Publications of Wojciech Kopec

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Kopec, W.; Köpfer, D.; Vickery, O. N.; Bondarenko, A. S.; Jansen, T. L. C.; de Groot, B. L.; Zachariae, U.: Direct knock-on of desolvated ions governs strict ion selectivity in K⁺ channels. Nature Chemistry 10 (8), pp. 813 - 820 (2018)

Heinz, L. P.; Kopec, W.; de Groot, B. L.; Fink, R. H. A.: In silico assessment of the conduction mechanism of the ryanodine receptor 1 reveals previously unknown exit pathways. Scientific Reports 8, 6886 (2018)

Vowinkel, K. S.; Rinne, S.; Kopec, W.; Leonhardt, J.; Bedoya, M.; Schewe, M.; Kiper, A. K.; Baukrowitz, T.; Gonzalez, W.; de Groot, B. L. et al.; Decher, N.: The 'cap' structure provides an essential structural requirement for the stabilization of the K plus -flux gated open state of K2P channels. 98th Meeting of the German Physiological Society, Ulm, September 30, 2019 - October 02, 2019. Acta Physiologica 227 (719), B 06-7, (2019)

Dubey, V.; Kopec, W.; Khandelia, H.: Mechanism of K+ binding and selectivity in the sodium potassium pump. Joint 12th EBSA European Biophysics Congress / 10th IUPAP International Conference on Biological Physics (ICBP), Madrid, Spain, July 20, 2019 - July 24, 2019. European Biophysics Journal 48 (Suppl 1), p. S170 - S170 (2019)

Kopec, W.; de Groot, B. L.: Molecular simulations of ion permeation, gating and selectivity in K⁺ channels. 63rd Annual Meeting of the Biophysical-Society, Baltimore, MD, March 02, 2019 - March 06, 2019. Biophysical Journal 116 (Suppl_1), p. 16A - 16A (2019)