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Visualizing Biological Membrane Organization and Dynamics by Baaden, Marc

“…Biological membranes are fascinating. Santiago Ramón y Cajal, who received the Nobel prize in 1906 together with Camillo Golgi for their work on the nervous…”
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Deep inside molecules - digital twins at the nanoscale by Marc Baaden

“…Background: Offer rich potential for exploration in virtual reality. Using interactive molecular simulation approaches, they enable a human operator to access…”
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Game on, science - how video game technology may help biologists tackle visualization challenges by Lv, Zhihan, Tek, Alex, Da Silva, Franck, Empereur-mot, Charly, Chavent, Matthieu, Baaden, Marc

“…The video games industry develops ever more advanced technologies to improve rendering, image quality, ergonomics and user experience of their creations…”
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Biomimetic Approach for Highly Selective Artificial Water Channels Based on Tubular Pillar[5]arene Dimers by Strilets, Dmytro, Fa, Shixin, Hardiagon, Arthur, Baaden, Marc, Ogoshi, Tomoki, Barboiu, Mihail

“…Artificial water channels mimicking natural aquaporins (AQPs) can be used for selective and fast transport of water. Here, we quantify the transport…”
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UNILIPID, a Methodology for Energetically Accurate Prediction of Protein Insertion into Implicit Membranes of Arbitrary Shape by Lanrezac, André, Baaden, Marc

“…The insertion of proteins into membranes is crucial for understanding their function in many biological processes. In this work, we present UNILIPID, a…”
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Molecular Insights into Substrate Binding of the Outer Membrane Enzyme OmpT by Yubo Zhang, Marc Baaden

“…The enzyme OmpT of the outer membrane of Escherichia coli shows proteolytic activity and cleaves peptides and proteins. Using molecular dynamics simulations in…”
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Salt-Excluding Artificial Water Channels Exhibiting Enhanced Dipolar Water and Proton Translocation by Licsandru, Erol, Kocsis, Istvan, Shen, Yue-xiao, Murail, Samuel, Legrand, Yves-Marie, van der Lee, Arie, Tsai, Daniel, Baaden, Marc, Kumar, Manish, Barboiu, Mihail

“…Aquaporins (AQPs) are biological water channels known for fast water transport (∼108–109 molecules/s/channel) with ion exclusion. Few synthetic channels have…”
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X-ray structure of a pentameric ligand-gated ion channel in an apparently open conformation by Delarue, Marc, Corringer, Pierre-Jean, Bocquet, Nicolas, Nury, Hugues, Baaden, Marc, Le Poupon, Chantal, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

“…Pentameric ligand-gated ion channels from the Cys-loop family mediate fast chemo-electrical transduction, but the mechanisms of ion permeation and gating of…”
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String method solution of the gating pathways for a pentameric ligand-gated ion channel by Lev, Bogdan, Murail, Samuel, Poitevin, Frédéric, Cromer, Brett A., Baaden, Marc, Delarue, Marc, Allen, Toby W.

“…Pentameric ligand-gated ion channels control synaptic neurotransmission by converting chemical signals into electrical signals. Agonist binding leads to rapid…”
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Design X Bioinformatics: a community-driven initiative to connect bioinformatics and design by Sommer, Björn, Inoue, Daisuke, Baaden, Marc

“…Bioinformatics applies computer science approaches to the analysis of biological data. It is widely known for its genomics-based analysis approaches that have…”
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Structural basis for ion permeation mechanism in pentameric ligand-gated ion channels by Sauguet, Ludovic, Poitevin, Frédéric, Murail, Samuel, Van Renterghem, Catherine, Moraga-Cid, Gustavo, Malherbe, Laurie, Thompson, Andrew W, Koehl, Patrice, Corringer, Pierre-Jean, Baaden, Marc, Delarue, Marc

“…To understand the molecular mechanism of ion permeation in pentameric ligand‐gated ion channels (pLGIC), we solved the structure of an open form of GLIC, a…”
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Sites of Anesthetic Inhibitory Action on a Cationic Ligand-Gated Ion Channel by Laurent, Benoist, Murail, Samuel, Shahsavar, Azadeh, Sauguet, Ludovic, Delarue, Marc, Baaden, Marc

“…Pentameric ligand-gated ion channels have been identified as the principal target of general anesthetics (GA), whose molecular mechanism of action remains…”
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Ten simple rules to create a serious game, illustrated with examples from structural biology by Baaden, Marc, Delalande, Olivier, Ferey, Nicolas, Pasquali, Samuela, Waldispühl, Jérôme, Taly, Antoine

“…The Foldit project is an online 3D jigsaw puzzle in which players are invited to shake and wiggle the 3D structure of proteins to find their most stable…”
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From Virtual Reality to Immersive Analytics in Bioinformatics by Sommer, Björn, Baaden, Marc, Krone, Michael, Woods, Andrew

“…Bioinformatics-related research produces huge heterogeneous amounts of data. This wealth of information includes data describing metabolic mechanisms and…”
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The major β-catenin/E-cadherin junctional binding site is a primary molecular mechano-transductor of differentiation in vivo by Röper, Jens-Christian, Mitrossilis, Démosthène, Stirnemann, Guillaume, Waharte, François, Brito, Isabel, Fernandez-Sanchez, Maria-Elena, Baaden, Marc, Salamero, Jean, Farge, Emmanuel

“…, the primary molecular mechanotransductive events mechanically initiating cell differentiation remain unknown. Here we find the molecular stretching of the…”
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Controlling Redox Enzyme Orientation at Planar Electrodes by Vivek Pratap Hitaishi, Romain Clement, Nicolas Bourassin, Marc Baaden, Anne de Poulpiquet, Sophie Sacquin-Mora, Alexandre Ciaccafava, Elisabeth Lojou

“…Redox enzymes, which catalyze reactions involving electron transfers in living organisms, are very promising components of biotechnological devices, and can be…”
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MDverse, shedding light on the dark matter of molecular dynamics simulations by Tiemann, Johanna K S, Szczuka, Magdalena, Bouarroudj, Lisa, Oussaren, Mohamed, Garcia, Steven, Howard, Rebecca J, Delemotte, Lucie, Lindahl, Erik, Baaden, Marc, Lindorff-Larsen, Kresten, Chavent, Matthieu, Poulain, Pierre

“…The rise of open science and the absence of a global dedicated data repository for molecular dynamics (MD) simulations has led to the accumulation of MD files…”
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One-microsecond molecular dynamics simulation of channel gating in a nicotinic receptor homologue by Nury, Hugues, Poitevin, Frédéric, Van Renterghem, Catherine, Changeux, Jean-Pierre, Corringer, Pierre-Jean, Delarue, Marc, Baaden, Marc

“…Recently discovered bacterial homologues of eukaryotic pentameric ligand-gated ion channels, such as the Gloeobacter violaceus receptor (GLIC), are…”
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A Molecular Perspective on Mitochondrial Membrane Fusion: From the Key Players to Oligomerization and Tethering of Mitofusin by De Vecchis, Dario, Brandner, Astrid, Baaden, Marc, Cohen, Mickael M., Taly, Antoine

“…Mitochondria are dynamic organelles characterized by an ultrastructural organization which is essential in maintaining their quality control and ensuring…”
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Fast and Interactive Positioning of Proteins within Membranes by Lanrezac, André, Laurent, Benoist, Santuz, Hubert, Férey, Nicolas, Baaden, Marc

“…(1) Background: We developed an algorithm to perform interactive molecular simulations (IMS) of protein alignment in membranes, allowing on-the-fly monitoring…”
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