RESEARCH ARTICLES

1.  The inner core enables transient touch detection in the Pacinian corpuscle

LH Ziolkowski*, YA Nikolaev* (*equal), ... SN Bagriantsev, Science Advances 11, eadt4837, 2025

2.  3D architecture and a bi-cellular mechanism of touch detection in mechanosensory corpuscle

YA Nikolaev*, LH Ziolkowski* (*equal), ... SN Bagriantsev, Science Advances 9 (37), eadi4147, 2023

3.  Molecular insights into the force-from-lipids gating of mechanosensitive channels

N Bavi, CD Cox, YA Nikolaev, B Martinac, Current Opinion in Physiology, 100706, 2023

4.  Human TRPV1 structure and inhibition by the analgesic SB-366791

A Neuberger, M Oda, YA Nikolaev, KD Nadezhdin, ... A Sobolevsky, Nature Comm. 14 (1), 2451, 2023

5.  Extracellular cap domain is an essential component of the TRPV1 gating mechanism

KD Nadezhdin, A Neuberger, YA Nikolaev, ... A Sobolevsky, Nature Comm. 12 (1), 2154, 2021

6.  Lamellar cells in Pacinian and Meissner corpuscles are touch sensors

YA Nikolaev, VV Feketa, EO Anderson, ... SN Bagriantsev, Science advances 6 (51), eabe6393, 2020

7.  CNGA3 acts as a cold sensor in hypothalamic neurons

VV Feketa, YA Nikolaev, DK Merriman, SN Bagriantsev, EO Gracheva, Elife 9, e55370, 2020

8.  Piezo2 integrates mechanical and thermal cues in vertebrate mechanoreceptors

W Zheng*, YA Nikolaev* (*equal), EO Gracheva, SN Bagriantsev), PNAS 116 (35), 17547-17555, 2019

9.  Mammalian TRP ion channels are insensitive to membrane stretch

YA Nikolaev, CD Cox, P Ridone, PR Rohde, ... B Martinac, Journal of Cell Science 132 (3), 22a, 2019

10. A cross-species analysis reveals a general role for Piezo2 in mechanosensory specialization…

ER Schneider, ...YA Nikolaev, ... SN Bagriantsev, Cell reports 26 (8), 1979-1987. e3, 2019

11. Tuning ion channel mechanosensitivity by asymmetry of the transbilayer pressure profile

B Martinac, N Bavi, P Ridone, YA Nikolaev, ... O Bavi, Biophysical reviews 10, 1377-1384, 2018

12. Adding dimension to cellular mechanotransduction: Advances in biomedical engineering of…

O Friedrich, D Schneidereit, YA Nikolaev, ... B Martinac, PBMB 130, 170-191, 2017

13. Lipid–protein interactions: Lessons learned from stress

AR Battle, P Ridone, N Bavi, Y Nakayama, YA Nikolaev, B Martinac, BBA 1848 (9), 1744-1756, 2015

14. Single mechanically gated cation channel currents can trigger action potentials in neocortical...

YA Nikolaev, PJ Dosen, DR Laver, DF Van Helden, OP Hamill, Brain research 1608, 1-13, 2015

15. Determination of the metrological characteristics of the near field scanning optical microscope…

FV Bulygin, OE Dracheva, NP Kutuzov, ... YA Nikolaev, Measurement techniques 56, 1173-1180, 2014

BOOK CHAPTERS

1.   Cell membrane mechanics and mechanosensory transduction

B Martinac, YA Nikolaev, G Silvani, N Bavi, ... C Cox, Current Topics in Membranes 86, 83-141, 2020

2.   Principles of mechanosensing at the membrane interface

N Bavi, YA Nikolaev, ... B Martinac, Biophysics of cell membranes, vol 19., 85-119, 2017

3.   Mechanosensitivity of Ion Channels

CG Cranfield, A Kloda, YA Nikolaev, AD Martinac, ... B Martinac, Encyclopedia of Biophysics, 2018