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Overview

Stephen R. Wassall is affiliated with Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant emphasis on molecular biology and related subfields.

The scientist's publication record spans several specialized areas, including molecular biology, atomic and molecular physics, optics, nutrition and dietetics, spectroscopy, and biomedical engineering. Their work notably contributes to understanding lipid membrane structure and behavior, spectroscopy and quantum chemical studies, sphingolipid metabolism and signaling, protein structure and dynamics, fatty acid research and health, force microscopy techniques and applications, and nanopore and nanochannel transport studies.

Frequent coauthors in their research include Andres T. Cavazos, Horia I. Petrache, Samuel W. Canner, Alexander Q. Phillips, and Saame Raza Shaikh, reflecting collaborative efforts across multiple projects.

They have published numerous papers in prominent venues such as:

  • Biophysical Journal
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • Journal of Nutrition
  • Langmuir
  • Chemical Communications

Selected recent publications include:

  • Molecular Structure of Sphingomyelin in Fluid Phase Bilayers Determined by the Joint Analysis of Small-Angle Neutron and X-ray Scattering Data, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • Molecular Organization of a Raft-like Domain in a Polyunsaturated Phospholipid Bilayer: A Supervised Machine Learning Analysis of Molecular Dynamics Simulations, 2021, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • How Membrane Phospholipids Containing Long-Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Their Oxidation Products Orchestrate Lipid Raft Dynamics to Control Inflammation, 2024, Journal of Nutrition
  • Docosahexaenoic Acid Controls Pulmonary Macrophage Lipid Raft Size and Inflammation, 2024, Journal of Nutrition
  • Vitamin E Promotes the Inverse Hexagonal Phase via a Novel Mechanism: Implications for Antioxidant Role, 2020, Langmuir

Best Publications

  • Docosahexaenoic acid: membrane properties of a unique fatty acid.

    William Stillwell;Stephen R. Wassall

  • Structural and dynamic membrane properties of alpha-tocopherol and alpha-tocotrienol: implication to the molecular mechanism of their antioxidant potency.

    Yuichiro J. Suzuki;Masahiko Tsuchiya;Stephen R. Wassall;Yuen M. Choo

  • Docosahexaenoic acid affects cell signaling by altering lipid rafts.

    William Stillwell;Saame Raza Shaikh;Mustafa Zerouga;Rafat Siddiqui

  • Polyunsaturated fatty acid-cholesterol interactions : Domain formation in membranes

    Stephen R. Wassall;William Stillwell

  • Docosahexaenoic acid domains: the ultimate non-raft membrane domain.

    Stephen R. Wassall;William Stillwell

  • Cholesterol shows preference for the interior of polyunsaturated lipid membranes.

    Siewert J. Marrink;Alex H. de Vries;Thad. A. Harroun;John Katsaras

  • How polyunsaturated fatty acids modify molecular organization in membranes: insight from NMR studies of model systems.

    Saame Raza Shaikh;Jacob J. Kinnun;Xiaoling Leng;Justin A. Williams

  • The location and behavior of α‐tocopherol in membranes

    Jeffrey Atkinson;Thad Harroun;Stephen R. Wassall;William Stillwell

  • Order from disorder, corralling cholesterol with chaotic lipids. The role of polyunsaturated lipids in membrane raft formation.

    Stephen R. Wassall;Michael R. Brzustowicz;Saame Raza Shaikh;Saame Raza Shaikh;Vadim Cherezov

  • Docosahexaenoic and eicosapentaenoic acids segregate differently between raft and nonraft domains.

    Justin A. Williams;Shawn E. Batten;Mitchel Harris;Benjamin Drew Rockett

  • Molecular organization of cholesterol in polyunsaturated membranes: microdomain formation.

    Michael R. Brzustowicz;Michael R. Brzustowicz;Vadim Cherezov;Martin Caffrey;William Stillwell;William Stillwell

  • Cholesterol is found to reside in the center of a polyunsaturated lipid membrane.

    Thad A. Harroun;John Katsaras;Stephen R. Wassall

  • Cholesterol Hydroxyl Group Is Found To Reside in the Center of a Polyunsaturated Lipid Membrane

    Thad A. Harroun;John Katsaras;Stephen R. Wassall

  • A comparison of the effects of linolenic (18:3Ω3) and docosahexaenoic (22:6Ω3) acids on phospholipid bilayers

    William Ehringer;Daniel Belcher;Stephen R. Wassall;William Stillwell

  • Tocopherol Activity Correlates with Its Location in a Membrane: A New Perspective on the Antioxidant Vitamin E

    Drew Marquardt;Justin A. Williams;Norbert Kučerka;Jeffrey Atkinson

  • Oleic and docosahexaenoic acid differentially phase separate from lipid raft molecules: A comparative NMR, DSC, AFM, and detergent extraction study

    Saame Raza Shaikh;Saame Raza Shaikh;Alfred C. Dumaual;Alicia Castillo;Daniel LoCascio

  • Cholesterol in Bilayers with PUFA Chains: Doping with DMPC or POPC Results in Sterol Reorientation and Membrane-Domain Formation

    Norbert Kucerka;Norbert Kucerka;Drew Marquardt;Thad A. Harroun;Mu-Ping Nieh

  • Rapid flip-flop in polyunsaturated (docosahexaenoate) phospholipid membranes

    Victoria T. Armstrong;Michael R. Brzustowicz;Stephen R. Wassall;Laura J. Jenski

  • Deuterium NMR study of the interaction of alpha-tocopherol with a phospholipid model membrane.

    Stephen R. Wassall;Jenifer L. Thewalt;Linda Wong;Heiner Gorrissen

  • Fish oil increases raft size and membrane order of B cells accompanied by differential effects on function

    Benjamin Drew Rockett;Heather Teague;Mitchel Harris;Mark Melton

Frequent Co-Authors

William Stillwell
William Stillwell Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
John Katsaras
John Katsaras Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Norbert Kučerka
Norbert Kučerka Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
Jeffrey Atkinson
Jeffrey Atkinson Brock University
Irina Petrache
Irina Petrache University of Cambridge
Martin Caffrey
Martin Caffrey Trinity College Dublin
Vadim Cherezov
Vadim Cherezov University of Southern California
Robert Bittman
Robert Bittman City University of New York
Frances Separovic
Frances Separovic University of Melbourne
Justin C. Williams
Justin C. Williams University of Wisconsin–Madison

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