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Zarate, N., Gundry, K., Yu, D., Casby,J., Eberly, L. E., Öz, G., & Gomez-Pastor, R. (2023).Neurochemical correlates of synapse density in a Huntington'sdisease mouse model. Journal of Neurochemistry, 164,226–241. 

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Andrew W. Senior, Richard Evans, John Jumper, James Kirkpatrick, Laurent Sifre, Tim Green, Chongli Qin, Augustin Žídek, Alexander W. R. Nelson, Alex Bridgland, Hugo Penedones, Stig Petersen, Karen Simonyan, Steve Crossan, Pushmeet Kohli, David T. Jones, David Silver, Koray Kavukcuoglu & Demis Hassabis

Improved protein structure prediction using potentials from deep learning

Nature 2020 577, 706–710

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Protein shape modulates crowding effects

Alex J. Gusemana, Gerardo M. Perez Goncalvesa, Shannon L. Speera, Gregory B. Young, and Gary J. Pielak

PNAS  2018 115 (43) 10965-10970

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De Vos O, Van Hecke T, Ghysels A

Effect of Chain Unsaturation and Temperature on Oxygen Diffusion Through Lipid Membranes from Simulations

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 2018, 1072: 399-404

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-91287-5_64

Derek K. O’Flaherty, Neha P. Kamat, Fatima N. Mirza, Li Li, Noam Prywes, and Jack W. Szostak

Copying of Mixed-Sequence RNA Templates inside Model Protocells

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 5171−5178
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b00639

Alessandro Borgia, Madeleine B. Borgia, Katrine Bugge, Vera M. Kissling, Pétur O. Heidarsson, Catarina B. Fernandes, Andrea Sottini, Andrea Soranno, Karin J. Buholzer, Daniel Nettels, Birthe B. Kragelund, Robert B. Best & Benjamin Schuler

Extreme disorder in an ultrahigh-affinity protein complex

Nature, 2018, 555, 61–66 
doi:10.1038/nature25762

Phase behaviour of disordered proteins underlying
low density and high permeability of liquid organelles

Ming-Tzo Wei, Shana Elbaum-Garfinkle, Alex S. Holehouse, Carlos Chih-Hsiung Chen, Marina Feric, Craig B. Arnold, Rodney D. Priestley, Rohit V. Pappu & Clifford P. Brangwynne

Nature Chemistry, 2017, 9, 1118–1125

doi: 10.1038/nchem.2803

Hierarchical organization of chiral rafts in colloidal membranes.

Sharma, P., Ward, A., Gibaud, T., Hagan, M. F., & Dogic, Z. (2014).

Nature, 2014, 77, 513, 7516.

doi: 10.1038/nature13694

Macromolecular Crowding In Vitro, In Vivo, and In Between

German Rivas and Allen Minton

Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 2016 41, 970-981.
doi: 10.1016/j.tibs.2016.08.013

Crystal Structure of an LSD-Bound Human Serotonin Receptor

Daniel Wacker, Sheng Wang, John D. McCorvy, Robin M. Betz, A.J. Venkatakrishnan, Anat Levit, Katherine Lansu, Zachary L. Schools, Tao Che, David E. Nichols, Brian K. Shoichet, Ron O. Dror, and Bryan L. Roth

Cell 2016, 168, 377–389,

doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.12.033

Exchange of Gramicidin between Lipid Bilayers: Implications for the Mechanism of Channel Formation

Lum, K., Ingólfsson, H. I., Koeppe, R. E. and Andersen, O. S.

Biophys J. 2017, 113, 1757–1767

doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2017.08.049

Global analysis of protein folding using massively parallel design, synthesis, and testing

Gabriel J. Rocklin, Tamuka M. Chidyausiku, Inna Goreshnik, Alex Ford Scott Houliston, Alexander Lemak, Lauren Carter, Rashmi Ravichandran, Vikram K. Mulligan, Aaron Chevalier, Cheryl H. Arrowsmith, David Baker

Science 2017, 357, 6347, 168-175
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Spatiotemporal dynamics of the nuclear pore complex transport barrier resolved by high-speed atomic force microscopy

Yusuke Sakiyama, Adam Mazur, Larisa E. Kapinos & Roderick Y. H. Lim

Nature Nanotechnology 11, 719–723 (2016)

doi: 10.1038/nnano.2016.62

Structure of the BTB Domain of Keap1 and Its Interaction with the Triterpenoid Antagonist CDDO.

Cleasby A, Yon J, Day PJ, Richardson C, Tickle IJ, Williams PA, et al.

PLoS ONE 2014 9(6): e98896.

doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0098896

Molecular State of the Membrane-Active Antibiotic Daptomycin

Ming-Tao Lee, Wei-Chin Hung, Meng-Hsuan Hsieh, Hsiung Chen, Yu-Yung Chang, Huey W. Huang

Biophys. J. 2017, 113, 1, 82–90

doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2017.05.025

Low Data Drug Discovery with One-Shot Learning

Han Altae-Tran, Bharath Ramsundar, Aneesh S. Pappu, and Vijay Pande

ACS Cent. Sci., 2017, 3 (4), 283–293

doi: 10.1021/acscentsci.6b00367

Aromatic Side Chain Water-to-Lipid Transfer Free Energies Show a Depth Dependence across the Membrane Normal

Sarah K. McDonald and Karen G. Fleming

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138 (25), 7946–7950

doi: 10.1021/jacs.6b03460

Evidence for the principle of minimal frustration in the evolution of protein folding landscapes.

Franco O. Tzul, Daniel Vasilchuk and George I. Makhatadze

PNAS, 114, E1627–E1632

doi: 10.1073/pnas.1613892114

Effects of protein crowding on membrane systems.

Guigas, G. and Weiss, M.

Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 2015, 858, 2441–2450

doi: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2015.12.021

Validating lipid force fields against experimental data: Progress, challenges and perspectives

David Poger, Bertrand Caron, and Alan E. Mark

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes
Volume 1858, Issue 7, Part B,  1556–1565

10.1016/j.bbamem.2016.01.029

Imaging proteins at the single-molecule level

Jean-Nicolas Longchamp, Stephan Rauschenbach, Sabine Abb, Conrad Escher, Tatiana Latychevskaia, Klaus Kern, and Hans-Werner Fink

PNAS 114 (7), 1474–1479,

doi: 10.1073/pnas.1614519114

Single-Molecule Imaging at High Fluorophore Concentrations by Local Activation of Dye

Hylkje J. Geertsema, Aartje C. Schulte, Lisanne M. Spenkelink, William J. McGrath, Seamus R. Morrone, Jungsan Sohn, Walter F. Mangel, Andrew Robinson, Antoine M. van Oijen, Biophys. J.  108,  4,  949–956

doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2014.12.019

Covalent docking using autodock: Two-point attractor and flexible side chain methods

Giulia Bianco, Stefano Forli, David S. Goodsell, and Arthur J. Olson Protein Science 2016 25, 295–301

doi: 10.1002/pro.2733

Measuring the Viscosity of the Escherichia coli Plasma Membrane Using Molecular Rotors

Jacek T. Mika, Alexander J. Thompson, Michael R. Dent, Nicholas J. Brooks, Jan Michiels, Johan Hofkens, Marina K. Kuimova, Biophys. J. 2016, 111,  7, 4, 1528–1540

doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2016.08.020

MHC I Expression Regulates Co-clustering and Mobility of Interleukin-2 and -15 Receptors in T Cells

Mocsár, G., Volkó, J., Rönnlund, D., Widengren, J., Nagy, P., SzöllÅ‘si, J., Tóth, K., Goldman, C. K., Damjanovich, S., Waldmann, T. A., Bodnár, A. and Vámosi, G., Biophys. J. 2016, 111, 100–112.

doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2016.05.044

Long-tip high-speed atomic force microscopy for nanometer-scale imaging in live cells.

Shibata, M., Uchihashi, T., Ando, T., & Yasuda, R. Scientific Reports, 2015, 5, 8724 

doi: 10.1038/srep08724

Inhibition of Mcl-1 through covalent modification of a noncatalytic lysine side chain

Gizem Akçay, Matthew A Belmonte, Brian Aquila, Claudio Chuaqui, Alexander W Hird, Michelle L Lamb, Philip B Rawlins, Nancy Su, Sharon Tentarelli, Neil P Grimster & Qibin Su, Nature Chem. Biol. 2016

doi: 10.1038/nchembio.2174

Coexisting Liquid Phases Underlie Nucleolar Subcompartments.

Marina Feric, Nilesh Vaidya, Tyler S. Harmon, Diana M. Mitrea, Lian Zhu, Tiffany M. Richardson, Richard W. Kriwacki, Rohit V. Pappu, Clifford P. Brangwynne Cell (2016) 165, 1686–1697.

doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.04.047

The Charge Properties of Phospholipid Nanodiscs

Her, C., Filoti, D. I., McLean, M. A., Sligar, S. G., Alexander Ross, J. B., Steele, H. and Laue, T. M. (2016)  Biophys. J. 2016 111, 989–998

doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2016.06.041

Decoding the membrane activity of the cyclotide kalata B1: the importance of phosphatidylethanolamine phospholipids and lipid organization on hemolytic and anti-HIV activities.

Henriques, S. T., Huang, Y. H., Rosengren, K. J., Franquelim, H. G., Carvalho, F. A., Johnson, A., Sonza, S., Tachedjian, G., Castanho, M. A., Daly, N. L. and Craik, D. J.  J. Biol. Chem. 2011 286, 24231-24241

Highly Charged Proteins: The Achilles’ Heel of Aging Proteomes

Adam M. R. de Graff, Michael J. Hazoglou, and Ken A. Dill Structure 2016 24, 329–336

doi:10.1016/j.str.2015.11.006

A Model of Lipid-Free Apolipoprotein A-I Revealed by Iterative Molecular Dynamics Simulation

Xing Zhang, Dongsheng Lei, Lei Zhang , Matthew Rames , Shengli Zhang PLOS ONE 2015, 10(3): e0120233

doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120233

Nuclear Overhauser effect as a probe of molecular structure, dynamics and order of axially reorienting molecules in membranes

Davis, J. H. and Ivana Komljenovi, I, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes 2015, 1858, 295–303

doi:10.1016/j.bbamem.2015.11.016

Spectral Snapshots of Bacterial Cell-Wall Composition and the Influence of Antibiotics by Whole-Cell NMR

Rie Nygaard, Joseph A. H. Romaniuk, David M. Rice, and Lynette Cegelski. Biophys. J. 2015, 108, 1380–1389

doi:10.1016/j.bpj.2015.01.037

Protein Thermostability Calculations Using Alchemical Free Energy Simulations

Daniel Seeliger and Bert L. de Groot Biophys J. 2010, 98, 10, 2309–2316

doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2010.01.051

Dynamics of the BH3-Only Protein Binding Interface of Bcl-xL.

X. Liu, A. Beugelsdijk,  J. Chen. Biophys. J. 2015, 109, 1049–1057

doi:10.1016/j.bpj.2015.07.043

Understanding bacterial resistance to antimicrobial peptides: From the surface to deep inside

Simone Maria-Neto, Keyla Caroline de Almeida, Maria Ligia Rodrigues Macedo, Octávio Luiz Franco Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes
2015, 1848, 11, 3078–3088

doi:10.1016/j.bbamem.2015.02.017

Guest Speaker

Department of Computer Science

Department of Biology

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Comparative Analyses of Lipoprotein Lipase, Hepatic Lipase, and Endothelial Lipase, and Their Binding Properties with Known Inhibitors

Wang Z, Li S, Sun L, Fan J, Liu Z PLoS ONE 2013, 8(8): e72146.

doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072146

Multi-scale mechanical characterization of highly swollen photo-activated
collagen hydrogels

Giuseppe Tronci, Colin A. Grant, Neil H. Thomson, Stephen J. Russell, David J. Wood
J. R. Soc. Interface 2015 12 20141079

doi: 10.1098/rsif.2014.1079

Effects of Cholesterol on the Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Passive Transport of Water through Lipid Membranes

Issack, B. Peslherbe, G.H. J. Phys. Chem. B, 2015, 119 (29), 9391–9400

doi: 10.1021/jp510497r

Local versus global fold switching in protein evolution: insight from a three-letter continuous model

Holzgrafe, C., and Wallin, S. Phys. Biol., 2016, 12, 026002

doi:10.1088/1478-3975/12/2/026002

Pseudostatic and Dynamic Nanomechanics of the Tunica Adventitia in Elastic Arteries Using Atomic Force Microscopy 

Colin A. Grant and Peter C. Twigg, ACS Nano, 2013, 7 (1), 456–464

doi: 10.1021/nn304508x

In vivo nanomechanical imaging of blood-vessel tissues directly in living mammals using atomic force microscopy

Youdong Mao, Quanmei Sun, Xiufeng Wang, Qi Ouyang, Li Han, Lei Jiang, and Dong Han,  Appl. Phys. Lett. 95,  2009, 013704 

doi: 10.1063/1.3167546

Accurate and Reliable Prediction of Relative Ligand Binding Potency in Prospective Drug Discovery by Way of a Modern Free-Energy Calculation Protocol and Force Field

Lingle Wang, Yujie Wu, Yuqing Deng, Byungchan Kim, Levi Pierce, Goran Krilov, Dmitry Lupyan, Shaughnessy Robinson, Markus K. Dahlgren, Jeremy Greenwood, Donna L. Romero, Craig Masse, Jennifer L. Knight, Thomas Steinbrecher, Thijs Beuming, Wolfgang Damm, Ed Harder, Woody Sherman, Mark Brewer, Ron Wester, Mark Murcko, Leah Frye, Ramy Farid, Teng Lin, David L. Mobley, William L. Jorgensen, Bruce J. Berne, Richard A. Friesner, and Robert Abel, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137 (7), pp 2695–2703

doi: 10.1021/ja512751q

Interaction of Lung Surfactant Proteins with Anionic Phospholipids

D. Y. Takamoto, M. M. Lipp, A. von Nahmen, Ka Yee C. Lee, A. J. Waring, and J. A. Zasadzinski, Biophys. J. 2001, 81, 153–169

doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(01)75688-3

Smooth Functional Transition along a Mutational Pathway with an Abrupt Protein Fold Switch

Christian Holzgräfe and Stefan Wallin Biophys. J. (2014) 107, 1217–1225

doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2014.07.020

Guest Speaker

Assistant Professor, Discipline of Emergency Medicine
Cross-appointed, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Biosensing Enhancement Using Passive Mixing Structures for Microarray-based Sensors

N. Scott Lynn Jr., José-Israel Martínez-López, Markéta Bocková, Pavel Adam, Victor Coello, Héctor R. Siller, JiÅ™í Homola; Biosensors and Bioelectronics 54 (2014) 506–514

doi: 10.1016/j.bios.2013.11.027

High-Resolution Structures and Orientations of Antimicrobial Peptides Piscidin 1 and Piscidin 3 in Fluid Bilayers Reveal Tilting, Kinking, and Bilayer Immersion

B. Scott Perrin, Jr.,Ye Tian, Riqiang Fu, Christopher V. Grant, Eduard Y. Chekmenev,
William E. Wieczorek, Alexander E. Dao, Robert M. Hayden, Caitlin M. Burzynski,
Richard M. Venable, Mukesh Sharma, Stanley J. Opella, Richard W. Pastor, and Myriam L. Cotten J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 3491−3504

doi: 10.1021/ja411119m

PROPKA3: Consistent Treatment of Internal and Surface Residues in Empirical pKa Predictions

Mats H. M. Olsson, Chresten R. Søndergaard, Michal Rostkowski, and Jan H. Jensen, J. Chem. Theory Comput., 2011, 7 (2), 525–537

doi: 10.1021/ct100578z

Solid-state NMR and molecular dynamics simulations reveal the oligomeric ion-channels of TM2-GABAA stabilized by intermolecular hydrogen bonding

Senthil K. Kandasamya, Dong-Kuk Leeb, Ravi P.R. Nangab, Jiadi Xub, Jose S. Santosb, Ronald G. Larsona, Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 2009, 1788, 686–695

doi: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2008.11.009

Size Influences the Effect of Hydrophobic Nanoparticles on Lung Surfactant Model Systems

Mridula V. Dwivedi, Rakesh Kumar Harishchandra, Olga Koshkina, Michael Maskos, and Hans-Joachim Galla, Biophys. J. 2014, 106 289–298

doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2013.10.036

A Partially Folded Structure of Amyloid-Beta(1-40) in an Aqueous Environment

Subramanian Vivekanandan, Jeffrey R. Brender, Shirley Y. Lee, and Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 2011, 411(2), 312–316.

doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2011.06.133

Peptide:lipid ratio and membrane surface charge determine the mechanismof action of the antimicrobial peptide BP100. Conformational and functional studies

Mariana C. Manzini, Katia R. Perez, Karin A. Riske , José C. Bozelli Jr., Talita L. Santos, Marcia A. da Silva, Greice K.V. Saraiva, Mario J. Politi, Ana P. Valente, Fábio C.L. Almeida, Hernan Chaimovich, Magali A. Rodrigues, Marcelo P. Bemquerer, Shirley Schreier, Iolanda M. Cuccovia, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1838 (2014) 1985–1999

doi: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2014.04.004

Determination of the Molecular Mass and Dimensions of Membrane Proteins by Size Exclusion Chromatography

Edmund, R.S. Kunji, Harding, M., Butler, P.J.G. Akamine, P. Methods. 2008 46 (2), 62–72

doi: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2008.10.020

Membrane Curvature Modulation of Protein Activity Determined by NMR

Epand, R.M., D'Souza K., Berno, B., Schlame, M. Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 2014, in press

doi: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2014.05.004

Revealing the glycation sites in synthetic neoglycoconjugates formed by conjugation of the antigenic monosaccharide hapten of Vibrio cholerae O1, serotype Ogawa with the BSA protein carrier using LC-ESI-QqTOF-MS/MS

Jahouh, F., Saksena, R., Ková, P. and Banoub, J.  J. Mass Spectrom., 2012 (47), 890–900

doi: 10.1002/jms.2974

Folding of Fourteen Small Proteins with a Residue-Specific Force Field and Replica-Exchange Molecular Dynamics. 

F. Jiang, Y.-D. Wu, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136 (27), 9536–9539

doi: 10.1021/ja502735c

AFM Indentation Study of Breast Cancer Cells

Q.S. Li, G.Y.H. Lee, C.N. Ong, C.T. Lim, Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 2008, 374 (3-4), 609–613

doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2008.07.078

Bicelles Exhibiting Magnetic Alignment for a Broader Range of Temperatures: A Solid-State NMR Study

Yamamoto, K.; Pearcy, P.; Ramamoorthy, A. Langmuir, 2014, 30 (6), 1622–1629

doi: 10.1021/la404331t

Comprehensive Evaluation of Solution Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Sample Preparation for Helical Integral Membrane Proteins

Page, R., J. Moore, H. Nguyen, M. Sharma, R. Chase, F. Gao, C. Mobley, C. Sanders, L. Ma, F. Sönnichsen, S. Lee, S. Howell, S. Opella, and T. Cross. J. Struct. Func. Genom. 2006, 7, 51–64

doi: 10.1007/s10969-006-9009-9

Topology and Lipid Selectivity of Pulmonary Surfactant Protein SP-B in Membranes: Answers from Fluorescence

Cabré, E. J., Loura, L. M. S, Fedorov, A., Perez-Gil J., Prieto, M., Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 2012, 1818, 1717–1725

doi:10.1016/j.bbamem.2012.03.008

Discrimination of Bladder Cancer Cells from Normal Urothelial Cells with High Specificity and Sensitivity: Combined Application of Atomic Force Microscopy and Modulated Raman Spectroscopy

Elisabetta Canetta, Andrew Riches, Eva Borger, Simon Herrington, Kishan Dholakia, Ashok K. Adya, Acta Biomaterialia

doi: 10.1016/j.actbio.2013.12.057

Permeation Process of Small Molecules across Lipid Membranes Studied by Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Marrink, S. W.,  Berendsen, H. J. C. J. Phys. Chem., 1996, 100 (41), 16729–16738

doi: 10.1021/jp952956f

Membrane Interactions of the Amphipathic Amino Terminus of Huntingtin

Michalek, M., Salnikov, E. S., Werten, S., and Bechinger, B. Biochemistry, 2013, 52 (5), 847–858

doi: 10.1021/bi301325q

Investigation of Surfactant Mediated Acid–Base Charging of Mineral Oxide Particles Dispersed in Apolar Systems

Gacek, MM, Berg, JC. Langmuir, 2012, 28 (51), 17841–17845

doi: 10.1021/la303943k

Utilizing Dynamic Light Scattering as a Process Analytical Technology for Protein Folding and Aggregation Monitoring in Vaccine Manufacturing.

Yu Z, Reid JC, and Yang YP. J. Pharm. Sci. 2013, 4284-4290

doi: 10.1002/jps.23746

Proline Substitution of Dimer Interface β-strand Residues as a Strategy for the Design of Functional Monomeric Proteins

Prem Raj B. Joseph, Krishna Mohan Poluri, Pavani Gangavarapu, Lavanya Rajagopalan, Sandeep Raghuwanshi, Ricardo M. Richardson, Roberto P. Garofalo, and Krishna Rajarathnam. Biophys. J. 2013, 1491-1501

doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2013.08.008

Proline facilitates membrane insertion of the antimicrobial peptide maculatin 1.1 via surface indentation and subsequent lipid disordering.

David I. Fernandez, Tzong-Hsien Lee, Marc-Antoine Sani, Marie-Isabel Aguilar, and Frances Separovic. Biophys. J. 2013, 1495–1507

doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2013.01.059

Immobilization of Chondroitin Sulfate to Lipid Membranes and its Interactions with ECM Proteins

Noomi Altgärde, Jana Becher, Stephanie Möller, Franz E. Weber, Matthias Schnabelrauch, Sofia Svedhem, J. Colloid Interface Sci. 2013, 390, 258–266

doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2012.07.063

Perspective On the Martini Model

Siewert J. Marrink and D. Peter Tieleman, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2013, 42, 6801

doi: 10.1039/c3cs60093a

Design of an Acid-Activated Antimicrobial Peptide for Tumor Therapy

Jingjing Song, Wei Zhang, Ming Kai, Jianbo Chen, Ranran Liang, Xin Zheng, Guolin Li, Bangzhi Zhang, Kairong Wang, Yun Zhang, Zhibin Yang, Jingman Ni, and Rui Wang Mol. Pharmaceutics, 2013, 10 (8), 2934–2941

doi: 10.1021/mp400052s

Base-Flipping Propensities of Unmethylated, Hemimethylated, and Fully Methylated CpG Sites

Caterina Bianchi and Ronen Zangi J. Phys. Chem. B, 2013, 117 (8), 2348–2358

doi: 10.1021/jp312145b

Hydrophobic Amino Acids in the Hinge Region of the 5A Apolipoprotein Mimetic Peptide are Essential for Promoting Cholesterol Efflux by the ABCA1 Transporter

Denis O. Sviridov, Alexander M. Andrianov, Ivan V. Anishchenko, John A. Stonik, Marcelo J. A. Amar, Scott Turner, Alan T. Remaley J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther. 2013, 344, 50–58

doi: 10.1124/jpet.112.198143

Canonical Azimuthal Rotations and Flanking Residues Constrain the Orientation of Transmembrane Helices

Orlando L. Sánchez-Muñoz, Erik Strandberg, E. Esteban-Martín, Stephan L. Grage, Anne S. Ulrich, Jesús Salgado, Biophys. J.  104, 1508–1516

doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2013.02.030

Imaging the Action of Antimicrobial Peptides on Living Bacterial Cells

Gee, M. L., Burton, M., Grevis-James, A., Hossain, M. A., McArthur, S., Palombo, E. A., Wade, J. D., and Clayton, A. H. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 1557

doi: 10.1038/srep01557

Are Protein Force Fields Getting Better? A Systematic Benchmark on 524 Diverse NMR Measurements

K. A. Beauchamp, Y-S. Lin, R. Das, V.S. Pande J. Chem. Theory Comput., 2012, 8 (4), 1409–1414

doi:10.1021/ct2007814