Isabel D. Alves

This paper develops an electrophysiological method to study pore formation by bi-component staphylococcal leukotoxins in real-time using Xenopus oocytes, revealing receptor-dependent kinetics and a hybrid model of subunit oligomerization.

This study shows that membrane poly-unsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) impair dopamine D2 receptor (D2R) endocytosis without affecting other GPCRs or clathrin-mediated endocytosis.

This study compares how two antipsychotics, chlorpromazine and clozapine, partition into and modify lipid membranes, revealing differences in their membrane remodeling effects despite differing D2R antagonism strengths.