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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. The Journal of Biological Chemistry 299 (4), 103034 (2023)

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Wiechers, H.; Eltzner, B.; Mardia, K. V.; Huckemann, S. F.: Learning torus PCA-based classification for multiscale RNA correction with application to SARS-CoV-2. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society - Series C: Applied Statistics 72 (2), pp. 271 - 293 (2023)

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Hauke, L.; Primeßnig, A.; Eltzner, B.; Radwitz, J.; Huckemann, S. F.; Rehfeldt, F.: FilamentSensor 2.0: An open-source modular toolbox for 2D/3D cytoskeletal filament tracking. PLoS One 18 (2), e0279336 (2023)

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Wieczor, 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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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, pp. 5385 - 5394 (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 Infomation 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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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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Najbauer, E.; Becker, S.; Giller, K.; Zweckstetter, M.; Lange, A.; Steinem, C.; de Groot, B. L.; Griesinger, C.; Andreas, L. B.: Structure, gating and interactions of the voltage-dependent anion channel. European Biophysics Journal 50 (2), pp. 159 - 172 (2021)

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Zhang, Y.; Daday, C.; Gu, R. X.; Cox, C. D.; Martinac, B.; de Groot, B. L.; Walz, T.: Visualization of the mechanosensitive ion channel MscS under membrane tension. Nature 590 (7846), pp. 509 - 514 (2021)

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Khalak, Y.; Tresadern, G.; de Groot, B. L.; Gapsys, V.: Non-equilibrium approach for binding free energies in cyclodextrins in SAMPL7: force fields and software. Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design 35 (1), pp. 49 - 61 (2021)

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Rabe von Pappenheim, F.; Aldeghi, M.; Shome, B.; Begley, T.; de Groot, B. L.; Tittmann, K.: Structural basis for antibiotic action of the B1 antivitamin 2′-methoxy-thiamine. Nature Chemical Biology 16 (11), p. 1237-1245 (2020)

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Gapsys, V.; de Groot, B. L.: On the importance of statistics in molecular simulations for thermodynamics, kinetics and simulation box size. eLife 9, e57589 (2020)

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Langan, P. S.; Vandavasi, V. G.; Kopec, W.; Sullivan, B.; Afonne, P. V.; Weiss, K. L.; de Groot, B. L.; Coates, L.: The structure of a potassium-selective ion channel reveals a hydrophobic gate regulating ion permeation. IUCrJ 7 (5), pp. 835 - 843 (2020)

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Schubeis, T.; Le Marchand, T.; Daday, C.; Kopec, W.; Tekwani Movellan, K.; Stanek, J.; Schwarzer, T. S.; Castiglione, K.; de Groot, B. L.; Pintacuda, G. et al.; Andreas, L. B.: A β-barrel for oil transport through lipid membranes: Dynamic NMR structures of AlkL. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117 (35), pp. 21014 - 21021 (2020)

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Bastys, T.; Gapsys, V.; Walter, H.; Heger, E.; Doncheva, N. T.; Kaiser, R.; de Groot, B. L.; Kalinina, O. V.: Non-active site mutants of HIV-1 protease influence resistance and sensitisation towards protease inhibitors. Retrovirology 17, 13 (2020)

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Gu, R. X.; de Groot, B. L.: Lipid-protein interactions modulate the conformational equilibrium of a potassium channel. Nature Communications 11, 2162 (2020)

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Rizzi, A.; Jensen, T.; Slochower, D. R.; Aldeghi, M.; Gapsys, V.; Ntekoumes, D.; Bosisio, S.; Papadourakis, M.; Henriksen, N. M.; de Groot, B. L. et al.; Cournia, Z.; Dickson, A.; Michel, J.; Gilson, M. K.; Shirts, M. R.; Mobley, D. L.; Chodera, J. D.: The SAMPL6 SAMPLing challenge: Assessing the reliability and efficiency of binding free energy calculations. Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design 34 (5), pp. 601 - 633 (2020)

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Gapsys, V.; Khabiri, M.; de Groot, B. L.; Freddolino, P. L.: Comment on "Deficiencies in molecular dynamics simulation-based prediction of protein-DNA binding free energy landscapes". The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 124 (6), pp. 1115 - 1123 (2020)

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de Maré, S. W.; Venskutonytė, R.; Eltschkner, S.; de Groot, B. L.; Lindkvist-Petersson, K.: Structural basis for glycerol efflux and selectivity of human Aquaporin 7. Structure 28 (2), pp. 215 - 222 (2020)

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Gapsys, V.; Perez-Benito, L.; Aldeghi, M.; Seeliger, D.; Van Vlijmen, H.; Tresadern, G.; de Groot, B. L.: Large scale relative protein ligand binding affinities using non-equilibrium alchemy. Chemical Science 11 (4), pp. 1140 - 1152 (2020)

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Smith, C. A.; Mazur, A.; Rout, A. K.; Becker, S.; Lee, D.; de Groot, B. L.; Griesinger, C.: Enhancing NMR derived ensembles with kinetics on multiple timescales. Journal of Biomolecular NMR 74 (1), pp. 27 - 43 (2020)

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Elisee, E.; Gapsys, V.; Mele, N.; Chaput, L.; Selwa, E.; de Groot, B. L.; Iorga, B. I.: Performance evaluation of molecular docking and free energy calculations protocols using the D3R Grand Challenge 4 dataset. Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design 33, pp. 1031 - 1043 (2019)

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Kopec, W.; Rothberg, B. S.; de Groot, B. L.: Molecular mechanism of a potassium channel gating through activation gate-selectivity filter coupling. Nature Communications 10, 5366 (2019)

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Kutzner, C.; Páll, S.; Fechner, M.; Esztermann, A.; de Groot, B. L.; Grubmüller, H.: More bang for your buck: Improved use of GPU nodes for GROMACS 2018. Journal of Computational Chemistry 40 (27), pp. 2418 - 2431 (2019)

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Aldeghi, M.; Gapsys, V.; de Groot, B. L.: Predicting kinase inhibitor resistance: Physics-based and data-driven approaches. ACS Central Science 5 (8), pp. 1468 - 1474 (2019)

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Öster, C.; Hendriks, K.; Kopec, W.; Chevelkov, V.; Shi, C.; Michl, D.; Lange, S.; Sun, H.; de Groot, B. L.; Lange, A.: The conduction pathway of potassium channels is water free under physiological conditions. Science Advances 5 (7), eaaw6756 (2019)

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Gapsys, V.; de Groot, B. L.: Comment on 'Valid molecular dynamics simulations of human hemoglobin require a surprisingly large box size'. eLife 8, e44718 (2019)

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Coci, E. G.; Gapsys, V.; Shur, N.; Shin‐Podskarbi, Y.; de Groot, B.; Miller, K.; Vockley, J.; Sondheimer, N.; Ganetzky, R.; Freisinger, P.: Pyruvate carboxylase deficiency type A and type C: Characterization of 5 novel pathogenic variants in PC and analysis of the genotype-phenotype correlation. Human Mutation 40 (6), pp. 816 - 827 (2019)

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Song, C.; de Groot, B. L.; Sansom, M. S. P.: Lipid bilayer composition influences the activity of the antimicrobial peptide dermcidin channel. Biophysical Journal 116 (9), pp. 1658 - 1666 (2019)

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Yee, A. W.; Aldeghi, M.; Blakeley, M. P.; Ostermann, A.; Mas, P. J.; Moulin, M.; de Sanctis, D.; Bowler, M. W.; Mueller-Dieckmann, C.; Mitchell, E. P. et al.; Haertlein, M.; de Groot, B. L.; Boeri Erba, E.; Forsyth, V. T.: A molecular mechanism for transthyretin amyloidogenesis. Nature Communications 10 (1), 925 (2019)

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Schewe, M.; Sun, H.; Mert, Ü.; Mackenzie, A.; Pike, A. C. W.; Schulz, F.; Constantin, C.; Vowinkel, K. S.; Conrad, L. J.; Kiper, A. K. et al.; Gonzalez, W.; Musinszki, M.; Tegtmeier, M.; Pryde, D. C.; Belabed, H.; Nazare, M.; de Groot, B. L.; Decher, N.; Fakler, B.; Carpenter, E. P.; Tucker, S. J.; Baukrowitz, T.: A pharmacological master key mechanism that unlocks the selectivity filter gate in K⁺ channels. Science 363 (6429), pp. 875 - 880 (2019)

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Awasthi, N.; Kopec, W.; Wilkosz, N.; Jamroz, D.; Hub, J. S.; Zatorska, M.; Petka, R.; Nowakowska, M.; Kepczynski, M.: Molecular mechanism of polycation-induced pore formation in biomembranes. ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering 5 (2), pp. 780 - 794 (2019)

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Cordeiro, S.; Finol-Urdaneta, R. K.; Köpfer, D.; Markushina, A.; Song, J.; French, R. J.; Kopec, W.; de Groot, B. L.; Giacobassi, M. J.; Leavitt, L. S. et al.; Raghuraman, S.; Teichert, R. W.; Olivera, B. M.; Terlau, H.: Conotoxin κM-RIIIJ, a tool targeting asymmetric heteromeric K_v1 channels. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 116 (3), pp. 1059 - 1064 (2019)

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