Publications by Christoph Schreiter

Acetylcholine Receptor Organization in Membrane Domains in Muscle Cells: EVIDENCE FOR RAPSYN-INDEPENDENT AND RAPSYN-DEPENDENT MECHANISMS

Rudolf Hovius, Horst Vogel, Jean-Manuel Segura, Joachim Piguet, Christoph Schreiter

Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChR) in muscle fibers are densely packed in the postsynaptic region at the neuromuscular junction. Rapsyn plays a central role in directing and clustering nAChR during cellular differentiation and neuromuscular junction ...

American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology2011

Micropositioning and microscopic observation of individual picoliter-sized containers within SU-8 microchannels

Horst Vogel, Christoph Schreiter, Jürgen Brugger

We describe the fabrication and application of a bioanalytical chip, made of SU-8 photoresist, comprising integrated, high aspect-ratio microfluidic channels, suitable to manipulate and investigate vesicles, cell fragments and biological cells. A central m ...

2007

Micro- and nanostructured devices for investigating biomolecular interactions

Jean-Baptiste Perez, Horst Vogel, Christian Santschi, Christoph Schreiter, Jürgen Brugger, Christophe Danelon

Cell membrane receptors and ion channels are essential in many different cellular processes. To analyse the activity of membrane proteins in vesicles and biological cells, we fabricated micro- nanostructured chips, enabling the application of electrophysio ...

2006

Determining a receptor-ligand interaction useful in e.g. drug screening involves repetitive application of reversibly binding fluorescent ligands with fast association-dissociation kinetics

Rudolf Hovius, Horst Vogel, Marinela Gjoni Boillat, Jean-Manuel Segura, Christoph Schreiter

NOVELTY - Determining a receptor-ligand interaction involves repeatedly contacting a cell comprising a receptor, with a ligand, of the receptor in which the ligand has a fluorescence labeling group and binds reversibly to the receptor under conditions in w ...

2006

Electrophysiology and fluorescence microscopy of ligand-gated ion channels

Christoph Schreiter

The thesis presented here describes studies of ligand binding, function, and arrangement of ligand-gated ion channels in cell membranes. Fluorescence microscopy and the patch clamp technique are used to investigate the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and ...

EPFL2005

Reversible sequential-binding probe receptor-ligand interactions in single cells

Rudolf Hovius, Horst Vogel, Marinela Gjoni Boillat, Jean-Manuel Segura, Christoph Schreiter

With the reversible sequential (ReSeq) binding assay, we present a novel approach for the ultrasensitive profiling of receptor function in single living cells. This assay is based on the repetitive application of fluorescent ligands that have fast assocn.- ...

2005