Biocolloids and neutron scattering

Group leader
Marité Cárdenas
Address

Biofisika Institute (CSIC, EHU)
Science Park of the EHU
Barrio Sarriena s/n. 48940 Leioa, Bizkaia (Spain)

Group members
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Technician
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ikerbasque Research Professor
Publications

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Correa Y, Nzekwe F, Wodaje T, Brinck J, Jansen M, Blanchet C, Pedersen JS, Del Giudice R, Cárdenas M.

Structural, functional and biochemical characterisation of apolipoprotein(a)-containing low-density lipoproteins
J Colloid Interface Sci. 2026 Jan;701:138760. doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2025.138760. Epub 2025 Aug 18. PMID: 40845449.
DOI:10.1016/j.jcis.2025.138760

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Lim J, Gudlur S, Buchanan C, Perrin QM, Boyd H, Moulin M, Iwase H, Porcar L, Cárdenas M, Miserez A, Pervushin K.

Hierarchical Structural Organization in Bioinspired Peptide Coacervate Microdroplets
ACS Nano. 2025 Oct 14;19(40):35724-35739. Epub 2025 Sep 30. PMID: 41025298
10.1021/acsnano.5c12015.

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Mao A, Ziolkowska A, Paulraj T, Riazanova A, Kyzyma O, Gilbert EP, Cárdenas M, Svagan AJ

Assessing porosity in cellulose nanofiber-based artificial plant cell walls as a function of salinity
Carbohydr Polym. 2025 Dec 15;370:124296.. Epub 2025 Aug 26. PMID: 41116499.
10.1016/j.carbpol.2025.124296

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Campos Pacheco JE, Vitali A, Falkman P, Marauri A, Marchès A, Al-Najjar H, Colom A, Cárdenas M, Pilkington GA, Valetti S. 

Bioinspired lipid coated porous particle as inhalable carrier with pulmonary surfactant adhesion and mucus penetration
J Colloid Interface Sci. 2025 Nov;697:137967. PMID: 40449392.
10.1016/j.jcis.2025.137967.

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Paracini N, Correa Y, Del Giudice R, Moulin M, Pichler H, Bengtsson E, Forsyth VT, Skoda MWA, Clifton LA, Cárdenas M

The interaction of human serum components with model membranes containing phospholipids and lipopolysaccharides
J Colloid Interface Sci. 2025 Jun 15;688:150-160
doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2025.02.131

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Cárdenas M, Bjørnestad VA, Borgos KKA, Lund R

The integrity of the lipid bilayer structure is retained in natural occurring deep eutectic solvent water mixtures - a small angle X-ray scattering study
Phys Chem Chem Phys. 2025 May 14;27(19):10248-10258. PMID: 40310971.
10.1039/d5cp00331h

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Mehler F, Jaksch S, Cárdenas M, Nickel B, Wolff M.

PortGISANS: Nested Mirror Optics For a Portable GISANS Adapter
Sci Rep. 2025 Nov 21;15(1):41184. PMID: 41272196; PMCID: PMC12638956.
10.1038/s41598-025-28836-3.

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Llorente G, Arango JM, Soto N, Kyzyma O,  Yanez Crespo AA,  Blanchet C, Garcia-Etxarri A, Cárdenas M, Carril M*

Synthesis of Novel Amphiphilic Fluorinated Polymers for the Dispersion of Hydrophobic Gold Nanoparticles, Quantum Dots, or Highly Fluorinated Molecules in Water
ACS Nanosci Au. 2025 Sep 27;5(6):482-492. PMID: 41426009; PMCID: PMC12715620.
10.1021/acsnanoscienceau.5c00069

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Correa Y, Ravel M, Imbert M, Waldie S, Clifton L, Terry A, Roosen-Runge F, Lagerstedt JO, Moir M, Darwish T, Cárdenas M, Del Giudice R

Lipid exchange of apolipoprotein A-I amyloidogenic variants in reconstituted high-density lipoprotein with artificial membranes
Protein Sci. 2024 May;33(5):e4987
doi: 10.1002/pro.4987

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Correa Y, Del Giudice R, Waldie S, Thépaut M, Micciula S, Gerelli Y, Moulin M, Delaunay C, Fieschi F, Pichler H, Haertlein M, Forsyth VT, Le Brun A, Moir M, Russell RA, Darwish T, Brinck J, Wodaje T, Jansen M, Martín C, Roosen-Runge F, Cárdenas M.

High-Density Lipoprotein function is modulated by the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein in a lipid-type dependent manner
J Colloid Interface Sci. 2023 Sep;645:627-638
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2023.04.137

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Paracini N, Gutfreund P, Welbourn R, Gonzalez-Martinez JF, Zhu K, Miao Y, Yepuri N, Darwish TA, Garvey C, Waldie S, Larsson J, Wolff M, Cárdenas M.

Structural Characterization of Nanoparticle-Supported Lipid Bilayer Arrays by Grazing Incidence X-ray and Neutron Scattering
ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2023 Jan 25;15(3):3772-3780
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c18956

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Giudice RD, Paracini N, Laursen T, Blanchet C, Roosen-Runge F, Cárdenas M.

Expanding the Toolbox for Bicelle-Forming Surfactant-Lipid Mixtures
Molecules. 2022 Nov 7;27(21):7628
DOI: 10.3390/molecules27217628

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Luchini A, Tidemand FG, Johansen NT, Sebastiani F, Corucci G, Fragneto G, Cárdenas M, Arleth L.

Dark peptide discs for the investigation of membrane proteins in supported lipid bilayers: the case of synaptobrevin 2 (VAMP2)
Nanoscale Adv. 2022 Sep 12;4(21):4526-4534
DOI: 10.1039/d2na00384h

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Luchini A, Tidemand FG, Araya-Secchi R, Campana M, Cárdenas M, Arleth L.

Structural model of tissue factor (TF) and TF-factor VIIa complex in a lipid membrane: A combined experimental and computational study
J Colloid Interface Sci. 2022 Oct;623:294-305
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2022.04.147

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Köhler S, Arnold T, Birch J, Cárdenas M, Dorri S, Månsson M, Nylander T, Rogers S, Roth SV, Sassa Y, Wolff M.

Recent progress in grazing incidence small-angle neutron scattering
Adv Colloid Interface Sci. 2026 Mar;349:103757. Epub 2025 Dec 17. PMID: 41422768.
doi: 10.1016/j.cis.2025.103757.