Publications

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1. Sanyukta Mudakannavar '25, Matthew Mitchell '28, Robert J. Rawle (2025) "Surface-attached model lipid membranes derived from human red blood cells" preprint on bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2025.08.18.670922

2. Lisa Ji '27, Daniel Yuan '24, Abraham Park '22, Katherine Bai '26, Robert J. Rawle (2025) "Single virus lipid mixing study of Sendai virus provides insight into fusion mechanism" preprint on bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2025.07.23.666410

3. Tasnim K. Anika '24, Fiona Campbell '23, Bianca Linden, Connor J. Criswell, Miranda Kimm '26, Priscilla Li-ning Yang, Robert J. Rawle (2025) "Single VLP lipid-mixing measurements confirm off-pathway state in dengue virus fusion mechanism" preprint on bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2025.03.21.644571

4. Eunice Kim '23, Olivia Graceffa '22, Rachel Broweleit '24, Ali Ladha '21, Andrew Boies '26, and Robert J. Rawle (2024) “Lipid loss and compositional change during preparation of simple two-component liposomes.” Biophysical Reports. 4(3):100174. DOI: 10.1016/j.bpr.2024.100174

   • bioRxiv preprint: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.30.596670

5. Amy Lam '22; Daniel Yuan '24; Samir Ahmed '24; Robert J. Rawle (2022) “Viral Size Modulates Sendai Virus Binding to Cholesterol-stabilized Receptor Nanoclusters.” J Phys. Chem. B., 126(36):6802-6810. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c03830

6. Olivia Graceffa '22; Eunice Kim '23; Rachel Broweleit '24; Robert J. Rawle (2022) “Choice of buffer in mobile phase can substantially alter peak areas in quantification of lipids by HPLC-ELSD.”1209:123417. J Chromatography B. DOI: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2022.123417

7. Amy Lam '22; Orville Kirkland '20; Papa F. Anderson '21;  Nandini Seetharaman '22.5; Dragan Vujovic '19; Patricia Thibault; Kristopher Azarm; Benhur Lee; Robert J. Rawle (2022) “Single virus assay reveals membrane determinants and mechanistic features of Sendai virus binding.” Biophysical Journal, 121:956-965. DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2022.02.011

   • bioRxiv preprint: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.11.23.469711 

8. Elizabeth Webster; Katherine Liu, Robert J. Rawle; Steven G. Boxer (2022) “Modulating the influenza A virus – target membrane fusion interface with synthetic DNA-lipid receptors.” Langmuir. DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c03247

   • chemRxiv preprint: https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2021-cm9cl-v2 

9. Abraham Park '22; Olivia Graceffa '22; Robert J. Rawle (2020) “Kinetic modeling of West Nile virus fusion indicates an off-pathway state.” ACS Infectious Diseases, 6(12):3260-3268. DOI: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.0c00637

   • bioRxiv preprint: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.05.132605 

10. Pabis, A.; Rawle R. J.; Kasson, P.M. (2020) “Influenza hemagglutinin drives viral entry via two sequential intramembrane mechanisms” Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 117:7200-7207. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1914188117

    • bioRxiv preprint: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.30.926816 

11. Rawle, R.J.; Villamil Giraldo, A.M.; Boxer, S.G.; Kasson, P. (2019) “Detecting and controlling dye-effects in single virus fusion experiments.” Biophysical Journal, 117:445-452. DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2019.06.022

12. Rawle, R.J.*; Webster, E.*; Jelen, M., Kasson, P.; Boxer, S.G. (2018) “pH dependence of Zika membrane fusion kinetics reveals an off-pathway state.” ACS Central Science. 4(11):1503-1510. DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.8b00494           *Equal author contribution

—Highlighted in First Reactions article in same issue: DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.8b00706

13. Goronzy, I.N.; Rawle, R.J.; Kasson, P.; Boxer, S.G. (2018) “Cholesterol enhances influenza binding avidity by controlling nanoscale receptor clustering.” Chemical Science, 8:2340-2347. DOI: 10.1039/C7SC03236F

14. Rawle, R.J.; Boxer, S.G.; Kasson, P. (2016) "Disentangling viral membrane fusion from receptor binding using synthetic DNA-lipid conjugates” Biophysical Journal, 111:121-131. DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2016.05.048

15. Zawada, K.E.; Wrona, D.; Rawle, R.J.; Kasson, P. (2016) "Influenza viral membrane fusion is sensitive to sterol concentration but robust to sterol chemical identity” Nature: Scientific Reports, 6: 29842. DOI: 10.1038/srep29842

16. Hughes, L.D.*; Rawle, R.J.*; Boxer, S.G. (2014) “Choose your label wisely: water-soluble fluorophores often interact with lipid bilayers” PLOS ONE, 9(2):e87649. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087649 *Equal author contribution

17. van Lengerich, B.*; Rawle, R.J.*; Bendix, P.M.; Boxer, S.G. (2013) “Individual Vesicle Fusion Events Mediated by Lipid-anchored DNA” Biophysical Journal, 105:409-419.  DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2013.05.056 *Equal author contribution

18. Rawle, R.J.; van Lengerich, B.; Chung, M.; Bendix, P.M.; Boxer, S.G. (2011) “Vesicle Fusion Observed by Content Transfer across a Tethered Lipid Bilayer” Biophysical Journal, 101:L37-L39.  DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2011.09.023

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19. van Lengerich, B.; Rawle, R.J.; Boxer, S.G (2010) “Covalent attachment of lipid vesicles to a fluid-supported bilayer allows observation of DNA-mediated vesicle interactions” Langmuir. 26:8666-8672. DOI: 10.1021/la904822f

20. Yang, A.Y.; Rawle, R.J.; Selassie, C.R.D.; Johal, M.S. (2008) “A quartz crystal microbalance study of polycation-supported single and double stranded DNA surfaces.” Biomacromolecules. 9:3416-3421. DOI: 10.1021/bm801060w

21. Rawle, R. J.; Johal, M. S.; Selassie, C.R.D. (2008) “A Real-Time QCM-D Approach to Monitoring Mammalian DNA Damage Using dsDNA Adsorbed to a Polyelectrolyte Surface.” Biomacromolecules. 9: 9-12.  DOI: 10.1021/bm701062f

22. Rawle, R. J.; Selassie, C. R.D.; Johal, M. S. (2007) “Creation of mammalian single- and double-stranded DNA surfaces: A real-time QCM-D study.” Langmuir. 23:9563-9566. DOI: 10.1021/la702043t