Dr. Inbal Abutbul Ionita received her PhD from the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering at the Technion, under the supervision of Prof. Dganit Danino. Her main interests are: Structure-function relations of membrane proteins, Membrane fusion and fission and Viral membrane fusion.
Publications:
Dong, Y., Dorkin, J., Wang, W., Chang, P., Webber, M., Tang, B., Abutbul-Ionita, I., Danino, D., DeRosa, F., Heartlein, M., Langer, R. & Anderson, D. (2016). Poly(glycoamidoamine) Brushes Formulated Nanomaterials for Systemic siRNA and mRNA Delivery in Vivo. Nano Lett, 16(2), 842-848.
Turovsky, T., Portnaya, I., Kesselman, E., Ionita-Abutbul, I., Dan, N., & Danino, D.(2015). Effect of temperature and loading on the structure of beta-casein/ibuprofen assemblies. J Colloid Interface Sci, 449, 514-521.
Abutbul-Ionita, I., Rujiviphat, J., Nir, I., McQuibban, G. A., & Danino, D. (2012). Membrane tethering and nucleotide-dependent conformational changes drive mitochondrial genome maintenance (Mgm1) protein-mediated membrane fusion. J Biol Chem, 287(44), 36634-36638.
von der Malsburg, A., Abutbul-Ionita, I., Haller, O., Kochs, G., & Danino, D. (2011). Stalk domain of the dynamin-like MxA GTPase protein mediates membrane binding and liposome tubulation via the unstructured L4 loop. J Biol Chem, 286(43), 37858-37865.
Avinoam, O., Fridman, K., Valansi, C., Abutbul, I., Zeev-Ben-Mordehai, T., Maurer, U. E., Danino D, Grünewald, K., White, J. M. ,& Podbilewicz, B. (2011). Conserved eukaryotic fusogens can fuse viral envelopes to cells. Science, 332(6029), 589-592.
Hamley, I. W., Castelletto, V., Moulton, C., Myatt, D., Siligardi, G., Oliveira, C. L. P., Pedersen, J.S., Abutbul, I., & Danino D. (2010). Self-Assembly of a Modified Amyloid Peptide Fragment: pH-Responsiveness and Nematic Phase Formation. Macromol Biosci, 10(1), 40-48.