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CHAP: A Versatile Tool for the Structural and Functional Annotation of Ion Channel Pores

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A new and highly versatile computational tool, the Channel Annotation Package (CHAP) that implements the methodology of molecular dynamics simulations of water as a proxy to predict hydrophobic gates, is presented.
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This article is published in Journal of Molecular Biology.The article was published on 2019-06-17 and is currently open access. It has received 87 citations till now.

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Structure, lipid scrambling activity and role in autophagosome formation of ATG9A

TL;DR: It is proposed that ATG9A acts as a membrane-embedded funnel to facilitate lipid flipping and to redistribute lipids added to the outer leaflet of ATG 9 vesicles, thereby enabling growth into autophagosomes.
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Agonist Selectivity and Ion Permeation in the α3β4 Ganglionic Nicotinic Receptor.

TL;DR: The structures of the α3β4 nicotinic receptor in lipidic and detergent environments are presented, using functional reconstitution to define lipids appropriate for structural analysis and suggest principles of agonist selectivity.
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Water in Nanopores and Biological Channels: A Molecular Simulation Perspective.

TL;DR: Current level of understanding allows for the design of a nanopore which promotes wetting over dewetting or vice versa, but to design a novel nanopore, which enables fast, selective, and gated flow of water de novo would remain challenging, suggesting a need for further detailed simulations alongside experimental evaluation of more complex nanopore systems.
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Structure and gating mechanism of the α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor

TL;DR: In this paper, the human α7 nicotinic receptor was analyzed in a lipidic environment in resting, activated, and desensitized states, illuminating the principal steps in the gating cycle.
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Mechanisms of activation and desensitization of full-length glycine receptor in lipid nanodiscs

TL;DR: Cryo-EM structures of the full-length GlyR protein complex reconstituted into lipid nanodiscs are presented and revealed, providing the structural basis for gating, ion selectivity, and single-channel conductance properties of GlyR in a lipid environment.
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VMD: Visual molecular dynamics

TL;DR: VMD is a molecular graphics program designed for the display and analysis of molecular assemblies, in particular biopolymers such as proteins and nucleic acids, which can simultaneously display any number of structures using a wide variety of rendering styles and coloring methods.
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Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the Bernal Fowler (BF), SPC, ST2, TIPS2, TIP3P, and TIP4P potential functions for liquid water in the NPT ensemble at 25°C and 1 atm.
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A simplex method for function minimization

TL;DR: A method is described for the minimization of a function of n variables, which depends on the comparison of function values at the (n 41) vertices of a general simplex, followed by the replacement of the vertex with the highest value by another point.
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A simple method for displaying the hydropathic character of a protein

TL;DR: A computer program that progressively evaluates the hydrophilicity and hydrophobicity of a protein along its amino acid sequence has been devised and its simplicity and its graphic nature make it a very useful tool for the evaluation of protein structures.
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The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the important ideas in these areas in a common conceptual framework, and the emphasis is on concepts rather than mathematics, with a liberal use of color graphics.
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