarni, J. Pabijan, K. Gnanachandran, H. Holuigue, M. Eroles, E. Lorenc, M. Berardi, N. Antonovaite, M.L. Marini, J.L. Alonso, L. Redonto-Morata, V. Dupres, S. Janel, S. Acharya, J. Otero, D. Navajas, K. Bielawski, H. Schillers, F. Lafont, F. Rico, A. Podesta, M. Radmacher, and M. Lekka. 2023. Reliable, standardized measurements for cell mechanical properties. Nanoscale. doi: 10.1039/D3NR02034G

• Muzyka K., F. Rico, G. Xu, I. Casuso. 2023. DNA at conductive interfaces: what can Atomic Force Microscopy offer? Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry. doi.org/10.1016/j.jelechem.2023.117448

• Wang, Y.J., C. Valotteau, A. Aimard, L. Villanueva, D. Kostrz, M. Follenfant, T. Strick, P. Chames, F. Rico, C. Gosse, and L. Limozin. 2023. Combining DNA scaffolds and acoustic force spectroscopy to characterize individual protein bonds. Biophysical Journal. 122:2518–2530.

• Júnior, C., A. Ulldemolins, M. Narciso, I. Almendros, R. Farré, D. Navajas, J. López, M. Eroles, F. Rico, and N. Gavara. 2023. Multi-Step Extracellular Matrix Remodelling and Stiffening in the Development of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24:1708. 

• Weng, J-W., H. Park, C. Valotteau, R.-T. Chen, C. L. Essmann, N. Pujol, P. W. Sternberg, C.-H. Chen. 2023. Body stiffness is a mechanical property that facilitates contact-mediated mate recognition in Caenorhabditis elegans. Current Biology 33 (17): 3585-3596. doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.07.020

• Eroles, M.*, and F. Rico*. Advances in mechanical biomarkers. 2023. Journal of Molecular Recognition. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmr.3022. 

• Eroles, M., J. Lopez-Alonso, A. Ortega, T. Boudier, K. Gharzeddine, F. Lafont, C.M. Franz, A. Millet, C. Valotteau, and F. Rico*. 2023. Coupled mechanical mapping and interference contrast microscopy reveal viscoelastic and adhesion hallmarks of monocyte differentiation into macrophages. Nanoscale. https://doi.org/10.1039/D3NR00757J.

Book Chapters in Lekka, Malgorzata, Daniel Navajas, Manfred Radmacher, and Alessandro Podestà, eds. n.d. Mechanics of Diseases: Biomedical Aspects of the Mechanical Properties of Cells and Tissues. De Gruyter. 2023 doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110640632-003

•     Lacaria, L, M. Radmacher, A. Podesta, F. Rico*. Contact mechanics.

•     Rico, F*, I. Casuso, M. Radmacher. AFM Instrumentation

•     Lorenc, E, H Holuigue, F Rico, A Podestà. AFM Cantilevers and Tips

•     Chighizola, M, J Rodriguez-Ramos, F Rico, M Radmacher, A Podestà. Calibration Issues

2022

• Martins, C.S., C. Taveneau, G. Castro-Linares, M. Baibakov, N. Buzhinsky, M. Eroles, V. Milanović, S. Omi, J.-D. Pedelacq, F. Iv, L. Bouillard, A. Llewellyn, M. Gomes, M. Belhabib, M. Kuzmić, P. Verdier-Pinard, S. Lee, A. Badache, S. Kumar, C. Chandre, S. Brasselet, F. Rico, O. Rossier, G.H. Koenderink, J. Wenger, S. Cabantous, and M. Mavrakis. 2022. Human septins organize as octamer-based filaments and mediate actin-membrane anchoring in cells. Journal of Cell Biology. 222:e202203016. https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202203016 

• Torralba, J., I. de la Arada, A. Partida-Hanon, E. Rujas, M. Arribas, S. Insausti, C. Valotteau, J. Valle, D. Andreu, J.M. Caaveiro, M.A. Jiménez, B. Apellaniz*, L. Redondo-Morata*, J.L. Nieva*. 2022. Molecular recognition of a membrane-anchored HIV-1 pan-neutralizing epitope. Communications biology, 5(1), 1265. doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-04219-6

• Gerum, R., E. Mirzahossein, M. Eroles, J. Elsterer, A. Mainka, A. Bauer, S. Sonntag, A. Winterl, J. Bartl, L. Fischer, S. Abuhattum, R. Goswami, S. Girardo, J. Guck, S. Schrüfer, N. Ströhlein, M. Nosratlo, H. Herrmann, D. Schultheis, F. Rico, S.J. Müller, S. Gekle, and B. Fabry. 2022. Viscoelastic properties of suspended cells measured with shear flow deformation cytometry. eLife. 11:e78823.

• Majnooni, M., P. Lasaygues, V. Long, J.-C. Scimeca, D. Momier, F. Rico, N. Buzhinsky, C. Guivier-Curien, and C. Baron. 2022. Monitoring of in-vitro ultrasonic stimulation of cells by numerical modeling. Ultrasonics. 124:106714 hal-03629272

• Ilić K, L Krce, J Rodriguez-Ramos, F Rico, N Kalčec, I Aviani, P Turčić, I Pavičić, I Vinković Vrček. Cytotoxicity of nanomixture: combined action of silver and plastic nanoparticles on immortalized human lymphocytes. 2022 J Trace Elem Med Biol, 73, 127004 10.1016/j.jtemb.2022.127004

2021

• Rodriguez-Ramos, J., and Rico, F*. Determination of calibration parameters of cantilevers of arbitrary shape by finite element analysis. Review of Scientific Instruments 92, 045001 2021. hal-03207488

2020

• F. Zuttion, A. Colom, S. Matile, D. Farago, F. Pompeo, J. Kokavecz, A. Galinier, J. Sturgis, and I. Casuso, High-speed atomic force microscopy highlights new molecular mechanism of daptomycin action. Nat Comm 11, 6312 2020 10.1038/s41467-020-19710-z

• Casuso, I, L Redondo-Morata and F Rico *. Biological physics by high-speed atomic force microscopy. Phil Trans Royal Society A, 378, 20190604, 2020 10.1098/rsta.2019.06

• Sumbul, F., Rodriguez Ramos, J., and Hassanpour, N., Rico, F*. One-step calibration of AFM in liquid. Front. Phys. 8. 2020 10.3389/fphy.2020.00301

• Santoni MJ ¶*, Kashyap R¶, Camoin L, Borg JP*. 2020 The Scribble family in cancer: twentieth anniversary. Oncogene. doi: 10.1038/s41388-020-01478-7. 

2019

• M. Karageorgi, Groen S. C., Sumbul F., Pelaez J. N., Verster K. I, Aguilar J. M., Hastings A. P., Bernstein S. L., Matsunaga T., Astourian M., Guerra G., Rico F., Dobler S., Agrawal A. A., Whiteman N. K., 2019, Genome editing retraces the evolution of toxin resistance in the monarch butterfly, Nature, 1-4

• C. Valotteau, Sumbul, F. & Rico, F. (2019), High-speed force spectroscopy: microsecond force measurements using ultrashort cantilevers, Biophysical Reviews 11: Issue 5, pp 689–699

2018

• Marchesi A, Gao X, Adaixo R, Rheinberg J, Stahlberg H, Nimigean C & Scheuring S. (2018) An iris diaphragm mechanism to gate a cyclic nucleotide-gated ion channel. Nat. Commun. 2018; 9:3978.

•  Ruan Y, Kao K, Lefebvre S, Marchesi A, Corringer PJ, Hite RK, Scheuring S. (2018) Structural titration of receptor ion channel GLIC gating by HS-AFM. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2018; In press.

• Napolitano LMR, Marchesi A, Rodriguez A, De March M, Onesti S, Laio A & Torre V. (2018)The permeation mechanism of organic cations through a CNG mimic channel. PloS. Comput. Bio., 2018 Aug 2;14(8):e1006295.

• F Zuttion, L Redondo-Morata, A Marchesi, I Casuso*. (2018) High-Resolution and High-Speed Atomic Force Microscope Imaging. Methods Mol Biol. 2018;1814:181-200. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-8591-3_11. 

• F Sumbul, A Marchesi, H Takahashi, S Scheuring, F Rico*. (2018) High-Speed Force Spectroscopy for Single Protein Unfolding. Methods Mol Biol. 2018;1814:243-264. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-8591-3_15. 

• F Sumbul, A Marchesi, F Rico*. History, Rare And Multiple Events Of Mechanical Unfolding Of Repeat Proteins. J Chem Phys, 148(12), 123335 2018

• Takahashi¶, F Rico¶, C Chipot , and S Scheuring. α-Helix Unwinding as Force Buffer in Spectrins. ACS Nano, (in press) (2018). DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.7b08973

• Mazzolini M.¶, Arcangeletti M.¶, Marchesi A.¶, Napolitano LMR, Grosa D., Maity S., Anselmi C. & Torre V.* (2018) The Gating mechanism in cyclic nucleotide-gated ion channels. Scientific Reports, 8:45, doi:10.1038/s41598-017-18499-0 

• Lopez Almeida L ¶, Sebbagh M ¶, Bertucci F, Finetti P, Wicinski J, Marchetto S, Castellano R, Josselin E, Charafe-Jauffret E, Ginestier C, Borg JP, Santoni MJ*. 2018 The SCRIB Paralog LANO/LRRC1 Regulates Breast Cancer Stem Cell Fate through WNT/β-Catenin Signaling. Stem Cell Reports. doi: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2018.09.008. 

2017

• Gumi-Audenis, B., Costa, L., Redondo-Morata, L., Milhiet, P-E., Sanz-Carrasco, F., Felici, R., Gianotti, M.I.* and Carla, F.*. (2017). In-plane molecular organization of hydrated single lipid bilayers: DPPC:cholesterol. Nanoscale, DOI: 10.1039/C7NR07510C. 

• Munguira, I. Casuso, H. Takahashi,  S. Scheuring (2017) Lysenin toxin membrane insertion is pH-dependent and non-cooperative´ Biophysical Journal: accepted 

• Even C, Abramovici G, Delort F, Rigato A, Bailleux V, de Sousa Moreira A, P. Vicart, F. Rico, S. Batonnet-Pichon and F. Briki, (2017) Mutation in the Core Structure of Desmin Intermediate Filaments Affects Myoblast Elasticity. Biophysical Journal, 113(3): 627-636.

• Schillers, H.; Rianna, C.; Schäpe, J.; Luque, T.; Doschke, H.; Wälte, M.; Uriarte, J.J.; Campillo, N.;  Georgios P. A.; Michanetzis, J.; Bobrowska, A.D.; Herruzo, E.T.; Bovio, S.; Parot, P.; Galluzzi, M.; Podestà, A.; Puricelli, A.; Scheuring, S.; Missirlis, Y.; Garcia, R.; Odorico, M.; Teulon, J-M.; Lafont, F.; Lekka, M.; Rico, F.; Rigato, A.; Pellequer, J-L.; Oberleithner, H.; Navajas, D. & Radmacher, M., (2017) Standardized Nanomechanical Atomic Force Microscopy Procedure (SNAP) for Measuring Soft and Biological Samples. Scientific Reports, 7:5117, DOI:10.1038/s41598-017-05383-0.

• Mierzwa, B.E.¶; Chiaruttini, N.¶; Redondo-Morata, L.¶; von Filseck, J.M.; König, J.; Larios, J.; Poser, I.; Müller-Reichert, T.; Scheuring, S.; Roux, A.*; Gerlich, D.W.*, (2017) Dynamic subunit turnover in ESCRT-III assemblies is regulated by Vps4 to mediate membrane remodelling during cytokinesis. Nature Cell Biology, 19:787-798. And News and views by Henri G. Franchelim &  Petra Schwille.

• Rigato, A., Miyagi, A., Scheuring, S. and Rico, F*. (2017). High-frequency microrheology reveals cytoskeleton dynamics in living cells. Nature Physics (in press). And News and views by Klaus Kroy.

• Colom, A., Redondo-Morata, L., Chiaruttini, N., Roux, A*. and Scheuring, S*. (2017). Dynamic remodeling of the dynamin helix during membrane constriction. Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences 2017, 114 (21), 5449-5454.

2016

• Munguira, I.¶, Casuso, I.¶, Takahashi, H., Rico, F., Miyagi, A., Chami, M., & Scheuring, S. (2016). Glasslike Membrane Protein Diffusion in a Crowded Membrane. ACS nano, 10(2), 2584-2590, (*equal contribution). 

• Takahashi, H.¶; Miyagi, A.¶; Redondo-Morata, L.; Scheuring, S.; Temperature-controlled high-speed AFM: Real time observation of ripple-phase transitions, Small, 2016, 12 (44), 6106-6113, (*equal contribution). 

• Morante, K.; Bellomio, A.; Gil-Cartón, D.; Sot, J.;  Redondo-Morata, L.; Sot, J.; Scheuring, S.; Valle, M.; González-Mañas, J.M.; Tsumoto, K.; Caaveiro, J. M. M. ; Identification of a membrane-bound prepore species clarifies the lytic mechanism of actinoporins, Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2016, 291 (37):19210-19. 

• Redondo-Morata, L.; Sanford, R.L., Andersen, O.S. and Scheuring, S.; Effect of statins on the nanomechanical properties of supported lipid bilayers, Biophysical Journal, 2016, 111 (2): 363-72. 

2015

• Rigato A, F Rico, F Eghiaian, M Piel, S Scheuring, 2015, Atomic Force Microscopy Mechanical Mapping of Micropatterned Cells Shows Adhesion Geometry-Dependent Mechanical Response on Local and Global Scales. ACS Nano, 9, 5846-5856

• Chiaruttini, N.¶; Redondo-Morata, L.¶; Colom, A.; Humbert, F.; Lenz, M.; Scheuring, S.; Roux, A.; Relaxation of loaded ESCRT-III spiral springs drives membrane deformation, Cell, 2015, 163 (4): 866-79 

2014

• Eghiaian F.; Rico, F.; Colom, A.; Casuso, I.; Scheuring, S.; High-speed atomic force microscopy: Imaging and force spectroscopy, FEBS Letters, 2014, 589 (12), 1389. 

2013

• Rico F, L González, I Casuso, M Puig, and S Scheuring. 2013, High-speed force spectroscopy unfolds titin at the velocity of molecular dynamics simulations. Science 342 (6159), 741-743

• Rico F, L Picas, A Colom, N Buzhynskyy, and S Scheuring. 2013, The mechanics of membrane proteins is a signature of biological function. Soft Matter 9 (32), 7866-7873

2012

• Picas L, F Rico and S Scheuring. 2012, Direct measurement of the mechanical properties of lipid phases in supported bilayers. Biophys J 102 (1) L01-L03 

• Hozic A*, F. Rico*, A. Colom, N. Buzhynskyy, S. Scheuring. 2012, Nanomechanical Characterization of the Stiffness of Eye Lens Cells: A Pilot Study. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 53, 2151

2011

• Rico F, A. Oshima, P. Hinterdorfer, Y. Fujiyoshi, S. Scheuring. 2011, Two-Dimensional Kinetics of Inter-Connexin Interactions from Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy. J Mol Biol 412, 72

• Rico F, C. Su and S Scheuring. 2011, Mechanical mapping of single proteins at the submolecular level Nano Letters 11 (9) 3983-6 

Older

• Rico F*, C Chu, MH Abdulreda, Y Qin and VT Moy. 2010, Temperature dependence of integrin-mediated cell adhesion. Biophys J 99 (5) 1387-1396

• Rico F* and VT Moy. 2007, Energy landscape roughness of the streptavidin-biotin interaction. J Mol Recognit 20 (6) 495-501

• Rico F, P Roca-Cusachs, N Gavara, R Farré, M Rotger and D Navajas. 2005,  Probing Mechanical Properties of Living Cells by Atomic Force Microscopy with Blunted Pyramidal Cantilever Tips. Phys Rev E 72 (2) 021914