Nilsson has published 59 papers. His publications have been cited over 1000 times. The most cited paper (Nature Materials 2003) has over 190 citations. H-index 22.
1. Articles in refereed scientific journals:
- Nilsson, K. P. R., Andersson, M. R., Inganäs, O. (2002) Conformational transitions of a free amino-acid-functionalized polythiophene induced by different buffer systems. J. Phys. Condens. Mat. 14, 10011-10020.
- Nilsson, K. P. R., Andersson, M. R., Inganäs, O. Conformational transitions of a free amino-acid-functionalized polythiophene. (2003) Synth. Met. 135, 291-292.
- Nilsson, K. P. R., Inganäs, O. (2003) Chip and solution detection of DNA hybridisation using a luminescent zwitter-ionic polythiophene derivative. Nature Materials 2, 419-424.
- Nilsson, K. P. R., Rydberg, J., Baltzer, L., Inganäs, O. (2003) Self-assembly of synthetic peptides control conformation and optical properties of a zwitterionic polythiophene derivative. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100, 10170-10174.
- Nilsson, K. P. R., Rydberg, J., Baltzer, L., Inganäs, O. (2004) Twisting macromolecular chains – self-assembly of a chiral supermolecule from non-chiral polythiophene polyanions and random coil synthetic peptides. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101, 11197-11202.
- Nilsson, K. P. R., Olsson, J. D. M., Konradsson, P., Inganäs, O. (2004) Enantiomeric substituents determine the chirality of luminescent conjugated polythiophenes. Macromolecules 37, 6316-6321.
- Nilsson, K. P. R., Inganäs, O. (2004) Optical emission of a conjugated polyelectrolyte: Calcium-induced conformational changes in Calmodulin and Calmodulin-Calcineurin interactions. Macromolecules 37, 9109-9113.
- Åsberg, P., Nilsson, K. P. R., Inganäs, O. (2004) Fluorescence quenching and excitation transfer between semiconducting and metallic organic layers J. Appl. Physics 96, 3140-3147.
- Björk, P., Persson, N-K., Nilsson, K. P. R., Åsberg, P., Inganäs, O. (2004) Dynamics of complex formation between biological and luminescent conjugated polyelectrolytes—a surface plasmon resonance study. Biosensors and Bioelectronics 107, 1764-1771.
- Herland, A., Nilsson, K. P. R., Olsson, J. D. M., Konradsson, P., Hammarström, P., Inganäs, O. (2005) Synthesis of a regioregular zwitterionic conjugated oligoelectrolyte, usable as an optical probe for detection of amyloid fibrillation at acidic pH. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127, 2317-2323.
- Nilsson, K. P. R., Herland, A., Hammarström, P., Inganäs, O. (2005) Conjugated polyelectrolytes – conformation sensitive optical probes for detection of amyloid fibril formation. Biochemistry 44, 3718-3724.
- Herland, A., Björk, P., Nilsson, K. P. R., Olsson, J. D. M., Åsberg, P., Konradsson, P., Hammarström, P., Inganäs, O. (2005) Electroactive Luminescent Self-assembled Bio-organic Nanowires. Adv. Mater. 17, 1466-1471.
- Karlsson, F. K., Åsberg, P., Nilsson, K. P. R., Inganäs, O. (2005) Interactions between a zwitterionic polythiophene derivative and oligonucleotides as resolved by fluorescence resonance energy transfer. Chem. Mat. 17, 4204-4211.
- Nilsson, K. P. R., Olsson, J. D. M., Stabo-Eeg, F., Lindgren, M., Konradsson, P., Inganäs, O. (2005) Chiral recognition of a synthetic peptide using enantiomeric conjugated polyelectrolytes and optical spectroscopy. Macromolecules 38, 6813-6821.
- Nilsson, K. P. R., Lovelace, E. S., Caesar, C. E., Tynngard, N., Alewood, P. F., Johansson, H. M., Sharpe, I. A., Lewis, R. J., Daly, N. L., Craik, D. J. (2005) Solution structure of chi-conopeptide MrIA, a modulator of the human norepinephrine transporter. Biopolymers 80, 815-823.
- Filippini, D., Åsberg, P., Nilsson, P., Inganäs, O., Lundström, I. (2005) Computer screen photo-assisted detection of complementary DNA strands using a luminescent zwitterionic polythiophene derivative. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemica, 113, 410-418.
- Åsberg, P., Nilsson K. P. R., Inganäs O. (2006) Surface energy modified chips for detection of conformational states and enzymatic activity in biomolecules. Langmuir 22, 2205-2211.
- Nilsson, K. P. R., Hammarström, P., Ahlgren, F., Herland, A., Schnell, E. A., Lindgren, M., Westermark, G. T., Inganäs, O. (2006) Conjugated polyelectrolytes - Conformation-sensitive optical probes for staining and characterization of amyloid deposits. Chembiochem. 7, 1096-1104.
- Björk, P., Nilsson, K. P. R., Lenner, L., Kågedal, B., Persson, B., Inganäs, O., Jonasson, J. (2007) Conjugated polythiophene probes target lysosome-related acidic vacuoles in cultured primary cells. Mol. Cell. Probes. 5-6, 329-337.
- Stabo-Eeg, F., Lindgren, M., Nilsson, K. P. R., Inganäs, O., Hammarström, P. (2007) Quantum efficiency and two-photon absorption cross-section of conjugated polyelectrolytes used for protein conformation measurements with applications on amyloid structures. Chem. Phys. 336, 121-126.
- Nilsson, K. P. R., Åslund, A., Berg, I., Nyström, S., Konradsson, P., Inganäs, O., Stabo-Eeg, F., Lindgren, M., Westermark, G.T., Lannfelt, L., Nilsson, L.N., Hammarström, P. (2007) Imaging distinct conformational states of amyloid-beta fibrils in Alzheimer's disease using novel luminescent probes. ACS Chem. Biol. 2, 553-560.
- Åslund, A., Herland, A., Hammarström, P., Nilsson, K. P. R., Jonsson, B.H., Inganäs, O., Konradsson, P. (2007) Studies of luminescent conjugated polythiophene derivatives: enhanced spectral discrimination of protein conformational states. Bioconjug. Chem. 6, 1860-1868.
- Sigurdson, C.J, Nilsson, K.P.R., Hornemann, S., Manco, G., Polymenidou, M., Schwarz, P., Leclerc, M., Hammarström, P, Wüthrich, K., Aguzzi, A. (2007) Prion strain discrimination using luminescent conjugated polymers. Nature Methods 12, 1023-1030.
- Nilsson, K.P.R., Hammarström, P. (2008) Luminescent conjugated polymers: Illuminating the dark matters of biology and pathology. Adv. Mater. 12, 2639-2645.
- Falsig, J., Nilsson K. P. R., Knowles, T. P. J., Adriano Aguzzi. (2008) Chemical and biophysical insights into the propagation of prion strains. HFSP JOURNAL 2, 332-341.
- Philipson, O., Hammarström, P., Nilsson, K.P.R., Portelius, E., Olofsson, T., Ingelsson, M., Hyman, B.T., Blennow, K., Lannfelt, L., Kalimo, H., Nilsson, L.N. (2008) A highly insoluble state of Abeta similar to that of Alzheimer's disease brain is found in Arctic APP transgenic mice. Neurobiol. Aging. 30, 1393-1405.
- Sigurdson, C. J., Nilsson, K. P. R., Hornemann, S., Heikenwalder, M., Manco, G., Schwarz, P., Ott, D., Rülicke, T., Liberski, P. P., Julius, C., Falsig, J., Stitz, L., Wüthrich, K., Aguzzi, A. (2009) De novo generation of a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy by mouse transgenesis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106, 304-309.
- Nilsson, K. P. R. (2009) Small organic probes as amyloid specific ligands - Past and recent molecular scaffolds. FEBS Lett. 583, 2593-2599.
- Maji, S. K., Perrin, M. H., Sawaya, M. R., Jessberger, S., Vadodaria, K., Rissman, R. A., Singru, P. S., Nilsson, K. P. R., Simon, R., Schubert, D., Eisenberg, D., Rivier, J., Sawchenko, P., Vale, W., Riek R. (2009) Functional Amyloids as Natural Storage of Peptide Hormones in Pituitary Secretory Granules. Science 325, 328-332.
- Åslund, A., Sigurdson, C. J., Klingstedt, T., Grathwohl, S., Bolmont, T., Dickstein, D. L., Glimsdal, E., Prokop, S., Lindgren, M., Konradsson, P., Holtzman, D. M., Hof, P. R., Heppner, F. L., Gandy, S., Jucker, M., Aguzzi, A., Hammarström, P., Nilsson, K. P. R. (2009) Novel pentameric thiophene derivatives for in vitro and in vivo optical imaging of a plethora of protein aggregates in cerebral amyloidoses. ACS Chem. Biol. 4, 673-684.
- Åslund A, Nilsson, K. P. R., Konradsson P. (2009) Fluorescent oligo and poly-thiophenes and their utilization for recording biological events of diverse origin-when organic chemistry meets biology. J. Chem. Biol. 2, 161-175.
- Almstedt, K., Nyström, S., Nilsson, K. P. R., Hammarström, P. (2009) Amyloid fibrils of human prion protein are spun and woven from morphologically disordered aggregates. Prion 3, 224-235.
- Nilsson, K. P. R., Ikenberg, K., Aslund, Å, Fransson, S., Konradsson, P., Röcken, C., Moch, H., Aguzzi, A. (2010) Structural typing of systemic amyloidoses by luminescent-conjugated polymer spectroscopy. Am. J. Pathol. 176, 563-574.
- Berg, I., Nilsson, K. P. R., Thor, S., Hammarström, P. (2010) Efficient imaging of amyloid deposits in Drosophila models of human amyloidoses. Nature Protocols 5, 935-944.
- Sigurdson, C. J., Nilsson, K. P. R., Hornemann, S., Manco, G., Fernández-Borges, N., Schwarz, P., Castilla, J., Wüthrich, K., Aguzzi, A. (2010) A molecular switch controls interspecies prion disease transmission in mice. J Clin Invest. 120, 2590-2599.
- Ostapchenko, V. G., Sawaya, M. R., Makarava, N., Savtchenko, R., Nilsson, K. P. R., Eisenberg, D., Baskakov, I. V. (2010) Two amyloid States of the prion protein display significantly different folding patterns. J Mol Biol. 400, 908-921.
- Hammarström, P., Simon, R., Nyström, S., Konradsson, P., Åslund, A., Nilsson, K. P. R. (2010) A fluorescent pentameric thiophene derivative detects in vitro-formed prefibrillar protein aggregates. Biochemistry. 49, 6838-6845.
- Gabrielsson, E. O., Tybrandt, K., Hammarström, P., Berggren, M., Nilsson, K. P. R. (2010) Spatially Controlled Amyloid Reactions Using Organic Electronics. Small. 6, 2153-2161.
- Nilsson, K. P. R., Joshi-Barr, S., Winson, O., Sigurdson, C. J. (2010) Prion strain interactions are highly selective. J Neurosci. 30, 12094-12102.
- Lindgren, M., Glimsdal, E., Åslund, A., Simon, R., Hammarström, P., Nilsson, K. P. R. (2010) Luminescence and Two-Photon Absorption Cross Section of Novel Oligomeric Luminescent Conjugated Polythiophenes for Diagnostics of Amyloid Fibrils. Nonlinear Optics Quantum Optics 40, 241-251.
- Klingstedt, T., Nilsson, K. P. R. (2011) Conjugated polymers for enhanced bioimaging. Biochim Biophys Acta. 1810, 286-296.
- Lord, A., Philipson, O., Klingstedt, T., Westermark, G. T., Hammarström, P., Nilsson, K. P. R., Nilsson, L. N. G. (2011) Observations in APP Bitransgenic Mice Suggest that Diffuse and Compact Plaques Form via Independent Processes in Alzheimer's Disease. Am. J. Pathol. 178, 2286-2298.
- Sigurdson C. J., Bartz, J. C., Nilsson, K. P. R. (2011) Tracking protein aggregate interactions. Prion 5, 52-55.
- Schultz, S. W., Nilsson, K. P. R., Westermark, G. T. (2011) Drosophila Melanogaster as a Model System for Studies of Islet Amyloid Polypeptide Aggregation. PLoS One 6, e20221.
- Mahajan, V., Klingstedt, T., Simon, R., Nilsson, K. P. R., Thueringer, A., Kashofer, K., Haybaeck, J., Denk, H., Abuja, P. M., Zatloukal, K. (2011) Cross β-sheet conformation of keratin 8 is a specific feature of Mallory-Denk bodies compared with other hepatocyte inclusions. Gastroenterology 141, 1080-1090.
- Sigurdson, C. J., Joshi-Barr, S., Bett, C., Winson, O., Manco, G., Schwarz, P., Rülicke, T., Nilsson, K. P. R., Margalith, I., Raeber, A., Peretz, D., Hornemann, S., Wüthrich, K., Aguzzi, A. (2011) Spongiform encephalopathy in transgenic mice expressing a point mutation in the β2-α2 loop of the prion protein. J. Neurosci. 31, 13840-13847.
- Klingstedt, T., Åslund, A., Simon, R. A., Johansson, L. B. G., Mason, J. J., Nyström, S., Hammarström, P., Nilsson K. P. R. (2011) Synthesis of a library of oligothiophenes and their utilization as fluorescent ligands for spectral assignment of protein aggregates. Org. Biomol. Chem. 9, 8356-8370.
- Zako, T., Sakono, M., Kobayashi, T., Sörgjerd, K., Nilsson, K. P. R., Hammarström, P., Lindgren, M., Maeda, M. (2012) Cell Interaction Study of Amyloid by Using Luminescent Conjugated Polythiophene: Implication that Amyloid Cytotoxicity Is Correlated with Prolonged Cellular Binding. ChemBioChem, 13, 358-363.
- Psonka-Antonczyk, K. M., Duboisset, J., Stokke, B. J., Zako, T., Kobayashi, T., Maeda, M., Nyström, S., Mason, J., Hammarström, P., Nilsson, K. P. R., Lindgren, M. (2012) Nanoscopic and Photonic Ultrastructural Characterization of Two Distinct Insulin Amyloid States. Int. J. Mol. Sci., 13, 1461-1480.
- Caesar, I., Jonson, M., Nilsson, K. P. R., Thor, S., Hammarström, P. (2012) Curcumin Promotes A-beta Fibrillation and Reduces Neurotoxicity in Transgenic Drosophila. PLoS One, 7, e31424.
- Göransson, A. L., Nilsson, K. P. R., Kågedal, K., Brorsson, A. C. (2012) Identification of distinct physiochemical properties of toxic prefibrillar species formed by Aβ peptide variants. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 420, 895-900.
- Margalith, I., Suter, C., Ballmer, B., Schwarz, P., Tiberi, C., Sonati, T., Falsig, J., Nyström, S., Hammarström, P., Åslund, A., Nilsson, K. P. R., Yam, A., Whitters, E., Hornemann, S., Aguzzi, A. (2012) Polythiophenes inhibit prion propagation by stabilizing PrP aggregates. J. Biol Chem. 287, 18872-18887.
- Nilsson, K. P. R., Lindgren, M., Hammarström, P. (2012) A pentameric luminescent-conjugated oligothiophene for optical imaging of in vitro-formed amyloid fibrils and protein aggregates in tissue sections. Methods Mol Biol. 849, 425-434.
- Bett, C., Fernández-Borges, N., Kurt, T. D., Lucero, M., Nilsson, K. P. R., Castilla, J., Sigurdson, C. J. (2012) Structure of the β2-α2 loop and interspecies prion transmission. FASEB J. Apr 9. [Epub ahead of print]
- Fyrner, T., Magnusson, K., Nilsson, K. P. R., Hammarström, P., Aili, D., Konradsson, P. (2012) Derivatization of a Bioorthogonal Protected Trisaccharide Linker-Toward Multimodal Tools for Chemical Biology. Bioconjug Chem. Jun 5. [Epub ahead of print]
- Nyström, S., Mishra, R., Hornemann, S., Aguzzi, A., Nilsson, K. P. R., Hammarström, P. Multiple substitutions of methionine 129 in human prion protein reveal its importance in the amyloid fibrillation pathway. J Biol Chem. Jun 5. [Epub ahead of print]
- Luminescent conjugated poly- and oligo-thiophenes: optical ligands for spectral assignment of a plethora of protein aggregates. Klingstedt T, Nilsson KPR. Biochem Soc Trans. 2012 Aug 1;40(4):704-10.
- Spectral discrimination of cerebral amyloid lesions after peripheral application of luminescent conjugated oligothiophenes. Bettina M. Wegenast-Braun, Angelos Skodras, Gonca Bayraktar, Jasmin Mahler, Sarah K. Fritschi, Therése Klingstedt, Jeffrey J. Mason, Per Hammarström, KPR Nilsson, Christian Liebig, Mathias Jucker. Accepted in American Journal of pathology 2012
- Localization of Cholesterol, Amyloid and Glia in Alzheimer's Disease Transgenic´Mouse Brain Tissue Using Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (ToFSIMS) and Immunofluorescence Imaging. Santiago Solé-Domènech, Peter Sjövall, Vladana Vukojević, Ruani Fernando, Alina Codita, Sachin Salve, Nenad Bogdanović, Abdul H. Mohammed, Per Hammarström, K. Peter R. Nilsson, Frank M. LaFerla, Stefan Jacob, Per-Olof Berggren, Lydia Giménez-Llort, Martin Schalling, Lars Terenius and Björn Johansson. Accepted in Acta Neuropathologica 2012
2. Book chapters
- Optical sensors based on conjugated polymers. Authors: K. Peter. R. Nilsson and Olle Inganäs. Chapter 13 in Handbook of Conducting Polymers (Third Edition 2007)
- Conjugated Polyelectrolytes for Staining and Characterization of Amyloid Deposits. Author: K. Peter R. Nilsson. Chapter 16 in Organic Electronics in Sensors and Biotechnology (First Edition 2009) by Ruth Shinar and Joseph Shinar.
- Optical Reporting by Conjugated Polymers via Conformational Changes. Authors: Rozalyn A. Simon and K. Peter R. Nilsson. Chapter 13 in Springers serie on Fluorescence Volume 9 of “Advanced Fluorescence Reporters in Chemistry and Biology II” edited by Alexander P. Demchenko (Springer 2010)
- A Pentameric Luminescent-Conjugated Oligothiophene for Optical Imaging of In Vitro-Formed Amyloid Fibrils and Protein Aggregates in Tissue Sections. Authors: K. Peter. R. Nilsson, Mikael Lindgren and Per Hammarström. Chapter 29 in Amyloid Proteins: Methods and Protocols (Springer Second Edition 2012)
3. Patent applications
- Polyelectrolyte complex (e.g. zwitterionic polythiophenes) with a receptor (e.g. polynucleotide, antibody etc.) for biosensor applications. Inventors: Inganäs, O., Nilsson, P., Åsberg, P.
- Methods for determine conformational changes and self-assembly of proteins. Inventors: Nilsson, P., Herland, A., Hammarström, P., Åsberg, P., Inganäs, O.
- Methods using self-assembly/aggregation of biomolecules for the construction of electronic devices based on conjugated polymers. Inventors: Nilsson, P., Herland, A., Hammarström, P., Björk, P., Inganäs, O.
- Patterning method for biosensor applications and devices comprising such patterns. Inventors: Åsberg, P., Nilsson, P., Inganäs, O.
- Methods for detection of pathogenic prion proteins associated with prion diseases, using conjugated polyelectrolytes. Inventors: Nilsson, P., Hammarström, P.
- Novel thiophene derivatives. Inventors: Nilsson, P., Åslund, A., Konradsson, P., Åsberg, P., Johansson, L., Herland, A.
- Oligothiophene derivatives as molecular probes. Inventors: Hermanson, O., Konradsson, P. Åslund, A., Simon, R., Ilkhanizadeh, S., Nilsson P.
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