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Mendez-Otalvaro, E.; Kopec, W.; Schewe, M.; de Groot, B. L.: One pocket to activate them all (?): Efforts on understanding the modulator pocket in K2P channels. Channels 20 (1), 2602975 (2026)

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Huang, P.; Venskutonytė, R.; Wilson, C. J.; Bsharat, S.; Prasad, R. B.; Gourdon, P.; Artner, I.; de Groot, B. L.; Lindkvist-Petersson, K.: Structural insights into AQP3 channel closure upon pH and redox changes reveal an autoregulatory molecular mechanism. Nature Communications 16, 10997 (2025)

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Öster, C.; de Vries, R.; Li, J.; Qoraj, D.; Lange, S.; Shi, C.; Kopec, W.; de Groot, B. L.; Lange, A.: Atomistic Mechanism of Calcium-Mediated Inward Rectification of the MthK Potassium Channel by Solid-State NMR and MD Simulations. Journal of the American Chemical Society 147 (49), pp. 45536 - 45548 (2025)

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Behera, S.; Gapsys, V.; de Groot, B. L.: Evaluation of the ABCG2 Charge Model in Protein–Ligand Binding Free-Energy Calculations. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 65 (21), pp. 11505 - 11509 (2025)

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Han, M.; Frieg, B.; Matthes, D.; Leonov, A.; Ryazanov, S.; Giller, K.; Nimerovsky, E.; Stampolaki, M.; Xue, K.; Overkamp, K. et al.; Dienemann, C.; Riedel, D.; Giese, A.; Becker, S.; de Groot, B. L.; Schröder, G. F.; Andreas, L. B.; Griesinger, C.: Anle138b binds predominantly to the central cavity in lipidic Aβ₄₀ fibrils and modulates fibril formation. Nature Communications 16, 8850 (2025)

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Behera, S.; Hahn, D. F.; Wilson, C. J.; Marsili, S.; Tresadern, G.; Gapsys, V.; de Groot, B. L.: Quantification of the Impact of Structure Quality on Predicted Binding Free Energy Accuracy. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 65 (13), pp. 6927 - 6938 (2025)

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Rogacheva, O. N.; Kopec, W.: Asymmetric Nature of MscL Opening Revealed by Molecular Dynamics Simulations. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 65 (12), pp. 6129 - 6143 (2025)

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Vossel, M.; de Groot, B. L.; Godec, A.: Allosteric Lever: Toward a Principle of Specific Allosteric Response. Physical Review X 15 (2), 021097 (2025)

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Hui, C.; de Vries, R.; Kopec, W.; de Groot, B. L.: Effective polarization in potassium channel simulations: Ion conductance, occupancy, voltage response, and selectivity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 122 (21), e2423866122 (2025)

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Schmidt, L.; de Groot, B. L.: Identification of allosteric sites and ligand-induced modulation in the dopamine receptor through large-scale alchemical mutation scan. Chemical Science 16, pp. 9357 - 9365 (2025)

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Wilson, C. J.; Gapsys, V.; de Groot, B. L.: Improving pK_a Predictions with Reparameterized Force Fields and Free Energy Calculations. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 21 (8), pp. 4095 - 4106 (2025)

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Wilson, C. J.; Gapsys, V.; de Groot, B. L.: Improving pK_a Predictions with Reparameterized Force Fields and Free Energy Calculations. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 21 (8), pp. 4095 - 4106 (2025)

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Amaro, R. E.; Åqvist, J.; Bahar, I.; Battistini, F.; Bellaiche, A.; Beltran, D.; Biggin, P. C.; Bonomi, M.; Bowman, G. R.; Bryce, R. A. et al.; Bussi, G.; Carloni, P.; Case, D. A.; Cavalli, A.; Chang, C.-E. A.; Cheatham, T. E.; Cheung, M. S.; Chipot, C.; Chong, L. T.; Choudhary, P.; Cisneros, G. A.; Clementi, C.; Collepardo-Guevara, R.; Coveney, P.; Covino, R.; Crawford, T. D.; Dal Peraro, M.; de Groot, B. L.; Delemotte, L.; De Vivo, M.; Essex, J. W.; Fraternali, F.; Gao, J.; Gelpí, J. L.; Gervasio, F. L.; González-Nilo, F. D.; Grubmüller, H.; Guenza, M. G.; Guzman, H. V.; Harris, S.; Head-Gordon, T.; Hernandez, R.; Hospital, A.; Huang, N.; Huang, X.; Hummer, G.; Iglesias-Fernández, J.; Jensen, J. H.; Jha, S.; Jiao, W.; Jorgensen, W. L.; Kamerlin, S. C. L.; Khalid, S.; Laughton, C.; Levitt, M.; Limongelli, V.; Lindahl, E.; Lindorff-Larsen, K.; Loverde, S.; Lundborg, M.; Luo, Y. L.; Luque, F. J.; Lynch, C. I.; MacKerell, A. D.; Magistrato, A.; Marrink, S. J.; Martin, H.; McCammon, J. A.; Merz, K.; Moliner, V.; Mulholland, A. J.; Murad, S.; Naganathan, A. N.; Nangia, S.; Noe, F.; Noy, A.; Oláh, J.; O’Mara, M. L.; Ondrechen, M. J.; Onuchic, J. N.; Onufriev, A.; Osuna, S.; Palermo, G.; Panchenko, A. R.; Pantano, S.; Parish, C.; Parrinello, M.; Perez, A.; Perez-Acle, T.; Perilla, J. R.; Pettitt, B. M.; Pietropaolo, A.; Piquemal, J.-P.; Poma, A. B.; Praprotnik, M.; Ramos, M. J.; Ren, P.; Reuter, N.; Roitberg, A.; Rosta, E.; Rovira, C.; Roux, B.; Rothlisberger, U.; Sanbonmatsu, K. Y.; Schlick, T.; Shaytan, A. K.; Simmerling, C.; Smith, J. C.; Sugita, Y.; Świderek, K.; Taiji, M.; Tao, P.; Tieleman, D. P.; Tikhonova, I. G.; Tirado-Rives, J.; Tuñón, I.; van der Kamp, M. W.; van der Spoel, D.; Velankar, S.; Voth, G. A.; Wade, R.; Warshel, A.; Welborn, V. V.; Wetmore, S. D.; Wheeler, T. J.; Wong, C. F.; Yang, L.-W.; Zacharias, M.; Orozco, M.: The need to implement FAIR principles in biomolecular simulations. Nature Methods 22, pp. 641 - 645 (2025)

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Singh, S.; Gapsys, V.; Aldeghi, M.; Schaller, D.; Rangwala, A. M.; White, J. B.; Bluck, J. P.; Scheen, J.; Glass, W. G.; Guo, J. et al.; Hayat, S.; de Groot, B. L.; Volkamer, A.; Christ, C. D.; Seeliger, M. A.; Chodera, J. D.: Prospective Evaluation of Structure-Based Simulations Reveal Their Ability to Predict the Impact of Kinase Mutations on Inhibitor Binding. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 129 (11), pp. 2882 - 2902 (2025)

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Kutzner, C.; Miletić, V.; Palacio Rodríguez, K.; Rampp, M.; Hummer, G.; de Groot, B. L.; Grubmüller, H.: Scaling of the GROMACS Molecular Dynamics Code to 65k CPU Cores on an HPC Cluster. Journal of Computational Chemistry 46 (5), e70059 (2025)

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Hehlert, P.; Effertz, T.; Gu, R.-X.; Nadrowski, B.; Geurten, B. R. H.; Beutner, D.; de Groot, B. L.; Göpfert, M. C.: NOMPC ion channel hinge forms a gating spring that initiates mechanosensation. Nature Neuroscience 28, pp. 259 - 267 (2025)

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Sant, V.; Matthes, D.; Mazal, H.; Antonschmidt, L.; Wieser, F.; Movellan, K. T.; Xue, K.; Nimerovsky, E.; Stampolaki, M.; Nathan, M. et al.; Riedel, D.; Becker, S.; Sandoghdar, V.; de Groot, B. L.; Griesinger, C.; Andreas, L. B.: Lipidic folding pathway of α-Synuclein via a toxic oligomer. Nature Communications 16, 760 (2025)

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Lee, S.-J.; Schillings, J.; de Vries, R.; Matamoros, M.; de Groot, B. L.; Nichols, C. G.: From selective permeation to physiology in potassium channels. Function 6 (6), zqaf050 (2025)

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Gapsys, V.; Kopec, W.; Matthes, D.; de Groot, B. L.: Biomolecular simulations at the exascale: From drug design to organelles and beyond. Current Opinion in Structural Biology 88, 102887 (2024)

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Mendez-Otalvaro, E.; Kopec, W.; de Groot, B. L.: Effect of two activators on the gating of a K_2P channel. Biophysical Journal 123 (19), pp. 3408 - 3420 (2024)

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Chiu, P.-L.; Orjuela, J. D.; de Groot, B. L.; Aponte Santamaría, C.; Walz, T.: Structure and dynamics of cholesterol-mediated aquaporin-0 arrays and implications for lipid rafts. eLife 12, RP90851 (2024)

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Mironenko, A.; de Groot, B. L.; Kopec, W.: Selectivity filter mutations shift ion permeation mechanism in potassium channels. PNAS Nexus 3 (7), pgae272 (2024)

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Wilson, C. J.; de Groot, B. L.; Gapsys, V.: Resolving coupled pH titrations using alchemical free energy calculations. Journal of Computational Chemistry 45 (17), pp. 1444 - 1455 (2024)

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Hahn, D. F.; Gapsys, V.; de Groot, B. L.; Mobley, D. L.; Tresadern, G.: Current State of Open Source Force Fields in Protein–Ligand Binding Affinity Predictions. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 64 (13), pp. 5063 - 5076 (2024)

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Huang, P.; Abacka, H.; Wilson, C. J.; Wind, M. L.; Rutzler, M.; Hagstroem-Andersson, A.; Gourdon, P.; de Groot, B. L.; Venskutonyte, R.; Lindkvist-Petersson, K.: Molecular basis for human aquaporin inhibition. PNAS 121 (7), e2319682121 (2024)

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Petrov, D.; Perthold, J.W.; Oostenbrink, C.; de Groot, B. L.; Gapsys, V.: Guidelines for Free-Energy Calculations Involving Charge Changes. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 20 (2), pp. 914 - 925 (2024)

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Wilson, C.J.; Karttunen, M.; de Groot, B. L.; Gapsys, V.: Accurately Predicting Protein pK_a Values Using Nonequilibrium Alchemy. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 19 (21), pp. 7833 - 7845 (2023)

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Kopec, W.; Thomson, A. S.; de Groot, B. L.; Rothberg, B. S.: Interactions between selectivity filter and pore helix control filter gating in the MthK channel. Journal of General Physiology 155 (8), e202213166 (2023)

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Boothroyd, S.; Behara, P. K.; Madin, O. C.; Hahn, D. F.; Jang, H.; Gapsys, V.; Wagner, J. R.; Horton, J. T.; Dotson, D. L.; Thompson, M. W. et al.; Maat, J.; Gokey, T.; Wang, L.-P.; Cole, D. J.; Gilson, M. K.; Chodera, J. D.; Bayly, C. I.; Shirts, M. R.; Mobley, D. L.: Development and Benchmarking of Open Force Field 2.0.0: The Sage Small Molecule Force Field. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 19 (11), pp. 3251 - 3275 (2023)

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Lam, C. K.; de Groot, B. L.: Ion Conduction Mechanisms in Potassium Channels Revealed by Permeation Cycles. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 19 (9), pp. 2574 - 2589 (2023)

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Moore, J. H.; Margreitter, C.; Janet, J. P.; Engkvist, O.; de Groot, B. L.; Gapsys, V.: Automated relative binding free energy calculations from SMILES to ΔΔG. Communications Chemistry 6, 82 (2023)

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Gu, R.-X.; de Groot, B. L.: Central cavity dehydration as a gating mechanism of potassium channels. Nature Communications 14 (1), 2178 (2023)

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Matthes, D.; de Groot, B. L.: Molecular dynamics simulations reveal the importance of amyloid-beta oligomer β-sheet edge conformations in membrane permeabilization. Journal of Biological Chemistry 299 (4), 103034 (2023)

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Wieczór, M.; Genna, V.; Aranda, J.; Badia, R. M.; Lluis Gelpi, J.; Gapsys, V.; de Groot, B. L.; Lindahl, E.; Municoy, M.; Hospital, A. et al.; Orozco, M.: Pre-exascale HPC approaches for molecular dynamics simulations. Covid-19 research: A use case. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Molecular Science 13 (1), e1622 (2023)

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Frieg, B.; Antonschmidt, L.; Dienemann, C.; Geraets, J. A.; Najbauer, E. E.; Matthes, D.; de Groot, B. L.; Andreas, L. B.; Becker, S.; Griesinger, C. et al.; Schröder, G. F.: The 3D structure of lipidic fibrils of α-synuclein. Nature Communications 13 (1), 6810 (2022)

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Khalak, Y.; Tresadern, G.; Hahn, D. F.; de Groot, B. L.; Gapsys, V.: Chemical Space Exploration with Active Learning and Alchemical Free Energies. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 18 (10), pp. 6259 - 6270 (2022)

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Antonschmidt, L.; Matthes, D.; Dervişoğlu, R.; Frieg, B.; Dienemann, C.; Leonov, A.; Nimerovsky, E.; Sant, V.; Ryazanov, S.; Giese, A. et al.; Schröder, G.; Becker, S.; de Groot, B. L.; Griesinger, C.; Andreas, L. B.: The clinical drug candidate anle138b binds in a cavity of lipidic α-synuclein fibrils. Nature Communications 13, 5385 (2022)

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Kutzner, C.; Kniep, C.; Cherian, A.; Nordstrom, L.; Grubmüller, H.; de Groot, B. L.; Gapsys, V.: GROMACS in the cloud: A global supercomputer to speed up alchemical drug design. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 62 (7), pp. 1691 - 1711 (2022)

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Gapsys, V.; Hahn, D. F.; Tresadern, G.; Mobley, D. L.; Rampp, M.; de Groot, B.: Pre-exascale computing of protein-ligand binding free energies with open source software for drug design. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 62 (5), pp. 1172 - 1177 (2022)

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Öster, C.; Tekwani Movellan, K.; Goold, B.; Hendriks, K.; Lange, S.; Becker, S.; de Groot, B. L.; Kopec, W.; Andreas, L. B.; Lange, A.: Direct detection of bound ammonium ions in the selectivity filter of ion channels by solid-state NMR. Journal of the American Chemical Society 144 (9), pp. 4147 - 4157 (2022)

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Kim, M.; Ha, J.-H.; Choi, J.; Kim, B.-R.; Gapsys, V.; Lee, K. O.; Jee, J.-G.; Chakrabarti, K. S.; de Groot, B. L.; Griesinger, C. et al.; Ryu, K.-S.; Lee, D.: Repositioning food and drug administration-approved drugs for inhibiting Biliverdin IXβ reductase B as a novel thrombocytopenia therapeutic target. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 65 (3), pp. 2548 - 2557 (2022)

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Chakrabarti, K. S.; Olsson, S.; Pratihar, S.; Giller, K.; Overkamp, K.; Lee, K. O.; Gapsys, V.; Ryu, K.-S.; de Groot, B. L.; Noé, F. et al.; Becker, S.; Lee, D.; Weikl, T. R.; Griesinger, C.: A litmus test for classifying recognition mechanisms of transiently binding proteins. Nature Communications 13, 3792 (2022)

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Mironenko, A.; Zachariae, U.; de Groot, B. L.; Kopec, W.: The persistent question of potassium channel permeation mechanisms. Journal of Molecular Biology 433 (17), 167002 (2021)

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Gapsys, V.; Yildirim, A.; Aldeghi, M.; Khalak, Y.; van der Spoel, D.; de Groot, B. L.: Accurate absolute free energies for ligand-protein binding based on non-equilibrium approaches. Communications Chemistry 4, 61 (2021)

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Roy, R. N.; Hendriks, K.; Kopec, W.; Abdolvand, S.; Weiss, K. L.; de Groot, B. L.; Lange, A.; Sun, H.; Coates, L.: Structural plasticity of the selectivity filter in a nonselective ion channel. IUCrJ 8 (3), pp. 421 - 430 (2021)

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Baumann, H. M.; Gapsys, V.; de Groot, B. L.; Mobley, D. L.: Challenges encountered applying equilibrium and nonequilibrium binding free energy calculations. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 125 (17), pp. 4241 - 4261 (2021)

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Werner, M.; Gapsys, V.; de Groot, B. L.: One plus one makes three: Triangular coupling of correlated amino acid mutations. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 12 (12), pp. 3195 - 3201 (2021)

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Buelens, F. P.; Leonov, H.; de Groot, B. L.; Grubmüller, H.: ATP-magnesium coordination: Protein structure-based force field evaluation and corrections. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 17 (3), pp. 1922 - 1930 (2021)

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Daday, C.; de Groot, B. L.: Lipid–protein forces predict conformational changes in a mechanosensitive channel. European Biophysics Journal 50 (2), pp. 181 - 186 (2021)

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de Groot, B. L.; Janshoff, A.; Steinem, C.; Zweckstetter, M.: Special issue: Multicomponent lipid membranes—how molecular organisation leads to function. European Biophysics Journal 50 (2), pp. 107 - 108 (2021)

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