Publications

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2026

Membrane Curvature and Cancer: Mechanisms, Implications, and Therapeutic Perspectives Alexandros Damalas, Ioannis D Kyriazis, *Marijonas Tutkus*, Charalampos Angelidis, Varvara Trachana Published in Cancers, March 2026 (see publication ) - Review, co-author

Single‐molecule DNA flow‐stretch assays for high‐throughput DNA–protein interaction studies Ayush Kumar Ganguli, *Mohammad Nour Alsamsam*, *Ugnė Bagdonaitė*, Van Truc Vu, Chun‐Jen Huang, Polina Kuzhir, Mindaugas Zaremba, *Aurimas Kopūstas*, *Marijonas Tutkus* Published in FEBS openBio, February 2026 (see publication ) - Research paper, corresponding author

2025

Activation of the SPARDA defense system by filament assembly using a beta-relay signaling mechanism widespread in prokaryotic Argonautes Edvinas Jurgelaitis, Evelina Zagorskaitė, *Aurimas Kopūstas*, Simonas Asmontas, Elena Manakova, Indrė Dalgėdienė, Ugnė Tylenytė, Arunas Silanskas, Paulius Toliusis, Algirdas Grybauskas, *Marijonas Tutkus*, Česlovas Venclovas, Mindaugas Zaremba Published in Cell Research, November 2025 (see publication ) - Research paper, co-author

Heterotypic Droplet Formation by Pro-Inflammatory S100A9 and Neurodegenerative Disease-Related α-Synuclein Dominykas Veiveris, Aurimas Kopustas, Darius Sulskis, Kamile Mikalauskaite, *Mohammad Nour Alsamsam*, *Marijonas Tutkus*, Vytautas Smirnovas, Mantas Ziaunys Published in Biomacromolecules, May 2025 (see publication ) - Research paper, co-author

Diamond nanoneedles for biosensing Mariam Quarshie, Lena Golubewa, Caterina Giraulo, Silvana Morello, Claudia Cirillo, Maria Sarno, Bo Xu, Priyadharshini Balasubramanian, Yuliya Mindarava, *Marijonas Tutkus*, Alexander Obraztsov, Fedor Jelezko, Polina Kuzhir, Sergei Malykhin Published in Nanotechnology, April 2025 (see publication ) - Research paper, co-author

2024

Liquid-liquid phase separation of alpha-synuclein increases the structural variability of fibrils formed during amyloid aggregation Mantas Ziaunys, Darius Sulskis, Dominykas Veiveris, *Aurimas Kopūstas*, Ruta Snieckute, Kamile Mikalauskaite, Andrius Sakalauskas, *Marijonas Tutkus*, Vytautas Smirnovas Published in The FEBS Journal, August 2024 (see publication ) - Research paper, co-author

Formation of Calprotectin Inhibits Amyloid Aggregation of S100A8 and S100A9 Proteins Ieva Baronaitė, Darius Šulskis, Aurimas Kopu̅stas, *Marijonas Tutkus*, and Vytautas Smirnovas Published in ACS Chemical Neuroscience, April 2024 (see publication ) - Research paper, co-author

Fluorescence quenching in aggregates of fucoxanthin–chlorophyll protein complexes: Interplay of fluorescing and dark states Andrius Gelzinis, Jevgenij Chmeliov, *Marijonas Tutkus*, Ernesta Vitulskienė, Marius Franckevičius, Claudia Büchel, Bruno Robert, Leonas Valkunas Published in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, April 2024 (see publication ) - Research paper, co-author

Probing Activation and Conformational Dynamics of the Vesicle-Reconstituted β2 Adrenergic Receptor at the Single-Molecule Level *Marijonas Tutkus*, Christian V. Lundgaard, Salome Veshaguri, Asger Tønnesen, Nikos Hatzakis, Søren G. F. Rasmussen, and Dimitrios Stamou Published in J. Phys. Chem. B, February 2024 (see publication ) - Research paper, corresponding author

2023

smFRET Detection of Cis and Trans DNA Interactions by the BfiI Restriction Endonuclease *Šarūnė Ivanovaitė*, *Justė Paksaitė*, *Aurimas Kopūstas*, Giedrė Karzaitė, Danielis Rutkauskas, Arunas Silanskas, Giedrius Sasnauskas, Mindaugas Zaremba, Stephen K. Jones Jr., *and Marijonas Tutkus* Published in J. Phys. Chem. B, July 2023 (see publication ) - Research paper, corresponding author

Advancing Understanding of DNA-BfiI Restriction Endonuclease Cis and Trans Interactions through smFRET Technology *Šarūnė Ivanovaitė*, *Justė Paksaitė*, *Aurimas Kopūstas*, Giedrė Karzaitė, Danielis Rutkauskas, Arunas Silanskas, Giedrius Sasnauskas, Mindaugas Zaremba, Stephen K. Jones Jr., *Marijonas Tutkus* Published in bioRxiv, April 2023 (see publication ) - Preprint, Corresponding author

2022

The miEye: Bench-top super-resolution microscope with cost-effective equipment *Mohammad Nour Alsamsam*, *Aurimas Kopūstas*, *Meda Jurevičiūtė*, *Marijonas Tutkus* Published in HardwareX, October 2022 (see publication ) - Research paper, corresponding author

Disarming of type IF CRISPR-Cas surveillance complex by anti-CRISPR proteins AcrIF6 and AcrIF9 Egle Kupcinskaite, *Marijonas Tutkus*, *Aurimas Kopūstas*, *Simonas Ašmontas*, Marija Jankunec, Mindaugas Zaremba, Giedre Tamulaitiene, Tomas Sinkunas Published in Scientific reports, September 2022 (see publication ) - Research paper, co-author

TGFβ-induced changes in membrane curvature influence Ras oncoprotein membrane localization Alexandros Damalas, Ivana Vonkova, *Marijonas Tutkus*, Dimitrios Stamou Published in Scientific reports, August 2022 (see publication ) - Research paper, shared first author

DNA Flow-Stretch Assays for Studies of Protein-DNA Interactions at the Single-Molecule Level *Aurimas Kopūstas*, Mindaugas Zaremba, *Marijonas Tutkus* Published in Applied Nano, January 2022 (see publication ) - Review, Corresponding author

2021

Aggregation-related quenching of LHCII fluorescence in liposomes revealed by single-molecule spectroscopy *Marijonas Tutkus*, Jevgenij Chmeliov, Gediminas Trinkunas, Parveen Akhtar, Petar H. Lambrev, Leonas Valkunas Published in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, March 2021 (see publication ) - Research paper, first author

Oriented Soft DNA Curtains for Single-Molecule Imaging *Aurimas Kopūstas*, *Šarūnė Ivanovaitė*, Tomas Rakickas, Ernesta Pocevičiūtė, *Justė Paksaitė*, Tautvydas Karvelis, Mindaugas Zaremba, Elena Manakova, *and Marijonas Tutkus* Published in Langmuir, March 2021 (see publication ) - Research paper, Corresponding author

2019

Aggregation-Related Nonphotochemical Quenching in the Photosynthetic Membrane Jevgenij Chmeliov, Andrius Gelzinis, Marius Franckevičius, *Marijonas Tutkus*, Francesco Saccon, Alexander V. Ruban, and Leonas Valkunas Published in J. Phys. Chem. Lett., December 2019 (see publication ) - Research paper, co-author

Single-molecule microscopy studies of LHCII enriched in Vio or Zea *Marijonas Tutkus*, Francesco Saccon, Jevgenij Chmeliov, *Oskaras Venckus*, Ignas Ciplys, Alexander V. Ruban, Leonas Valkunas Published in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, June 2019 (see publication ) - Research paper, first author

Fixed DNA Molecule Arrays for High-Throughput Single DNA–Protein Interaction Studies *Marijonas Tutkus*, Tomas Rakickas, Aurimas Kopu̅stas, Šaru̅nė Ivanovaitė, *Oskaras Venckus*, Vytautas Navikas, Mindaugas Zaremba, Elena Manakova, and Ramu̅nas Valiokas Published in Langmuir, April 2019 (see publication ) - Research paper, first author

2018

Fluorescence Microscopy of Single Liposomes with Incorporated Pigment–Proteins *Marijonas Tutkus*, Parveen Akhtar, Jevgenij Chmeliov, Fanni Gorfol, Gediminas Trinkunas, Petar H Lambrev, Leonas Valkunas Published in Langmuir, November 2018 (see publication ) - Research paper, first author

2017

Influence of the Carotenoid Composition on the Conformational Dynamics of Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting Complexes *Marijonas Tutkus*, Jevgenij Chmeliov, Danielis Rutkauskas, Alexander V. Ruban, and Leonas Valkunas Published in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, December 2017 (see publication ) - Research paper, first author

Probing the dynamics of restriction endonuclease NgoMIV-DNA interaction by single-molecule FRET *Marijonas Tutkus*, Giedrius Sasnauskas, Danielis Rutkauskas Published in Biopolymers, October 2017 (see publication ) - Research paper, first author

DNA-Endonuclease Complex Dynamics by Simultaneous FRET and Fluorophore Intensity in Evanescent Field *Marijonas Tutkus*, Tomas Marciulionis, Giedrius Sasnauskas, Danielis Rutkauskas Published in Biophysical Journal, March 2017 (see publication ) - Research paper, first author