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    Packaging pressurized dsDNA virus reveals genome organized in loops, not spools
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    Aromatic residues facilitate electric current through proteins
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    DNA turbine in nanopore switches rotation direction in high salt
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    Benchmarking Molecular Dynamics Force Fields for All-Atom Simulations of Biological Condensates
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    DNA double helix, a tiny electromotor
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    Unidirectional single-file transport of full-length proteins through a nanopore
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    Toward a physical model of a replisome
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    Percolation controls passive transport through nuclear pores
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    Resolving isomeric posttranslational modifications using a biological nanopore as a sensor of molecular shape
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    Multiple rereads of single protein sequence
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    Self-folding water filter
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    Infinite-depth sequencing of single nucleic acid molecules
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    Mrdna: Multi-resolution DNA modeling package blends speed and accuracy for structure determination
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    Nanopore recognition of the twenty amino acids
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    Predicting energy production of entire photosynthetic organelle from atomic simulations
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    Artificial water channels enable rapid and selective water transport
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    Guiding the capture of DNA molecules and proteins
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    Outperforming nature: synthetic enzyme built from DNA flips lipids of biological membranes at record rates
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    Under Pressure: repellant nanopores

Recent publications

Kush Coshic, Christopher Maffeo, David Winogradoff, and Aleksei Aksimentiev
Nature (2024)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07150-4  BibTex

Christopher Maffeo, Lauren Quednau, James Wilson, and Aleksei Aksimentiev
Nature Nanotechnology 18 238-242 (2023)
DOI:10.1038/s41565-022-01285-z  BibTex

Prabhat Tripathi, Behzad Mehrafrooz, Aleksei Aksimentiev, Sophie E. Jackson, Martin Gruebele, and Meni Wanunu
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 10719-10726 (2023)
DOI:10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c02183  BibTex

Xin Shi, Anna-Katharina Pumm, Christopher Maffeo, Fabian Kohler, Elija Feigl, Wenxuan Zhao, Daniel Verschueren, Ramin Golestanian, Aleksei Aksimentiev, Hendrik Dietz, and Cees Dekker
Nature Nanotechnology (2023)
DOI:10.1038/s41565-023-01527-8  BibTex

Siddharth Krishnan, Aleksei Aksimentiev, Stuart Lindsay, and Dmitry Matyushov
ACS Physical Chemistry Au 3 444-455 (2023)
DOI:10.1021/acsphyschemau.3c00017  BibTex

Xiaojun Wei, Tadas Penkauskas, Joseph E. Reiner, Celeste Kennard, Mark J. Uline, Qian Wang, Sheng Li, Aleksei Aksimentiev, Joseph W. F. Robertson, and Chang Liu
ACS Nano 17 16369-16395 (2023)
DOI:10.1021/acsnano.3c05628  BibTex

Kumar Sarthak, David Winogradoff, Yingda Ge, Sua Myong, and Aleksei Aksimentiev
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation (2023)
DOI:10.1021/acs.jctc.3c00148  BibTex

Kaikai Chen, Adnan Choudhary, Sarah E. Sandler, Christopher Maffeo, Caterina Ducati, Aleksei Aksimentiev, and Ulrich F. Keyser
Advanced Materials 2207434 (2023)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202207434  BibTex

Luning Yu, Xinqi Kang, Fanjun Li, Behzad Mehrafrooz, Amr Makhamreh, Ali Fallahi, Joshua C. Foster, Aleksei Aksimentiev, Min Chen, and Meni Wanunu
Nature Biotechnology (2023)
DOI:10.1038/s41587-022-01598-3  BibTex