Dr. Maciej J. Stawikowski

Research Interests

• Development and studies of novel membrane interacting lipid probes for neuroscience and cancer research
• Protein-lipid membrane interaction studies
• Drug design & synthesis of biologically active compounds (peptides & peptidomimetics)
• Proteolysis at/near the membranes

 

Recent Publications 

Alamgir S, Pelletier OB, Thomas D, Rubio V, Stawikowski MJ, Zhang Q. Measuring Membrane Lipid Turnover with the pH-sensitive Fluorescent Lipid Analog ND6. J Vis Exp. 2021 Jul 29;(173). doi: 10.3791/62717. PMID: 34398155.

Thomas D, Rubio V, Iragavarapu V, Guzman E, Pelletier OB, Alamgir S, Zhang Q, Stawikowski MJ. Solvatochromic and pH-Sensitive Fluorescent Membrane Probes for Imaging of Live Cells. ACS Chem Neurosci. 2021 Feb 17;12(4):719-734. doi: 10.1021/acschemneuro.0c00732

Rubio V., Iragavarapu V.,  Stawikowski M.J. Synthesis and Characterization of ROSA Dye - A Rhodamine B-type Fluorophore, Suitable for Bioconjugation and Fluorescence Studies in Live Cells.  Protein Pept Lett. 2019;26(10):758-767.

Cudic, P., N. Joshi, D. Sagher, B. T. Williams,  M. J. Stawikowski  and H. Weissbach (2016). "Identification of activators of methionine sulfoxide reductases A and B." Biochem Biophys Res Commun 469(4): 863-867.

Fields, G. B. and  M. J. Stawikowski  (2016). "Imaging Matrix Metalloproteinase Activity Implicated in Breast Cancer Progression." Methods Mol Biol 1406: 303-329.

Stawikowski, M. J., R. Stawikowska and G. B. Fields (2015). Collagenolytic Matrix Metalloproteinase Activities toward Peptomeric Triple-Helical Substrates.  Biochemistry 54(19): 3110-3121.

Krzywda, S., M. Jaskolski, K. Rolka and  M. J. Stawikowski  (2014). Structure of a proteolytically resistant analogue of (NLys)5SFTI-1 in complex with trypsin: evidence for the direct participation of the Ser214 carbonyl group in serine protease-mediated proteolysis.  Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr 70(Pt 3): 668-675.

 Stawikowski, M. J., B. Aukszi, R. Stawikowska, M. Cudic and G. B. Fields (2014). Glycosylation modulates melanoma cell alpha2beta1 and alpha3beta1 integrin interactions with type IV collagen.  J Biol Chem 289(31): 21591-21604.

 

Awards and Recognition

• Early Career Reviewer Program Participant at the Center for Scientific Review, NIH, 2016 - present