Kandice R. Levental

University of Virginia — United States

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior(70), Cellular transport and secretion(21), Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies(17), Erythrocyte Function and Pathophysiology(17), Proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans research(10)

Publications116 total

Cholesterol-containing lipid crystals can directly stiffen the rat steatotic liver before fibrosis
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2026Open Access
ER exit sites mediated by the COPII adaptor sec24D selectively recruit lipid raft-preferring proteins for rapid ER export
Nature Communications·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Apical and basolateral plasma membranes in epithelial cells have distinct lipidomes and biophysical properties
2025Open Access
Cadherin Regulation of Endoplasmic Reticulum-Plasma Membrane Contact Sites
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Specific Lipid Abnormalities Are Inherently Associated with Late-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease
2025Open Access
Caveolin assemblies displace one bilayer leaflet to organize and bend membranes
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2025· 15 citedOpen Access
Loss of lipid asymmetry facilitates plasma membrane blebbing by decreasing membrane lipid packing
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2025· 8 citedOpen Access
Nitrosation of CD36 Regulates Endothelial Function and Serum Lipids
Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology·2025· 5 cited
Cell membranes sustain phospholipid imbalance via cholesterol asymmetry
Cell·2025· 78 cited
BPS2025 - Deciphering the functional role of plasma membrane lipid asymmetry and its regulated release in mast cell activation and degranulation
Biophysical Journal·2025
BPS2025 - The molecular determinants of caveolin-1 membrane interactions
Biophysical Journal·2025
Molecular dynamics at immune synapse lipid rafts influence the cytolytic behavior of CAR T cells
Science Advances·2025· 12 citedOpen Access
Asymmetric membrane properties through a protein lens
Faraday Discussions·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Immune cell activation produces locally scrambled foci of plasma membrane lipids
Faraday Discussions·2025· 4 citedOpen Access
Plasma membrane asymmetry and lipid homeostasis: general discussion
Faraday Discussions·2025
Partitioning to ordered membrane domains regulates the kinetics of secretory traffic
eLife·2024· 14 citedOpen Access
Author response: Partitioning to ordered membrane domains regulates the kinetics of secretory traffic
2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Nitrosation of CD36 regulates endothelial function and serum lipids
2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Lipidomes define immune cell identity
Nature Cell Biology·2024· 5 cited
Abstract 1059 Cholesterol asymmetry enables phospholipid abundance imbalances in mammalian plasma membranes
Journal of Biological Chemistry·2024Open Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Ilya Levental(35), Uwe Freudenberg(11), Carsten Werner(11), Joseph H. Lorent(10), Barbara Diaz‐Rohrer(10), Andrea Zieris(8), Milka Doktorova(7), Ivan Castello-Serrano(7), Frederick A. Heberle(6), Silvana Prokoph(6), Mikhail V. Tsurkan(6), Karolina Chwalek(6), Hongyin Wang(6), Erdinç Sezgin(5), Edward Lyman(5), Jessica L. Symons(5), Xubo Lin(4), Petra B. Welzel(4), Allison D. Skinkle(4), Sze Ham Chan(4)