Pubblications

Building synthetic life: artificial cells and their applications - Albanese P., Altamura E., Mavelli F., Lagzi I., Fiore M., Rossi F. - Contemporary Physics, 2026.

Light-Activated Communication Between Synthetic and Living Cells via Photoresponsive Membranes - Barbaro R.*, Albanese P.*, Colella M., Lattarulo D., Saha S., Chen J. Y.-L., Mavelli F., Rossi F., Altamura E. *Equal contribution - ChemBioChem, 2026. 

Bioinspired Synthesis of Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework-8 in Giant Unilamellar Vesicles - Valletti N., Albanese P., Itatani M., Német N., Shuszter G., Elejalde-Cadena N., Lupetti P., Paccagnini E., Taylor A., Lagzi I., Rossi F. - ACS Materials Letter, 2026.

Photomodulation of Vesicle Dynamics Using Fluorescent Photoswitchable Amphiphiles - Albanese P., Cataldini S., Amoroso S., Sessa L., Piotto S., Di Martino M., Concilio S., Mavromatidou I., Naiya M.M., Brunetti J., Altamura E., Magnani A., Chen J. L.-Y., Rossi F. - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2026.

Temporal pH waveforms generated in an enzymatic reaction network in batch and cell-sized microcompartments - Itatani M, Holló G., Albanese P., Valletti N., Kurunczi S., Horvath R., Rossi F., Lagzi I. - Cell Reports Physical Science, 2025.

Light energy transduction in liposome-based Artificial Cells - Albanese P., Mavelli F., Altamura E . - Front. bioeng. biotechnol., 2023.

Light-switchable Membrane Permeability in Giant Unilamellar Vesicles - Albanese P., Cataldini S., Ren C. Z.-J., Valletti N., Brunetti J., Chen J. L.-Y., Rossi F. - Pharmaceutics, 2022.

The Rise of the Nested Multicompartment Model in Synthetic Cell Research - Altamura E., Albanese P., Mavelli F., Stano P. - Front. Mol. Biosci., 2021.

Self-division of giant vesicles driven by an internal enzymatic reaction - Miele, Y., Medveczky, Z., Holló, G., Tegze B., Derényi I., Horvolgi ., Altamura E., Lagzi, I., Rossi F. - Chemical Science, 2020, 11(12), pp. 3228–3235.

Mitochondrial and plasma membrane transport based engineering enables industrial level isocitric acid production in Yarrowia lipolytica - Messina E, Ciliberti C, Yuzbasheva E, Barile S, Yuzbashev T, Lazar Z, Laptev I, Palmieri F, Palmieri L, Pisano I, Agrimi G. - Microb Cell Fact. 2026.

Acetate co-feeding increases ethylene glycol assimilation and glycolic acid production in Yarrowia lipolytica - Messina E, Lazar Z, Barile S, Moroz P, Scarcia P, Antonacci Y, Fosso B, Palmieri L, Pisano I, Agrimi G - Bioresour Technol. 2026.

Enhancing selective itaconic acid synthesis in Yarrowia lipolytica through targeted metabolite transport reprogramming - Ciliberti C, Lazar Z, Szymański K, Yuzbasheva E, Yuzbashev T, Laptev I, Palmieri L, Pisano I, Agrimi G - Biotechnol Biofuels Bioprod. 2025. 

Genetic inactivation of the Carnitine/Acetyl-Carnitine mitochondrial carrier of Yarrowia lipolytica leads to enhanced odd-chain fatty acid production - Messina E, de Souza CP, Cappella C, Barile SN, Scarcia P, Pisano I, Palmieri L, Nicaud JM, Agrimi G - Microb Cell Fact. 2023.

Engineering Yarrowia lipolytica for the selective and high-level production of isocitric acid through manipulation of mitochondrial dicarboxylate-tricarboxylate carriers - Yuzbasheva EY, Scarcia P, Yuzbashev TV, Messina E, Kosikhina IM, Palmieri L, Shutov AV, Taratynova MO, Amaro RL, Palmieri F, Sineoky SP, Agrimi G. - Metab Eng. 2021. 

Mitochondrial carriers of Ustilago maydis and Aspergillus terreus involved in itaconate production: same physiological role but different biochemical features - Scarcia P, Gorgoglione R, Messina E, Fiermonte G, Blank LM, Wierckx N, Palmieri L, Agrimi G. - FEBS Lett. 2020.

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