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Akshita Chhabra

Marine Biological LaboratoryORCID 0000-0002-7323-4989Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:experimental assay· 2 Research Focus:cell signaling & trafficking· 1 Assay:imaging· 1 Approach:microscopy & imaging analysis· 1 Organism:mouse· 1 Assay:proteomics· 1 Research Focus:synaptic & neural circuits· 1 Organism:zebrafish· 1

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Synapsin-1 and actin form ordered nanoscale assemblies

Daniel E. Mansour, Rajdeep Chowdhury, Aravind Chandrasekaran, Tiago Mimoso, Donatus Krah, Korobeinikov A Aleksandr, Akshita Chhabra, Dragomir Milovanović, Sarah Köster, Ali Shaib, Silvio O. Rizzoli, Padmini Rangamani

This study investigates how synapsin-1 and actin form ordered nanoscale assemblies through phase separation, showing that actin scaffolds retain structural memory for condensate reformation.

bioRxiv · Sep 29, 2026 · PreprintBiophysics

Condensates of synaptic vesicles and synapsin are molecular beacons for actin sequestering and polymerization

Akshita Chhabra, Christian Hoffmann, Gerard Aguilar Pérez, Александр Коробейников, Jakob Rentsch, Nadja Hümpfer, Linda Kokwaro, Luka Gnidovec, Arsen Petrović, Jaqulin N. Wallace, Johannes Vincent Tromm, Cristina Román‐Vendrell, Emma Johnson, Branislava Ranković, Eleonora Perego, , Dragomir Milovanović

The paper investigates how synapsin-SV condensates organize presynaptic actin through LLPS, revealing their role in SV clustering and actin polymerization in lamprey and mammalian synapses.

The EMBO Journal · Aug 14, 2025Peer-reviewedCell Biology

RNA promotes synapsin phase separation providing a platform for local translation

Branislava Ranković, Zachary M. Geisterfer, Akshita Chhabra, Vladimir M Jovanovic, Ian Seim, Christian Hoffmann, Antonela Condric, Gerard Aguilar Pérez, Rinse de Boer, Lars T. Hofstede, Kiara Freitag, Katja Nowick, Marina Jendrach, Frank L. Heppner, Vladimir Despic, , Dragomir Milovanović

The paper shows RNA promotes synapsin phase separation, forming condensates that organize synaptic vesicles and enhance local translation.

bioRxiv · Jan 29, 2025 · PreprintCell Biology