Publications

  1. Wurl, M. Ott, C. Schwieger and T. M. Ferreira. Crystallization of n-Alkanes under Anisotropic Nanoconfinement in Lipid Bilayers. J. Phys. Chem. B 129, 435-446 (2025)

  2. Paschold, M. Schäffler, X. Miao, L. Gardon, S. Krüger, H. Heise, M.I.S. Röhr, M. Ott, B. Strodel, and W.H. Binder Photocontrolled Reversible Amyloid Fibril Formation of Parathyroid Hormone-Derived Peptides. Bioconjugate Chemistry 2024, 35(7), 981-995


  3. Voigt, M. Ott, J. Balbach, A Competition of Secondary and Primary Nucleation Controls Amyloid Fibril Formation of the Parathyroid Hormone. Macromol. Biosci. 2023, 23, 2200525.


  4. B. Voigt, T. Bhatia, J. Hesselbarth, M. Baumann, C. Schmidt, M. Ott, J. Balbach, The Prenucleation Equilibrium of the Parathyroid Hormone Determines the Critical Aggregation Concentration and Amyloid Fibril Nucleation. ChemPhysChem 2023, 24, e202300439.


  5. De Sio, S., Waegele, J., Bhatia, T., Voigt, B., Lilie, H., Ott, M., Inherent Adaptivity of Alzheimer Peptides to Crowded Environments. Macromol. Biosci. 23(7):e2200527 (2023)

  6. Lauth, L.M., Voigt, B., Bhatia, T., Machner, L., Balbach, J., Ott, M., 2022. Heparin promotes rapid fibrillation of the basic parathyroid hormone at physiological pH. FEBS Letters. (2022)

  7. Wurl, A., Ott, M., Plato, E., Meister, A., Hamdi, F., Kastritis, P.L., Blume, A., Ferreira, T.M.. Filling the Gap with Long n-Alkanes: Incorporation of C20 and C30 into Phospholipid Membranes. Langmuir 38, 8595–8606. (2022)


  8. J. Wägele, S. De Sio, B. Voigt, J. Balbach, M. Ott. How fluorescent tags modify oligomer size distributions of the Alzheimer-peptide. Biophys. J. 116, 227-238 (2019)

  9. M. Kordts, A. Kerth, S. Drescher, M. Ott, A. Blume. The cmc-value of a bolalipid with two phosphocholine headgroups and a C24 alkyl chain: Unusual binding properties of fluorescence probes to bolalipid aggregatesColloid Interface Sci. 501, 294 (2017)

  10. Roos M, Ott M,  Hofmann M,  Link S, Rössler E, Balbach J, Krushelnitsky A,  and K. Saalwächter. Coupling and Decoupling of Rotational and Translational Diffusion of Proteins under Crowding Conditions. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 138,10365–10372 (2016)

  11. Roos M, Hofmann M, Link S, Ott M, Balbach J, Rössler E, Saalwächter K, Krushelnitsky A. The “long tail” of the protein tumbling correlation function: observation by 1H NMR relaxometry in a wide frequency and concentration range. J. Biomol. NMR 4, 403-415 (2015) 

  12. Ott M, Pérez-Aparicio R, Schneider H, Sotta P, Saalwächter K,
    Microscopic study of chain deformation and orientation in uniaxially strained polymer networks – NMR results vs. different network models. Macromolecules 47, 7597−7611 (2014)


  13. M. Ott, Y. Shai, G. Haran. Single-Particle Tracking Reveals Switching of the HIV Fusion Peptide between Two Diffusive Modes in Membranes. J. Phys. Chem. B 117, 13308 (2013) 

  14. R. Pérez-Aparicio, M. Schiewek, J.L. Valentín, H. Schneider, D.R. Long, M. Saphiannikova, P. Sotta, K. Saalwächter and M. Ott. Local Chain Deformation and Overstrain in Reinforced Elastomers: An NMR Study. Macromolecules 46, 5549–5560 (2013) 

  15. H. Hofmann, R.P. Golbik, M. Ott, C.G. Hübner and R. Ulbrich-Hofmann. Coulomb forces control the density of the collapsed unfolded state of barstar. J. Mol. Biol. 376, 597–605 (2008)

  16. K. Henzler-Wildman, M. Lei, V. Thai, M. Ott, M. Wolf-Watz, T. Fenn, E.Pozharski, M.A. Wilson, G.A. Petsko, M. Karplus, C.G. Hübner and D. Kern. Intrinsic motions along an enzymatic reaction trajectory. Nature 450, 838-744 (2007)

  17. Henzler-Wildman KA, Lei M., Thai V., Wolf-Watz M,  Kerns J, Wunderlich M, Hübner CG and Kern D. Linkage between multiple-timescale dynamics, activity, and stability. Biophys. J. 176A-176A (2007)

  18. F. Fankhauser, M. Ott, B. Pajic. Dry senile macular degeneration. In: Femtosecond laser. Techniques and Technology. Jaypee Brothers Medical Pub. 2012

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