Search Results - "Tuszynski, J"
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An In Silico Investigation of the Molecular Interactions between Volatile Anesthetics and Actin
Published in Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) (26-12-2023)“…Volatile anesthetics (VAs) are medicinal chemistry compounds commonly used to enable surgical procedures for patients who undergo painful treatments and can be…”
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Charge-based interactions of antimicrobial peptides and general drugs with lipid bilayers
Published in Journal of molecular graphics & modelling (01-03-2020)“…Membrane-active agents (MAAs), such as antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) and chemotherapy drugs (CDs), induce ion pores/channels inside lipid bilayer membrane, as…”
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A search for the physical basis of the genetic code
Published in BioSystems (01-07-2020)“…DNA contains the genetic code, which provides complete information about the synthesis of proteins in every living cell. Each gene encodes for a corresponding…”
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Ion pore formation in lipid bilayers and related energetic considerations
Published in Current medicinal chemistry (01-04-2012)“…Interactions between membrane proteins (MPs)/antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) and lipids play important roles in the creation and function of membrane transport…”
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Testing amino acid-codon affinity hypothesis using molecular docking
Published in BioSystems (01-12-2020)“…Genetic code refers to a set of rules that assign trinucleotides called codons to amino acids in the process of protein synthesis. Investigating the genetic…”
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Anisotropic elastic properties of microtubules
Published in The European physical journal. E, Soft matter and biological physics (01-05-2005)“…We review and model the experimental parameters which characterize elastic properties of microtubules. Three macroscopic estimates are made of the anisotropic…”
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Cell death and survival due to cytotoxic exposure modelled as a two-state Ising system
Published in Royal Society open science (01-02-2020)“…Cancer chemotherapy agents are assessed for their therapeutic utility primarily by their ability to cause apoptosis of cancer cells and their potency is given…”
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Quantum metabolism explains the allometric scaling of metabolic rates
Published in Journal of the Royal Society interface (06-03-2010)“…-dimensional space (…”
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Estimation of the number of biophotons involved in the visual perception of a single-object image: Biophoton intensity can be considerably higher inside cells than outside
Published in Journal of photochemistry and photobiology. B, Biology (02-09-2010)“…Recently, we have proposed a redox molecular hypothesis about the natural biophysical substrate of visual perception and imagery [1,6]. Namely, the retina…”
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Nonlinear ionic pulses along microtubules
Published in The European physical journal. E, Soft matter and biological physics (01-05-2011)“…Microtubules are cylindrically shaped cytoskeletal biopolymers that are essential for cell motility, cell division and intracellular trafficking. Here, we…”
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Theorizing how the brain encodes consciousness based on negentropic entanglement
Published in Journal of integrative neuroscience (30-03-2019)“…The physicality of subjectivity is explained through a theoretical conceptualization of guidance waves informing meaning in negentropically entangled…”
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Metabolic targeting and antagonism of the EGFRvIII/PDK1 axis in temozolomide resistant glioblastoma models
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Thermal hysteresis in microtubule assembly/disassembly dynamics: The aging-induced degradation of tubulin dimers
Published in Biochemistry and biophysics reports (01-03-2022)“…The assembly/disassembly of biological macromolecules plays an important role in their biological functionalities. Although the dynamics of tubulin polymers…”
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Regulation of channel function due to physical energetic coupling with a lipid bilayer
Published in Biochemical and biophysical research communications (07-03-2014)“…•Lipid membrane regulation of membrane protein functions has been addressed.•Energetics behind ion channel-membrane coupling phenomena has been…”
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Analysis of the migration behaviour of single microtubules in electric fields
Published in Biochemical and biophysical research communications (26-04-2002)“…By video contrast microscopy, individual microtubules formed from pure tubulin in the presence of taxol were studied in constant electric fields. At nearly…”
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Optomechanical proposal for monitoring microtubule mechanical vibrations
Published in Physical review. E (12-07-2017)“…Microtubules provide the mechanical force required for chromosome separation during mitosis. However, little is known about the dynamic (high-frequency)…”
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Dataset on interactions of membrane active agents with lipid bilayers
Published in Data in brief (01-04-2020)“…We address drug interactions with lipids using in silico simulations and in vitro experiments. The data article provides extended explanations on molecular…”
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Torsional elastic deformations of microtubules within continuous sheet model
Published in The European physical journal. E, Soft matter and biological physics (01-02-2010)“…This paper develops a rigorous analysis of the microtubule elastic deformations in terms of the torsional degrees of freedom using the helix-based cylindrical…”
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Molecular dynamics simulations of tubulin structure and calculations of electrostatic properties of microtubules
Published in Mathematical and computer modelling (01-05-2005)“…We present the results of molecular dynamics computations based on the atomic resolution structure of tubulin. Values of net charge, charge distribution and…”
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