Publications by Cait MacPhee

Initial Steps of Amyloidogenic Peptide Assembly Revealed by Cold-Ion Spectroscopy DOI
Jakub Ujma, Vladimir Kopysov, Natalia S. Nagornova, Lukasz G. Migas, Maria Giovanna Lizio, Ewan W. Blanch, Cait MacPhee, Oleg V. Boyarkin and Perdita E. Barran, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 57, 1, p. 213-217 (2018)
BslA-stabilized emulsion droplets with designed microstructure DOI
Keith M. Bromley and Cait E. MacPhee, Interface Focus, 7, 4 (2017)
Natural variations in the biofilm-associated protein BslA from the genus Bacillus DOI
Ryan J. Morris, Marieke Schor, Rachel M.C. Gillespie, Ana Sofia Ferreira, Lucia Baldauf, Chris Earl, Adam Ostrowski, Laura Hobley, Keith M. Bromley, Tetyana Sukhodub, Sofia Arnaouteli, Cait E. MacPhee et al., Scientific Reports, 7, 1 (2017)
Bifunctionality of a biofilm matrix protein controlled by redox state DOI
Sofia Arnaouteli, Ana Sofia Ferreira, Marieke Schor, Ryan J. Morris, Keith M. Bromley, Jeanyoung Jo, Krista L. Cortez, Tetyana Sukhodub, Alan R. Prescott, Lars E.P. Dietrich, Cait E. MacPhee and Nicola R. Stanley-Wall, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114, 30, p. E6184-E6191 (2017)
Adsorption of the natural protein surfactant Rsn-2 onto liquid interfaces DOI
Giovanni B Brandani, Steven J Vance, Marieke Schor, Alan Cooper, Malcolm W Kennedy, Brian O Smith, Cait E MacPhee and David L Cheung, Physical chemistry chemical physics, 19, 12, p. 8584-8594 (2017)
Hungry for solutions DOI
Cait MacPhee, Physics world, 29, p. 26-29 (2016)
The Conformation of Interfacially Adsorbed Ranaspumin-2 Is an Arrested State on the Unfolding Pathway DOI
Ryan J Morris, Giovanni B Brandani, Vibhuti Desai, Brian O Smith, Marieke Schor and Cait E MacPhee, Biophysical Journal, 111, 4, p. 732-42 (2016)
A phenomenological description of BslA assemblies across multiple length scales DOI
Ryan J Morris, Keith M Bromley, Nicola Stanley-Wall and Cait E MacPhee, Philosophical Transactions A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 374, 2072 (2016)
Just in case it rains DOI
Sofia Arnaouteli, Cait E MacPhee and Nicola R Stanley-Wall, Current Opinion in Microbiology, 34, p. 7-12 (2016)
The Diverse Structures and Functions of Surfactant Proteins DOI
Marieke Schor, Jack L Reid, Cait E MacPhee and Nicola R Stanley-Wall, Trends in biochemical sciences, 41, 7, p. 610-20 (2016)
Lab Girl, by Hope Jahren
Catherine MacPhee, Times Higher Education (2016)
The association and aggregation of the metamorphic chemokine lymphotactin with fondaparinux DOI
Sophie R Harvey, Cait E MacPhee, Brian F Volkman and Perdita E Barran, Chemical Communications, 52, 2, p. 394-7 (2016)
Analytical methods for structural ensembles and dynamics of intrinsically disordered proteins DOI
Marieke Schor, Antonia S J S Mey and Cait E MacPhee, Biophysical Reviews, 8, 4, p. 429-439 (2016)
Membrainy: a ‘smart’, unified membrane analysis tool DOI
Matthew Carr and Cait E Macphee, Source Code for Biology and Medicine, 10, 1 (2015)
The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys’ Club, by Eileen Pollack
Catherine MacPhee, Times Higher Education (2015)
Houston, We Have a Narrative: Why Science Needs Story, by Randy Olson
Catherine MacPhee, Times Higher Education (2015)
The Bacterial Hydrophobin BslA is a Switchable Ellipsoidal Janus Nanocolloid DOI
Giovanni B Brandani, Marieke Schor, Ryan Morris, Nicola Stanley-Wall, Cait E MacPhee, Davide Marenduzzo and Ulrich Zachariae, Langmuir, 31, 42, p. 11558–11563 (2015)
Early stages of insulin fibrillogenesis examined with ion mobility mass spectrometry and molecular modelling DOI
Harriet Cole, Massimiliano Porrini, Ryan Morris, Tom Smith, Jason Kalapothakis, Stefan Weidt, C Logan Mackay, Cait E MacPhee and Perdita E Barran, Analyst, 140, 20, p. 7000-11 (2015)
Giving structure to the biofilm matrix DOI
Laura Hobley, Catriona Harkins, Cait E MacPhee and Nicola R Stanley-Wall, FEMS microbiology reviews, 39, p. 649-669 (2015)
A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design, by Frank Wilczek
Catherine MacPhee, Times Higher Education (2015)
A Kinetic Study of Ovalbumin Fibril Formation DOI
Jason M. D. Kalapothakis, Ryan Morris, Juraj Szavits-Nossan, Kym Eden, Sam Covill, Sean Tabor, Jay Gillam, Perdita E. Barran, Rosalind J. Allen and Cait E. MacPhee, Biophysical Journal, 108, 9, p. 2300-2311 (2015)
Relating gas phase to solution conformations DOI
Rebecca Beveridge, Ashley S Phillips, Laetitia Denbigh, Hassan M Saleem, Cait E MacPhee and Perdita E Barran, Proteomics (2015)
Interfacial self-assembly of a bacterial hydrophobin DOI
Keith Bromley, Ryan Morris, Laura Hobley, Giovanni Brandani, Rachel M. C. Gillespie, Matthew McCluskey, Ulrich Zachariae, Davide Marenduzzo, Nicola R. Stanley-Wall and Cait. E. MacPhee, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112, 17, p. 5419-5424 (2015)
Shedding Light on the Dock-Lock Mechanism in Amyloid Fibril Growth Using Markov State Models DOI
Marieke Schor, Antonia S. J. S. Mey, Frank Noe and Cait E. MacPhee, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 6, 6, p. 1076-1081 (2015)
Electron capture dissociation and drift tube ion mobility-mass spectrometry coupled with site directed mutations provide insights into the conformational diversity of a metamorphic protein DOI
Sophie R. Harvey, Massimiliano Porrini, Robert C. Tyler, Cait E. MacPhee, Brian F. Volkman and Perdita E. Barran, Physical chemistry chemical physics, 17, 16, p. 10538-10550 (2015)
Conformational dynamics of alpha-synuclein DOI
Ashley S. Phillips, Alexandre F. Gomes, Jason M. D. Kalapothakis, Jay E. Gillam, Jonas Gasparavicius, Fabio C. Gozzo, Tilo Kunath, Cait MacPhee and Perdita E. Barran, Analyst, 140, 9, p. 3070-3081 (2015)
To Explain The World: The Discovery of Modern Science, by Steven Weinberg
Catherine MacPhee, Times Higher Education (2015)
Competition between Primary Nucleation and Autocatalysis in Amyloid Fibril Self-Assembly DOI
Kym Eden, Ryan Morris, Jay Gillam, Cait E. MacPhee and Rosalind J. Allen, Biophysical Journal, 108, 3, p. 632-643 (2015)
Connecting the dots between bacterial biofilms and ice cream DOI
Nicola R Stanley-Wall and Cait E MacPhee, Physical Biology, 12, 6, p. 063001 (2015)
From Dust to Life: The Origin and Evolution of our Solar System, by John Chambers and Jacqueline Mitton
Catherine MacPhee, Times Higher Education (2014)
A Mass-Spectrometry-Based Framework To Define the Extent of Disorder in Proteins DOI
Rebecca Beveridge, Sam Covill, Kamila J. Pacholarz, Jason M. D. Kalapothakis, Cait E. MacPhee and Perdita E. Barran, Analytical Chemistry, 86, 22, p. 10979-10991 (2014)
Dissecting the Dynamic Conformations of the Metamorphic Protein Lymphotactin DOI
Sophie R Harvey, Massimiliano Porrini, Albert Konijnenberg, David J Clarke, Robert C Tyler, Patrick R R Langridge-Smith, Cait E MacPhee, Brian F Volkman and Perdita E Barran, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 118, 43, p. 12348-59 (2014)
The Copernicus Complex: The Quest for Our Cosmic (In)significance, by Caleb Scharf
Catherine MacPhee, Times Higher Education (2014)
Inherent Variability in the Kinetics of Autocatalytic Protein Self-Assembly DOI
Juraj Szavits Nossan, Kym Eden, Ryan Morris, Cait E. MacPhee, Martin R. Evans and Rosalind J. Allen, Physical Review Letters, 113, 9 (2014)
Higher Order Amyloid Fibril Structure by MAS NMR and DNP Spectroscopy DOI
Cait E. MacPhee, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 135, 51, p. 19237-19247 (2013)
Modelling amyloid fibril formation kinetics DOI
J E Gillam and C E MacPhee, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 25, 37, p. 373101 (2013)
BslA is a self-assembling bacterial hydrophobin that coats the Bacillus subtilis biofilm DOI
Cait MacPhee, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110, 33, p. 13600-13605 (2013)
Non-uniform changes in lipid order induced by the Membrane Targetting Sequence of the MinD ATPase
P. J. Judge, M. Schor, M. Carr, A. D. Graham, B. H. Juan, C. Macphee, U. Zachariae and A. Watts, European Biophysics Journal with Biophysics Letters, 42, p. S164-S164 (2013)
Quantifying Disorder through Conditional Entropy DOI
Giovanni B. Brandani, Marieke Schor, Cait E. MacPhee, Helmut Grubmueller, Ulrich Zachariae and Davide Marenduzzo, PLoS ONE, 8, 6 (2013)
Mechanistic and environmental control of the prevalence and lifetime of amyloid oligomers DOI
Ryan Morris, Kym Eden, Reuben Yarwood, Line Jourdain, Rosalind J Allen and Cait E Macphee, Nature Communications, 4 (2013)
Effect of Protonation State on the Stability of Amyloid Oligomers Assembled from TTR(105-115) DOI
Massimiliano Porrini, Ulrich Zachariae, Perdita E. Barran and Cait E. MacPhee, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 4, 8, p. 1233-1238 (2013)
Atomic structure and hierarchical assembly of a cross-β amyloid fibril DOI
A.W.P. Fitzpatrick, C.A. Waudby, A. De Simone, T.P.J. Knowles, M. Vendruscolo, C.M. Dobson, G.T. Debelouchina, M.J. Bayro, M.A. Caporini, C.E. MacPhee et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110, 14, p. 5468-5473 (2013)
Gender differences in conceptual understanding of Newtonian mechanics DOI
S. Bates, R. Donnelly, C. Macphee, D. Sands, M. Birch and N.R. Walet, European Journal of Physics, 34, 2, p. 421-434 (2013)
Inspiring the scientists of tomorrow
F. Ashcroft, C. MacPhee and S. Rankin, The Biochemist, 35, 1, p. 31 (2013)
Mass spectrometry methods for intrinsically disordered proteins DOI
Rebecca Beveridge, Quentin Chappuis, Cait Macphee and Perdita Barran, Analyst, 138, 1, p. 32-42 (2013)
Intermolecular Structure Determination of Amyloid Fibrils with Magic-Angle Spinning and Dynamic Nuclear Polarization NMR DOI
Marvin J. Bayro, Galia T. Debelouchina, Matthew T. Eddy, Neil R. Birkett, Catherine E. MacPhee, Melanie Rosay, Werner E. Maas, Christopher M. Dobson and Robert G. Griffin, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 133, 35, p. 13967-13974 (2011)
Insights into the early stages of fibrillogenesis of insulin using mass spectrometry
Harriet L. Cole, Massimiliano Porrini, Cait E. MacPhee and Perdita E. Barran, European Biophysics Journal with Biophysics Letters, 40, p. 88-88 (2011)
Ion mobility mass spectrometry for peptide analysis DOI
Sophie R. Harvey, Cait E. MacPhee and Perdita E. Barran, Methods in Molecular Biology, 54, 4, p. 454-461 (2011)
Perturbation of the Stability of Amyloid Fibrils through Alteration of Electrostatic Interactions DOI
Sarah L. Shammas, Tuomas P. J. Knowles, Andrew J. Baldwin, Cait E. MacPhee, Mark E. Welland, Christopher M. Dobson and Glyn L. Devlin, Biophysical Journal, 100, 11, p. 2783-2791 (2011)
Characterizing Early Aggregates Formed by an Amyloidogenic Peptide by Mass Spectrometry DOI
Harriet L. Cole, Jason M. D. Kalapothakis, Guy Bennett, Perdita E. Barran and Cait E. MacPhee, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 49, 49, p. 9448-9451 (2010)
Accurate Determination of Interstrand Distances and Alignment in Amyloid Fibrils by Magic Angle Spinning NMR DOI
Marc A. Caporini, Vikram S. Bajaj, Mikhail Veshtort, Anthony Fitzpatrick, Cait E. MacPhee, Michele Vendruscolo, Christopher M. Dobson and Robert G. Griffin, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 114, 42, p. 13555-13561 (2010)
High-Resolution MAS NMR Analysis of PI3-SH3 Amyloid Fibrils: Backbone Conformation and Implications for Protofilament Assembly and Structure DOI
Marvin J. Bayro, Thorsten Maly, Neil R. Birkett, Cait E. MacPhee, Christopher M. Dobson and Robert G. Griffin, Biochemistry, 49, 35, p. 7474-7484 (2010)
Expression and purification of a recombinant amyloidogenic peptide from transthyretin for solid-state NMR spectroscopy DOI
Philippe S. Nadaud, Mohosin Sarkar, Bo Wu, Cait E. MacPhee, Thomas J. Magliery and Christopher P. Jaroniec, Protein Expression and Purification, 70, 1, p. 101-108 (2010)
Efficient Energy Transfer within Self-Assembling Peptide Fibers: A Route to Light-Harvesting Nanomaterials DOI
Kevin J. Channon, Glyn L. Devlin and Cait E. MacPhee, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 131, 35, p. 12520-+ (2009)
Molecular cooking: physical transformations in Chinese 'century' eggs DOI
Erika Eiser, Caroline S. Miles, Nienke Geerts, Peter Verschuren and Cait E. MacPhee, Soft Matter, 5, 14, p. 2725-2730 (2009)
Modification of fluorophore photophysics through peptide-driven self-assembly DOI
Kevin J. Channon, Glyn L. Devlin, Steven W. Magennis, Chris E. Finlayson, Anna K. Tickler, Carlos Silva and Cait E. MacPhee, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 130, 16, p. 5487-5491 (2008)
Functionalised amyloid fibrils for roles in cell adhesion DOI
Sally L. Gras, Anna K. Tickler, Adam M. Squires, Glyn L. Devlin, Michael A. Horton, Christopher M. Dobson and Cait E. MacPhee, Biomaterials, 29, 11, p. 1553-1562 (2008)
Possibilities for 'smart' materials exploiting the self-assembly of polypeptides into fibrils DOI
Kevin Channon and Cait E. MacPhee, Soft Matter, 4, 4, p. 647-652 (2008)
Characterisation of amyloid fibril formation by small heat-shock chaperone proteins human alpha A-, alpha beta- and R120G alpha B-Crystallins DOI
Sarah Meehan, Tuomas P. J. Knowles, Andrew J. Baldwin, Jeffrey F. Smith, Adam M. Squires, Phillip clements, Teresa M. Treweek, Heath Ecroyd, Gian Gaetano Tartaglia, Cait E. MacPhee et al., Journal of Molecular Biology, 372, 2, p. 470-484 (2007)
Morphology and mechanical stability of amyloid-like peptide fibrils DOI
Patrick Mesquida, Christian K. Riener, Cait E. MacPhee and Rachel A. McKendry, Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine, 18, 7, p. 1325-1331 (2007)
Mimicking phosphorylation of alpha B-crystallin affects its chaperone activity DOI
Heath Ecroyd, Sarah Meehan, Joseph Horwitz, J. Andrew Aquilina, Justin L. P. Benesch, Carol V. Robinson, Cait E. Macphee and John A. Carver, Biochemical Journal, 401, p. 129-141 (2007)
Characterization of the nanoscale properties of individual amyloid fibrils DOI
Jeffrey F. Smith, Tuomas P. J. Knowles, Christopher M. Dobson, Cait E. MacPhee and Mark E. Welland, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103, 43, p. 15806-15811 (2006)
X-ray scattering study of the effect of hydration on the cross-beta structure of amyloid fibrils DOI
Adam M. Squires, Glyn L. Devlin, Sally L. Gras, Anna K. Tickler, Cait E. MacPhee and Christopher M. Dobson, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 128, 36, p. 11738-11739 (2006)
The component polypeptide chains of bovine insulin nucleate or inhibit aggregation of the parent protein in a conformation-dependent manner DOI
Glyn L. Devlin, Tuomas P. J. Knowles, Adam Squires, Margaret G. McCammon, Sally L. Gras, Melanie R. Nilsson, Carol V. Robinson, Christopher M. Dobson and Cait E. MacPhee, Journal of Molecular Biology, 360, 2, p. 497-509 (2006)
Cytochrome display on amyloid fibrils DOI
A J Baldwin, R Bader, J Christodoulou, C E MacPhee, C M Dobson, P D Barker and Cait MacPhee, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 128, 7, p. 2162-2163 (2006)
Amyloid fibril formation by bovine milk kappa-casein and its inhibition by the molecular chaperones alpha(s-) and beta-casein DOI
D C Thorn, S Meehan, M Sunde, A Rekas, S L Gras, C E MacPhee, C M Dobson, M R Wilson, J A Carver and Cait MacPhee, Biochemistry, 44, 51, p. 17027-17036 (2005)
High hydrostatic pressure dissociates early aggregates of TTR105-115, but not the mature amyloid fibrils DOI
C Dirix, F Meersman, C E MacPhee, C M Dobson, K Heremans and Cait MacPhee, Journal of Molecular Biology, 347, 5, p. 903-909 (2005)
Microarrays of peptide fibrils created by electrostatically controlled deposition DOI
P Mesquida, D L Ammann, C E MacPhee, R A McKendry and Cait MacPhee, Advanced Materials, 17, 7, p. 893-+ (2005)
The formation of spherulites by amyloid fibrils of bovine insulin DOI
M R H Krebs, C E MacPhee, A F Miller, L E Dunlop, C M Dobson, A M Donald and Cait MacPhee, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 101, 40, p. 14420-14424 (2004)
Engineered and designed peptide-based fibrous biomaterials DOI
C E MacPhee, D N Woolfson and Cait MacPhee, Current opinion in solid state & materials science, 8, 2, p. 141-149 (2004)
Amyloid fibril formation by lens crystallin proteins and its implications for cataract formation DOI
S Meehan, Y Berry, B Luisi, C M Dobson, J A Carver, C E MacPhee and Cait MacPhee, Journal of Biological Chemistry, 279, 5, p. 3413-3419 (2004)
High-resolution molecular structure of a peptide in an amyloid fibril determined by magic angle spinning NMR spectroscopy DOI
C P Jaroniec, C E MacPhee, V S Bajaj, M T McMahon, C M Dobson, R G Griffin and Cait MacPhee, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 101, 3, p. 711-716 (2004)
The circularization of amyloid fibrils formed by apolipoprotein C-II DOI
D M Hatters, C A MacRaild, R Daniels, W S Gosal, N H Thomson, J A Jones, J J Davis, C E MacPhee, C M Dobson, Cait MacPhee et al., Biophysical Journal, 85, 6, p. 3979-3990 (2003)
Protein folding and misfolding: a paradigm of self-assembly and regulation in complex biological systems DOI
M Vendruscolo, J Zurdo, C E MacPhee, C M Dobson and Cait MacPhee, Philosophical Transactions A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 361, 1807, p. 1205-1222 (2003)
Molecular conformation of a peptide in an amyloid fibril
C P Jaroniec, C E MacPhee, V S Bajaj, C M Dobson, R G Griffin and Cait MacPhee, Biophysical Journal, 84, 2, p. 154A-154A (2003)
Molecular conformation of a peptide fragment of transthyretin in an amyloid fibril DOI
C P Jaroniec, C E MacPhee, N S Astrof, C M Dobson, R G Griffin and Cait MacPhee, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 99, 26, p. 16748-16753 (2002)
Altered aggregation properties of mutant gamma-crystallins cause inherited cataract DOI
A Sandilands, A M Hutcheson, H A Long, A R Prescott, G Vrensen, J Loster, N Klopp, R B Lutz, J Graw, Cait MacPhee et al., EMBO Journal, 21, 22, p. 6005-6014 (2002)
Mixed fibrils
DOBSON CHRISTOPHER MARTIN and Cait MacPhee (2002)
Inhibition of lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 diminishes the death-inducing effects of oxidised LDL on human monocyte-macrophages DOI
K L Carpenter, I F Dennis, I R Challis, D P Osborn, C H Macphee, D S Leake, M J Arends and M J Mitchinson, FEBS Letters, 505, 3, p. 357-63 (2001)
Formation of mixed fibrils demonstrates the generic nature and potential utility of amyloid nanostructures DOI
C E MacPhee, C M Dobson and Cait MacPhee, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 122, 51, p. 12707-12713 (2000)
Ultrastructural organization of amyloid fibrils by atomic force microscopy DOI
A K Chamberlain, C E MacPhee, J Zurdo, L A Morozova-Roche, H A O Hill, C M Dobson, J J Davis and Cait MacPhee, Biophysical Journal, 79, 6, p. 3282-3293 (2000)
Human apolipoprotein C-II forms twisted amyloid ribbons and closed loops DOI
D M Hatters, C E MacPhee, L J Lawrence, W H Sawyer, G J Howlett and Cait MacPhee, Biochemistry, 39, 28, p. 8276-8283 (2000)
Chemical dissection and reassembly of amyloid fibrils formed by a peptide fragment of transthyretin DOI
C E MacPhee, C M Dobson and Cait MacPhee, Journal of Molecular Biology, 297, 5, p. 1203-1215 (2000)
Apolipoprotein C-II39-62 activates lipoprotein lipase by direct lipid-independent binding DOI
C E MacPhee, D M Hatters, W H Sawyer, G J Howlett and Cait MacPhee, Biochemistry, 39, 12, p. 3433-3440 (2000)
Mass spectrometry to characterize the binding of a peptide to a lipid surface DOI
C E MacPhee, G J Howlett, W H Sawyer and Cait MacPhee, Analytical Biochemistry, 275, 1, p. 22-29 (1999)
Helix-helix association of a lipid-bound amphipathic alpha-helix derived from apolipoprotein C-II
C E MacPhee, G J Howlett, W H Sawyer, A H A Clayton and Cait MacPhee, Biochemistry, 38, 33, p. 10878-10884 (1999)
Trifluoroethanol induces the self-association of specific amphipathic peptides (vol 416, pg 265, 1977)
C E MacPhee, M A Perugini, W H Sawyer, G J Howlett and Cait MacPhee, FEBS Letters, 422, 3, p. 407-407 (1998)
Determination of sedimentation coefficients for small peptides DOI
P Schuck, C E MacPhee, G J Howlett and Cait MacPhee, Biophysical Journal, 74, 1, p. 466-474 (1998)
Trifluoroethanol induces the self-association of specific amphipathic peptides DOI
C E MacPhee, M A Perugini, W H Sawyer, G J Howlett and Cait MacPhee, FEBS Letters, 416, 3, p. 265-268 (1997)
Interaction of lipoprotein lipase with homogeneous lipid emulsions
C E MacPhee, R Y S Chan, W H Sawyer, W F Stafford, G J Howlett and Cait MacPhee, Journal of lipid research, 38, 8, p. 1649-1659 (1997)

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